Ángela Ginard Martí

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Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City by Cardinal José Saraiva Martins
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Ángela Ginard Martí (3 April 1894 – 26 August 1936),

martyrdom in 1936, when she was killed during the onslaught of the Spanish Civil War, and was beatified in 2005.[3][4]

Life

Ángela Ginard Martí was born on 3 April 1894 in Llucmajor as the third of nine children to Sebastián Ginard García and Margarita Martí Canals.[5] Her father's retirement from the Civil Guard saw the Ginard's move to Palma de Mallorca when she was sixteen where the three eldest sisters (including herself) helped around the house and learnt to embroider and make hats.[1]

It was after her

Jesus Christ and realized that it would be through the religious life as a nun. It was also after this experience that she made frequent visits to the tabernacle where she would kneel in reflection before Him to further discern her vocation and to strengthen her own faith.[1][2] Even the example of her two maternal aunts who were nuns had a profound effect on her growing up. But she admired one of those aunts in particular due to the contemplative life she led in her convent. Her sisters often went out with friends to the cinema or other social engagements while she preferred to remain at home to instruct her other siblings in catechism and the lives of the saints.[6]

In 1914 she asked her parents for permission to enter the convent her aunt was stationed in but her parents (her father in particular) opposed the idea and advised her to wait and think more on it.

postulancy in May 1922 before commencing her novitiate six months later. In 1923 she made her first profession and renewed it in 1926 (then being moved to the house in Madrid) before making her final profession later in 1929 in Barcelona where she was stationed until 1932 when she returned to Madrid.[2][5] Ginard did embroidering for the cloths used for the altar and also prepared the bread that would be made into the Eucharistic hosts.[6]

When the Spanish Civil War broke out it forced nuns and priests alike to go underground due to the danger against them. The nuns of her convent were forced on 20 July 1936 to disperse while using disguises to flee.

exhumed moved on 20 May 1941 and again in 1984 to the convent where she lived.[1][6]

Beatification

The diocesan process was held in Madrid with Cardinal Ángel Suquía Goicoechea inaugurating the investigation on 28 April 1987 and later closing on 23 March 1990; the Congregation for the Causes of Saints validated this process on 18 October 1991 and received the Positio dossier from the postulation in 1993 for additional assessment.

John Paul II granted the final approval needed for the cause on 19 April 2004 and confirmed that Ginard would soon be beatified after determining that she had died in odium fidei ("in hatred of the faith"). The beatification was celebrated on 29 October 2005 in

Saint Peter's Basilica with Cardinal José Saraiva Martins presiding on the behalf of Pope Benedict XVI.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Blessed María de los Ángeles Ginard Martí". Saints SQPN. 21 August 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Bl. Mary of the Angels Ginard Martí". Holy See. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  3. ^ "Bl. Mary of the Angels Ginard Martí (1894-1936) - Biography". www.vatican.va. Retrieved 2023-03-19.
  4. ^ "Bl. Maria of the Angels: Joyful Martyr of the Spanish Civil War". Catholic Exchange. 2017-09-13. Retrieved 2023-03-19.
  5. ^ a b c d "Blessed Mary of the Angels Ginard". Santi e Beati. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  6. ^ a b c d Sarah Metts (13 September 2017). "Bl. Maria of the Angels: Joyful Martyr of the Spanish Civil War". Catholic Exchange. Retrieved 2 December 2017.

External links

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