Juana María Condesa Lluch

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Juana María Condesa Lluch (30 March 1862 – 16 January 1916) was a

Valencia. She made her vows in 1911.[1]

Lluch dedicated her life to the promotion of the rights of workers ever since her childhood when she first witnessed the terrible conditions of laborers. Her initiatives in Spain were aimed towards the workers and their families as a means of alleviating their burdens and championing their fundamental rights as individuals.

Saint Peter's Square on 23 March 2003.[4]

Life

Juana María Condesa Lluch was born in

Confirmation
in the same church in 1864.

Lluch received a good education during her childhood due to her life of wealth and her upbringing. She started her devotion to the

Holy Eucharist, the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph.[1] She felt called to the religious life at the age of eighteen and saw the need to aid the workers who worked in de-humanizing conditions.[3][4] She saw these conditions firsthand while in her coach passing workers.[5] Around this time her spiritual director
was Vicente Castañer.

Cardinal Antoín Monescillo – the Archbishop of Valencia – refused her request to establish a religious congregation and said that Lluch was not old enough to contemplate establishing a congregation. In 1884 she received approval to open a shelter to provide spiritual and material assistance to workers and their families. She also opened a school for their children around the same time on 25 March 1884; she founded a congregation in 1884 around that same period.[2][4] Cardinal Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás presented her with the religious habit on 10 December 1892. On 19 March 1895 she and the first sisters made their first vows.[1] The congregation received diocesan approval on 1 July 1892 and brief papal approval from Pope Pius XI on 14 April 1937 while definitive papal approval came on 27 January 1947 from Pope Pius XII.[3] Lluch made her perpetual vows on 8 September 1911.[5] Lluch died in 1916.[4]

Beatification

The beatification process commenced under Pope Pius XII on 3 December 1953 in the informative process that granted her the title of Servant of God as the first official stage in the process. The process concluded its business of accumulating documents and interrogatories on 12 January 1956 while the process was validated in Rome decades later on 14 December 1984.

The

venerable on 7 July 1997 after Pope John Paul II declared that she had lived a life of heroic virtue
.

The required miracle – the prerequisite for beatification – was investigated in the diocese of its origin and received full validation from Roman officials on 12 November 1999. The pope approved it in 2002 and beatified Lluch on 23 March 2003.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Mother Juana Maria Condesa Lluch (1862–1916)". Holy See. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  2. ^ a b c "Blessed Juana Maria Condesa Lluch". Santi e Beati. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  3. ^ a b c "Blessed Juana Maria Condesa Lluch". Saints SQPN. 26 April 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  4. ^ a b c d "Bl. Juana Maria Condesa Lluch". Catholic Online. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  5. ^ a b c "Blessed Juana Maria Condesa Lluch, January 16". The Black Cordelias. 16 January 2009. Retrieved 1 June 2016.

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