Amalia Abad Casasempere [SEP] date of birth
Amalia Abad Casasempere
Amalia Abad Casasempere (11 December 1897, in Alcoy – 21 September 1936, in Alcoy) was a Catholic woman killed during the Spanish Civil War, a widow and mother of two daughters, and very active in the service of the church. She hid two nuns in her house during the civil war. For this she was arrested and executed by the militia. She was one of 233 people beatified by Pope John Paul II on 11 March 2001, as martyrs of the Spanish Civil War (the
233 martyrs were advanced in 16 separate causes :
- Jose Aparicio Sanz and 73 companions, clergy and laypersons of the Diocese of Valencia, including Amalia Abad Casasempere
- Jacinto Serrano Lopez and 19 companions of the Dominican Order
- Pascual Fortuna Almela and 4 companions of the Friars Minor
- Alfonso Lopez Lopez and 6 companions of the Friars Minor Conventual
- Aurelio Ample Alcaide and 16 companions of the Friars Minor Capuchin,
- Josefa Masia Ferragud, a nun of the Discalced Augustinians
- Tomas Sitjar Fortia and