Elvira Moragas Cantarero, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Lillo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
About Elvira Moragas Cantarero
- Blessed Elvira Moragas Cantarero (8 January 1881 - 15 August 1936) - in religious MarÃa Sagrario de San Luis Gonzaga - was a Spanish Roman Catholic professed religious from the Discalced Carmelites.
- Her initial path was to follow her father in the pharmaceutical business and she excelled in this and having become one of the first women to become a pharmacist.
- This continued after the death of her father when she assumed control of the business and later stepped aside for her brother to take over when it became clear that she felt inclined to enter the religious life.
- Her time in the convent saw her assume leadership roles in which she was protective of her fellow nuns with an amiable disposition.
- But the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War forced her to flee into hiding alongside another nun while refusing her brother's invitation to live with him since she wanted to ensure her fellow religious were kept safe.
- But she herself was captured and later shot dead in the middle of the night when the militia grew furious with her silence during interrogations.Her death caused for widespread calls for the beatification process to be introduced and which later opened in 1962 under Pope John XXIII; she became titled as a Servant of God once the cause commenced.
- Pope John Paul II beatified Moragas in mid-1998 in Saint Peter's Square.
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