María Francisca Ricart Olmos
María Francisca Ricart Olmos | |
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| Martyr | |
| Born | 23 February 1881 Albal, Valencia, Kingdom of Spain |
| Died | 2 October 1936 (aged 55) Silla, Valencia, Second Spanish Republic |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 11 March 2001, Saint Peter's Square by Pope John Paul II |
| Feast | 2 October (in the female branch of the Servite order), 3 October (Servite order) |
María Francisca Ricart Olmos, religious name María Guadalupe, (23 February 1881 – 2 October 1936) was a Spanish nun of the Servite Order. Ricart's call to the religious life manifested at the time she made her First Communion after expressing the desire to consecrate herself to God; she entered the convent when she turned fifteen and served her convent as both a prioress and mistress of novices. Her peers held her in high regard for her dedication to helping and instructing the novices as well as for her compassionate and jovial character.
Ricart's beatification process opened in the late 1950s and concluded upon her beatification itself on 11 March 2001 in which Pope John Paul II beatified her and 232 others slain during the Spanish Civil War.