Crescencia Valls Espí
Spanish embroiderer, beatified Catholic (1863-1936)
Feast: 26 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the village of Puerto de Canals in the territory of Valencia in Spain, Blessed Crescencia Valls Espí, virgin and martyr, who suffered martyrdom in the course of the same persecution against the faith.
The miracles
As a martyr she was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers her on 26 September as a virgin and martyr at Puerto de Canals during the persecution against the faith.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Roman Martyrology, 26 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q10261433 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Crescencia Valls Espí (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.