Josepa Monrabal Montaner
blessed Spanish woman (1901-1936)
Feast: 30 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Josefa Monrabal was a Sister of St Joseph of Girona and a nurse, working in hospital wards and in the homes of the sick.
Despite threats she stayed bravely at her post to care for the sick, trusting in God, and was killed with two of her sisters in the summer of 1936.
The miracles
As a martyr she was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A nursing sister who stayed with the sick and was killed for it.
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.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Josefa Monrabal Montaner
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 5 September 2015
- Wikidata Q20979430 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.