María Dolores Llimona Planas
religious of the Congregation of Christian Doctrine and martyr near Valencia
Feast: 20 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Near Valencia in Spain, Blessed Ángela de San José (Francisca) Lloret Martí and fourteen companions, virgins and martyrs: the first of them the superior general, the others religious of the Congregation of Christian Doctrine, they suffered martyrdom for faith in Christ in the persecution against the Church that broke out during the civil war.
Among those named is Blessed María Dolores (María de Montserrat) Llimona Planas, a religious of the Congregation of Christian Doctrine and martyr.
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 20 November as one of the fifteen religious of the Congregation of Christian Doctrine martyred near Valencia during the civil war.
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.
Connected on this site
- Ángela de San José Blessed“Near Valencia in Spain, Blessed Ángela de San José (Francisca) Lloret Martí and fourteen companions, virgins and martyrs: the first of them the superior general, the others religious of the Congregation of Christian Doctrine, they suffered martyrdom for faith in Christ in the persecution against the Church that…” — this site's research
- Roman Martyrology, 20 November (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q101402590 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.