Garcia i Garcia, Eusebia

Eusebia Garcia i Garcia was born March 5, 1909 in Mojales in the province of Guadalajara in Spain in a large family of Juan Garcia and Eulalia Garcia. She received primary education in the family. At the age of 7, she was brought to the Sequence to the house of her maternal uncle, the priest Florentine Garcia, canon, secretary of the bishop, who also fell victim to the persecution of the clergy during the Spanish Civil War. Eusebia was inspired by reading the book "The Stories of a Soul" by St. Theresa the Baby Jesus and St. Face . Under the spiritual guidance of an uncle priest, she prepared for monastic life and, even in adolescence, took a vow of chastity.

Having been educated at the college of ursulins at 16, on May 2, 1925, Eusebia entered the bare Carmelites at the Monastery of St. Joseph in Guadalajara. She was given the name Theresa of the Baby Jesus, to which she later added St. John of the Cross. Eleven years later, on March 6, 1936, she brought monastic vows . All this time in the monastery, Teresa carried the obedience of a hospital nurse.

July 22, 1936 the monastery of St. Joseph was dissolved by the republican police. The nuns were obliged to dress in worldly clothes and disperse in groups to acquaintances, but the sisters formed a secret abode in the world. However, already on July 24, the nuns were forced to disperse. The abbess sent the sisters Mary Pilar and Saint Francis Borgia , Mary of the Angels and Saint Joseph and Theresa the Baby Jesus and Saint John of the Cross to a benefactress who agreed to provide asylum to the three nuns.

A group of police officers noticed the sisters at the door of the benefactress. Teresa the Infant Jesus and St. John of the Cross wanted to take refuge in the Executioner Hotel, but the police drove her to the cemetery. They demanded that she shout: "Glory to communism!" But the nun, running away, shouted: "Glory to Christ the King!" Then the police shot her in the back.

On July 10, 1941, the bodies of the nuns were discovered and transferred to the monastery of St. Joseph in Guadalajara. The process of reckoning martyrs to the blessed list lasted from 1955 (with a break from 1958 to 1982) until 1987.

On March 29, 1987, Pope Pope John Paul II at the St. Peter's Basilica in Rome beatified all three nuns as martyrs who suffered during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 .

The liturgical memory takes place on July 24th.

“The sole purpose of asceticism is the acquisition of holiness, (acquisition) of all Jesus” (Teresa the Infant Jesus and St. John of the Cross).

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• Theresa of the Baby Jesus and St. John of the Cross on the Es.catholic website (Spanish)
• Theresa of the Baby Jesus and St. John of the Cross on Hispaniamartyr website (Spanish)