Francisca Cualladó Baixauli
BlessedSeptember 19 · 1890–1936
Francisca Cualladó Baixauli (1890, Valencia — 1936, Benifaió) — Blessed. Feast day: 19 September.
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Francisca Cualladó Baixauli was a Spanish seamstress born in 1890 in the Valencia region. During the Spanish Civil War, she was executed by a firing squad at the Torre Espioca in Benifaió on September 19, 1936. Recognized as a martyr by the Catholic Church, she was later beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2001. Her life and death are commemorated within the Catholic tradition.