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Venerable Maria del Carmen GonzlezValerio y Senz de Heredia was a Spanish girl who is venerated by the Roman Catholic Church and is being considered for sainthood. She was declared a venerable by Pope John Paul II on January 16, 1996.

She was born into a noble, militantly Catholic and Spanish Nationalist family and lived during the turbulent Spanish Civil War. She was a cousin by marriage of politician Jos Antonio Primo de Rivera. As a child she was known for her deep piety. Her father, Julio GonzlezValerio, the second son of the Marqus de Casa Ferrandel, was taken away in 1936 by a group of militia men to be executed. He told his wife, Carmen, to tell their children that Our children are too young, they dont understand. Tell them later that their father gave up his life for God and for Spain, so that our children may be raised in a Catholic Spain, where the crucifix reigns over in schools. Their mother sought refuge at the Belgian Embassy in 1937, while Mari Carmen and her siblings were cared for by aunts. The children were also granted asylum when the ambassador learned that the Communists planned to abduct the GonzlezValerio children and send them to Russia to be raised as Marxists.

Source: Wikipedia