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Josefa Segovia, also known as Juanita or Josefa Loaiza, was a Mexican-American woman who was lynched by hanging in Downieville, California, on July 5, 1851. [1] She is known as the first recorded Mexican woman to be lynched in California. [ 2 ]
María Josefa Segovia Morón (10 October 1891 - 29 March 1957) was a Spanish Roman Catholic and the co-founder of the Teresian Institute that she established alongside Father Pedro Castroverde. [1] Morón devoted her life to the functioning of the institute in Spain and served as its first director until her death.
Josefa Segovia, a young Californio resident of the town, was lynched by a mob on July 5, 1851. [9] The lynch mob held a mock trial, and accused her of killing an American miner. The mock trial quickly led to hanging her from the Jersey Bridge in town. [7] Segovia was the first and only hanging of a woman in the history of California. [10]
Josefa Naval Girbés (1820–1893), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Valencia; Member of the Secular Carmelites (Spain) Declared "Venerable": 3 January 1987; Beatified: 25 September 1988 by Pope John Paul II; Isidore Bakanja (c. 1887–1909), Young Layperson of the Archdiocese of Mbandaka-Bikoro; Martyr in odium fidei (Democratic Republic of Congo)
March 29 – María Josefa Segovia Morón, Spanish Roman Catholic laywoman and venerable (b. 1891) April 8 – Pedro Segura y Sáenz, Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1880) December 31 – Óscar Domínguez, Spanish painter (b. 1906)
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