Coleta Meléndez Torres

Coleta Meléndez Torres (or Menendez De La Torre; 1886–1917) was a young woman who entered the Association of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate of the town of Degollado, Mexico. On December 24, 1917, she defended her purity from an attack by guerrillas, and fell on her friend Maria de San José (or Josefa) Parra Flores in a burning building: Both girls burnt to death. They were respectively twenty-five and twenty-one years old. The permission for the start of their cause of beatification and canonization, in charge of the diocese of San Juan de los Lagos in Mexico, dated October 12, 1995.

References

• "Serva di Dio Coleta Melendez Torres su santiebeati.it". Santiebeati.it. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
• "Serve di Dio Maria de San José Parrà Flores e Coleta Melendez Torres su santiebeati.it". Santiebeati.it. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
• amica9tv. "Totus Tuus | Serve di Dio "Coleta Melendez Torres" e "Maria de San José Parra Flores" 1a "parte" - Video Dailymotion". Dailymotion (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-02-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)