BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Francisca González Justo (Mª Teresa is the name she takes as a religious), was born in Quintanar de la Orden (Toledo) on February 11, 1921. Her parents, Martiniano and Isabel, have three daughters, Francisca is the eldest.
Paquita, they call her in her house and friends, she is a simple young woman, full of illusions, pious, who lives the religious spirit of her time and her family. That she shares her time helping the family, although they did not need it, since they had a maid. And taking care of the poor children of the Toledillo neighborhood. He took them home sometimes, washed them, fed them and taught them the catechism. This was not always to the liking of his mother and sisters, as it filled the backyard where they also had the grocery store.
In the summers he used to go on vacation with some of his cousins, to the province of Alicante.
His father Martiniano, was shot on October 25, 1936, in the middle of civil war. Both she and her family were able to forgive the murderer of her father nicknamed "the Donel". When the war ended, "El Donel" went to jail for killing several Quintanaires. Upon knowing Paquita his imprisonment and the misery in which his family was left, he daily brought his food to jail. Every day Paquita is seen with her "green basket" at the door of the jail. Along with the food, which she prepares for herself, she receives forgiveness and the message of God's infinite mercy. When, sentenced to death, he leaves the path of execution, "the Donel" is a repentant man who asks everyone's forgiveness.
At age 20 Enter the novitiate of the Sisters of Consolation. And after his religious profession, in 1943, he went on to serve tuberculosis patients. First in the sanatorium of Villarreal, then in the one in Castellón, where the patients of that Center were transferred because they did not meet the necessary conditions.
Arriving at the Sanatorium in the years that we cited, was synonymous with penury in all aspects. Food and medicine were scarce. Years of hunger and ration card. It was the postwar years. The statistics of 1940 showed a total of 29,185 deaths in Spain due to tuberculosis.
María Teresa had been entrusted to the patients on the first floor, but every day she visited all the patients in the Sanatorium. She was interested in them, and since they were sometimes sick who were very lonely because of the fear of contagion, she was also interested in their families and wrote to them to give them news and to worry about them.
He died at age 46 in the sanatorium of La Magdalena, because of a cancer illness, on October 12, 1967.
His mortal remains rest in the Chapel of the College of Our Lady of the Consolation of Castellón, Avda. De Lidón, nº 49.
Pope John Paul II promulgated on June 13, 1992, the Decree on the Heroic Virtues of the Venerable Mª Teresa González Justo.