group of women at around eight o'clock in the evening.  During the class, two armed men entered the classroom and demanded that Victoria leave with them. 

Victoria, together with Fr. Molina and eighteen others who were already in prison were awakened in the middle of the night.  They were forced to walk for three hours to a new destination: an abandoned mine shaft.  Each one was forced to stand upon a huge stone above a large pit where they were shot and killed. 

Victoria watched as the men were shot and fell into the pit.  Fr. Molina was the last man to be killed and then it was Victoria's turn.  The soldiers tried to convince her to save her life if she would only renounce her Catholic Faith and cry out "Long live the republic" and "Long live communism."  Victoria refused.  Instead she knelt on the stone, and with her eyes raised to heaven and her arms opened in the form of a cross she shouted, "Long live Christ the King!  Long live the Virgin Mother!"  Victoria was only thirty-three years old. 

We are all called to be saints.  We are all called to be heroes.  Now, more than ever, the Church needs new saints and new heroes.
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