On December 30, 1934, Maria de la Luz Camacho, a young Mexican woman, was killed by a hostile group of Rojinegros – the Red Blacks, Communists who had been recruited by Garrido Canabal. Maria knew that the Communists were planning to burn the parish church of Coyoacán and asked her sister to come with her, to help protect the church.   Her sister noticed that Maria had put on her best dress, and asked her why.  Maria told her, “We are going to defend Christ, our King.”
Maria stood at the church door with her sister.  A young man approached with tears in his eyes, “Miss Comacho, please go to safety.”   She had prepared the youth for his First Communion when she was involved with Catholic Action.  She refused to leave. When the drunken crowd shouted insults to the two girls, Maria called out, “We are not afraid. If it becomes necessary, we are ready to die for Christ the King. Those who wish to enter this church must first pass over my body.” The soldiers shot and killed the small group of faithful Catholics.
Maria had been planning to enter the Capuchin Poor Clares and had been saving money from her job to spare her father the expense of a dowry.                                          (see also July 29^th)