Antonia Luzmila Rivas López
Antonia Luzmila Rivas "Aguchita" López, RGS (13 June 1920 – 27 September 1990) was a Peruvian Catholic religious sister of the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd.
Rivas studied in Lima before she became a religious sister. She made her perpetual vows in the late 1940s before she served as an educator for children. But she also had an active role in the care and education for indigenous populations and peasant women while she oversaw a number of different health and catechetical programs.
Rivas worked at a time when the communist-oriented Shining Path terrorist group was on the rise and threatened local relislain communities. She was slain in 1990 when a teenage girl from the Shining Path shot her dead with a rifle when she tried to intercede for the villagers that she was with at the time; her death rattled her order, which pondered whether to leave the area.
In the Martyrology
- September 27 Blessed María Agustina (Antonia Luzmila Rivas López), religious and martyr