Maria Assumpció Català Poch was born in Barcelona on July
14, 1925. In the early years of her childhood, the family lived in
Montblanc, Tarragona, where her father worked. She began
primary school in Montblanc but finished in Barcelona, at the
Catholic school of the Sacred Heart and Mary Immaculate, operated
by the sisters of St Paul. After the Spanish civil war, she
attended high school at the Institut Maragall in Barcelona..