A carriage is lifted at the scene of a train crash at Angrois near Santiago de Compostela, Spain. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

A woman who worked at the Catholic Diocese of Arlington was killed in one of the worst train crashes in Spain’s history.

Ana-Maria Cordoba was one of at 80 people killed when a high-speed train derailed in Galicia on Wednesday. Gustavo Angel, Cordoba’s father, told CBS News authorities informed him of his daughter’s death Thursday:

Angel said Ana-Maria was on holiday in Santiago de Compostela for two weeks with her husband and daughter. They were visiting the couple’s son, an exchange student at a local university. Ana-Maria’s husband has skull injuries and her daughter has a broken leg, and both are hospitalized, Angel said, adding that the son wasn’t on the train.

Cordoba was described by a spokesman of her employer to the Washington Post as a “very kind and warm woman of great faith.” The 47-year-old worked at a benefits specialist at the Diocese, according to NBC4.

The Diocese posted a message on Facebook yesterday, asking for prayers for Cordoba:

On this Feast of St. James, we pray for his intercession for all of those involved in the tragic train accident in Spain. In particular, we ask for your prayers for Ana Maria Cordoba, an employee at the Chancery who died in the wreck, and for her family.

The driver of the train, Francisco José Garzón Amo, who had boasted on Facebook about how fast he would push the locomotive, was arrested Friday. Investigators are examining the train’s “black box,” but it’s believed that the train was traveling at more than twice the speed limit when it rounded the curve where it derailed.

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