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Antoni Perulles i Estivill
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Feast: 12 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1892
Died
12 August 1936
verified
Beatified
1 October 1995
verified
Canonised
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not yet
Who they were
Antonio Perulles Estivill was a priest of the Brotherhood of Diocesan Worker Priests of the Heart of Jesus, whose members trained future priests in seminaries in Spain and Mexico.
He was killed at Marsá, Tarragona, on 12 August 1936, aged 44, one of nine members of the Brotherhood martyred with Pedro Ruiz de los Paños during the Spanish Civil War.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A priest who trained priests and was killed for it in 1936.
Sources
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Antonio Perulles Estivill
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 1 October 1995
- Wikidata Q11905918 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.