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Antonio Torrero Luque
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Feast: 6 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1888
Died
24 July 1936
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Beatified
28 October 2007
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Canonised
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Who they were
Antonio Torrero Luque was a Salesian priest, director of the community of El Castillo in Ronda.
He was killed for love of God on 24 July 1936, one of 63 Salesians of the Madrid and Seville provinces martyred during the persecution of 1936.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A Salesian priest killed in 1936 at Ronda.
Sources
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Antonio Torrero Luque
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 28 October 2007
- Wikidata Q5699977 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.