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Bernardino Álvarez Melcón
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Feast: 6 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1903
Died
1936
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Beatified
28 October 2007
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Canonised
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Who they were
Bernardino Álvarez Melcón was an Augustinian priest.
He was killed aged 33, one of 98 Augustinians and six diocesan priests put to death in hatred of the faith during the Spanish Civil War.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
An Augustinian priest killed for the faith in 1936.
Sources
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Bernardino Álvarez Melcón
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 28 October 2007
- Wikidata Q5726657 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.