Deogracias Palacios

Who they were

In the town of Motril near Granada on the Spanish coast, Blessed martyrs Deogracias Palacios, León Inchausti, José Rada, Julián Moreno, priests, and José Ricardo Díez, religious, who, actively engaged for Christ in the Order of Augustinian Recollects, during the same persecution were suddenly seized by the mob and immediately shot in the street.

The miracles

As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.

Why that counted as sanctity

The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 25 July as one of the Augustinian Recollects seized by the mob and shot in the street at Motril.

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  “In the town of Motril near Granada on the Spanish coast, Blessed martyrs Deogracias Palacios, León Inchausti, José Rada, Julián Moreno, priests, and José Ricardo Díez, religious, who, actively engaged for Christ in the Order of Augustinian Recollects, during the same persecution were suddenly seized by the mob and…” — this site's research