Ignacio Martínez Madrid
Spanish Augustinian Recollect who was apostolic administrator of Lábrea in the Amazon
Who they were
An Augustinian Recollect from Burgos, he was named apostolic administrator of Lábrea in the Brazilian Amazon at twenty-eight and died there in 1942. Santiebeati.it gives his birth as 31 July 1902, not 31 December as the Hagiography Circle has it.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
The bishop-prelate of Lábrea asked Madrid to take the cause in 1996, the transfer rescript was issued on 28 June 1996, the nihil obstat came on 18 September 1999 and the diocesan inquiry ran at Madrid from 22 February 2000 to 30 November 2004.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.