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Ignasi Casanovas Perramón
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Feast: 16 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1893
Died
1936
Beatified
1 October 1995
unverified
Canonised
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not yet
Who they were
Near the town of Òdena near Barcelona in Spain, Blessed Ignasi Casanovas, priest of the Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Pious Schools and martyr, killed for Christ during the persecution.
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 16 September as a Piarist priest killed for Christ near Òdena during the persecution.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 16 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q23943038 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.