José Ardil Lázaro

Who they were

A layman born on 18 August 1914, he worked as a clerk in an office; he and his companions were arrested and, after a time in custody, killed on 22 September 1936. Pope Francis beatified him with Vicente Queralt Lloret and his twenty companions on 11 November 2017.

The miracles

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

Why that counted as sanctity

The decree on martyrdom records that he and his companions were killed together on 22 September 1936.