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José Ferrer Esteve
BlessedResearchedSpainPiarists
Feast: 9 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1904
Died
1936
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not yet
Who they were
In the town of Llombay in the territory of Valencia in Spain, Blessed José Ferrer Esteve, priest of the Order of Clerics Regular of the Pious Schools and martyr, shot out of hatred for his priesthood.
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 9 December as a Piarist priest shot out of hatred for his priesthood.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 9 December (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q23943035 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.