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José Figuero Beltrán
Spanish seminarian (1911-1936)
BlessedResearchedSpainMissionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Born
1911
Died
1936
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not yet
Who they were
At Barbastro near Huesca in Aragon in Spain, Blesseds Luis Masferrer Vila, priest, and nineteen companions, martyrs, who, religious of the Congregation of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, during the persecution against the Church, entrusted their lives to Christ and embraced in the glory of God their confreres killed the day before in the same place.
Among those named is Blessed José Figuero Beltrán, lector.
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 15 August as one of the Claretian martyrs of Barbastro.
Connected on this site
- Luis Masferrer Vila Blessed“At Barbastro near Huesca in Aragon in Spain, Blesseds Luis Masferrer Vila, priest, and nineteen companions, martyrs, who, religious of the Congregation of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, during the persecution against the Church, entrusted their lives to Christ and embraced in the glory of God…” — this site's research
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 15 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q47545050 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.