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Juan Codinachs Tuneu
Spanish seminarian
BlessedResearchedSpainMissionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Feast: 13 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1914
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 Secundino Ortega García, priest, and nineteen companions, martyrs, who, religious of the Congregation of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, were killed out of hatred for the faith during the persecution against the Church.
Among those named is Blessed Juan Codinachs Tuneu, religious.
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 13 August as one of the Claretian martyrs killed at Barbastro out of hatred for the faith.
Connected on this site
- Secundino Ortega García Blessed“At Barbastro near Huesca in Aragon in Spain, Blesseds Secundino Ortega García, priest, and nineteen companions, martyrs, who, religious of the Congregation of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, were killed out of hatred for the faith during the persecution against the Church.” — this site's research
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 13 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q47544989 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.