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Juan Gonga Martínez
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Feast: 22 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1912
Died
1936
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not yet
Who they were
In the village of Simat de Valldigna in the territory of Valencia in Spain, Blessed Juan Gonga Martínez, martyr, who shed his blood for Christ during the persecution against the faith.
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 November as a martyr who shed his blood for Christ at Simat de Valldigna during the persecution.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 13 November (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q11717561 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.