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Juan María de la Cruz
Spanish Roman Catholic priest
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Feast: 26 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1891
Died
1936
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not yet
Who they were
In the town of Silla in the same territory, Blessed Juan María de la Cruz (Mariano) García Méndez, priest of the Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and martyr, who, again in the same religious persecution, kept the faith in Christ until death.
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 23 August as a Dehonian priest martyred at Silla.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 23 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q16561559 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Juan María de la Cruz (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.