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Leonardo Olivera Buera
Spanish Catholic priest
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Feast: 22 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1889
Died
1936
Beatified
11 March 2001
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Canonised
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Who they were
At the place called El Saler near Valencia, also in Spain, Blessed Leonardo Olivera Buera, priest and martyr, who, during the same persecution against religion, imitating the passion of Christ, merited to attain the eternal reward.
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 October as a priest martyred at El Saler during the persecution in Spain.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 23 October (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q11754490 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.