Leoncio Arce Urrutia

Who they were

The decree on martyrdom describes him as a priest of the Order of Preachers, born in 1899, who gave himself to teaching, to the care of souls and to administering temporal goods, and records that he was killed on 10 September 1936. He was beatified on 28 October 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI.

The miracles

As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.

Why that counted as sanctity

Named in the decree on martyrdom among the companions of Buenaventura García Paredes and Miguel Léibar Garay killed in Spain in 1936.