Manuel López Orbara

Who they were

A novice of the Hospitaller Order of St John of God, born on 5 February 1913 at Puente la Reina in the province of Navarre; he was shot on 30 July 1936 with the community of the novitiate house at Calafell. He was beatified on 25 October 1992 by John Paul II, among Braulio María Corres, Federico Rubio and sixty-nine companions of the Hospitaller Order of St John of God.

The miracles

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

Why that counted as sanctity

The Roman Martyrology names him among the Hospitaller martyrs of Spain.

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  “A novice of the Hospitaller Order of St John of God, born on 5 February 1913 at Puente la Reina in the province of Navarre; he was shot on 30 July 1936 with the community of the novitiate house at Calafell.” — this site's research