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Manuel Martin Sierra
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Feast: 5 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1892
Died
1936
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not yet
Who they were
In the town of Motril near Granada on the Spanish coast, Blesseds Vicente Pinilla, of the Order of Augustinian Recollects, and Manuel Martin Sierra, priests and martyrs, who, dragged away from the church, were shot the day after the martyrdom of five other companions of theirs.
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 26 July as a priest martyr dragged from the church at Motril and shot.
Connected on this site
- Vicente Pinilla Blessed“In the town of Motril near Granada on the Spanish coast, Blesseds Vicente Pinilla, of the Order of Augustinian Recollects, and Manuel Martin Sierra, priests and martyrs, who, dragged away from the church, were shot the day after the martyrdom of five other companions of theirs.” — this site's research
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 26 July (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q4448352 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.