Manuel Medina Olmos

Who they were

At Almería, also in Spain, the passion of Blessed martyrs Diego Ventaja Milán, bishop of Almería, and Manuel Medina Olmos, bishop of Cádiz, who, taken to prison out of hatred of the Christian name, patiently endured insults and abuse, until they were slaughtered by night.

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 30 August as the bishop of Cádiz imprisoned and killed by night at Almería out of hatred of the Christian name.

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  “At Almería, also in Spain, the passion of Blessed martyrs Diego Ventaja Milán, bishop of Almería, and Manuel Medina Olmos, bishop of Cádiz, who, taken to prison out of hatred of the Christian name, patiently endured insults and abuse, until they were slaughtered by night.” — this site's research