Melquíades Ramírez Zuluaga

Who they were

A professed religious, in the world Raimundo, born on 13 February 1909 at Sonsón in the diocese of Medellín, one of the seven Colombian brothers of the Hospitaller Order of St John of God who were completing their religious and technical formation at Ciempozuelos; they were shot at Barcelona on 9 August 1936. 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.

Connected on this site

• John of God Saint
  “A professed religious, in the world Raimundo, born on 13 February 1909 at Sonsón in the diocese of Medellín, one of the seven Colombian brothers of the Hospitaller Order of St John of God who were completing their religious and technical formation at Ciempozuelos; they were shot at Barcelona on 9 August 1936.” — this site's research