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Mercedes Prat
Spanish religious (1880–1936)
BlessedResearchedSpainSociety of St. Teresa of Jesus
Feast: 24 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1880
Died
1936
Beatified
—
not on record
Canonised
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not yet
Who they were
Near Barcelona, also in Spain, Blessed Mercedes Prat, virgin of the Society of Saint Teresa of Jesus and martyr, who in the same persecution suffered martyrdom because she was a religious.
The miracles
As a martyr she was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers her on 24 July as a Teresian sister martyred near Barcelona because she was a religious.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 24 July (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q3813318 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Mercè Prat i Prat (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.