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Modesto Vegas Vegas
BlessedResearchedSpainConventual Franciscans
Feast: 27 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1912
Died
1936
Beatified
—
not on record
Canonised
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not yet
Who they were
In the village of Llisà near Barcelona, also in Spain, Blessed Modesto Vegas Vegas, priest of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual and martyr, who in the same persecution against the faith shed his blood for Christ.
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 27 July as a Conventual Franciscan priest martyred at Llisà.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 27 July (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q11784501 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.