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Pedro de Dueñas

Spanish missionary

BlessedResearchedSpainFranciscans

Feast: 19 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
1377
Died
1397
Beatified
29 August 1731
unverified
Canonised
not yet

Who they were

At Granada in Spain, the blessed martyrs Juan de Cetina, priest, and Pedro de Dueñas, religious, of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, killed by the hand of the king of the Moors himself for having confessed faith in Christ.

The miracles

The Roman Martyrology does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.

Why that counted as sanctity

The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 19 May as a Franciscan religious killed at Granada by the Moorish king for confessing Christ.

Connected on this site

  • Juan Lorenzo de Cetina Blessed
    “At Granada in Spain, the blessed martyrs Juan de Cetina, priest, and Pedro de Dueñas, religious, of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, killed by the hand of the king of the Moors himself for having confessed faith in Christ.” — this site's research
Sources

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