Salvador Montes de Oca (Bernardo)
Venezuelan bishop turned Carthusian, killed in Tuscany in 1944
Who they were
Second bishop of Valencia in Venezuela, expelled from the country in 1929 after defending the Church's stand on divorce; he later became a Carthusian in Italy and was killed at Nocchi di Camaiore on 7 September 1944.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
The cause, for martyrdom, opened on 11 March 2017 after the competent forum was transferred from Lucca to Valencia.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.