Vicente de Paul Canelles Vives

Who they were

At Calafell near Tarragona on the Spanish coast, Blessed martyrs Braulio María (Pablo) Corres Díaz de Cerio, priest, and fourteen companions of the Order of Saint John of God, who, captured during the persecution against religious, merited the most blessed crown of martyrdom, forgiving their enemies. Among those named is Blessed Vicente de Paul Canelles Vives, religious.

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 30 July as one of the Brothers of Saint John of God martyred at Calafell.

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  “At Calafell near Tarragona on the Spanish coast, Blessed martyrs Braulio María (Pablo) Corres Díaz de Cerio, priest, and fourteen companions of the Order of Saint John of God, who, captured during the persecution against religious, merited the most blessed crown of martyrdom, forgiving their enemies.” — this site's research