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Vicente Vilar David
Spanish engineer and martyr
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Feast: 14 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1889
Died
1937
Beatified
1 October 1995
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Who they were
At Valencia in Spain, Blessed Vicente Vilar David, martyr, who during the persecution against religion took priests and women religious into his home and chose to die rather than deny the faith.
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 14 February as a martyr who sheltered priests and religious and chose death rather than deny the faith.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 14 February (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q6161375 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Vicente Vilar David (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.