Alvaro Sanjuán Canet
Feast: 1 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the village of Villena, likewise in the same territory, Blessed Alvaro Sanjuán Canet, priest of the Salesian Society and martyr, who in the same persecution attained the palm of victory after a bitter combat.
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 1 October as a Salesian priest martyred at Villena.
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.
- Roman Martyrology, 1 October (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q20898340 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.