Amado Cubeñas Diego Madrazo
Dominican priest, martyr of the persecution in Spain
Who they were
The decree on martyrdom describes him as a priest of the Order of Preachers, born in 1880, who gave himself to the missions and to teaching, and records that he was killed on 30 November 1936. He was beatified on 28 October 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
Named in the decree on martyrdom among the companions of Buenaventura García Paredes and Miguel Léibar Garay killed in Spain in 1936.
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.
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis 98 (2006), p. 4 - decree on martyrdom
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatifications of 28 October 2007
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.