Antoni Perulles i Estivill
Feast: 12 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Antonio Perulles Estivill was a priest of the Brotherhood of Diocesan Worker Priests of the Heart of Jesus, whose members trained future priests in seminaries in Spain and Mexico.
He was killed at Marsá, Tarragona, on 12 August 1936, aged 44, one of nine members of the Brotherhood martyred with Pedro Ruiz de los Paños during the Spanish Civil War.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A priest who trained priests and was killed for it 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.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Antonio Perulles Estivill
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 1 October 1995
- Wikidata Q11905918 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.