Antonio Arribas Hortigüela
Feast: 29 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
During the Spanish Civil War Catholic people faced persecution from the Republican faction of the war, in part due to their support of the nationalists and the recently abolished monarchy. The Catholic Church venerates them as martyrs. More than 6,800 clerics and other Catholic people were killed in what has been dubbed the Red Terror. As of December 2025, 2,255 Spanish martyrs have been beatified; 11 of them being canonized. For some 2,000 additional martyrs, the beatification process is underway.
Summary of the Wikipedia article Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War, which covers Antonio Arribas Hortigüela with others (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
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.
- Santi, beati e testimoni - BeatoAntonio Arribas Hortigüela — Santiebeati.it, the Italian Catholic saints dictionary, carries a full entry: BeatoAntonio Arribas Hortigüela - Sacerdote e martire | Cardeñadijo, Spagna, 29 aprile 1908 - Seriñá, Spagna, 29 settembre 1936.
- Wikidata Q29057198 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.