Bernardino Álvarez Melcón
Feast: 6 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Bernardino Álvarez Melcón was an Augustinian priest.
He was killed aged 33, one of 98 Augustinians and six diocesan priests put to death in hatred of the faith during the Spanish Civil War.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
An Augustinian priest killed for the faith 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: Bernardino Álvarez Melcón
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 28 October 2007
- Wikidata Q5726657 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.