Buenaventura de Miguel Arahal
Capuchin tertiary priest and martyr at Madrid
Feast: 1 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Madrid in Spain, Blessed Buenaventura (José) de Miguel Arahal, priest of the Third Order of Capuchins of the Blessed Virgin of Sorrows and martyr, who during the persecution against the faith shed his blood for Christ.
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 August as a Capuchin tertiary priest who shed his blood for Christ at Madrid during the persecution against the faith.
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.
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.