Buenaventura de Santa Catalina
Feast: 6 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Bonaventure of Saint Catherine, born Buenaventura Gavicaechevarría Guerricabeitia, was a Spanish priest of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity. He was shot by the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War and was beatified as a martyr by Pope Francis in 2013.
Summary translated from the Italian Wikipedia article Bonaventura di Santa Caterina (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.
- Spanish Bishops' Conference — Mártires del siglo XX en España, listado por nombres — Listed as "Buenaventura de Santa Catalina, O.SS.T., beatificado 13 oct 2013" — a Trinitarian martyr.
- Wikidata Q56396126 — 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.