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Cándido Catalán Lasala
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Feast: 6 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
16 February 1916
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Died
28 July 1936
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Beatified
13 October 2013
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Canonised
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not yet
Who they were
Cándido Catalán Lasala, a Claretian missionary, was born at Corella, Navarre, on 16 February 1916.
He was killed on 28 July 1936, aged twenty, one of the 522 martyrs of the Spanish Civil War beatified together in 2013.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A young Claretian killed at twenty for his faith.
The cause
Cándido Catalán Lasala has been beatified; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: Church in Navarre: Blessed Candido Catalan Lasala.
Sources
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Cándido Catalán Lasala
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 13 October 2013
- Wikidata Q5795862 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.