Catalina del Carme Caldés Socias
Spanish religious (1899-1936)
Feast: 23 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Catalina Caldés Socías was born at La Pobla on 9 July 1899 and made her solemn profession as a religious sister in 1925.
She was killed on 24 July 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, one of a group of priests, religious men and women martyred for bearing witness to the faith or for lovingly taking in those forced out of their convents.
The miracles
As a martyr she was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A sister killed in 1936 for her 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.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Catalina Caldés Socías
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 28 October 2007
- Wikidata Q8342771 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.