Clemente Rodríguez Tejerina
Oblate religious, martyr of the persecution in Spain
Who they were
Clemente Rodríguez Tejerina was born on 23 July 1918 at Santa Olaja de la Varga in the province and diocese of León and made his first religious profession on 16 July 1935. Arrested on 15 October 1936 and taken to the prison of St Anthony in Madrid, he was killed at Paracuellos de Jarama on 28 November following, and was beatified with the Spanish martyrs of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate on 17 December 2011 by Benedict XVI.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
An Oblate religious killed at Paracuellos de Jarama 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 - martiri-spagnoli-missionari-oblati-di-maria-immacolata
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatifications of 17 December 2011
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.