Emilio Huidobro
Feast: 15 January (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Emilio Huidobro Corrales was born at Villaescusa del Butrón on 9 August 1917. Rejected by his stepfather after his mother's death, he lived at the college and learned to play several instruments.
He was killed in 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, with the priest Valentín Palencia Marquina and three other young laymen of the college Don Palencia had founded; their only fault, the Dicastery says, was wanting to defend the faith and share the fate of their father, teacher and friend.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A young man who died with the priest who had taken him in.
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.
Connected on this site
- Valentín Palencia Blessed“He was killed in 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, with the priest Valentín Palencia Marquina and three other young laymen of the college Don Palencia had founded; their only fault, the Dicastery says, was wanting to defend the faith and share the fate of their father, teacher and friend.” — this site's research
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Emilio Huidobro Corrales
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 25 April 2016
- Wikidata Q23939820 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.