Enrique Palacios Monrabá
Seminarian, martyr of the persecution in Spain
Who they were
Enrique Palacios Monrabá was born at Cazalla de la Sierra near Seville on 3 April 1917 and entered the seminary of Seville on 29 August 1928. Home on holiday after his first year of theology, he was arrested and killed with his father Manuel Palacios Rodríguez in the prison yard of Cazalla de la Sierra on 5 August 1936. Pope Francis beatified him on 18 November 2023.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
He was killed in the prison yard of his home town together with his father.
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
- Manuel Palacios Rodríguez Blessed“Manuel Palacios Rodríguez was born at Aracena in Huelva on 1 August 1877 and was the father of the seminarian Enrique Palacios Monrabá and of six other children.” — this site's research
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis 116 (2024), p. 3 - decree on martyrdom
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - manuel-gonzalez-serna-rodriguez-e-19-compagni
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatifications of 18 November 2023
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.