Facunda Margenat Roura
Feast: 27 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Catalina Margenat Roura, born at Girona on 9 September 1876, entered the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Girona (founded by the Venerable Maria Gay Tibau in her home city) at eighteen, taking the name Sister Faconda. She carried out her order's work quietly and humbly, caring for the sick at home and in hospitals.
During the Spanish Civil War she was seized while, still recovering from a serious illness, she was caring for a sick person in her own home; her body was found the morning of 27 August 1936 on the road to the Barcelona racecourse. She was beatified on 5 September 2015 in Girona cathedral, together with two other sisters of her congregation killed two days later at Xeresa; her remains lie in a common grave in the Barcelona cemetery.
The miracles
As a martyr she was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
Sister of Saint Joseph of Girona caring for the sick, killed during the Spanish Civil War, body found 27 August 1936; beatified 5 September 2015.
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.
- Santi, beati e testimoni (santiebeati.it) - Beata Faconda (Catalina) Margenat Roura
- Wikidata Q20979464 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.