Félix Gómez-Pinto Piñero
Franciscan priest, martyr of the persecution in Spain
Who they were
A priest of the Order of Friars Minor, born on 18 May 1870 at La Torre de Esteban Hambrán in the province of Toledo, who served in several houses of the Order and in 1934 was sent to the friary at Pastrana, where he stayed until his martyrdom on 7 September 1936; as he died he forgave his killers.
He was beatified on 28 October 2007 by Benedict XVI, one of Víctor Chumillas Fernández and his twenty-one companions of the Order of Friars Minor.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The decree on martyrdom names him among Víctor Chumillas Fernández and his twenty-one companions.
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
- Víctor Chumillas Blessed“He was beatified on 28 October 2007 by Benedict XVI, one of Víctor Chumillas Fernández and his twenty-one companions of the Order of Friars Minor.” — this site's research
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis 98 (2006), p. 179 - decree on martyrdom
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatifications of 28 October 2007
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.