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Florentino Asensio Barroso
Spanish Roman Catholic Bishop (1877-1936)
Feast: 9 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Barbastro, also in Spain, Blessed Florentino Asensio Barroso, bishop and martyr, who, shot by militiamen during the persecution against the Church, bore witness with his own blood to the faith he had never ceased to preach to the people entrusted to him.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 9 August as a bishop of Barbastro shot by militiamen during the persecution against the Church.
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.
- Roman Martyrology, 9 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q8213971 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Florentino Asensio Barroso (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.