Florentino Pérez Romero
Priest of the Third Order Capuchin of the Sorrowful Virgin, martyr of the persecution in Spain
Who they were
Florentino Pérez Romero was a priest of the Third Order Capuchin of the Sorrowful Virgin, born at Valdecuenca in the province of Teruel in 1902; the decree calls him cheerful and good by nature, never spiteful, always sincere and upright, and he was killed at Pobla de Vallbona in the province of Valencia on 23 August 1936.
He was beatified on 11 March 2001 by John Paul II, among Vicente Cabanes Badenas and his eighteen companions of the Third Order Capuchin of the Sorrowful Virgin and the laywoman María del Carmen García Moyon.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The decree on martyrdom records that he was killed at Pobla de Vallbona on 23 August 1936.
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
- Vicente Cabanes Badenas Blessed“He was beatified on 11 March 2001 by John Paul II, among Vicente Cabanes Badenas and his eighteen companions of the Third Order Capuchin of the Sorrowful Virgin and the laywoman María del Carmen García Moyon.” — this site's research
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis 93 (2001), p. 6 - decree on martyrdom
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatifications of 11 March 2001
- Roman Martyrology, 23 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.