Francisco Esteban Lacal
Who they were
During the Spanish Civil War Catholic people faced persecution from the Republican faction of the war, in part due to their support of the nationalists and the recently abolished monarchy. The Catholic Church venerates them as martyrs. More than 6,800 clerics and other Catholic people were killed in what has been dubbed the Red Terror. As of December 2025, 2,255 Spanish martyrs have been beatified; 11 of them being canonized. For some 2,000 additional martyrs, the beatification process is underway.
Summary of the Wikipedia article Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War, which covers Francisco Esteban Lacal with others (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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The cause
Francisco Esteban Lacal has been beatified; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: Oblates of Mary Immaculate General Postulation: the Spanish martyrs.
Connected on this site
- Pascual Aláez Medina Blessed“He was beatified in Madrid on 17 December 2011, with Francisco Esteban Lacal and twenty-one other Oblate companion martyrs, by decree of Pope Benedict XVI.” — this site's research
- Santi e Beati — Beato Francesco Esteban Lacal — Listed as "Beato Francesco Esteban Lacal", Soria, Spagna, 8 febbraio 1888 - Paracuellos de Jarama, Spag — Sacerdote e martire 28 novembre
- Wikidata Q1441943 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
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