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Francisco Palomares Vílchez

Diocesan priest, martyr of the persecution in Spain

BlessedFull write-up

Born

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unknown

Died

1936

Beatified

13 December 2025

by Leo XIV

Canonised

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not yet

Who they were

Francisco Palomares Vílchez was a priest, born at Rus and ordained on 18 March 1905, who was assistant parish priest of La Asunción at Villacarrillo and was killed at La Diadema, near Villacarrillo, on 12 September 1936. He was beatified on 13 December 2025 by Pope Leo XIV among the 124 martyrs of Jaén.

The miracles

As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.

Why that counted as sanctity

Killed near Villacarrillo on 12 September 1936 while serving as assistant parish priest of La Asunción.

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.

A miracle approved by the Holy See is needed for the next step. If you know the postulation’s own page, tell us and it will be added here.

Sources

Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.