Germán Garrigues Hernández
Feast: 9 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the village of Carcaixent in the territory of Valencia, also in Spain, Blessed Germán (José María) Garrigues Hernández, priest of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin and martyr, who, in the course of the same persecution against the faith, overcame the torments of the body by his precious death.
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 Capuchin priest and martyr at Carcaixent.
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 Q14918045 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.