Giovanni Roig y Diggle
The Vatican record
- 2 October 2019 — Martyrdom recognised (decree list, 2019)
Who they were
Giovanni Roig y Diggle was a layman, born in Barcelona, Spain, on 12 May 1917, who was killed at Gramenet, Spain, on the night between 11 and 12 September 1936. Pope Francis recognised his martyrdom on 2 October 2019.
The Dicastery's biography says he moved with his family to Masnou in 1934 and became a leader of the Federation of Young Christians of Catalonia there; militiamen took him from home and shot him a few hours later near the cemetery of Santa Coloma de Gramenet.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Church recognised him as a martyr in 2019.
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.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Giovanni Roig y Diggle
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 7 November 2020
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - decrees published in 2019
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - Giovanni Roig y Diggle
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Not yet in Wikidata. Name as the Vatican spells it.
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.