Giovanni Sánchez Hernández
The Vatican record
- 5 August 2022 — Heroic virtue declared — title Venerable (decree list, 2022)
Who they were
Giovanni Sánchez Hernández was a priest of the Brotherhood of Diocesan Worker Priests of the Heart of Jesus and founder of the secular institute of the Secular Servants of Jesus Christ the Priest; he was born at Villanueva del Campillo, Spain, on 9 November 1902 and died in Madrid on 18 July 1975. Pope Francis recognised his heroic virtue on 5 August 2022.
The miracles
The Church has not yet approved a miracle in this cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Church recognised his heroic virtue in 2022.
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 - decrees published in 2022
- 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.