Joan Mercer Soler
Spanish Catholic Claretian priest, considered beatus (1874-1936)
Who they were
Joan Mercer i Soler, or Joan Mercé i Soler, was a Catholic cleric of the Claretian order, shot during the Spanish Civil War and beatified in 2016 by Pope Francis.
Summary translated from the Catalan Wikipedia article Joan Mercer i Soler (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
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 - 109 martiri spagnoli clarettiani — Listed as "16. Giovanni Mercer Soler" among the Claretian martyrs of Spain.
- Wikidata Q42308523 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
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