José López Piteira
Feast: 6 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
José López Piteira was an Augustinian deacon and student of theology.
He was killed aged 23, one of 98 Augustinians and six diocesan priests put to death in hatred of the faith during the Spanish Civil War.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A young Augustinian deacon killed for the faith.
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: José López Piteira
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 28 October 2007
- Wikidata Q5941878 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.