José María Peris Polo
Spanish organist, composer and choir director
Feast: 15 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the village of Almazora near Castellón de la Plana on the Spanish coast, Blessed José María Peris Polo, priest of the Society of Diocesan Worker Priests and martyr, who, killed in the cemetery, attained the palm of martyrdom in the same persecution.
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 15 August as a priest of the Diocesan Worker Priests killed in the cemetery of Almazora.
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, 15 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q16583483 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.