José Miguel Peñarroya Dolz
Brother of the Hospitaller Order of St John of God, martyr of the persecution in Spain
Who they were
José Miguel Peñarroya Dolz, in the world Iosephus, was born at Forcall, in the region of Castellon in Spain, on 3 December 1908 and entered the Hospitaller Order of St John of God by perpetual vows on 8 September 1935. He is named in the decree on the martyrdom of Mauricio Íñiguez de Heredia Alzóla and twenty-three companions of the Order, killed between 1936 and 1937, and he was beatified on 13 October 2013 by Pope Francis.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
He had made his perpetual vows less than a year before the persecution that took his life.
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.
Connected on this site
- John of God Saint“José Miguel Peñarroya Dolz, in the world Iosephus, was born at Forcall, in the region of Castellon in Spain, on 3 December 1908 and entered the Hospitaller Order of St John of God by perpetual vows on 8 September 1935.” — this site's research
- Mauricio Íñiguez de Heredia Alzóla Blessed“He is named in the decree on the martyrdom of Mauricio Íñiguez de Heredia Alzóla and twenty-three companions of the Order, killed between 1936 and 1937, and he was beatified on 13 October 2013 by Pope Francis.” — this site's research
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis 106 (2014), p. 9 - decree on martyrdom
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatifications of 13 October 2013
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.