José Pascual Carda Saporta
Feast: 4 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the town of Oropesa near Castellón de la Plana on the Spanish coast, Blessed José Pascual Carda Saporta, priest of the Brotherhood of Diocesan Worker Priests and martyr, who, during the persecution against the Church, was led out of hatred of religion to a glorious martyrdom.
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 4 September as a Diocesan Worker Priest martyred at Oropesa out of hatred of religion.
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, 4 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q17362062 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.