Jose Rada
Feast: 5 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the town of Motril near Granada on the Spanish coast, Blessed martyrs Deogratias Palacios, León Inchausti, Jose Rada, Julián Moreno, priests, and José Ricardo Díez, religious, who, actively engaged for Christ in the Order of Augustinian Recollects, during the same persecution were suddenly seized by the mob and immediately shot in the street.
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 25 July as one of the Augustinian Recollects seized by the mob and shot in the street at Motril.
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
- Julián Moreno Blessed“In the town of Motril near Granada on the Spanish coast, Blessed martyrs Deogratias Palacios, León Inchausti, Jose Rada, Julián Moreno, priests, and José Ricardo Díez, religious, who, actively engaged for Christ in the Order of Augustinian Recollects, during the same persecution were suddenly seized by the mob and…” — this site's research
- Roman Martyrology, 25 July (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q4387089 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.