José Ruiz Cuesta
Feast: 30 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
José Ruiz Cuesta was a postulant of the Hospitaller Order of St John of God.
He was killed at Paracuellos del Jarama on 28 November 1936, one of 71 Hospitaller Brothers martyred 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 postulant killed in 1936.
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 Ruiz Cuesta was a postulant of the Hospitaller Order of St John of God.” — this site's research
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: José Ruiz Cuesta
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 25 October 1992
- Wikidata Q6455175 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.