Juan Baixeras Berenguer
Spanish seminarian (1913-1936)
Who they were
At Barbastro near Huesca in Aragon in Spain, Blesseds Luis Masferrer Vila, priest, and nineteen companions, martyrs, who, religious of the Congregation of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, during the persecution against the Church, entrusted their lives to Christ and embraced in the glory of God their confreres killed the day before in the same place.
Among those named is Blessed Juan Baixeras Berenguer.
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 one of the Claretian martyrs of Barbastro.
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
- Luis Masferrer Vila Blessed“At Barbastro near Huesca in Aragon in Spain, Blesseds Luis Masferrer Vila, priest, and nineteen companions, martyrs, who, religious of the Congregation of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, during the persecution against the Church, entrusted their lives to Christ and embraced in the glory of God…” — this site's research
- Roman Martyrology, 15 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q47545031 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.