Juan Gonga Martínez
Feast: 22 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the village of Simat de Valldigna in the territory of Valencia in Spain, Blessed Juan Gonga Martínez, martyr, who shed his blood for Christ during the persecution against the faith.
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 13 November as a martyr who shed his blood for Christ at Simat de Valldigna during the persecution.
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, 13 November (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q11717561 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.