Juan Joya
Spanish religious (1898-1937)
Feast: 6 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Giovanni della Vergine del Castellar, in Spanish Juan de la Virgen del Castellar, born Juan Francisco Joya y Corralero, was a Spanish religious of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity. He was shot by the Republicans, in hatred of the faith, during the Spanish Civil War, and was beatified as a martyr by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007.
Summary translated from the Italian Wikipedia article Giovanni della Vergine del Castellar (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
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.
- Dicastero delle Cause dei Santi — Mariano di San Giuseppe Altolaguirre and 9 companions — 'Fr. Juan de la Virgen de Castellar, religious, in the world Juan Joya Corralero. Born at Villarubia de Santiago, diocese of Toledo, 16 May 1898.'
- Wikidata Q5950598 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.