Juan Lorenzo de Cetina
Feast: 19 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Granada in Spain, the blessed martyrs Juan de Cetina, priest, and Pedro de Dueñas, religious, of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, killed by the hand of the king of the Moors himself for having confessed faith in Christ.
The miracles
The Roman Martyrology does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 19 May as a Franciscan priest killed at Granada by the Moorish king for confessing Christ.
The cause
Juan Lorenzo de Cetina has been beatified; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: Franciscans: Blessed Juan de Cetina.
Connected on this site
- Pedro de Dueñas Blessed“At Granada in Spain, the blessed martyrs Juan de Cetina, priest, and Pedro de Dueñas, religious, of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, killed by the hand of the king of the Moors himself for having confessed faith in Christ.” — this site's research
- Roman Martyrology, 19 May (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q9016089 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.