Juan María de la Cruz
Spanish Roman Catholic priest
Feast: 26 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the town of Silla in the same territory, Blessed Juan María de la Cruz (Mariano) García Méndez, priest of the Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and martyr, who, again in the same religious persecution, kept the faith in Christ until death.
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 23 August as a Dehonian priest martyred at Silla.
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, 23 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q16561559 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Juan María de la Cruz (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.