Juan Mesonero Huerta
Diocesan priest of Avila, martyr of the persecution in Spain
Who they were
Juan Mesonero Huerta was born on 12 September 1913 in the village of Ragama near Salamanca, then in the diocese of Avila, and was ordained priest in 1936. A model of the virtues, he was appointed parish administrator of El Hornillo, where he was killed on 15 August 1936, little more than a month after his ordination, and he was beatified on 13 October 2013 by Pope Francis.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
He was killed barely a month after his ordination, at the age of twenty-two.
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.
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis 106 (2014), p. 121 - decree on martyrdom
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatifications of 13 October 2013
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.