Juan Sánchez Munárriz
Spanish seminarian
Feast: 13 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Barbastro near Huesca in Aragon in Spain, Blesseds Secundino Ortega García, priest, and nineteen companions, martyrs, who, religious of the Congregation of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, were killed out of hatred for the faith during the persecution against the Church.
Among those named is Blessed Juan Sánchez Munárriz, religious.
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 August as one of the Claretian martyrs killed at Barbastro out of hatred for the faith.
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.
Connected on this site
- Secundino Ortega García Blessed“At Barbastro near Huesca in Aragon in Spain, Blesseds Secundino Ortega García, priest, and nineteen companions, martyrs, who, religious of the Congregation of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, were killed out of hatred for the faith during the persecution against the Church.” — this site's research
- Roman Martyrology, 13 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q47545017 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.