Juan Ventura Solsona
Feast: 22 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the village of Castillo de Villamalefa near Castellón de la Plana in Spain, Blessed Juan Ventura Solsona, priest and martyr, who, during the persecution, passed to the glory of heaven unconquered in his firmness in the faith.
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 17 September as a priest martyred at Castillo de Villamalefa during the persecution in Spain.
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, 17 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q11719335 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.