Julián Zarco-Bacas
Spanish historian (1887-1936)
Feast: 28 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Eusebio Julián Zarco-Bacas y Cuevas was a Spanish Augustinian religious and historian, librarian of El Escorial and member of the Academy of History. He was killed by Republican militiamen during the Spanish Civil War and beatified by the Catholic Church in 2007.
Summary translated from the Spanish Wikipedia article Julián Zarco-Bacas (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
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.
- Spanish Episcopal Conference — Martires del siglo XX en Espana (official list, February 2024) — '746 / I 267 — Julian Zarco Cuevas, O.S.A., 28 oct 2007' — Augustinian, librarian of El Escorial, shot at Paracuellos del Jarama 30 November 1936; beatified in Rome 28 October 2007.
- Wikidata Q5956271 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
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