Justiniano Cuesta
Priest of the Congregation of the Passion, martyr of the persecution in Spain
Who they were
At Ciudad Real in Spain, Blessed Giustiniano Cuesta, priest, was shot for Christ and for the Church during the persecution against religion, with another priest and four religious of the Congregation of the Passion.
The Acta Apostolicae Sedis give his religious name as Justiniano de San Gabriel de la Virgen Dolorosa, born on 18 August 1910 at Alba de los Cardanos in the diocese of Palencia, professed in 1926, ordained priest in 1934 and named teacher of Greek at the house of studies of Daimiel, where he shared the lot of that community of martyrs.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
He was shot for Christ and for the Church during the Spanish persecution.
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
- Eufrasio de Celis Blessed“At Ciudad Real in Spain, the blessed martyrs Ildefonso García and Justiniano Cuesta, priests, and Eufrasio de Celis, Honorino Carracedo, Tomás Cuartero and José María Cuartero, religious, of the Congregation of the Passion, who, during the persecution against religion, were shot for Christ and for the Church.” — this site's research
- Honorino Carracedo Blessed“At Ciudad Real in Spain, the blessed martyrs Ildefonso García and Justiniano Cuesta, priests, and Eufrasio de Celis, Honorino Carracedo, Tomás Cuartero and José María Cuartero, religious, of the Congregation of the Passion, who, during the persecution against religion, were shot for Christ and for the Church.” — this site's research
- Ildefonso García Blessed“At Ciudad Real in Spain, the blessed martyrs Ildefonso García and Justiniano Cuesta, priests, and Eufrasio de Celis, Honorino Carracedo, Tomás Cuartero and José María Cuartero, religious, of the Congregation of the Passion, who, during the persecution against religion, were shot for Christ and for the Church.” — this site's research
- Roman Martyrology, 23 October (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis 81 (1989) - decree on the martyrdom of the Passionists of Daimiel
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.