Laureano María Ferrer Cardet
Priest of the Third Order Capuchin of the Sorrowful Virgin, in the world Salvador, martyr of the persecution in Spain
Who they were
Laureano María Ferrer Cardet was a priest of the Third Order Capuchin of the Sorrowful Virgin, born at Burriana in 1884; the decree says he had a merciful and kindly spirit and was a faithful image of the good Samaritan, and he was martyred in the town of Turis in the province of Valencia on 16 September 1936.
He was beatified on 11 March 2001 by John Paul II, among Vicente Cabanes Badenas and his eighteen companions of the Third Order Capuchin of the Sorrowful Virgin and the laywoman María del Carmen García Moyon.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The decree on martyrdom records that he was martyred at Turis on 16 September 1936.
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
- Vicente Cabanes Badenas Blessed“He was beatified on 11 March 2001 by John Paul II, among Vicente Cabanes Badenas and his eighteen companions of the Third Order Capuchin of the Sorrowful Virgin and the laywoman María del Carmen García Moyon.” — this site's research
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis 93 (2001), p. 6 - decree on martyrdom
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatifications of 11 March 2001
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.