Laurencia Díaz Bolaños
Daughter of Charity of St Vincent de Paul, martyr of the persecution in Spain
Who they were
Laurencia Díaz Bolanos was born in the village of Guia near Las Palmas on 10 August 1896, made her religious vows as a Daughter of Charity of St Vincent de Paul in 1926 and nursed in the operating theatre of an institute for workers disabled at their work. The decree places her among the two sisters shot on 22 November 1936 in the Las Vistillas gardens at Madrid and buried in the eastern cemetery, and she was beatified on 13 October 2013 by Pope Francis.
The miracles
As a martyr she was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
She was shot in a public garden in Madrid on 22 November 1936, after ten years nursing injured workers.
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
- Vincent de Paul Saint“Laurencia Díaz Bolanos was born in the village of Guia near Las Palmas on 10 August 1896, made her religious vows as a Daughter of Charity of St Vincent de Paul in 1926 and nursed in the operating theatre of an institute for workers disabled at their work.” — this site's research
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis 105 (2013), p. 1009 - decree on martyrdom
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatifications of 13 October 2013
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.