Luis Martínez Alvarellos
Salesian seminarian, martyr of the persecution in Spain
Who they were
A professed Salesian and candidate for the priesthood, he died a martyr on 6 December 1936. He was beatified on 28 October 2007 by Benedict XVI with Enrique Sáiz Aparicio and 62 companions of the Society of St Francis de Sales.
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 died a martyr on 6 December 1936 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.
Connected on this site
- Francis de Sales Saint“He was beatified on 28 October 2007 by Benedict XVI with Enrique Sáiz Aparicio and 62 companions of the Society of St Francis de Sales.” — this site's research
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis 98 (2006), p. 944 - decree on martyrdom
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatifications of 28 October 2007
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.