Manuel Heredia Torres
Diocesan priest, martyr of the persecution in Spain
Who they were
Manuel Heredia Torres was a priest, born at Porcuna on 21 April 1900 and ordained on 14 June 1924, who was director of the college of Nuestra Señora del Robledo at Constantina in the province of Seville and was killed on 3 August 1936. He was beatified on 13 December 2025 by Pope Leo XIV among the 124 martyrs of Jaén.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
Killed on 3 August 1936 while directing the college of Nuestra Señora del Robledo at Constantina.
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.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - 124-martiri-di-Jaen
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatifications of 13 December 2025
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.