Mariano Mullerat i Soldevila
Spanish physician and politician (1897-1936)
Feast: 13 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
The Vatican record
- 7 November 2018 — Martyrdom recognised (decree list, 2018)
Who they were
Mariano Mullerat i Soldevila was born at Santa Coloma de Queralt, Tarragona, on 24 March 1897 and studied medicine in Barcelona from 1914 to 1921. A doctor, husband and father, he loved above all to care for the poor who could not pay him and to accompany the dying, preparing them for the sacraments.
In the Spanish Civil War he kept visiting the sisters he cared for to give them courage. Killed in hatred of the faith in 1936 simply because he was a Christian, he prayed aloud to the end and urged everyone to pray.
The miracles
As a martyr, beatified without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A Catalan doctor who served the poor for nothing and died praying aloud for all.
The cause
Mariano Mullerat i Soldevila has been beatified; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: Archdiocese of Tarragona: the cause of Blessed Maria Mullerat.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Mariano Mullerat I Soldevila
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints — promulgated decrees (causesanti.va), summarised in our own words
- Wikidata Q11691099 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Mariano Mullerat i Soldevila (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.