Matías Cardona Meseguer
Feast: 20 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Vallbona in the territory of Castellón de la Plana in Spain, Blessed Matías Cardona Meseguer, priest of the Order of Clerics Regular of the Pious Schools and martyr in the persecution against religion.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 20 August as a Piarist priest martyred at Vallbona.
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.
- Roman Martyrology, 20 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q23943041 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.