Nicasio Sierra Ucar
Roman catholic priest
Feast: 12 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Barbastro near Huesca in Aragon in Spain, Blesseds Sebastián Calvo Martínez, priest, and five companions, martyrs, who, religious of the Congregation of Missionaries of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, brought the glorious combat to its end, again in the same persecution.
Among those named is Blessed Nicasio Sierra Ucar, priest.
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 12 August as one of the Claretian martyrs of Barbastro.
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
- Sebastián Calvo Martínez Blessed“At Barbastro near Huesca in Aragon in Spain, Blesseds Sebastián Calvo Martínez, priest, and five companions, martyrs, who, religious of the Congregation of Missionaries of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, brought the glorious combat to its end, again in the same persecution.” — this site's research
- Roman Martyrology, 12 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q28779255 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.