Paul the Deacon of Cordoba
deacon and martyr at Córdoba
Feast: 20 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Córdoba in Andalusia in Spain, Saint Paul, deacon and martyr, who, taught by the example and the word of Saint Sisenandus, was not afraid to rebuke the emptiness of their worship before the princes and the authorities of the Moors, and was killed for confessing Christ as true God.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 20 July as a deacon of Córdoba who rebuked the Moorish rulers for the emptiness of their worship and was killed for confessing Christ as true God.
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.