Pedro de Dueñas
Spanish missionary
Feast: 19 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Granada in Spain, the blessed martyrs Juan de Cetina, priest, and Pedro de Dueñas, religious, of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, killed by the hand of the king of the Moors himself for having confessed faith in Christ.
The miracles
The Roman Martyrology does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 19 May as a Franciscan religious killed at Granada by the Moorish king for confessing Christ.
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
- Juan Lorenzo de Cetina Blessed“At Granada in Spain, the blessed martyrs Juan de Cetina, priest, and Pedro de Dueñas, religious, of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, killed by the hand of the king of the Moors himself for having confessed faith in Christ.” — this site's research
- Roman Martyrology, 19 May (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q9057728 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.