Pedro Ruiz de los Paños y Ángel
Spanish religious person (1881-1936)
Feast: 6 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Pedro Ruiz de los Paños y Ángel (1881-1936) was a priest of the Brotherhood of Diocesan Worker Priests of the Heart of Jesus and founder of the Sisters Disciples of Jesus.
He led the nine members of the Brotherhood who, after working to form future priests in seminaries in Spain and Mexico, were martyred in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A trainer of priests and founder of sisters, martyred in 1936.
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.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Pedro Ruiz de los Paños y Ángel
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 1 October 1995
- Wikidata Q3898711 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.