Ramiro de León
Feast: 13 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
SS. Ramirus and 12 companions were monks of S. Claudius at Leon in Spain and martyrs. After the abbot of this monastery had been executed for his steadfastness in adhering to the true faith, Ramirus, the prior, and his brethren were also commanded to abjure their faith, but preferred to shed their blood rather than prove renegades. They were executed in the same year as their abbot, 584. The remains of St. Ramirus were placed above the altar in a chapel of the monastery of St. Claudius in 1596.
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
A Benedictine Martyrology (1922) remembers him on 13 March.
- A Benedictine Martyrology (Alexius Hoffmann OSB, 1922), 13 March
- Wikidata Q5485649 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.