Segundo Alonso González
Married layman, father of a large Catholic family, martyr of the persecution in Spain
Who they were
Segundo Alonso González was born at Cabo, in the parish of Santiago de Nembra, and had two brothers who were Dominican missionaries and a sister who was a Dominican enclosed nun; he married Maria, a girl of the same parish, and they had twelve children, four of whom entered the Apostolic School and two of whom became priests. Left a widower with seven children, the youngest only eighteen months old, he married again, a widow who had no children of her own.
He was beatified on 8 October 2016 by Pope Francis, among the Spanish martyrs of Nembra.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints names him among the Spanish martyrs of Nembra beatified on 8 October 2016.
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 - martiri-spagnoli-di-nembra
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatifications of 8 October 2016
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.