Stephan of St. Joseph
Trinitarian martyr
Feast: 6 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Stephen of Saint Joseph (in Spanish, Esteban de San José), born Esteban Ciriaco Barrenechea Arriaga, was a Spanish religious of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity. He was shot by the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War and was beatified as a martyr by Pope Francis in 2013.
Summary translated from the Italian Wikipedia article Stefano di San Giuseppe (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
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.
- Spanish Episcopal Conference — Martires del siglo XX en Espana (official list, February 2024) — '1067 / III 90 — Esteban de San Jose, O.SS.T., 13 oct 2013' — Trinitarian of Alcazar de San Juan, beatified 13 October 2013.
- Wikidata Q56604217 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.