Urban of Zaragoza
martyr at Zaragoza
Feast: 16 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Zaragoza in Spain, the commemoration of Saints Optatus and seventeen companions, martyrs, who during the persecution of the emperor Diocletian were tortured and put to death; their noble martyrdom was celebrated in verse by Prudentius.
Their names are: Saints Lupercus, Successus, Martial, Urban, Julia, Quintilian, Publius, Fronto, Felix, Caecilian, Evodius, Primitivus, Apodemius and four others, who are said to have all been called Saturninus.
Among those named is Saint Urban.
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
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 16 April among the eighteen martyrs of Zaragoza who were tortured and killed under Diocletian and whose martyrdom Prudentius celebrated in verse.
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.