Vicente Peña
Spanish priest
Feast: 6 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Vicente Peña Ruiz was born at Caleruega, Burgos, on 22 March 1883, professed as a Dominican in 1901 and ordained priest in 1909.
He was martyred on 30 November 1936, one of 42 Dominicans and companions who chose to die rather than deny their faithfulness to the Lord.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A Dominican priest 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: Vicente Peña Ruiz
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 28 October 2007
- Wikidata Q6161286 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.