Vicente Pinilla
Feast: 5 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the town of Motril near Granada on the Spanish coast, Blesseds Vicente Pinilla, of the Order of Augustinian Recollects, and Manuel MartÃn Sierra, priests and martyrs, who, dragged away from the church, were shot the day after the martyrdom of five other companions of theirs.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 26 July as a priest martyr dragged from the church at Motril and shot.
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.
Connected on this site
- Manuel Martin Sierra Blessed“In the town of Motril near Granada on the Spanish coast, Blesseds Vicente Pinilla, of the Order of Augustinian Recollects, and Manuel Martin Sierra, priests and martyrs, who, dragged away from the church, were shot the day after the martyrdom of five other companions of theirs.” — this site's research
- Roman Martyrology, 26 July (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q4362997 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.