Vicente Soler
superior general of Order of Augustinian Recollects (O.A.R.)
Feast: 5 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the village of Motril near Granada on the Spanish coast, Blessed Vicente Soler, priest of the Order of Augustinian Recollects and martyr, who was condemned to death in the same persecution together with other fellow prisoners whom he had devoutly prepared for death, and triumphed in Christ, shot in front of the cemetery wall.
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 15 August as an Augustinian Recollect priest shot at Motril after preparing his fellow prisoners for death.
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.
- Roman Martyrology, 15 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q4427692 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.