Vicente Vilar David
Spanish engineer and martyr
Feast: 14 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Valencia in Spain, Blessed Vicente Vilar David, martyr, who during the persecution against religion took priests and women religious into his home and chose to die rather than deny the faith.
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 14 February as a martyr who sheltered priests and religious and chose death rather than deny the faith.
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, 14 February (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q6161375 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Vicente Vilar David (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.