Victoria Díez Bustos de Molina
beatified Spanish teacher (1903-1936)
Feast: 12 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Victoria Díez y Bustos de Molina was born in Seville on 11 November 1903, the only child of a family of modest means, and graduated from the Seville School of Arts and Crafts in 1917, with a gift for drawing and painting.
A teacher of the Teresian Institution, very active in education, when hostilities against the Church broke out in 1936 she confessed her Christian faith and was martyred while urging others to do the same.
The miracles
As a martyr, beatified without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A teacher who died confessing her faith and encouraging others to stand firm.
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: Victoria Díez y Bustos de Molina
- Wikidata Q9093431 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Victoria Díez Bustos de Molina (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.