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Blessed Jaume Falgarona Vilanova

Blessed Jaume Falgarona Vilanova Memorial

18 August
13 August as one of the Martyred Claretians of Barbastro

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Member of the Claretians, making his profession in Vich, Spain on 15 August 1930. On 1 July 1936 he entered the seminary in Barbastro, Spain where to study for the priesthood and where he served as choir master. On 20 July 1936 he had to enter hospital; on 15 August he was released and immediately imprisoned as part of the persecutions of the Spanish Civil War. Three days later he was executed. Martyr.

Born

6 August 1912 in Argelaguer, Girona, Spain

Died

shot on 18 August 1936 on the road outside Barbastro, Huesca, Spain
body thrown into a mass grave
body exhumed after the war and re-interred in the crypt of the Claretian church in Barbastro