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Memorial

• 12 August

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Five nuns in the Archdiocese of Madrid, Spain, all members of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, and all martyred together in the Spanish Civil War.

• Estefanía Saldaña Mayoral
• María Asunción Mayoral Peña
• María Dolores Barroso Villaseñor
• María Severina Díaz-Pardo Gauna
• Melchora Adoración Cortés Bueno

Died

• shot on the night of 12 August 1936 in Puerta de Hierro, Aravaca, Madrid, Spain

Venerated

• 20 December 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI (decree of martyrdom)

Beatified

• 27 October 2013 by Pope Benedict XVI

MLA Citation

• “Martyrs of Puerta de Hierro“. CatholicSaints.Info. 13 August 2023. Web. 30 April 2024. <>