Blessed Alfons Sebastiá Viñals

Alfonso Sebastiá Viñals (born May 27, 1910, in Valencia; died September 1, 1936, in Paterna) was a Spanish Catholic priest and a blessed of the Catholic Church. He was the son of a laborer. He began his studies at the seminary in Orihuela and was ordained a priest in 1933. He directed the School of Social Formation in Valencia. He was a victim of the anti-Catholic religious persecution during the Spanish Civil War. Alfonso Sebastiá Viñals was beatified by Pope John Paul II on March 11, 2001, as a martyr murdered out of hatred for the faith (in odium fidei) among a group of 232 companions of José Aparicio Sanz.