Blessed Antonio Silvestre Moya

Antonio Silvestre Moya (born October 26, 1892, in Olleria; died August 8, 1936, in El Salter) was a Spanish Catholic priest and a blessed of the Catholic Church. He was born on October 26, 1892, and was baptized the same day. He entered the seminary in Valencia, where he studied Latin, philosophy, and theology. He was ordained a priest in 1915 and began his ministry as a vicar in an Alicante parish; in 1920, he was appointed pastor of the parish in Otos. He was a victim of the anti-Catholic religious persecution during the Spanish Civil War. Antonio Silvestre Moya was beatified by Pope John Paul II on March 11, 2001, as a martyr killed in hatred of the faith (Latin: odium fidei) among a group of 232 companions of José Aparicio Sanz.