Blessed Domingo del Santísmo Sacramento Iturrate Zubero

Domingo Iturrate Zubero (11 May 1901 – 7 April 1927), also known by his religious name Domingo of the Blessed Sacrament, was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Trinitarian Order. Zubero grappled with tuberculosis as he underwent his studies in Rome where he was ordained to the priesthood and he became noted for his staunch devotion to the Mother of God. His beatification was celebrated under Pope John Paul II on 30 October 1983. Domingo Iturrate Zubero was born in Dima in mid-1901 as one of twelve children to Simone Iturrate and María Zubero. He made his First Communion in 1911 and made his Confirmation on 26 August 1913. Zubero entered the Trinitarian Order in Algorta on 30 September 1914 and spent his period of novitiate in the house of La Bien Aparecida in Cantabria. He was vested in the habit on 11 December 1917. Zubero received the religious name of "Domingo of the Blessed Sacrament" at the time of his initial profession on 14 December 1918. He commenced his philosophical studies in 1918 and in October 1919 was sent to Rome to continue those studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University where he later obtained his degree on 3 July 1922; he later graduated in theological studies on 26 July 1926. He professed his solemn vows on 23 October 1922 in San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and was later ordained to the priesthood on 9 August 1925 in the church of Santi XII Apostoli. He celebrated Mass "as an act of personal sacrifice in union with the Supreme Victim on behalf of all" and celebrated his first Mass on the Feast of the Assumption on 15 August 1925. In June 1926 it was learned that he had become afflicted with an advanced stage of tuberculosis and he spent the remainder of his life in the order's house of Belmonte in Cuenca after he spent a brief period of time at Rocca di Papa. Before he had arrived in Spain on 6 September 1926 he made a brief detour to Lourdes in France and then continued on to the order's house.