Blessed Fernando González Añón

Ferdinand González Añón (born February 17, 1886, in Turís; died August 27, 1936, in Picassent) was a Spanish priest and a blessed of the Catholic Church. He came from a religious family, the son of Fernando González Pons and Isabel Navarro Añón. After his ordination to the priesthood in 1913, he began working in the parish of his hometown. On June 24, 1931, he took charge of the parish in Turís. Following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, he was arrested at the rectory on August 27, 1936, and killed the following day. He is one of the victims of the anti-Catholic religious persecution during the Spanish Civil War. Ferdinand González Añón was beatified by Pope John Paul II on March 11, 2001, as a martyr killed in hatred of the faith (odium fidei) among a group of 232 companions of Joseph Aparicio Sanz.