Blessed Luis Urbano Lanaspa

Luis Urbano Lanaspa (Zaragoza, June 3, 1882 – Valencia, August 21, 1936) was a Spanish Catholic priest, Dominican friar, philosopher, theologian, and physicist. He was a member of the Royal Spanish Society of Physics and Chemistry and the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society. He died as a victim of religious persecution during the Spanish Civil War and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2001. He was one of the Spanish Dominicans born in the second half of the 19th century or the beginning of the 20th century who excelled in the field of natural sciences, alongside Aniceto Fernández Alonso, Juan González Arintero, and Pedro Nolasco de Medio in the field of physics, and Manuel Barbado Viejo in the field of experimental psychology. Not long before, Cardinal Ceferino González had also shone as a scholar of the natural sciences.