Blessed Melchor Rodríguez Villastrigo
1899–1936 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order
Feast day: November 6
Biography
Melchior of the Holy Spirit, born Melchor Rodríguez Villastrigo (Laguna de Negrillos, January 29, 1899 – Cuenca, September 24, 1936), was a Spanish priest of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity. He was executed by firing squad by Republicans in odium fidei during the Spanish Civil War and was beatified as a martyr by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007.
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