498 Spanish Martyrs - The 498 Martyrs

The 498 Martyrs

The 498 Martyrs were proposed in 23 separate causes; the Vatican lists them as:

• Lucas de San José Tristany Pujol, of the Discalced Brothers of the Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel; also Leonardo José Aragonés Mateu, a religious of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (the De La Salle brothers); and Apolonia Lizárraga del Santísimo Sacramento, who was Superior of the Carmelites of Charity, with 61 brothers and sisters of the same orders;
• Bernardo Fábrega Julià, a Marist Brother;
• Víctor Chumillas Fernández, Priest of the order of Little Brothers and 21 members of the same order.
• Antero Mateo García, a lay person was head of family and third order of Saint Dominic. He was slain with 11 others from the second and third order of Saint Dominic.
• Cruz Laplana y Laguna, the Bishop of Cuenca;and Fernando Españo Berdié, a Priest;
• Narciso de Esténaga Echevarría, Bishop of Ciudad Real, and ten companions;
• Liberio González Nombela, priest and twelve companions, all clerics of the Archdiocese of Toledo;
• Eusebio del Niño Jesús Fernández Arenillas, a religious priest of the Discalced Carmelites, and 15 companions;
• Félix Echevarría Gorostiaga, Priest, and six companions of his order;
• Teodosio Rafael, a priest of the Congregation of Christian Brothers and three companions from the same order;
• Buenaventura García Paredes, a priest and Religious; Miguel Léibar Garay, Priest of the Company of Mary, and forty members of that order.
• Simón Reynés Solivellas and 5 companions, from the missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary and from the congregation of Franciscan sisters
• Celestino José Alonso Villar and 9 companions of his order;
• Ángel María Prat Hostench and 16 companions of the Carmelite order;
• Enrique Sáiz Aparicio and 62 companions of his Salesian order;
• Mariano de San José Altolaguirre y Altolaguirre and 9 companions of the order of the Most Holy Trinity.
• Eufrasio del Niño Jesús Barredo Fernández, Priest of the Carmelite order ;
• Laurentino Alonso Fuente, Virgilio Lacunza Unzu and 44 companions of the Institute of Marist Brothers;
• Enrique Izquierdo Palacios, Priest and 13 companions of the order of Hermanos Predicadores;
• Ovidio Bertrán Anucibay Letona and 5 companions from the Institute of Christian Brothers,together with José María Cánovas Martínez, a diocesan priest;
• María del Carmen, and Rosa y Magdalena Fradera Ferragutcasas, Sisters of the Congregation Hijas del Santísimo e Inmaculado Corazón de María;
• Avelino Rodríguez Alonso, Priest, order of the Augustins and 97 companians from the same order, together with Six Diocesan priests,
• Manuela del Corazón de Jesús Arriola Uranga and 22 companions of the congregacion Siervas Adoratrices del Santísimo Sacramento y de la Caridad;