Monday’s announcement paves the way for the beatification of the missionaries, who have been known collectively as the ...

On October 28, 2007 four members of the Society of Mary were beatified by Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican in Rome, Italy. They were a part of a group of 498 Spanish martyrs. The following text is a ...

A protracted cause for the Georgia Martyrs Spanish colonial authorities pursued an investigation into the death of the five Franciscans when they returned to reestablish the missions. However ...

So far 2,127 martyrs from the Spanish Civil War have been beatified. Pope John Paul II beatified 233 martyrs in 2001, bringing the number of Civil War martyrs beatified in his pontificate to 473.

exposed the abuses of the Spanish colonial regime and earned him the charge of sedition that sent him before the firing squad at Bagumbayan. He dedicated the "Fili" to the Gomburza martyrs.

In a decree signed on Jan. 27, Pope Francis formally recognized the five Franciscan missionaries as having been killed for their faith, clearing the way for their beatification.