Blessed Jesús Moreno Ruiz
Profile
Member of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, making his profession in 1934. Martyred in the Spanish Civil War.
Born
- 13 January 1915 in Osorno, Palencia, Spain
- machine-gunned on 29 September 1936 at a ruined house next to the Pont de Ser, Seriñá, Girona, Spain by members of the Communist militia
- buried in a mass grave nearby
- relics re-interred in a niche in the cemetery of Canet de Mar, Spain on 30 March 1940
- 6 May 2017 by Pope Francis
- beatification recognition in the Cathedral of Santa Maria, Girona, Spain, presided by Cardinal Angelo Amato
MLA Citation
- “Blessed Jesús Moreno Ruiz“. CatholicSaints.Info. 31 May 2023. Web. 16 April 2024. <>