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• 22 September
• 6 November as one of the Martyred Friars Minor of Granada

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Franciscan Friar Minor, entering the novitiate on 19 March 1909 and making his solemn vows on 12 April 1913. Ordained in Cordoba, Spain on 2 June 1917. Served in the Holy Lands in the sanctuaries of the Holy Sepulchre, in Bethlehem and Hain Karem. Studied Arabic in Syria. Co-adjustor of Knaje, Syria. Co-adjutor in Aleppo, Syria. Superior of a Franciscan community of Er-Ram in Aleppo in 1928. Parish priest near Jerusalem in 1931. He returned to Spain in September 1934. Worked at the College of Chipiona in Cadiz, Spain in 1935. Martyred in the Spanish Civil War.

Born

• 14 January 1894 in San Julián de Requeijo, Pontevedra, Spain
• baptized the same day

Died

• dawn on 22 September 1936 in Azuaga, Badajoz, Spain

Venerated

• 28 April 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI (decree of martyrdom)

Beatified

• 28 October 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Francisco Carlés González“. CatholicSaints.Info. 1 June 2023. Web. 23 April 2024. <>