Saint Cirilo Bertrán

Also known as

• Jose Sanz Tejedor
• Cyrill Bertran

Memorial

• 9 October

Profile

Professed religious in the Brothers of the Christian Schools, entering the novitate on 23 October 1906. Director of his house in Turón, Asturias, Spain. One of the Nine Martyrs of Astoria killed in the persecutions of the Spanish Civil War.

Born

• 20 March 1888 in Lerma, Burgos, Spain as Jose Sanz Tejedor

Died

martyred on 9 October 1934 in Turón, Spain

Venerated

• 7 September 1989 by Pope John Paul II (decree of martyrdom)

Beatified

• 29 April 1990 by Pope John Paul II

Canonized

• 21 November 1999 by Pope John Paul II

Additional Information

• Hagiography Circle
• Kirken i Norge
• L’Osservatore Romano
• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Cirilo Bertrán”. Saints.SQPN.com. 20 March 2012. Web. 21 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-cirilo-bertran/>