Blessed Florentino Asensio Barroso

Feast Day

9-Aug

Born

16 October 1877 at Villasexmir, Valladolid, Spain

Died

Shot three times through the temple on 2 August 1936 in a cemetery outside Barbastro, Huesca, Spain; buried in a common grave with other victims; later exhumed and re-interred in the cathedral crypt

Beatified

4 May 1997 by Pope John Paul II

Venerated

31 January 1997 by Pope John Paul II (decree of martyrdom)