Placido of Jesus

✶May 6, 1890

†July 26, 1936

2 candles burning, 5 lit in all

About their life

Plácido Camino Fernández, better known by his religious name Plácido de Jesús, was a Spanish Catholic priest, religious of the Order of the Holy Trinity, executed by the Republican side, during the Spanish Civil War (1934-1936). Considered a martyr by the Catholic Church, he was beatified by Pope Francis on October 13, 2013.

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