Celebrating the Marianist Martyrs of Ciudad Real
On July 6, 1993, Pope John Paul II declared Marianists Carlos Eraña, Fidel Fuidio, and Jesús Hita “venerable”; the pope beatified these same brothers on October 1, 1995. All three of these holy men were martyred in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War and are known as the “Marianist Martyrs of Ciudad Real.”