Blessed Bishop Salvio Huix Miralpéix O.C. aka Salvi Huix i Miralpeix O.C. born Santa Margarida de Vallors, San Hilario Sacalm/Sant Hilari Sacalm, La Selva, Gerona, Catalonia/Cataluña /Catalunya, Spain and martyred 5 August 1936 in Lérida/Lleida, Catalonia/Cataluña /Catalunya, Spain in the "cementerio de Lérida"/Cementiri de Lleida and buried there.
He was the second of the 13 bishops murdered 'in odium fidei' by Republicans during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), the victim of religious persecution and outright hatred.
He was born in the family house of the Huix, documented as early as the XI Cent.
At the age of 12 he entered the seminary of Vic, and on 19 September 1903 was ordained a priest by Venerable Bishop Josep Torras i Bages (1846-1916). He acted as vicar of the parishes of the Coll and of Sant Vicenç de Castellet.
In 1907 he joined the Congregación del Oratorio de San Felipe Neri, and shortly afterwards was appointed professor of Aesthetics and Mysticism in the seminary of his city.
He directed the Mariana Congregation of the bishopric of Vic and in 1921 set up the Marian Congregation of Catalonia, in Barcelona. In 1923 he organized the feasts of the canonical coronation of Our Lady of the Gleva/Santuario Nuestra Senora de La Gleva, which was presided over by the future Cardinal Federico Tedeschini (1873-1959), then the nuncio of the Holy See in Spain.
On 15 April 1928, in Vic and at the hands of Monsignor Tedeschini, he was consecrated bishop of Selymbra and appointed apostolic administrator of the bishopric of Ibiza.
On 28 January 1935, Pope Pius XI transferred him to the bishopric of Lleida, whose diocese took over the following 5 May 1935.
When the Civil War broke out in July 1936, he fled to a friends' house in the same city and a few days later to a Segrià farmhouse, but when I learned that many Catholic priests and lay people were systematically detained, he voluntarily surrendered to revolutionary authorities. He was thrown in a prison in Lleida, where he escaped with about twenty political prisoners in an extremis rescue operation organized by the Generalitat. However, the vehicle driving them to Barcelona was intercepted by an uncontrolled squad. Bishop Huix was taken to the cemetery in Lleida and immediately shot there with twenty others.
Veneration
His beatification process was validated in 1995, as a cause of martyrdom. The Congregation for the Causes of Saints of the Catholic Church promulgated the decree of martyrdom on 27 June 2011, declaring him a martyr and a venerable person.
Along with 521 other martyrs, he is one of the martyrs of the Beatification of Tarragona 13 October 2013.
He was the second of the 13 bishops murdered 'in odium fidei' by Republicans during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), the victim of religious persecution and outright hatred.
He was born in the family house of the Huix, documented as early as the XI Cent.
At the age of 12 he entered the seminary of Vic, and on 19 September 1903 was ordained a priest by Venerable Bishop Josep Torras i Bages (1846-1916). He acted as vicar of the parishes of the Coll and of Sant Vicenç de Castellet.
In 1907 he joined the Congregación del Oratorio de San Felipe Neri, and shortly afterwards was appointed professor of Aesthetics and Mysticism in the seminary of his city.
He directed the Mariana Congregation of the bishopric of Vic and in 1921 set up the Marian Congregation of Catalonia, in Barcelona. In 1923 he organized the feasts of the canonical coronation of Our Lady of the Gleva/Santuario Nuestra Senora de La Gleva, which was presided over by the future Cardinal Federico Tedeschini (1873-1959), then the nuncio of the Holy See in Spain.
On 15 April 1928, in Vic and at the hands of Monsignor Tedeschini, he was consecrated bishop of Selymbra and appointed apostolic administrator of the bishopric of Ibiza.
On 28 January 1935, Pope Pius XI transferred him to the bishopric of Lleida, whose diocese took over the following 5 May 1935.
When the Civil War broke out in July 1936, he fled to a friends' house in the same city and a few days later to a Segrià farmhouse, but when I learned that many Catholic priests and lay people were systematically detained, he voluntarily surrendered to revolutionary authorities. He was thrown in a prison in Lleida, where he escaped with about twenty political prisoners in an extremis rescue operation organized by the Generalitat. However, the vehicle driving them to Barcelona was intercepted by an uncontrolled squad. Bishop Huix was taken to the cemetery in Lleida and immediately shot there with twenty others.
Veneration
His beatification process was validated in 1995, as a cause of martyrdom. The Congregation for the Causes of Saints of the Catholic Church promulgated the decree of martyrdom on 27 June 2011, declaring him a martyr and a venerable person.
Along with 521 other martyrs, he is one of the martyrs of the Beatification of Tarragona 13 October 2013.
Blessed Bishop Salvio Huix Miralpéix O.C. aka Salvi Huix i Miralpeix O.C. born Santa Margarida de Vallors, San Hilario Sacalm/Sant Hilari Sacalm, La Selva, Gerona, Catalonia/Cataluña /Catalunya, Spain and martyred 5 August 1936 in Lérida/Lleida, Catalonia/Cataluña /Catalunya, Spain in the "cementerio de Lérida"/Cementiri de Lleida and buried there.
He was the second of the 13 bishops murdered 'in odium fidei' by Republicans during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), the victim of religious persecution and outright hatred.
He was born in the family house of the Huix, documented as early as the XI Cent.
At the age of 12 he entered the seminary of Vic, and on 19 September 1903 was ordained a priest by Venerable Bishop Josep Torras i Bages (1846-1916). He acted as vicar of the parishes of the Coll and of Sant Vicenç de Castellet.
In 1907 he joined the Congregación del Oratorio de San Felipe Neri, and shortly afterwards was appointed professor of Aesthetics and Mysticism in the seminary of his city.
He directed the Mariana Congregation of the bishopric of Vic and in 1921 set up the Marian Congregation of Catalonia, in Barcelona. In 1923 he organized the feasts of the canonical coronation of Our Lady of the Gleva/Santuario Nuestra Senora de La Gleva, which was presided over by the future Cardinal Federico Tedeschini (1873-1959), then the nuncio of the Holy See in Spain.
On 15 April 1928, in Vic and at the hands of Monsignor Tedeschini, he was consecrated bishop of Selymbra and appointed apostolic administrator of the bishopric of Ibiza.
On 28 January 1935, Pope Pius XI transferred him to the bishopric of Lleida, whose diocese took over the following 5 May 1935.
When the Civil War broke out in July 1936, he fled to a friends' house in the same city and a few days later to a Segrià farmhouse, but when I learned that many Catholic priests and lay people were systematically detained, he voluntarily surrendered to revolutionary authorities. He was thrown in a prison in Lleida, where he escaped with about twenty political prisoners in an extremis rescue operation organized by the Generalitat. However, the vehicle driving them to Barcelona was intercepted by an uncontrolled squad. Bishop Huix was taken to the cemetery in Lleida and immediately shot there with twenty others.
Veneration
His beatification process was validated in 1995, as a cause of martyrdom. The Congregation for the Causes of Saints of the Catholic Church promulgated the decree of martyrdom on 27 June 2011, declaring him a martyr and a venerable person.
Along with 521 other martyrs, he is one of the martyrs of the Beatification of Tarragona 13 October 2013.
He was the second of the 13 bishops murdered 'in odium fidei' by Republicans during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), the victim of religious persecution and outright hatred.
He was born in the family house of the Huix, documented as early as the XI Cent.
At the age of 12 he entered the seminary of Vic, and on 19 September 1903 was ordained a priest by Venerable Bishop Josep Torras i Bages (1846-1916). He acted as vicar of the parishes of the Coll and of Sant Vicenç de Castellet.
In 1907 he joined the Congregación del Oratorio de San Felipe Neri, and shortly afterwards was appointed professor of Aesthetics and Mysticism in the seminary of his city.
He directed the Mariana Congregation of the bishopric of Vic and in 1921 set up the Marian Congregation of Catalonia, in Barcelona. In 1923 he organized the feasts of the canonical coronation of Our Lady of the Gleva/Santuario Nuestra Senora de La Gleva, which was presided over by the future Cardinal Federico Tedeschini (1873-1959), then the nuncio of the Holy See in Spain.
On 15 April 1928, in Vic and at the hands of Monsignor Tedeschini, he was consecrated bishop of Selymbra and appointed apostolic administrator of the bishopric of Ibiza.
On 28 January 1935, Pope Pius XI transferred him to the bishopric of Lleida, whose diocese took over the following 5 May 1935.
When the Civil War broke out in July 1936, he fled to a friends' house in the same city and a few days later to a Segrià farmhouse, but when I learned that many Catholic priests and lay people were systematically detained, he voluntarily surrendered to revolutionary authorities. He was thrown in a prison in Lleida, where he escaped with about twenty political prisoners in an extremis rescue operation organized by the Generalitat. However, the vehicle driving them to Barcelona was intercepted by an uncontrolled squad. Bishop Huix was taken to the cemetery in Lleida and immediately shot there with twenty others.
Veneration
His beatification process was validated in 1995, as a cause of martyrdom. The Congregation for the Causes of Saints of the Catholic Church promulgated the decree of martyrdom on 27 June 2011, declaring him a martyr and a venerable person.
Along with 521 other martyrs, he is one of the martyrs of the Beatification of Tarragona 13 October 2013.
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