One of the nine Brothers of the Christian Schools, martyrs of Turon, murdered by Spanish leftists in Asurias who rose in revolt against the Spanish Republic in 1934 and served as an ironic foreshadowing of the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 in miniature.
The Brothers of this school were the first victims, massacred in Turón, a mining village in Asturias in 1934, together with their chaplain, in front of the school that was also attended by the children of some of their executioners. It was the beginning of the hurricane that would be unleashed twenty months later across the nation. These Brothers died young, fearless in the face of death, confident that in death they would find life, eternal life.
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Saints are martyred by serving God. But even in a Constitutional Republic, every man has a right to freedom of conscience. See: Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptist Church.