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Also known as

• Didaco

Memorial

• 30 August
• 16 November as one of the Martyrs of Almeria

Profile

Son of Juan Ventaja and Palmira Milán. Educated at Sacro Monte Granada, and both the Collegio San Giuseppe and Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. Priest, ordained in Rome in 1902. Chaplain, then church canon and then professor of moral theology at Sacro Monte Granada; member of the Academic Council at the Central Seminary of Granada. Bishop of Almería, Spain on 1 May 1935. Arrested by the anti–Catholic Popular Front forces in the Spanish Civil War, and executed for the crime of teaching Christianity. One of the Martyrs of Almeria killed during the Spanish Civil War.

Born

• 22 June 1880 in Ohanes, Almería, Spain

Died

• shot on 30 August 1936 just outside Barranco de El Chisme, Almería, Spain

Venerable

• 21 December 1992 by Pope John Paul II (decree of martyrdom)

Beatification

• 10 October 1993 by Pope John Paul II

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Diego Ventaja Milán“. CatholicSaints.Info. 16 March 2020. Web. 25 January 2021. <>