Blessed Segimon Sagalés Vilá
Also known as
- Sigismund
- Segismundo
- 8 September
- 6 November as one of the Martyrs of the Sons of the Holy Family
Profile
Lay brother in the Sons of the Holy Family. Kindergarten teacher in Barcelona, Spain. Suffered from a cancerous tumour on his neck. Helped recover the remains of Saint Jose Manyanet in order to give him a Christian burial. Arrested and murdered in the persecutions of the Spanish Civil War.
Born
- 8 September 1936 on a road outside Múnter, Barcelona, Spain
- interred in the parish
- re-interred in the cemetery chapel of Saint Joseph parish, Manyanet, Barcelona, Spain in 2007
- 10 May 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI (decree of martyrdom)
MLA Citation
- “Blessed Segimon Sagalés Vilá“. CatholicSaints.Info. 14 March 2017. Web. 8 July 2020. <>