The Catholic News Agency portal (December 12, 2025) reports the beatification of 124 individuals, including 109 priests, 14 laypeople, and one Poor Clare nun, by the Diocese of Jaén, Spain. The ceremony, presided over by Marcello Semeraro of the Vatican Dicastery for the Causes of “Saints,” claims these victims of the Spanish Civil War died “out of hatred for the faith.” The report quotes the local ordinary, Sebastián Chico, who asserts the martyrs’ blood “has become a fertile seed” for modern parishes and communities. Chico reduces martyrdom to a vague “victory of love and the fullness of hope,” deliberately omitting the dogmatic criteria for true martyrdom as defined by the pre-conciliar Magisterium. The article concludes with hagiographic praise for three individuals—Padre Francisco de Paula Padilla, Dr. Pedro Sandoica, and Obdulia Puchol—as models of “unwavering faith.” This spectacle exposes the conciliar sect’s desperate attempt to fabricate legitimacy through pseudo-martyrs while erasing the supernatural essence of Catholic witness.
