In the incandescent climate of Spain in the XNUMXs and XNUMXs, no religious order was spared, just as lay people and priests of the diocesan clergy were not spared.
The five blesseds of the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God are part of a group of martyrs, the sixty-nine companions of Braulio Maria Corres and Federico Rubio, who we present here as novices who accepted their vocation in Catholic Action.
IGNACIO TEJERO MOLINA
He was baptized on August 6, 1916 and received his confirmation on May 14, 1917. His parents were honest people and hard workers, but not very practicing, they didn't object to his attending Catholic school. He receives his first communion in the parish of San Felipe in Zaragoza.
A few years later, he joined Catholic Action and became one of its most active and passionate members. He participates in other charitable associations that mainly carry out assistance to the sick and thus discovers his religious vocation, which leads him to be a brother of Saint John of God.
On November 30, 1935, Ignacio entered the order in San Baudilio de Llobregat. After spending three months as a postulant, he went to the maritime sanatorium of Calateli where, on 6 March of the same year, he took the habit. He faces martyrdom on July 30, 1936.
