Fernando Olmedo Reguera, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Fernando Olmedo Reguera

Date of Birth: 10-Jan-1873

Place of Birth: Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain

Date of Death: 12-Aug-1936

Profession: brother, journalist

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Fernando Olmedo Reguera O.F.M.Cap.
(10 January 1873 - 12 August 1936), also known as Fernando of Santiago was a Catholic priest and victim of the Spanish Civil War.
At the outbreak of war in nineteen thirty-six, Reguera was forced to leave his convent and was arrested, imprisoned and beaten.
Refusing to reveal penitents' confessions he was then tried by a popular tribunal and sentenced to death.
He was executed by firing squad.
On the thirteenth of the October 2013, Fernando was beatified by Pope Francis during a ceremony in Tarragona.