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Also known as

• Francisco Borrás Romeu
• Tobias Borrás Román
• Tobias Borrás Romeu

Memorial

• 11 February
• 24 November (listed on some calendars due to confusion over the date of his death in some of the beatification paperwork)
• 30 July as one of the Martyred Hospitallers of Spain

Profile

Married in 1884 at age 23, he became a widower when his wife died in the cholera epidemic of 1885–1886. He joined the religious in the Hospitallers of Saint John of God in 1887. He served in Hospitaller communities in the Spanish cities of Ciempozuelos, Zaragoza, Carabanche Alto and Granada where his superiors noted his generous spirit and willingness to work.

As part of the anti–Catholic persecutions of the Spanish Civil War, Brother Tobias was imprisoned in Ciempozuelos and then transferred to San Antón in Madrid, Spain. Due to his age and failing health, he was eventually released. He travelled to Valencia, Spain, planning to joined up with the Malvarrosa Hospitallers community – unaware that they had all already been murdered. He knocked on the door their house, was recognized by the militia as another Hospitaller, and shot down. Martyr.

Born

• 14 April 1861 in San Jorge, Castellón, Spain

Died

• shot on 11 February 1937 at the Hospitaller community just outside the city of Valencia, Spain

Venerated

• 14 May 1991 by Pope John Paul II (decree of martyrdom)

Beatified

• 25 October 1992 by Pope John Paul II

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Tobias Francisco Borrás Román“. CatholicSaints.Info. 22 May 2022. Web. 7 May 2024. <>