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Memorial

• formerly 31 August (cultus suppressed)

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Son of Sancho del Val, a notary, and Isabel Sancho. An altar boy and choir boy at age seven, like many boys he dreamed on being a priest. Around the time of Easter in the mid-13th-century, the boy was murdered, and just like several other occasions, real and fictional, his death was immediately blamed on local Jews. More a matter of anti-Semitism than sanctity, this incident was condemned by the Vatican, and the feast is no longer kept.

Born

• c.1243 in Zaragoza, Spain

Died

• c.1250 in Zaragoza, Spain
• buried in the cathedral of Zaragoza, but has since been removed

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

MLA Citation

• “Dominguito del Val“. CatholicSaints.Info. 1 June 2022. Web. 4 June 2024. <>