Juan María de la Cruz
Juan María de la Cruz, S.C.I. (born Mariano García Méndez, San Esteban de los Patos, Province of Ávila, 25 September 1891 – Silla, Valencia, 23 August 1936) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest.
The Roman Catholic Church considers him a martyr. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2001, together with his fellow martyrs killed in the Spanish Civil War.
In the Martyrology
- August 23 Blessed Mariano Juan María de la Cruz García Méndez, Dehonian priest, martyr of Spain