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Donato Jiménez BibianoBlessed martyr, 1873–1936
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Sources and prayer

Where each fact on this site comes from, where the original documents can be consulted, and how to pray to Blessed Donato.

Documents of the cause

They come from the dossier of the cause for beatification. Each file reproduces the original document and adds a transcription. All are in Spanish. Those with an APRM reference are kept in the Archive of the Redemptorist Province of Madrid (Archivo de la Provincia Redentorista de Madrid), Martyrs section.

  1. Birth record Alaejos Civil Registry (Valladolid), sec. 1, vol. 6, f. 43. Certified copy of 28 July 2004. View the document (PDF in Spanish, 832 kB)
  2. Baptismal and confirmation record Parish of San Pedro Apóstol, Alaejos, book 15 of baptisms. Certified copies of 1944 and 2004. APRM, Mártires, 1209000. View the document (PDF in Spanish, 939 kB)
  3. Curriculum vitae written in the novitiate Donato Jiménez Bibiano, 1893. Handwritten booklet of 16 pages. APRM, Mártires, 1209010. View the document (PDF in Spanish, 3.0 MB)
  4. Letter of Fr Saturnino Martín Lucas to Fr Lucas Pérez Gaia (Portugal), 25 August 1944. A 12-page manuscript on his friend’s childhood, vocation and life. APRM, Mártires, 1209103. View the document (PDF in Spanish, 1.9 MB)
  5. Death record Fuencarral Civil Registry, 19 September 1936, with the marginal note of identification of 28 April 2006. Registro Civil Único de Madrid, sec. 3, vol. 32-30, f. 107 v. Includes the photograph of the body that made identification possible. View the document (PDF in Spanish, 2.0 MB)
  6. Burial certificate Almudena Cemetery, 6 April 2006, with the details from the Fuencarral Cemetery Register (1928–1939). View the document (PDF in Spanish, 262 kB)

The testimonies about his arrest and his days in the checa — Lola Moreno’s account, the statement of Jenaro Xavier Vallejos and that of Antonio Gómez Fernández — are quoted through the handwritten notes of Fr Lucas Pérez on the persecution suffered by the Servant of God (APRM, Mártires, 1209102), as reproduced in the profiles published by Hispania Martyr and Testigos de la Redención.

Those notes have not yet been digitised on this site.

Publications and links

All in Spanish.

How the texts are quoted

All the documents are in Spanish. The quotations on this site are our own translations of the transcriptions, kept as close to the original wording as English allows. Page numbers refer to the numbering of each transcription. The Spanish version of this site quotes the original text.

Square brackets […] mark omitted text.

His second surname is spelt in two ways. The Civil Registry wrote Bibiano; the parish, Viviano. His mother was Brígida Bibiano García. Jiménez and Giménez also alternate. The cause and the beatification use the form Jiménez Bibiano, although some news reports in 2022 wrote Viviano.

Birth record and baptismal record.

Prayer

To ask God, through the intercession of Blessed Donato, for the grace to live one’s own vocation with the same self-giving.

Father, as you called Donato Jiménez to place all his gifts at the service of your Gospel and made him a missionary of your love, I ask you to make use in the same way of my gifts and my failings, so that all of them may help to proclaim your Word. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Blessed Donato Jiménez, martyr of Christ, pray for us.

His liturgical memorial is on 6 November. The anniversary of his death is 18 September.

The prayer was circulated in Spanish while he was still a Servant of God, in the profile published by Testigos de la Redención. This English version is our own translation.

If you have received a grace

For canonisation, the Church examines the favours that the faithful attribute to the intercession of the Blesseds. If you have received one through Blessed Donato, please report it to the vice-postulation of the cause:

Vicepostulación de la causa de los mártires redentoristas de Madrid
Misioneros Redentoristas
Calle Manuel Silvela, 14
28010 Madrid
Spain