Adílio Daronch

Blessed Adílio Daronch
Born 25 October 1908
Cachoeira do Sul municipality of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Died 21 May 1924
Três Passos, Brazil
Honored in Roman Catholic Church
Feast 21 May

Blessed Adílio Daronch (25 October 1908 - 21 May 1924) was a Brazilian teenager who has been beatified by the Roman Catholic Church as a martyr.

Daronch was a student at a school run by Catholic priest Blessed Manuel Gómez González and also accompanied the priest on his missionary visits to the Kaingang Indians. He and Gómez González were shot and killed by revolutionaries during one such missionary trip. The two were beatified as martyrs by Pope Benedict XVI in 2006.[1]

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