Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Wednesday, 5 August 2026

Bl. Salvio Huix Mirelpeix


On this day ninety years ago, in 1936, Bl. Salvio Huix Mirelpeix C.O. Bishop of Lerida (Lieida) in Spain, together with twenty of his clergy, many of whom he had recently ordained, were murdered by the Republicans in the early days of the Spanish Civil War. 


Bl. Salvio Huix Mirelpeix 
A modern painting in the Oxford Oratory created to mark his beatification

Image: Oxford Oratory
 

 Image:Washington Oratory 

The Oxford Oratory has two posts about him at Blessed Salvio Huix — The Oxford Oratory

The Bournemouth Oratory also has a post at Blessed Salvio Huix-Miralpeix - The Bournemouth Oratory

The Birmingham Oratory has a post on their website 

Wikipedia has a biography of him at Salvi Huix Miralpéix

He was beatified as one of 522 martyrs of the Spanish Civil War in 2013. He is the first Oratorian martyr to be  escalated a beatus. 
    

Bl. Salvio Huix Mirelpeix
Oratorian Protomartyr

Image: Birmingham Oratory


May Bl. Salvio Huix Mirelpeix and his companions pray for Spain and for us all

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