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<div class="col-article__title"> <h1 > <div class="rich-text "> Venerable Ismael Molinero Novillo (1917-1938) </div> </h1> </div> <div class="col-article__date"> <time>May 1, 2025</time> </div> <div class="col-article__byline"> <span>By Columbia staff</span> </div> <div class="col-article__date-mobile"> <time>May 1, 2025</time> </div> <section class="col-article__content-rich-text"> <div class="score-rich-text-block default default"> <div class="content-area "> <div class="rich-text "> <figure class="image right headshot"><img src="https://images2.cmp.optimizely.com/assets/CMM_IsmaeldeTomelloso.jpg/fcf6adf2278911f086de0219d9899e10" alt="CMM_IsmaeldeTomelloso.jpg" width="500" height="750"> <figcaption>Venerable Ismael Molinero Novillo. (Photo courtesy of Asociación para la Canonización de Ismael Molinero Novillo)</figcaption> </figure> <p>A cheerful young man from La Mancha faced persecution for his faith during the Spanish Civil War but persevered to the end. “If I die, I’ll be God’s entirely,” he said shortly before his death at age 21. “If I don’t die, I want to be a priest — one of those who serve God for nothing.”</p> <p>Born May 1, 1917, Ismael Molinero Novillo was the fifth of 11 children and raised by devout Catholic parents. At 14, he left school to help support the family and soon joined the lay movement Catholic Action.</p> <p>Musically talented, Molinero regularly sang and played his guitar at a home for abandoned elderly persons. His spiritual life, anchored by devotion to the Eucharist and the Virgin Mary, deepened, and he felt drawn to the priesthood.</p> <p>But those plans were abruptly put on hold when the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936. Amid intense anti-Catholic sentiment, Molinero witnessed the killing of two of his parish’s priests, and he was arrested twice for his faith. Forcibly enlisted in the state’s Republican army against Nationalist forces, Molinero endured insults and hostility for being a practicing Catholic.</p> <p>On Feb. 7, 1938, he was captured by Nationalist forces after the Battle of Alfambra, during which he refused to fire his weapon against Catholics. Yet, he did not disclose his faith to his captors, choosing instead to suffer along with his fellow prisoners as a sacrificial offering to God. The next month, after contracting tuberculosis, he asked a chaplain to hear his confession and received Communion.</p> <p>Ismael Molinero Novillo died on May 5, 1938. 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