Bl. Pere Tarrés i Claret

Pere Tarrés was born in Manresa, Catalonia, in 1905. He qualified as a doctor and opened a clinic for poor patients in Barcelona. He led the Federation of Young Christians of Catalonia, driving around the region in his small car to start new groups.

During the Spanish Civil War he served as a medical officer. Afterwards, in 1942, at thirty-seven, he was ordained a priest. He worked with the sick and the poor and founded a sanatorium for poor priests. He died of lymphoma in 1950, offering his illness for priests, and was beatified in 2004.

Pere Tarrés i Claret was beatified in 2004.

Beatification allows public veneration, usually in a particular region or religious family. Canonization extends it to the whole Church.