altar server after he made his First Communion (1917 or 1918) at which point he began serving Mass for González. He and Gómez González were shot and killed on one such trip after revolutionaries attacked the pair. The Bishop of Santa Maria asked González in 1924 to go to the Teutonic colonies in the forest in the south so González decided to take Daronch with him; the two set off on this mission on 2 March around Easter. The pair stopped in Palmeria to administer the sacraments where González exhorted the local revolutionaries to practice mutual respect and forgiveness. But the extremists took a strong dislike to this and grew incensed when González provided a Christian burial for their victims, and plotted to kill them for this. On 20 May 1924 the pair stopped in Braga (where some soldiers were stationed) to ask for directions, where Adílio Daronch attended González's final Mass, in a ruined chapel. The locals warned the two not to go into the forest where they would be at risk. But they proceeded and were ambushed in the morning of 21 May (and ordered off their mules) and were taken into a remote area in the forest before being bound to separate trees and shot dead. Their remains were discovered on 25 May and were buried; they were exhumed and relocated to the parish church in Nonoai in 1964. The people placed a monument on their place of death. Beatification The beatification cause opened on 29 March 1996 under Pope John Paul II after the Congregation for the Causes of Saints issued the nihil obstat and titled Daronch as a Servant of God; the cause was joined to that of González. The diocesan process was held from 1996 to 1997 with the C.C.S. validating the investigation on 4 December 1998. The postulation sent the Positio to the C.C.S. for assessment in 2001 at which point historians met and approved the dossier on 13 February 2001; theologians approved it as well on 26 September 2006 as did the C.C.S. cardinal and bishop members that 21 November. Daronch and González's beatification received papal confirmation from Pope Benedict XVI a month later on 16 December after the pope confirmed that the pair were killed in odium fidei (in hatred of the faith). Their beatification was celebrated in Rio Grande do Sul on 21 October 2007 with Cardinal José Saraiva Martins