A victim of the Spanish Republican militias during the Civil War, Ceferino Giménez Malla was beatified on May 4, 1997; May 4 is also his feast day.

In 1912, Giménez Malla and his wife Teresa solemnized their marriage in a Catholic ceremony, and bought a house in the Huescan town of Barbastro.

The grateful family rewarded him with a sum sufficient to start a business buying and selling surplus mules which the French army no longer needed after World War I.

[3] Tools with which he cleaned horseshoes and iron shoes for mules and donkeys were donated by the son of Ceferino's friend, Ferruchón, to the Museum of Martyrs in Barbastro.

Giménez Malla is a described as a pleasant, good-natured, tall, thin man carefully dressed and distinguished looking.

Although illiterate, after his wife died, Giménez Malla began a career as a catechist under the guidance of a priest-teacher, Don Nicholas Santos de Otto, teaching both Romani and Spanish children.

He became a member of the Secular Franciscan Order,[5] the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and, participated in Thursday night Eucharistic Adoration.

[2] In July 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, Giménez Malla tried to defend a Catholic priest from Republican militiamen.