Jos� Saraiva Martins, C.M.F., GCC is a Portuguese Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, having served as prefect from 1998 to 2008. Born in Gagos de Jarmelo in Guarda, Portugal, to Antonio and Maria Saraiva, he joined the Congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, commonly known as the Claretians, and professed his vows on 22 August 1950. Martins was ordained as a priest by Archbishop Ettore Cunial on 16 March 1957. He studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, where he earned a licentiate and a doctorate in theology. Saraiva taught metaphysics for a year in Marino, Italy, then in 1959 came to the Roman Claretianum, where he taught fundamental and sacramental theology for a decade. He became rector of the Pontifical Urbaniana University for three terms. On 26 May 1988, Saraiva was appointed Secretary of the Curial Congregation for Catholic Education and titular archbishop of Thuburnica. 

January 6th, 1932 in Gagos (Age 92)