Chronological list of saints and blesseds: 16
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A list of 16th century saints:
NameBirthBirthplaceDeathPlace of deathNotes
Blessed Columba of Rieti
Columba of Rieti
Columba of Rieti was an Italian female Dominican tertiary mystic. She was renowned for her spiritual advice, devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, and the fantastic miracles attributed to her....

1467 Rieti
Rieti
Rieti is a city and comune in Lazio, central Italy, with a population of c. 47,700. It is the capital of province of Rieti.The town centre rests on a small hilltop, commanding a wide plain at the southern edge of an ancient lake. The area is now the fertile basin of the Velino River...

, Umbria
Umbria
Umbria is a region of modern central Italy. It is one of the smallest Italian regions and the only peninsular region that is landlocked.Its capital is Perugia.Assisi and Norcia are historical towns associated with St. Francis of Assisi, and St...

, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

1501  
Blessed Jerome Garibo 1440   1502  
Blessed Bernardino of Fossa
Bernardino of Fossa
Bernardino of Fossa was an Italian Franciscan historian and ascetical writer.-Life:...

1420 Fossa
Fossa (Italy)
Fossa is a comune and town in the province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy. Bernardino of Fossa was born in the town....

, Italy
1503  
Blessed Louisa of Savoy 1461   1503  
Blessed Magdalen Panattieri 1443   1503  
Blessed Timothy of Montecchio 1414   1504  
Blessed Vincent of Aquila     1504  
Joan of Valois
Joan of France, Duchess of Berry
Joan of France was briefly Queen consort of France as wife of King Louis XII of France, in between the death of her brother, Charles VIII, and the annulment of her marriage....

1464   1505  
Blessed Ladislaus of Gielniow 1440   1505  
Blessed Margaret of Ravenna 1442   1505  
Blessed Osanna of Mantua
Osanna of Mantua
Blessed Osanna Andreasi of Mantua was a Dominican tertiary, stigmatic, and mystic.-Life:...

1449   1505  
Blessed John-Angelo Porro 1451   1506  
Blessed Antonia of Brescia 1407   1507  
Blessed Francis of Calderola     1507  
Francis of Paola
Francis of Paola
Saint Francis of Paola was an Italian mendicant friar and the founder of the Roman Catholic Order of the Minims.-Biography:...

1416   1508  
Blessed Gratia of Kotor 1438   1508  
Blessed Jacopino de'Canepacci 1438   1508  
Catherine of Genoa 1477 Genoa
Genoa
Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....

, Italy
1510 Genoa, Italy
Blessed Mark of Marconi 1480   1510  
Blessed John Liccio     1511  
Blessed Margaret Fontana 1440 Modena
Modena
Modena is a city and comune on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy....

, Italy
1513 Italy
Blessed Paula Montaldi 1443   1514  
Joseph of Volokolamsk     1515  
Blessed Paula Gambara-Costa 1473   1515  
Blessed Hans Wagner     1516  
Blessed Giles of Lorenzana 1443   1518  
Blessed Helen Duglioli 1472   1520  
|Beginning of Protestant Reformation
Protestant Reformation
The Protestant Reformation was a 16th-century split within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin and other early Protestants. The efforts of the self-described "reformers", who objected to the doctrines, rituals and ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Catholic Church, led...

Blessed Dominic Spadafora     1521  
Blessed Margaret of Lorraine
Margaret of Lorraine
Margaret of Lorraine was Duchess of Alençon, and a nun of the order of Poor Clares . She was beatified in 1921.-Marriage and children:...

1463   1521  
Blessed Michael Pini 1450   1522  
Blessed Baptista Varani
Baptista Varani
Baptista Varani , O.S.C., was an Italian Poor Clare nun and ascetical writer.-Life:...

1458   1527  
Blessed Margareta Kratz 1430 Scharfenstein
Scharfenstein
Scharfenstein may refer to::* a district of Drebach in Erzgebirgskreis in SaxonyScharfenstein is the name of the following geographic features:* Scharfenstein , Oybin in Saxony, known as Lausitzer Matterhorn...

, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

1532  
Blessed Louisa Albertoni 1473   1533  
Augustine Webster
Augustine Webster
Saint Augustine Webster was an English Catholic martyr.He was educated at Cambridge University. He became the prior of Our Lady of Melwood, a Carthusian house at Epworth, on the Isle of Axholme, in north Lincolnshire, in 1531...

    1535  
John Fisher
John Fisher
Saint John Fisher was an English Roman Catholic scholastic, bishop, cardinal and martyr. He shares his feast day with Saint Thomas More on 22 June in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints and 6 July on the Church of England calendar of saints...

1469   1535   Bishop of Rochester
Bishop of Rochester
The Bishop of Rochester is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Rochester in the Province of Canterbury.The diocese covers the west of the county of Kent and is centred in the city of Rochester where the bishop's seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin...

John Houghton     1535  
Richard Reynolds 1492   1535  
Robert Lawrence
Robert Lawrence (martyr)
St. Robert Lawrence was one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. After joining the Carthusians, he served as prior of the Beauvale Charterhouse, Nottinghamshire, at the time when King Henry VIII of England broke with Rome and launched the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Robert went with St...

    1535  
Thomas More
Thomas More
Sir Thomas More , also known by Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important councillor to Henry VIII of England and, for three years toward the end of his life, Lord Chancellor...

1478   1535  
Blessed John Haile (or Hale)     1535   Rector of St. Dunstan's Church, Cranford, London
Cranford, London
Cranford is a place in the London Borough of Hounslow. It is a suburban development located 12.4 miles west of Charing Cross and on the eastern perimeter of London Heathrow Airport....

Blessed Laurence of Villamagna 1476   1535  
Blessed Sebastian Newdigate
Sebastian Newdigate
Blessed Sebastian Newdigate was a Roman Catholic priest and Carthusian monk, of England. He is considered a martyr by the Catholic Church....

    1535  
Blessed William Exmew
William Exmew
Blessed William Exmew, was an English Catholic priest, Carthusian monk and martyr. Exmew was beatified by Pope Leo XIII, on 9 December 1886.-Life:...

    1535  
Blesseds Humphrey Middlemore
Humphrey Middlemore
Blessed Humphrey Middlemore was a Roman Catholic priest and Carthusian monk, from England. He is considered a martyr by the Catholic Church...

    1535  
Gerolamo Emiliani 1481 Venice
Venice
Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

, Italy
1537 Somasca
Somasca
Somasca is a hamlet in the northern Italian region of Lombardy, situated in the hills overlooking the south-eastern branch of Lake Como. For purposes of local government it counts as a frazione of the Commune of Vercurago, which falls within the Province of Lecco.-History:Somasca is known chiefly...

, Italy
Blessed John Davy     1537  
Blessed Richard Bere     1537  
Blessed Robert Salt     1537  
Blessed Thomas Johnson
Thomas Johnson (monk)
Blessed Thomas Johnson was a Carthusian monk who was left to starve in Newgate gaol because he would not sign the Oath of Supremacy. Margaret Clement brought him and the other Carthusians some food by entering in disguise, but on discovery this was ended...

    1537  
Blessed Walter Pierson     1537  
Blessed William Greenwood     1537  
Blesseds John Rochester and James Walworth     1537  
Blesseds Thomas Green     1537  
John Stone     1538  
Blessed John Forest
John Forest
John Forest was an English Franciscan Friar and martyr.Born in the Oxford area, John Forest became a Franciscan Friar Minor of the Regular Observance in 1491. He went on to study theology at the University of Oxford, later becoming confessor to Queen Catherine of Aragon, first wife to King Henry...

1473   1538  
Anthony Maria Zaccaria
Anthony Maria Zaccaria
Saint Anthony Maria Zaccaria is an Italian saint.Anthony was born in the city of Cremona, Italy in 1502 to noble parents. When he was two his father died and he was brought up as an only child by his mother. At an early age, he took a private vow of chastity...

1502   1539  
Blessed Adrian Fortescue
Adrian Fortescue (priest)
Adrian Fortescue was a Roman Catholic priest and Englishman who was an influential liturgist, artist, calligrapher, composer, polyglot, amateur photographer, Byzantine scholar, and adventurer.-Early life and education:...

1476   1539  
Blessed Hugh Cook Faringdon
Hugh Cook Faringdon
Blessed Hugh Cook Faringdon, O.S.B., , also known as Hugh Faringdon or Hugh Cook, was a Benedictine monk who ruled as the last Abbot of Reading Abbey in the English town of Reading. At the dissolution of the monasteries under King Henry VIII of England, he was accused of high treason and executed...

    1539  
Blessed John Baptist of Fabriano 1469   1539  
Blessed John Beche (Thomas Marshall)     1539  
Blessed John Eynon     1539  
Blessed John Rugg     1539  
Blessed John Thorne     1539  
Blessed Richard Whiting 1460   1539  
Blessed Roger James     1539  
Angela Merici
Angela Merici
Angela Merici, or Angela de Merici, was an Italian religious leader and saint. She founded the Order of Ursulines in 1535 in Brescia.-Life:...

1470   1540  
Blessed Carthusian Martyrs
Carthusian Martyrs
The Carthusian Martyrs were a group of monks of the London Charterhouse, the monastery of the Carthusian Order in central London, who were put to death by the English state from June 19, 1535 to September 20, 1537. The method of execution was hanging, disembowelling while still alive and then...

    1540  
Blessed Edward Powell
Edward Powell
Edward Powell was a Welsh Roman Catholic priest and theologian, in opposition to Henry VIII of England. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1886.-Life:...

    1540  
Blessed Richard Fetherston
Richard Fetherston
Richard Fetherston was an English Roman Catholic priest. He was chaplain to Catharine of Aragon and tutor to her daughter, Mary Tudor. He was beatified by Pope Leo XIII, 29 December 1886.-Life:...

    1540  
Blessed Thomas Abel
Thomas Abel
The Blessed Thomas Abel was an English priest who was martyred during the reign of Henry VIII. The place and date of his birth are unknown....

    1540  
Blessed William Horne
Carthusian Martyrs
The Carthusian Martyrs were a group of monks of the London Charterhouse, the monastery of the Carthusian Order in central London, who were put to death by the English state from June 19, 1535 to September 20, 1537. The method of execution was hanging, disembowelling while still alive and then...

    1540  
Blessed David Gonson     1541  
Blessed Margaret Pole 1473   1541  
Blessed Christina of Aquila     1543  
Blessed Lucy of Narni 1476   1544  
Blesseds John Larke
John Larke
Blessed John Larke was an English priest and martyr, who was executed during the reign of Henry VIII. He was a personal friend of Thomas More....

    1544  
Blessed Peter Favre 1506   1546  
Cajetan
Saint Cajetan
Saint Cajetan , born Gaetano dei Conti di Tiene , is a Catholic Church saint and founder of the order of the Clerics Regular, better known as the Theatines...

1480   1547  
Blessed Catherine of Racconigi
Catherine of Racconigi
The Blessed Catherine of Racconigi, T.O.S.D., was a member of the Dominican Order of the Roman Catholic Church. She is recognized for being a mystic and a stigmatic.-Biography:...

1486   1547  
Blessed Philippa of Gheldre 1462   1547  
Juan Diego 1474   1548  
John of God
John of God
John of God ) was a Portuguese-born friar and saint, one of Spain's leading religious figures.John of God was born João Cidade in Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal, into a once-prominent family that was impoverished but had great religious faith...

1495   1550  
Francis Xavier
Francis Xavier
Francis Xavier, born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta was a pioneering Roman Catholic missionary born in the Kingdom of Navarre and co-founder of the Society of Jesus. He was a student of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and one of the first seven Jesuits, dedicated at Montmartre in 1534...

1506   1552  
Thomas of Villanova
Thomas of Villanova
St. Thomas of Villanova, O.S.A. , was a preacher, ascetic, writer andSpanish friar of the Order of Saint Augustine....

1488   1555   Bishop of Valencia
Ignatius of Loyola
Ignatius of Loyola
Ignatius of Loyola was a Spanish knight from a Basque noble family, hermit, priest since 1537, and theologian, who founded the Society of Jesus and was its first Superior General. Ignatius emerged as a religious leader during the Counter-Reformation...

1491   1556  
Peter of Alcantara
Peter of Alcantara
Saint Peter of Alcántara, O.F.M. was a Spanish Franciscan friar.- Biography :He was born at Alcántara, Province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. His father, Peter Garavito, was the governor of Alcántara, and his mother was of the noble family of Sanabia...

1499   1562  
Blessed John Marinoni 1490   1562  
Blessed Osanna of Cattaro
Osanna of Cattaro
Blessed Osanna of Cattaro was a Catholic Dominican tertiary, visionary, anchoress, and convert from Orthodoxy of Serbian descent from Montenegro.- Life :...

1493   1565  
Blessed John Armero     1566  
Salvatore of Orta 1520   1567  
Stanislaus Kostka
Stanislaus Kostka
Stanisław Kostka S.J. was a Polish novice of the Society of Jesus. In the Catholic Church as Saint Stanislaus Kostka....

1550   1568  
John of Avila
John of Avila
Saint John of Ávila, Apostle of Andalusia was a Roman Catholic priest, Spanish preacher, scholastic author, religious mystic and saint...

    1569  
Blessed Alphonsus de Vaena     1570  
Blessed Ignatius de Azevedo and Companions     1570  
Blessed Joanninus de San Juan     1570  
Blessed John Felton
John Felton (martyr)
Blessed John Felton was an English Catholic martyr, who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I.Almost all of what is known about Felton's background comes from the narrative of his daughter, Frances Salisbury...

    1570  
Blessed John Fernandez     1570  
Blessed Thomas Plumtree     1570  
Blessed John Story
John Story
Blessed John Story , English Roman Catholic martyr, was born the son of Nicholas Story of Salisbury and educated at Hinxsey Hall, University of Oxford, where he became lecturer on civil law in 1535, being made later principal of Broadgates Hall, afterwards Pembroke College.He appears to have...

    1571  
Adrian Van Hilvarenbeek     1572  
Andrew Wouters     1572  
Cornelius
St. Cornelius
Saint Cornelius is the name of the following saints and persons in the previous stages of liturgical veneration:*Pope Cornelius*Cornelius of ArmaghMay 19 *Venerable Cornelius of Komel , abbot...

    1572  
Francis Borgia
Francis Borgia
Saint Francis Borgia, 4th duke of Gandía, 3rd Father General of the Jesuit Order, Grandee of Spain, was a Spanish Jesuit and third Superior General of the Society of Jesus. He was canonized on 20 June 1670.-Early life:He was born Francesco Borgia de Candia d'Aragon within the Duchy of Gandía,...

1510   1572  
Francis Rod     1572  
Godfrey of Duynen     1572  
Godfrey of Merville     1572  
James Lacop     1572  
John of Cologne
John of Cologne
John of Cologne was a Dominican order priest born at Cologne, Germany, parish priest of Horner, Holland.-Biography:As of 1572, Lutheranism and Calvinism had spread through a great part of Europe. In the Netherlands this was followed by a struggle between the two doctrines in which Calvinism was...

    1572  
John of Osterwick     1572  
Leonard Wegel (Veckel, Wickel)     1572  
Martyrs of Gorkum
Martyrs of Gorkum
The Martyrs of Gorkum were a group of 19 Dutch Catholic clergy and friars who suffered martyrdom in the sixteenth century for their faith in the town of Gorinchem .-Events:...

    1572  
Nicasius Jonson     1572  
Nicholas Pieck
Nicholas Pieck
Nicholas Pieck was the son of John Pieck and Henriea Clavia, devout Catholics. He was sent to college at 's-Hertogenbosch, and as soon as he had completed his classical studies he received the habit of the Friars Minor at the convent in that town. Nicholas was ordained a priest in 1558, devoting...

    1572  
Nicholas Poppel     1572  
Peter of Asche (Peter van Asche)     1572  
Pius V
Pope Pius V
Pope Saint Pius V , born Antonio Ghislieri , was Pope from 1566 to 1572 and is a saint of the Catholic Church. He is chiefly notable for his role in the Council of Trent, the Counter-Reformation, and the standardization of the Roman liturgy within the Latin Church...

1504   1572   pope
Theodoric of Emden     1572  
Willehad of Denmark 1482   1572  
Blessed Thomas Percy
Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland
Blessed Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland, 1st Baron Percy, KG , led the Rising of the North and was executed for treason. He was later beatified by the Catholic Church.-Early life:...

1528   1572  
Blessed Thomas Woodhouse
Thomas Woodhouse
The Blessed Thomas Woodhouse was an English Catholic priest and martyr at Tyburn on 19 June 1573, being disembowelled alive.-Biography:Ordained in Queen Mary Tudor's reign, he was a Lincolnshire rector for under a year, and in 1560 acted as a private tutor in Wales.On 14 May 1561, he was committed...

    1573  
Catherine of Palma 1533   1574  
Cuthbert Mayne
Cuthbert Mayne
'Saint Cuthbert Mayne was an English Roman Catholic priest and martyr of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.- Early life :...

 (Maine)
1544   1577  
Blessed Mary Bartholomea of Florence     1577  
Blessed John Nelson
John Nelson (martyr)
John Nelson was an English Jesuit martyr who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I.Nelson was from Skelton, York. He was nearing 40 when he left for Douai in 1573 for training as a priest. Two of his four brothers would later follow him there to become priests...

1534   1578  
Blessed Thomas Sherwood 1551   1578  
Alexander Briant
Alexander Briant
Saint Alexander Briant was an English Jesuit and martyr, executed at Tyburn.He was born in Somerset, and entered Hart Hall, Oxford , at an early age...

1556   1581  
Edmund Campion
Edmund Campion
Saint Edmund Campion, S.J. was an English Roman Catholic martyr and Jesuit priest. While conducting an underground ministry in officially Protestant England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters. Convicted of high treason by a kangaroo court, he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn...

1540 London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

1581 Tyburn
Tyburn
Tyburn is a former village just outside the then boundaries of London that was best known as a place of public execution.Tyburn may also refer to:* Tyburn , river and historical water source in London...

, England
Louis Bertrand
Louis Bertrand (saint)
Saint Louis Bertrand, O.P. was a Spanish Dominican who preached in South America during the 16th century, and is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church.-Early life:...

1526   1581  
Ralph Sherwin
Ralph Sherwin
Saint Ralph Sherwin was an English Roman Catholic martyr and saint. He was born at Rodsley, Derbyshire, and was educated at Eton College...

    1581  
Blessed Alexander Briant
Alexander Briant
Saint Alexander Briant was an English Jesuit and martyr, executed at Tyburn.He was born in Somerset, and entered Hart Hall, Oxford , at an early age...

1556   1581  
Blessed Everald Hanse
Everald Hanse
-Hagiography:He was born in Northamptonshire; executed 31 July 1581. He was educated at Cambridge, and was soon presented to a good living. His brother William, who had become a priest in April 1579 tried to convert him, but in vain until a sharp attack of illness made him enter into himself...

    1581  
Blessed Patrick Cavanagh
Patrick Cavanagh
Patrick Cavanagh is an Irish Catholic Martyr beatified by Pope John Paul II on 27 September 1992.-Martyrdom:Cavanagh was a layperson of the diocese of Ferns during the reign of Elizabeth I...

 and Companions
    1581  
John Payne (Paine)     1582  
Luke Kirby
Luke Kirby
Saint Luke Kirby was an English Catholic priest and martyr from the North of England, executed during the reign of Elizabeth I....

1549   1582  
Teresa of Avila
Teresa of Ávila
Saint Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, was a prominent Spanish mystic, Roman Catholic saint, Carmelite nun, and writer of the Counter Reformation, and theologian of contemplative life through mental prayer...

1515   1582  
Blessed James Thompson
James Thompson (martyr)
Blessed James Thompson, also known as James pierce, was a Catholic priest and martyr of York, hanged during the reign of Elizabeth II.Thompson arrived at in Rheims on September 19, 1580. In the following May, he and a Nicholas Fox were admitted to Soissons and made priests within 5747654467897...

    1582  
Blessed John Shert
John Shert
Blessed John Shert was an English Catholic priest and martyr, who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I.He was born at Shert Hall near Macclesfield, Cheshire, and received his degree from Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1566...

    1582  
Blessed Lawrence Richardson     1582  
Blessed Richard Kirkman     1582  
Blessed Robert Johnson
Robert Johnson (martyr)
Blessed Robert Johnson, a Shropshire native, was a Catholic priest and martyr during the reign of Elizabeth I.He joined the German College in Rome on October 1, 1571. He was ordained a priest in Brussels from the English College, Douai. After a pilgrimage to Rome in 1579 he returned to England in...

    1582  
Blessed Thomas Cottam
Thomas Cottam
Blessed Thomas Cottam was an English Catholic priest and martyr from Lancashire, who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I.-Life:...

1549   1582  
Blessed Thomas Ford
Thomas Ford (martyr)
Blessed Thomas Ford , a Devonshire native, was a Catholic martyr executed during the reign of Elizabeth I.He received an MA at Trinity College, Oxford, on 24 July 1567, and became a fellow there...

    1582  
Blessed William Filby
William Filby
William Filby was an English Roman Catholic priest. He was beatified in 1886.-Life:...

    1582  
Blessed William Lacey     1582  
Blessed John Bodey
John Bodey
John Bodey was an English Roman Catholic academic jurist and theologian. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...

    1583  
Blessed John Slade
John Bodey
John Bodey was an English Roman Catholic academic jurist and theologian. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...

    1583  
Blessed Nicholas of Factor 1520   1583  
Blessed Richard Thirkeld
Richard Thirkeld
Richard Thirkeld was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr.-Life:Thirkeld was born at Coniscliffe, Durham, England....

    1583  
Blessed William Hart
William Hart (priest)
William Hart was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1886.-Life:...

    1583  
Blesseds Rudolph Acquaviva, Alphonsus Pacheco, Peter Berno, Anthony Francis, and Francis Aranha     1583  
Charles Borromeo
Charles Borromeo
Charles Borromeo was the cardinal archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Milan from 1564 to 1584. He was a leading figure during the Counter-Reformation and was responsible for significant reforms in the Catholic Church, including the founding of seminaries for the education of priests...

1538   1584   Bishop of Milan
Richard Gwyn (Richard White) 1537   1584  
Blessed Dermot O'Hurley
Dermot O'Hurley
Blessed Dermot O'Hurley - in Irish Diarmaid Ó hUrthuile - was a Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel during the reign of Elizabeth I who was put to death for treason...

1519   1584  
Blessed George Haydock
George Haydock
George Haydock was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...

1556   1584  
Blessed James Fenn 1540   1584  
Blessed John Finch
John Finch (martyr)
John Finch was an English Roman Catholic farmer. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:He was a yeoman of Eccleston, Lancashire, from a Catholic family, but brought up an Anglican. When he was twenty years old he went to London where he spent nearly a year with some cousins at Inner...

    1584  
Blessed John Munden 1543   1584  
Blessed John Nutter     1584  
Blessed Margaret (Eleanor) Ball     1584  
Blessed Thomas Hemerford     1584  
Blessed William Carter 1548   1584  
Blessed Hugh Taylor
Hugh Taylor (priest)
Hugh Taylor was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...

1560   1585  
Blessed Marmaduke Bowes     1585  
Blessed Maurice MacKenraghty
Maurice MacKenraghty
Maurice MacKenraghty was an Irish Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1992.-Life:...

    1585  
Blessed Thomas Alfield     1585  
Margaret Clitherow
Margaret Clitherow
Saint Margaret Clitherow is an English saint and martyr of the Roman Catholic Church. She is sometimes called "the Pearl of York".-Life:...

1555   1586  
Blessed Edward Stransham
Edward Stransham
Edward Stransham was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...

1557   1586  
Blessed John Adams 1543   1586  
Blessed John Sandys
John Sandys
John Sandys was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:He studied at the University of Oxford, and Douai College....

    1586  
Blessed Nicholas Woodfen (Wheeler)     1586  
Blessed Richard Langley
Richard Langley (martyr)
Richard Langley was an English Roman Catholic layman, condemned for sheltering Catholic priests...

    1586  
Blessed Robert Dibdale
Robert Dibdale
Robert Dibdale, or Debdale, was a Catholic priest and martyr.He was born the son of John Dibdale of Shottery, in the parish of Stratford-upon-Avon and the birthplace of William Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway at a date unknown. He had a brother Richard and sisters Joan and Agnes. It would seem...

1558   1586  
Blessed William Thomson 1560   1586  
Blesseds John Fingley and Robert Bickerdike
Robert Bickerdike
Robert Bickerdike was a Canadian live stock shipping and insurance agent and politician.Born in Kingston, Ontario, the son of Thomas Bickerdike, of Yorkshire, England, and Agnes Cowan, Bickerdike spent most of his life in Quebec after his father moved to Beauharnois County to farm...

    1586  
Blesseds Robert Anderson and William Marsden     1586  
Felix of Cantalice 1513   1587  
Blessed Bernard Scammacca 1430   1587  
Blessed George Douglas     1587  
Blessed John Hambley
John Hambley (martyr)
The Venerable John Hambley was an English Catholic and martyr, who died during the reign of Elizabeth I.Born and educated in Cornwall, Hambley was converted to Catholicism by reading one of Robert Persons' books in 1582. He studied at Rheims from 1583 to 1585 and then returned and worked in the...

1560   1587  
Margaret Ward
Margaret Ward
Saint Margaret Ward was an English Catholic martyr who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I for helping a priest to escape from prison. Her date of birth is unknown, but she was born in Congleton, Cheshire....

    1588  
Ralph Crockett
Ralph Crockett
Blessed Ralph Crockett was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...

    1588  
Richard Martin
Saint Richard Martin
Saint Richard Martin was an English martyr. He was born in Shropshire, studied at Oxford and was a devout Catholic. Arrested for giving shelter to priests, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered in 1588 at Tyburn with Blesseds Richard Leigh, Edward Shelley, John Roche, Richard Flowers, and St....

    1588  
Blessed Christopher Buxton
Christopher Buxton
Christopher Buxton was an English Catholic priest and martyr.He was a scholar of Nicholas Garlick at the Grammar School, Tideswell, in the Peak District, studied for the priesthood at Reims and Rome, and was ordained in 1586...

    1588  
Blessed Edward Burden 1540   1588  
Blessed Edward Campion
Edward Campion
Edward Campion was the pseudonym of Father Gerard Edwards. Campion was one of the Oaten Hill Martyrs executed on 1 October 1588 and beatified by Pope Pius XI in 1929.-References:*http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=3050...

    1588  
Blessed Edward James     1588  
Blessed Edward Shelley     1588  
Blessed Henry Webley 1558   1588  
Blessed Hugh More 1563   1588  
Blessed James Claxton     1588  
Blessed John Robinson     1588  
Blessed John Roche
John Roche (martyr)
Blessed John Roche was a Catholic martyr, born in Ireland, who died in London, England in 1588. Usually shown in working-class Elizabethan dress and holding an oar or a miniature boat, he is the patron of sailors, mariners and boatmen.He helped Saint Margaret Ward arrange the escape of Father...

    1588  
Blessed Nicholas Garlick
Nicholas Garlick
Blessed Nicholas Garlick was an English catholic priest, martyred in Derby in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.- Early life :...

1555   1588  
Blessed Richard Flower     1588  
Blessed Richard Leigh
Richard Leigh (martyr)
Blessed Richard Leigh was an English martyr born in Cambridgeshire. He studied in Reims and Rome and was ordained in Rome in 1586. On his return to England he was arrested in London and banished. He returned to England again and was imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1588...

    1588  
Blessed Richard Martin
Saint Richard Martin
Saint Richard Martin was an English martyr. He was born in Shropshire, studied at Oxford and was a devout Catholic. Arrested for giving shelter to priests, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered in 1588 at Tyburn with Blesseds Richard Leigh, Edward Shelley, John Roche, Richard Flowers, and St....

    1588  
Blessed Robert Morton     1588  
Blessed Robert Sutton 1545   1588  
Blessed Robert Widmerpool
Robert Widmerpool
Blessed Robert Widmerpool, an English martyr, was arrested for giving aid to a Catholic priest. Widmerpool and his companion, Robert Wilcox were hanged, drawn and quartered. They share the feast day of 1 October....

    1588  
Blessed Robert Wilcox
Robert Wilcox (martyr)
Blessed Robert Wilcox was a Catholic martyr in Elizabethan England. He was born in Chester, England in 1558 and entered the seminary at Rheims when he was twenty-five years old...

    1588  
Blessed Thomas Felton
Thomas Felton (martyr)
Thomas Felton was a Franciscan friar, a Roman Catholic martyr and son of the Roman Catholic martyr, John Felton.Felton was born about 1567 at Bermondsey Abbey, Surrey, was in his youth page to Lady Lovett. Afterwards he was sent to the English College at Rheims, where he received the first...

1567   1588  
Blessed Thomas Holford
Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College
Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College is a secondary school based in Altrincham, Greater Manchester. The school specialises in maths and computing, and is named after Blessed Thomas Holford, a 16th-century priest from Cheshire...

 (Thomas Acton)
    1588  
Blessed William Dean
William Dean (priest)
William Dean was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...

    1588  
Blessed William Guntei     1588  
Blessed William Hartley     1588  
Blessed William Way
William Way
The Venerable William Way was an English Catholic priest and martyr executed under Elizabeth I after the Protestant Reformation. He is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church.-Early life and education:...

    1588  
Benedict the Black (Benedict the Moor) 1526   1589  
Catherine de Ricci 1522   1589  
Blessed William Spenser
William Spenser
William Spenser was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...

 and Robert Hardesty
    1589  
Blesseds George Nichols, Richard Yaxley, Thomas Belson
Thomas Belson
Blessed Thomas Belson was an English Roman Catholic layman. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...

, and Humphrey Pritchard
    1589  
Blesseds John Amias and Robert Dalby     1589  
Blessed Bartolomeu Fernandes dos Martires 1514   1590  
Blessed Christopher Bales
Christopher Bales
The Venerable Christopher Bales, also spelled Christopher Bayles, alias Christopher Evers , was an English Catholic priest and martyr.-Biography:Christopher was born at Coniscliffe near Darlington, County Durham, England, about 1564...

1564   1590  
Blessed Edmund Duke 1564   1590  
Blessed Francis Dickenson     1590  
Blessed Miles Gerard
Miles Gerard
Miles Gerard was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...

    1590  
Blessed Nicholas Horner
Nicholas Horner
Nicholas Horner was an English Roman Catholiclayman, hanged, drawn and quartered because he had relieved and assisted Christopher Bales, a seminary priest...

    1590  
Blesseds Edward Jones
Edward Jones (martyr)
Blessed Edward Jones was born in the diocese of St Asaph and baptised an Anglican. He was received into the Catholic Church in Reims in 1587 and ordained priest in 1588. He returned to England and was arrested in Fleet Street in 1590. Tortured in the Tower he made a skilful defence, for which the...

 and Antony Middleton
    1590  
Blesseds Richard Hill, John Hogg, and Richard Holiday     1590  
Aloysius Gonzaga
Aloysius Gonzaga
- Early life :Aloysius Gonzaga was born at his family's castle in Castiglione delle Stiviere, between Brescia and Mantova in northern Italy in what was then part of the Papal States. He was a member of the illustrious House of Gonzaga...

1568   1591  
Edmund Genings, Eustace White
Eustace White
St Eustace White, one of the Catholic Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Born in Louth, Lincolnshire in 1559, he was a convert to Catholicism who travelled to Europe to study for the priesthood. He was ordained, probably at the Venerable English College, Rome in 1588, and returned to England for...

, and Polydore Plasden
Polydore Plasden
St Polydore Plasden, one of the Catholic Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. A native of London, he studied for the priesthood at Rheims and Rome and was ordained in 1586 before being sent back to England soon after....

, priests and martyrs (d. 1591), and Swithun Wells
Swithun Wells
Saint Swithun Wells was an English Roman Catholic martyr who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I.Wells was born at Brambridge, Hampshire in 1536, and was christened with the name of the local saint and bishop Swithun. He was for many years a schoolmaster at Monkton Farleigh in Wiltshire...

1536   1591  
John of the Cross
John of the Cross
John of the Cross , born Juan de Yepes Álvarez, was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystic, Catholic saint, Carmelite friar and priest, born at Fontiveros, Old Castile....

1542   1591  
Martyrs of London 15821588   1591  
Polydore Plasden
Polydore Plasden
St Polydore Plasden, one of the Catholic Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. A native of London, he studied for the priesthood at Rheims and Rome and was ordained in 1586 before being sent back to England soon after....

1563   1591  
Blessed Alphonsus de Orozco 1500   1591  
Blessed George Beesley
George Beesley
George Beesley was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...

1563   1591  
Blessed John Mason     1591  
Blessed Lawrence Humphrey
Lawrence Humphrey
Lawrence Humphrey was an English theologian, who was president of Magdalen College, Oxford, and dean successively of Gloucester and Winchester.-Biography:...

    1591  
Blessed Ralph Milner and Roger Dickenson     1591  
Blessed Robert Thorpe
Robert Thorpe (priest)
Robert Thorpe was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...

    1591  
Blessed Sidney Hodgson     1591  
Blessed William Pike
William Pike
Blessed William Pike was an English Roman Catholic martyr who was beatified in 1987.Several sources state that William was born in Dorset. In 'A History of Dorset' A. Lindsay Clegg, former Town Clerk of Bournemouth, claims that Pike lived at Moordown, now within modern Bournemouth, then part of...

    1591  
Alexander Sauli
Alexander Sauli
Saint Alexander Sauli, the "Apostle of Corsica", was born at Milan, 15 February 1535, of an illustrious Lombard family. He died at Calozza, 11 October 1592, and was interred at Pavia...

1534   1592   Bishop of Pavia
Pavia
Pavia , the ancient Ticinum, is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 35 km south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It is the capital of the province of Pavia. It has a population of c. 71,000...

Paschal Baylon
Paschal Baylon
Saint Paschal Baylon was a Spanish friar and is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. He is the patron saint of Eucharistic congresses and Eucharistic associations.-Life:...

1540   1592  
Blessed Thomas Pormort
Thomas Pormort
Thomas Pormort was an English Roman Catholic priest. He was beatified in 1987.-Life:He was probably related to the family of Pormort of Great Grimsby and Saltfletby, Lincolnshire...

1559   1592  
Blessed William Patenson
William Patenson
William Patenson was an English Roman Catholic priest, and Catholic martyr. He was beatified in 1929.-Life:...

    1592  
John Boste
John Boste
Saint John Boste is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, and one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.-Life:John Boste was born in Westmorland around 1544. He studied at Queen's College, Oxford where he became a Fellow. He converted to Catholicism in 1576...

    1593  
Blessed Edward Waterson
Edward Waterson
Edward Waterson was an English Catholic priest and martyr. He served the hidden Catholics in England during the reign of Elizabeth I. Edward was arrested in 1593 and executed at Newcastle upon Tyne. He was beatified in 1929....

  London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

1593 (OS
Old Style and New Style dates
Old Style and New Style are used in English language historical studies either to indicate that the start of the Julian year has been adjusted to start on 1 January even though documents written at the time use a different start of year ; or to indicate that a date conforms to the Julian...

)
Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne is a city and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Historically a part of Northumberland, it is situated on the north bank of the River Tyne...

Blessed James Bird
James Bird
James Bird was a fur trader, hunter, interpreter, and guide in both western Canada and the United States. He was probably born at one of the first editions of Fort Carlton which came to be known as Carlton House...

    1593  
Blessed William Davies
William Davies (priest)
William Davies was a Welsh Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987. There is a chapel in Anglesey built as a memorial to him.-Life:...

    1593  
Blesseds James Sales and William Saultemouche 15567   1593  
Blessed Edward Osbaldeston
Edward Osbaldeston
Blessed Edward Osbaldeston was an English martyr, born about 1560. Не was hanged, drawn, and quartered at York, 16 November 1594.Son of Thomas Osbaldeston, and nephew of Edward Osbaldeston, of Osbaldeston Hall, near Blackburn, Lancashire, he went to the English College of Douai, then at Reims,...

1560   1594  
Blessed John Carey     1594  
Blessed John Cornelius
John Cornelius
Blessed John Cornelius was an English Catholic priest and Jesuit. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:Sir John Arundell took an interest in the boy and sent him to the University of Oxford...

1557   1594  
Blessed John Ingram 1565   1594  
Blessed John Speed
John Speed (martyr)
John Speed was an English Roman Catholic layman,condemned for assisting the priest John Boste, whom he used to escort from one Catholic house to another. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929....

    1594  
Blessed Patrick Salmon     1594  
Blessed Thomas Bosgrave     1594  
Blessed William Harrington
William Harrington (priest)
William Harrington was an English Jesuit priest. He is a Roman Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:His father had entertained Edmund Campion at the ancestral home, Mount St. John, early in 1581...

1566   1594  
Henry Walpole
Henry Walpole
-Early life:He was born at Docking, Norfolk, in 1558, the eldest son of Christopher Walpole, by Margery, heiress of Richard Beckham of Narford, and was educated at Norwich School, Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Gray's Inn. Converted to Roman Catholicism by the death of Saint Edmund Campion, he went by...

1558   1595  
Philip Howard
Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel
Saint Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel was an English nobleman. He was canonised by Pope Paul VI in 1970, as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales...

    1595  
Philip Neri
Philip Neri
Saint Philip Romolo Neri , also known as Apostle of Rome, was an Italian priest, noted for founding a society of secular priests called the "Congregation of the Oratory".-Early life:...

1515   1595  
Robert Southwell 1561   1595  
William Freeman
William Freeman
William Freeman was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...

    1595  
Blessed Alexander Rawlins
Alexander Rawlins
-Life:He was born in Worcestershire. After imprisonment for his Catholic beliefs, he went to Reims for seminary training and was ordained priest. He arrived in England as a missioner in April 1590 with Edmund Gennings and Hugh Sewell....

    1595  
Blessed William Freeman
William Freeman
William Freeman was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...

1558   1595  
Blesseds George Errington
George Errington (martyr)
Blessed George Errington of Hurst Castle - from the minor gentry branch of Bingfield, St John Lee, Northumberland - was a Roman Catholic martyr who was hanged, drawn and quartered at York, on 29 November 1596. Two years before his own death, Errington had ridden with Father John Boste on his last...

    1596  
Anthony Dainan     1597  
Bonaventure of Miako     1597  
Cosmas
Cosmas
Cosmas or Kosmas is a Greek name and may refer to:Saints:* Saints Cosmas and Damian , Christian martyrs and physicians* Cosmas the Monk, a Sicilian monk and tutor to John of Damascus and Cosmas of Maiuma* Cosmas of Maiuma Cosmas or Kosmas is a Greek name and may refer to:Saints:* Saints Cosmas and...

    1597  
Francis of St. Michael     1597  
James Kisai     1597  
John Soan de Goto     1597  
Leo Karasuma     1597  
Louis Ibarachi 1585   1597  
Martin de Aguirre     1597  
Martin Loynaz of the Ascension     1597  
Matthias of Meako     1597  
Michael Kozaki     1597  
Paulo Miki, priest and martyr, and Companions 1565   1597  
Peter Baptist     1597  
Peter Canisius 1521   1597  
Peter Shukeshiko     1597  
Peter Sukejiro     1597  
Philip of Jesus
Philip of Jesus
Saint Philip of Jesus was a Mexican Catholic missionary who became one of the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan, the first Mexican saint and patron saint of Mexico City....

    1597  
Thomas Danki     1597  
Thomas Kozaki     1597  
Blessed Henry Abbot     1597  
Blessed Jose de Anchieta
José de Anchieta
José de Anchieta was a Canarian Jesuit missionary to Brazil in the second half of the 16th century. A highly influential figure in Brazil's history in the 1st century after its discovery on April 22, 1500 by a Portuguese fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral, Anchieta was one of the founders of...

1534   1597  
Blessed Paul of Saint Mary     1597  
Blessed Thomas Fulthrop     1597  
Blessed Thomas Warcop     1597  
Blessed William Andleby
William Andleby
William Andleby was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...

    1597  
John Jones/Buckley     1598  
Blessed Christopher Robinson
Christopher Robinson (priest)
Christopher Robinson was an English Catholic priest and martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:Robinson was born at Woodside, near Westward, Cumberland. He was admitted to the English College at Reims in 1589, and was ordained priest and sent on the English mission in 1592...

    1598  
Blesseds Peter Snow and Ralph Grimston     1598  
John Rigby     1600  
Blessed Christopher Wharton
Christopher Wharton
Christopher Wharton was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...

    1600  
Blessed Edward Thwing (Thweng) 1565   1600  
Blessed John Grande 1546   1600  
Blessed John Rigby     1600  
Blessed Robert Nutter
Robert Nutter
Robert Nutter was an English Catholic martyr. He was beatified in 1987....

1557   1600  
Blessed Sebastian Aparicio     1600  
Blesseds Thomas Hunt and Thomas Sprott     1600  
Blessed Thomas Palasor
Thomas Palasor
Thomas Palasor was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:Palasor was born at Ellerton-on-Swale, parish of Catterick, North Riding of Yorkshire. He arrived at Reims on 24 July 1592, and set out for the English College, Valladolid on 24 August 1592...

    1600  

See also

  • Christianity in the 16th century
    Christianity in the 16th century
    - Age of Discovery :During the Age of Discovery, the Roman Catholic Church established a number of Missions in the Americas and other colonies in order to spread Christianity in the New World and to convert the indigenous peoples...

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