Chronological list of saints and blesseds: 20
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A list of 20th century saints:
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| Josep Manyanet y Vives | 1833 | Tremp Tremp Tremp is a municipality in Catalonia, Spain, the capital of the comarca of the Pallars Jussà. It is the largest municipality in Catalonia in terms of area , accounting for nearly a quarter of the total area of the comarca.... , Spain |
1901 | Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of... , Spain |
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| Blessed Louis Zephyrinus Moreau | 1824 | Bécancour Bécancour, Quebec Bécancour is a town in the Centre-du-Québec region of Québec, Canada; it is the seat of the Bécancour Regional County Municipality. It is located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River at the confluence of the Bécancour River, opposite Trois-Rivières.Wôlinak, an Abenaki Indian reserve, is... , Canada |
1901 | Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe The Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Sherbrooke.-Ordinaries:*John Charles Prince *Joseph La Rocque *Charles La Rocque *Bl... |
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| Blessed Tommaso Reggio Tommaso Reggio Tommaso Reggio was the Bishop of the Archdiocese of Genoa, Italy. On September 3, 2000, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II.... |
1818 | Genova Génova Génova may refer to:* Spanish spelling of the city of Genoa, Italy* Génova, Quindío, a municipality in the department of Quindío, Colombia* Génova, Quetzaltenango, a municipality in the department of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala... , Italy |
1901 | Genova, Italy | Archbishop of Genova |
| Agostino Roscelli | 1818 | Italy | 1902 | Italy | Priest |
| Maria Goretti Maria Goretti Maria Goretti is an Italian virgin-martyr of the Roman Catholic Church, and is one of its youngest canonized saints. She died from multiple stab wounds inflicted by her attempted rapist after she refused him... |
1890 | Corinaldo Corinaldo Corinaldo is a town and comune in the Province of Ancona, within the Marche region of central Italy. As of 2005 it had a population of 5,187 inhabitants... , Italy |
1902 | Nettuno Nettuno Nettuno is a town and comune of the province of Rome in the Lazio region of central Italy, 60 kilometers south of Rome. It is named in honour of the Roman god Neptune... , Italy |
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| Blessed Contardo Ferrini Contardo Ferrini Blessed Contardo Ferrini, O.F.S., was born on 5 April 1859 in Milan, Italy, to Rinaldo Ferrini and Luigia Buccellati. He was baptized at the same baptismal font where the Blessed Frédéric Ozanam, also a native of Milan, had been baptized 46 years prior... |
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| Blessed Grimoaldo of the Purification Grimoaldo of the Purification Blessed Grimoaldo of the Purification, born Ferdinando Santamaria, a religious and clerical student of the Passionist Congregation, born on May 4, 1883 in Pontecorvo, Frosinone, Italy; died November 18, 1902 at Ceccano, Italy... (Ferdinando Santamaria) |
1883 | Pontecorvo Pontecorvo Pontecorvo is a town and comune in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, Italy. Its population is 13,400.- History :The village lies under Rocca Guglielma, a medieval fortification perched on an inaccessible spur... , Italy |
1902 | Ceccano Ceccano Ceccano is a town and comune in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, central Italy.-History:The town had its origins as an ancient Volscian citadel that surrendered to the Romans in 424 BC... , Italy |
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| Blessed Maria of Jesus Siedliska | 1842 | Roszkowa Wola Roszkowa Wola Roszkowa Wola is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rzeczyca, within Tomaszów Mazowiecki County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately east of Rzeczyca, east of Tomaszów Mazowiecki, and east of the regional capital Łódź.... , Congress Poland Congress Poland The Kingdom of Poland , informally known as Congress Poland , created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna, was a personal union of the Russian parcel of Poland with the Russian Empire... |
1902 | Rome, Italy | Founder of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth The Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth are a Roman Catholic religious order which was founded in Rome in 1875 by Blessed Mary of Jesus the Good Shepherd . The Sisters of the Holy Family are an apostolic, international congregation, located on four continents and in thirteen countries. There are... |
| Blessed Matilde of the Sacred Heart Matilde of the Sacred Heart Blessed Matilde del Sagrado Corazón Téllez Robles was a Spanish Roman Catholic nun and the foundress of the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary, Mother of the Church.- Biography :... |
1841 | Robledillo de la Vera Robledillo de la Vera Robledillo de la Vera is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. According to the 2006 census , the municipality has a population of 318 inhabitants.... , Spain |
1902 | Spain | Founder of the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary, Mother of the Church |
| Gemma Galgani Gemma Galgani Maria Gemma Umberta Pia Galgani was an Italian mystic, venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church since 1940... |
1878 | Camigliano Camigliano Camigliano is a comune in the Province of Caserta in the Italian region Campania, located about 40 km north of Naples and about 15 km northwest of Caserta... , Italy |
1903 | Lucca Lucca Lucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plainnear the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Lucca... , Italy |
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| Blessed Clement Marchisio | 1833 | Italy | 1903 | Italy | Priest and Founder of the Institute of the Daughters of St. Joseph |
| Geltrude Caterina Comensoli | 1847 | Bienno Bienno Bienno is an Italian comune of 3.609 abitanti in Val Camonica, province of Brescia, in Lombardy.-Geography:The village is located in Val Grigna, on the northern side of the river Grigna.... , Italy |
1903 | Bergamo Bergamo Bergamo is a town and comune in Lombardy, Italy, about 40 km northeast of Milan. The comune is home to over 120,000 inhabitants. It is served by the Orio al Serio Airport, which also serves the Province of Bergamo, and to a lesser extent the metropolitan area of Milan... , Italy |
Founder of the Congregation of the Sacramentine Sisters of Bergamo |
| Blessed Joseph-Marie Cassant | 1878 | Casseneuil Casseneuil Casseneuil is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne department in south-western France.... , France |
1903 | Toulouse Toulouse Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea... , France |
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| Blessed Mary of the Passion (Helene de Chappotin) | 1839 | Nantes Nantes Nantes is a city in western France, located on the Loire River, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the 6th largest in France, while its metropolitan area ranks 8th with over 800,000 inhabitants.... , France |
1904 | San Remo Sanremo Sanremo or San Remo is a city with about 57,000 inhabitants on the Mediterranean coast of western Liguria in north-western Italy. Founded in Roman times, the city is best known as a tourist destination on the Italian Riviera. It hosts numerous cultural events, such as the Sanremo Music Festival... , Italy |
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| Blessed Bonifacia Rodriguez Castro | 1837 | Salamanca Salamanca Salamanca is a city in western Spain, in the community of Castile and León. Because it is known for its beautiful buildings and urban environment, the Old City was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988. It is the most important university city in Spain and is known for its contributions to... , Spain |
1905 | Zamora Zamora, Spain Zamora is a city in Castile and León, Spain, the capital of the province of Zamora. It lies on a rocky hill in the northwest, near the frontier with Portugal and crossed by the Duero river, which is some 50 km downstream as it reaches the Portuguese frontier... , Spain |
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| Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini | 1839 | Fino Mornasco Fino Mornasco Fino Mornasco is a comune in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about northwest of Milan and about southwest of Como... , Italy |
1905 | Piacenza Piacenza Piacenza is a city and comune in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Piacenza... , Italy |
Bishop of Piacenza Roman Catholic Diocese of Piacenza-Bobbio The Italian Catholic diocese of Piacenza-Bobbio, in central Italy, has existed since 1989. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Modena-Nonantola. The historic diocese of Piacenza was combined with the territory of the diocese of Bobbio-San Colombano, which was briefly united with the archdiocese... and founder of Catholic Action Catholic Action Catholic Action was the name of many groups of lay Catholics who were attempting to encourage a Catholic influence on society.They were especially active in the nineteenth century in historically Catholic countries that fell under anti-clerical regimes such as Spain, Italy, Bavaria, France, and... |
| Blessed Juan Nepomuceno Zegri y Moreno | 1831 | Grenada Grenada Grenada is an island country and Commonwealth Realm consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea... , Spain |
1905 | Málaga Málaga Málaga is a city and a municipality in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, Spain. With a population of 568,507 in 2010, it is the second most populous city of Andalusia and the sixth largest in Spain. This is the southernmost large city in Europe... , Spain |
Founder of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy |
| Blessed Valentinus Paquay Valentinus Paquay Valentinus Paquay , born Jan Louis, also known as the little holy father of Hasselt , was a Friar Minor.... |
1828 | Tongeren, Belgium | 1905 | Hasselt Hasselt Hasselt is a Belgian city and municipality, and capital of the Flemish province of Limburg... , Belgium |
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| Ezekiel Moreno y Diaz | 1848 | Alfaro Alfaro, La Rioja Alfaro is a town and municipality in La Rioja, northern Spain. Its population at January 2009 was of 9,883 inhabitants and has 194.23 km² extension... , Spain |
1906 | Montegudo, Spain | Missionary, Bishop of Pasto |
| Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity Elizabeth of the Trinity Elizabeth of the Trinity was a French nun and religious writer. She was born Élisabeth Catez in the military camp of Avord in the district of Farges-en-Septaine . Her parents were Captain Joseph and Marie Catez. Elizabeth was the first born of her family. She had a terrible temper... (Élisabeth Catez) |
1880 | France | 1906 | Dijon Dijon Dijon is a city in eastern France, the capital of the Côte-d'Or département and of the Burgundy region.Dijon is the historical capital of the region of Burgundy. Population : 151,576 within the city limits; 250,516 for the greater Dijon area.... , France |
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| Blessed Giuseppina Bonino (Josephine Gabriel Bonino) | 1843 | Savigliano Savigliano Savigliano is a comune of Piedmont, northern Italy, in the Province of Cuneo, c. 50 kilometers south of Turin by rail.... , Italy |
1906 | Savona Savona Savona is a seaport and comune in the northern Italian region of Liguria, capital of the Province of Savona, in the Riviera di Ponente on the Mediterranean Sea.... , Italy |
Founder of the Sisters of the Holy Family |
| Blessed Maria Christina Brando | 1856 | Naples, Italy | 1906 | ||
| Blessed Petra of Saint Joseph Perez Florido | 1845 | Málaga, Spain | 1906 | Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of... , Spain |
Founder of the Institute of the Mothers of the Helpless and of St. Joseph of the Mountain |
| Raphael Kalinowski Raphael Kalinowski Rafał Kalinowski, O.C.D. was a Polish Discalced Carmelite friar born as Józef Kalinowski inside the Russian partition of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in the city of Vilnius... |
1835 | Vilnius Vilnius Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 560,190 as of 2010. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County... , Lithuania Lithuania Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark... |
1907 | Wadowice Wadowice Wadowice is a town in southern Poland, 50 km from Kraków with 19,200 inhabitants , situated on the Skawa river, confluence of Vistula, in the eastern part of Silesian Plateau... , Poland |
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| Joseph Freinademetz Joseph Freinademetz Saint Joseph Freinademetz as a member of the Society of the Divine Word, was a missionary in China.-Early life:... |
1852 | Badia, Austria | 1908 | Taikia, China | Missionary |
| Blessed Magdalen-Catherine Morano | 1847 | Chieri Chieri Chieri is a town and comune in the province of Turin, Piedmont , located about 11 km southeast of Turin... , Italy |
1908 | Catania Catania Catania is an Italian city on the east coast of Sicily facing the Ionian Sea, between Messina and Syracuse. It is the capital of the homonymous province, and with 298,957 inhabitants it is the second-largest city in Sicily and the tenth in Italy.Catania is known to have a seismic history and... , Italy |
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| Arnold Janssen Arnold Janssen Saint Arnold Janssen, S.V.D., was a Roman Catholic priest and missionary, and is venerated as a saint. He is best known for founding the Society of the Divine Word, a Roman Catholic missionary religious congregation, also known as the Divine Word Missionaries, as well as two congregations for... |
1837 | Goch Goch Goch is a town in the district of Kleve, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated close to the border with the Netherlands, approx. 12 km south of Kleve, and 27 km southeast of Nijmegen.-Cultural ties:... , Germany |
1909 | Steyl Steyl Steyl is a village in the municipality of Venlo in the Netherlands and is best known as a monastery village.-Location:Steyl is on the right bank of the Limburgic river Meuse. A ferry connects Steyl with Baarlo. Steyl in the past has often had to deal with flooding, due to the high level of the... , Holland |
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| Blessed Emmanuel Domingo y Sol Emmanuel Domingo y Sol Emmanuel Domingo y Sol was the founder of the Pontifical Spanish College in Rome. As a young priest he built a sports arena and a theater to provide a Christian place for youth to play sports and to act... |
1836 | Tortosa Tortosa -External links:* *** * * *... , Spain |
1909 | Priest and founder of the Pontifical Spanish College in Rome | |
| Blessed Isidore Bakanja Isidore Bakanja Blessed Isidore Bakanja accepted the Christian faith at eighteen years of age through the ministry of Cistercian missionaries in what is today the Democratic Republic of Congo .Bakanja was a very devout convert and catechist... |
1885 | Belgian Congo Belgian Congo The Belgian Congo was the formal title of present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo between King Leopold II's formal relinquishment of his personal control over the state to Belgium on 15 November 1908, and Congolese independence on 30 June 1960.-Congo Free State, 1884–1908:Until the latter... |
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| Mary MacKillop Mary MacKillop Mary Helen MacKillop , also known as Saint Mary of the Cross, was an Australian Roman Catholic nun who, together with Father Julian Tenison Woods, founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart and a number of schools and welfare institutions throughout Australasia with an emphasis on... |
1842 | Fitzroy Fitzroy, Victoria Fitzroy is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Yarra. Its borders are Alexandra Parade , Victoria Parade , Smith Street and Nicholson Street. Fitzroy is Melbourne's... , Australia |
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| Michael Febres Cordero | 1854 | Cuenca, Ecuador Cuenca, Ecuador Cuenca is the capital of the Azuay Province. It is located in the highlands of Ecuador at about 2500 m above sea level... |
1910 | Premia Premia Premia is a comune in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 140 km northeast of Turin and about 40 km northwest of Verbania, on the border with Switzerland... , Italy |
Member of the Order of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools |
| Blessed Alfonso Maria Fusco Alfonso Maria Fusco Blessed Alfonso Maria Fusco was a Roman Catholic priest and founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. John the Baptist, commonly known as Baptistine Sisters... |
1839 | Angri Angri Angri is a town and comune in the province of Salerno, Campania, Italy. It was the native town of Teresina Raiola, who, after emigrating to the United States and marrying, became the mother of Al Capone, the future American gangster. It was also the native town of Capone's successor, Frank Nitti.... , Italy |
1910 | Priest and founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. John the Baptist | |
| Blessed Maria Schinina | 1844 | Ragusa Ragusa, Italy Ragusa is a city and comune in southern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Ragusa, on the island of Sicily, with around 75,000 inhabitants. It is built on a wide limestone hill between two deep valleys, Cava San Leonardo and Cava Santa Domenica... , Italy |
1910 | Founder of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus | |
| Blessed Bernard Mary of Jesus Bernard Mary of Jesus Blessed Bernard Mary of Jesus, born Caesar Silvestrelli, a priest and religious of the Passionist Congregation, hailed as the ‘Second Founder’, born on November 7, 1831 in Rome, Italy; died December 9, 1911 at Moricone, Italy. Beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1988.-Biography:Caesar Peter... (Bernard Silvestrelli) |
1831 | Rome, Italy | 1911 | Moricone Moricone Moricone is a comune in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about 35 km northeast of Rome.Moricone borders the following municipalities: Monteflavio, Montelibretti, Montorio Romano, Palombara Sabina.... , Italy |
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| Blessed Josephine Vannini | 1859 | Rome, Italy | 1911 | ||
| Blessed Maria Marcellina Darowska Marcelina Darowska Blessed Marcelina Darowska , was a Polish nun, who was beatified by Pope John Paul II at the Saint Peter's Square in Rome in 1996... |
1827 | Ukraine | 1911 | Lviv Lviv Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically has also been a major Polish and Jewish cultural center, as Poles and Jews were the two main ethnicities of the city until the outbreak of World War II and the following... , Ukraine |
Founder of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary |
| Blessed Maria Salles y Barangueras | 1848 | 1911 | Madrid Madrid Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan... , Spain |
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| Blessed Arcangelo Tadini Arcangelo Tadini Saint Arcangelo Tadini was a Catholic priest who was beatified on 24 October 2001 and canonized on 19 April 2009. Founded the Congregation of Worker Sisters of the Holy House of Nazareth.-Links and references:* * *... |
1846 | Verolanuova Verolanuova Verolanuova is a comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, northern Italy.-External links:*... , Italy |
1912 | Botticino Sera, Italy | Priest, founder of the Congregation of Worker Sisters of the Holy House of Nazareth |
| Blessed Bronislao Markiewicz | 1842 | 1912 | |||
| Blessed Candida Maria de Jesus Cipitria y Barriola | 1845 | Berrospe, Spain | 1912 | ||
| Blessed John Beyzym | 1850 | 1912 | |||
| Blessed Mary of the Heart of Jesus | 1842 | 1912 | |||
| Blessed Francis Spinelli | 1853 | 1913 | |||
| Blessed Giovanni Maria Boccardo | 1848 | 1913 | |||
| Blessed John Piamarta | 1841 | 1913 | |||
| Blessed Ulricha | 1882 | 1913 | |||
| Benedict Menni | 1841 | 1914 | |||
| Pius X Pope Pius X Pope Saint Pius X , born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, was the 257th Pope of the Catholic Church, serving from 1903 to 1914. He was the first pope since Pope Pius V to be canonized. Pius X rejected modernist interpretations of Catholic doctrine, promoting traditional devotional practices and orthodox... (Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto) |
1835 | Riese, Italy | 1914 | Apostolic Palace Apostolic Palace The Apostolic Palace is the official residence of the Pope, which is located in Vatican City. It is also known as the Sacred Palace, the Papal Palace and the Palace of the Vatican... , Vatican City Vatican City Vatican City , or Vatican City State, in Italian officially Stato della Città del Vaticano , which translates literally as State of the City of the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of... |
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| Blessed Helen Guerra | 1835 | 1914 | |||
| Blessed Joseph Gerard Joseph Gérard Blessed Joseph Gérard, OMI was a French Catholic missionary who chiefly worked among the Basotho people of modern day Lesotho and the Free State province of South Africa. He was born in Bouxières-aux-Chênes, in the Diocese of Nancy and received his religious training from the Missionary Oblates of... |
1831 | Bouxières-aux-Chênes Bouxières-aux-Chênes Bouxières-aux-Chênes is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.-See also:*Communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department... , France |
1914 | Roma, Lesotho Roma, Lesotho Roma is a settlement under the Manonyane Community Council in the Maseru District of Lesotho, some 34 kilometers southeast of Maseru, the capital of Lesotho. The Roma valley is broad and fertile, and is surrounded by sandstone cliffs topped to the East by basalt mountains which provide magnificent... |
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| Blessed Leonie Françoise de Sales Aviat | 1844 | 1914 | |||
| Blessed Rebecca Al-Rayes | 1832 | 1914 | |||
| Blessed Ignatius Maloyan Ignatius Maloyan Blessed Ignatius Shoukrallah Maloyan was the Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Mardin between 1911 and 1915. In the summer of 1915, the Vali of Diyarbekir, Reşit Bey, commenced the Armenian Genocide in Mardin. Archbishop Maloyan was force marched into the desert with almost all of the clergy and... |
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| Blessed Joseph Baldo | 1843 | 1915 | |||
| Blessed Louis Guanella | 1842 | 1915 | |||
| Blessed Placid Riccardi | 1844 | 1915 | |||
| Albert Chmielowski | 1845 | Igołomia, Congress Poland Congress Poland The Kingdom of Poland , informally known as Congress Poland , created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna, was a personal union of the Russian parcel of Poland with the Russian Empire... |
1916 | Kraków Kraków Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life... , Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in... |
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| Blessed Charles de Foucauld Charles de Foucauld Charles Eugène de Foucauld was a French Catholic religious and priest living among the Tuareg in the Sahara in Algeria. He was assassinated in 1916 outside the door of the fort he built for protection of the Tuareg and is considered by the Catholic Church to be a martyr... |
1858 | Strasbourg Strasbourg Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,... , France |
1916 | Tamanrasset, Algeria Algeria Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab... |
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| Blessed Frederick Janson | 1838 | 1916 | |||
| Blessed Honoratus Kozminski | 1829 | 1916 | |||
| Blessed Isidore of Saint Joseph Isidore of Saint Joseph Blessed Isidore of Saint Joseph, also known as ‘the Brother of the Will of God’ born Isidore de Loor, a lay brother of the Passionist Congregation, born on April 13, 1881 in Vrasene, Belgium; died October 6, 1916 at Kortrijk, Belgium... (Isidore de Loor) |
1881 | Vrasene, Belgium | 1916 | Kortrijk Kortrijk Kortrijk ; , ; ) is a Belgian city and municipality located in the Flemish province West Flanders... , Belgium |
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| Blessed Juana Maria Condesa Lluch | 1862 | 1916 | |||
| Blessed Nemesia Valle | 1847 | 1916 | |||
| Blessed Piety of the Cross (Tomasa Ortiz Real) | 1842 | 1916 | |||
| Frances Xavier Cabrini | 1850 | Sant'Angelo Lodigiano Sant'Angelo Lodigiano Sant'Angelo Lodigiano is a comune in the Province of Lodi in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 30 km southeast of Milan and about 12 km southwest of Lodi.Saint Francesca Cabrini was born in this city in 1850.... , Italy |
1917 | Chicago Chicago Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles... , Illinois Illinois Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,... |
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| Mutien-Marie Wiaux Mutien-Marie Wiaux Saint Mutien-Marie Wiaux was a Belgian member of the Brothers of Christian Schools. He was born Louis Wiaux, the third of six children, in French-speaking Belgium to a devout Catholic family... |
1841 | Mellet, Belgium | 1917 | ||
| Blessed Blandine Merten | 1883 | Düppenweiler, Saarland Saarland Saarland is one of the sixteen states of Germany. The capital is Saarbrücken. It has an area of 2570 km² and 1,045,000 inhabitants. In both area and population, it is the smallest state in Germany other than the city-states... , Germany |
1918 | Trier Trier Trier, historically called in English Treves is a city in Germany on the banks of the Moselle. It is the oldest city in Germany, founded in or before 16 BC.... , Germany |
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| Blessed Dolores Rodriguez Sopena | 1848 | 1918 | |||
| Blessed Marianne Cope | 1838 | Heppenheim Heppenheim Heppenheim is the seat of Bergstraße district in Hesse, Germany, lying on the Bergstraße on the edge of the Odenwald.- Location :... , Grand Duchy of Hesse Grand Duchy of Hesse The Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine , or, between 1806 and 1816, Grand Duchy of Hesse —as it was also known after 1816—was a member state of the German Confederation from 1806, when the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt was elevated to a Grand Duchy, until 1918, when all the German... |
1918 | Kalaupapa, Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of... |
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| Blesseds Daudi Okelo and Jildo Irwa | 1918 | ||||
| Blessed Diego Oddi | 1839 | 1919 | |||
| Blessed Francisco Marto | 1908 | Fátima, Portugal Fátima, Portugal Fátima is a city in Portugal famous for the Marian apparitions, recognized by the Catholic Church, that took place there in 1917. The town itself has a population of 7,756 and is located in the municipality of Ourém, in the Centro Region and Médio Tejo Subregion... |
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| Blessed Josaphata Michaelina Hordashevska | 1869 | Lwów, Galicia (Austria-Hungary) | 1919 | Krystynopol, Ukraine) | |
| Blessed Maria Antonia Bandres | 1898 | 1919 | |||
| Teresa of the Andes (Juana Fernández Solar) | 1890 | Santiago, Chile Santiago, Chile Santiago , also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of above mean sea level... |
1920 | Los Andes Los Andes, Chile Los Andes, founded in July 31, 1791 as Santa Rosa de Los Andes, is a Chilean city and commune located in the province of the same name, in Valparaíso Region... , Chile |
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| Blessed Jacinta Marto | 1910 | Fatima, Portugal | 1920 | ||
| Blessed Zygmunt Horazdowsky | 1845 | 1920 | |||
| Blessed Andrea Carlo Ferrari Andrea Carlo Ferrari Andrea Carlo Ferrari was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Milan.Andrea Ferrari was born in Lalatta, Parma. He was educated at the Seminary. He was ordained to the priesthood on 20 December 1873 in Parma... |
1850 | Lalatta, Italy | 1921 | Milan Milan Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,... , Italy |
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| Blessed Eugenia Picco | 1867 | 1921 | |||
| Blessed Maria Anna Caiani | 1863 | 1921 | |||
| Maria Bertilla Boscardin Maria Bertilla Boscardin Maria Bertilla Boscardin was an Italian nun and nurse who displayed a pronounced devotion to duty in working with sick children and victims of the air raids of World War I. She was later canonized a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.-Early life:... (Ann Francis Boscardin) |
1888 | Brendola Brendola Brendola is a town and comune in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is south of A4. As of 2007 Brendola had an estimated population of 6,645.-References:*... , Italy |
1922 | Treviso Treviso Treviso is a city and comune in Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 82,854 inhabitants : some 3,000 live within the Venetian walls or in the historical and monumental center, some 80,000 live in the urban center proper, while the city... , Italy |
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| Blessed Angela Salawa Angela Salawa Angela Salawa was born on September 9, 1881 in Krakow, Poland. She was the 11th child and lived in a very religious family. She served in hospitals in World War I but became sick and died five years later in 1922. She was beatified by Pope John Paul in 1991.... |
1881 | Kraków Kraków Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life... , Poland |
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| Blessed Charles | 1887 | 1922 | |||
| Blessed Maria Fortunata Viti Maria Fortunata Viti Blessed Maria Fortunata Viti, O.S.B. was an Italian Benedictine nun who has been beatified by the Roman Catholic Church.-Life:... |
1827 | Veroli Veroli -History:Veroli became a Roman municipium in 90 BCE. It became the seat of a bishopric in 743 CE, and was occupied by Spanish milices, allied to the Colonna family, in the 16th troops.-Main sights:... , 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... |
1922 | Veroli, Italy | |
| Blessed Joseph Nascimbeni | 1851 | 1922 | |||
| Blessed Maria Theresa Ledochowska Maria Theresa Ledochowska Maria Teresia Ledóchowska was a Roman Catholic nun and African missionary.... |
1863 | Loosdorf Loosdorf Loosdorf is a little town in the district of Melk in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. One of its historical buildings is the Hohe Schule , the first school in Central Europe with a written curriculum, founded in 1574 by the Austrian nobleman Hans Wilhelm von Losenstein , the lord of the nearby... , Austrian Empire Austrian Empire The Austrian Empire was a modern era successor empire, which was centered on what is today's Austria and which officially lasted from 1804 to 1867. It was followed by the Empire of Austria-Hungary, whose proclamation was a diplomatic move that elevated Hungary's status within the Austrian Empire... |
1922 | Rome, Italy | Missionary |
| Blessed Columba Marmion Columba Marmion Blessed Columba Marmion, born Joseph Aloysius Marmion was an Irish monk, and the third abbot of Maredsous Abbey. Beatified by Pope John Paul II on September 3, 2000, Marmion was one of the most popular and influential Catholic writers of the 20th century... |
1858 | Dublin, Ireland | 1923 | Maredsous Abbey Maredsous Abbey Maredsous Abbey is a Benedictine monastery at Denée near Namur in Belgium. It is a member of the Annunciation Congregation of the Benedictine Confederation.-Foundation:... , Belgium |
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| Filippo Smaldone Filippo Smaldone Saint Filippo Smaldone is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. He founded the Salesian Sisters of the Sacred Hearts and is known for his work with the deaf.... |
1848 | Naples Naples Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples... , Italy |
1923 | Lecce Lecce Lecce is a historic city of 95,200 inhabitants in southern Italy, the capital of the province of Lecce, the second province in the region by population, as well as one of the most important cities of Puglia... , Italy |
Priest and founder of the Salesian Sisters of the Sacred Hearts |
| Jozef Bilczewski Józef Bilczewski St. Jozef Bilczewski was a Catholic archbishop of the city of Lviv, Ukraine, a professor of theology at the Lviv University and a rector of that school... |
1860 | Wilamowice Wilamowice Wilamowice is a small town in southern Poland, situated in the Bielsko County, Silesian Voivodeship . The endangered language of Wymysorys is spoken here by about 70 native speakers, the majority of them elderly... , Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in... |
1923 | Lwów, Poland (now Ukraine) | Archbishop of Lviv Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv The Archdiocese of Lviv of the Latins is a metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church in western Ukraine. Archbishop Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki is the current metropolitan archbishop of the archdiocese.- History :... |
| Blessed Luigi Tezza | 1841 | 1923 | |||
| Blessed Luigi Variara | 1875 | 1923 | |||
| Blessed Savina Petrilli | 1851 | 1923 | |||
| Blessed Edward Poppe Edward Poppe Edward Poppe was a Belgian priest. He was declared blessed by Pope John Paul II on 3 October 1999.-Biography:Edward Joannes Maria Poppe was born in Temse in 1890 as the third child and eldest son of a baker... |
1890 | Temse Temse Temse is a municipality located in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium, and in the Flemish province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Elversele, Steendorp, Temse proper and Tielrode. On January 1, 2006 Temse had a total population of 26,287... , Belgium |
1924 | Moerzeke Moerzeke Moerzeke is a village located at the river Scheldt in the municipality Hamme, Belgium.-History:The name comes from the Gallo-Roman Mauriciacum, which means good or villa belonging to Mauricius. In the passing ages the name Moerzeke has been written in various ways... , Belgium |
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| Blessed Jakob Kern | 1897 | 1924 | |||
| Blessed Joseph Sebastian Pelczar | 1842 | 1924 | |||
| Maria Bernarda Bütler María Bernarda Bütler St. Maria Bernarda Bütler , born Verena Bütler, was a Swiss saint. She founded the Congregation of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Mary, Help of Christians and was a missionary in Ecuador... |
1848 | Auw Auw, Switzerland Auw is a municipality in the district of Muri in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.-History:The first evidence of a human settlement near Auw are some Roman era cremation urn burials. The modern municipality of Auw is first mentioned in 924 as Houva. In 1306 it was mentioned as Owe... , Aargau Aargau Aargau is one of the more northerly cantons of Switzerland. It comprises the lower course of the river Aare, which is why the canton is called Aar-gau .-History:... , Switzerland |
1924 | Cartagena, Colombia Cartagena, Colombia Cartagena de Indias , is a large Caribbean beach resort city on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region and capital of Bolívar Department... |
Founder of the Congregation of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Mary, Help of Christians |
| Raphaela Maria Porras of the Sacred Heart of Jesus | 1850 | 1925 | |||
| Blessed Anna Schaffer | 1882 | 1925 | |||
| Blessed Faustino Miguez | 1831 | 1925 | |||
| Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati Pier Giorgio Frassati Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, T.O.S.D., was an Italian Catholic activist, who was a member of the Third Order of St. Dominic. He has been beatified by the Roman Catholic Church.... |
1901 | Turin Turin Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat... , Italy |
1925 | Turin, Italy | |
| Blessed Bartholomew Longo | 1841 | Latiano Latiano Latiano is a comune in the province of Brindisi in Puglia, on the southeast coast of Italy. Its main economic activities are tourism and the growing of olives and grapes.Bartolo Longo was a native of Latiano-Main sights:... , Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Kingdom of the Two Sicilies The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, commonly known as the Two Sicilies even before formally coming into being, was the largest and wealthiest of the Italian states before Italian unification... |
1926 | Pompeii Pompeii The city of Pompeii is a partially buried Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Along with Herculaneum, Pompeii was destroyed and completely buried during a long catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius spanning... , Kingdom of Italy Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946) The Kingdom of Italy was a state forged in 1861 by the unification of Italy under the influence of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which was its legal predecessor state... |
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| Blessed Colomba Joanna Gabriel | 1858 | 1926 | |||
| Blessed Joseph Allamano | 1851 | 1926 | |||
| Blessed Luigi Talamoni | 1848 | 1926 | |||
| Blessed Mariam Thresia Mankidiyan | 1876 | 1926 | |||
| Blessed Mariano de Jesus Euse Hoyos | 1845 | 1926 | |||
| David Uribe Velasco | 1889 | 1927 | |||
| Jenaro Sanchez Delgadillo Jenaro Sánchez Delgadillo Saint Jenaro Sánchez Delgadillo was a Mexican martyr who died in the Cristero War.... |
1876 | 1927 | Martyr, Saints of the Cristero War Saints of the Cristero War On May 21, 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized a group of 25 saints and martyrs arising from the Mexican Cristero War. The vast majority are Roman Catholic priests who were executed for carrying out their ministry despite the suppression under the anti-clerical laws of Plutarco Elías Calles. Priests... |
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| Jose Isabel, Flores Varela, and Jose Maria Robles Hurtado José María Robles Hurtado Saint José María Robles Hurtado was a Mexican priest and one of the several priests martyred during the Cristero War.-Biography:... |
1927 | Saints of the Cristero War Saints of the Cristero War On May 21, 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized a group of 25 saints and martyrs arising from the Mexican Cristero War. The vast majority are Roman Catholic priests who were executed for carrying out their ministry despite the suppression under the anti-clerical laws of Plutarco Elías Calles. Priests... |
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| Giuseppe Moscati Giuseppe Moscati Saint Giuseppe Moscati was an Italian doctor, scientific researcher, and university professor noted both for his pioneering work in biochemistry and for his piety... |
1880 | Benevento Benevento Benevento is a town and comune of Campania, Italy, capital of the province of Benevento, 50 km northeast of Naples. It is situated on a hill 130 m above sea-level at the confluence of the Calore Irpino and Sabato... , Italy |
1927 | Naples, Italy | |
| Julio Alvarez Mendoza | 1866 | 1927 | |||
| Mateo Correa Magallanes Mateo Correa Magallanes Saint Mateo Correa Magallanes was born on 23 July 1866 at Tepechitlán, Zacatecas, Mexico. He was a Knight of Columbus, of Council 2140. He attended the seminary at Zacatecas on a scholarship, in 1881. He was ordained as priest in 1893 at the age of 27... |
1866 | Tepechitlán Tepechitlán The municipality of Tepechitlán is located in the southwestern portion of the Mexican state of Zacatecas. It is located between 21º33'49" and 21º44'00" latitude north and 103º09'07" and 103º32'01" longitude west with an average altitude of approximately 1700 meters above sea level... , Mexico |
1927 | Durango Durango Durango officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Durango is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. The state is located in Northwest Mexico. With a population of 1,632,934, it has Mexico's second-lowest population density, after Baja... , Mexico |
Martyr, Saint of the Cristero War |
| Pedro Esqueda Ramirez | 1887 | 1927 | |||
| Rodrigo Aguilar Aleman | 1875 | 1927 | Tula Tula, Hidalgo Tula, formally, Tula de Allende, is a town and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 305.8 km² , and as of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 93,296, with 28,432 in the town... , Mexico |
Martyr, Saint of the Cristero War | |
| Blessed Dominic Iturrate Zubero | 1901 | 1927 | |||
| Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevicius Jurgis [George] Matulaitis was a Roman Catholic Bishop of Vilnius from 1918 to 1925 and founder of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. On 28 June 1987, Pope John Paul II beatified him as the Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulewicz.-Biography:Matulaitis was the son of... |
1871 | Lūginė, Lithuania | 1927 | Kaunas Kaunas Kaunas is the second-largest city in Lithuania and has historically been a leading centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the biggest city and the center of a powiat in Trakai Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania since 1413. During Russian Empire occupation... , Lithuania |
Archbishop of Vilnius and founder of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary |
| Blessed Annibale Maria di Francia | 1851 | Messina, Italy | 1927 | Messina, Italy | |
| Blessed Miguel Pro Miguel Pro Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez , also known as Blessed Miguel Pro, was a Mexican Jesuit priest, executed without trial during the persecution of the Catholic Church under the presidency of Plutarco Elías Calles after trumped up charges of involvement in an assassination attempt against former President... |
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| Atilano Cruz Alvarado | 1901 | Teocaltiche Teocaltiche Teocaltiche is a city and municipality in the central-western Mexican state of Jalisco. Teocaltiche is located in the northeastern highlands region of Jalisco, commonly referred to in Spanish as "Los Altos de Jalisco"... , Mexico |
1928 | Cuquío Cuquío Cuquío is a town and municipality, in Jalisco in central-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 580.96 km².As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 19,176.... , Mexico |
Martyr, Saint of the Cristero War |
| Jesus Mendez Montoya | 1880 | 1928 | |||
| Justino Orona Madrigal | 1877 | 1928 | Saint of the Cristero War | ||
| Toribio Romo González Toribio Romo González Saint Toribio Romo González was a Mexican martyr who died in the Cristero War.He was born April 16, 1900, in Santa Ana de Guadalupe, Jalostotitlán, Mexico. In 1912 he entered the Auxiliary Seminary in San Juan de los Lagos. He was a playful and happy seminarian who loved to joke. In 1922 he was... |
1900 | Jalostotitlán Jalostotitlán The municipality of Jalostotitlán and its municipal seat of the same name are located in the Los Altos region of the Mexican state of Jalisco.The municipality shares its border on the north with the municipaly of Teocaltiche, the east with the municipality of San Juan de los Lagos, to the south... , Mexico |
1928 | Agua Caliente Agua Caliente Agua Caliente means "warm waters" or "hot springs" in Spanish. The term may refer to:-People:* Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, a Native American tribe of the U.S... , Mexico |
Martyr, Saint of the Cristero War |
| Tranquilino Ubiarco Robles | 1899 | 1928 | |||
| Blessed Elias del Socorro Nieves | 1882 | 1928 | |||
| Blessed Ivan Merz Ivan Merz Blessed Ivan Merz was a Bosnian-Croatian lay academic, beatified by Pope John Paul II on a visit at Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 23, 2003... |
1896 | Banja Luka Banja Luka -History:The name "Banja Luka" was first mentioned in a document dated February 6, 1494, but Banja Luka's history dates back to ancient times. There is a substantial evidence of the Roman presence in the region during the first few centuries A.D., including an old fort "Kastel" in the centre of... |
1928 | Zagreb Zagreb Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city... |
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| Blessed José Sánchez del Río José Sánchez del Río Blessed José Luis Sánchez del Río was a young Mexican Cristero who was put to death by government officials because he refused to renounce his Catholic faith. He has been declared a martyr and was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI on November 20, 2005.-Life:José Luis Sánchez del Río was born on March... |
1913 | Sahuayo Sahuayo Sahuayo is a city in the state of Michoacán, in western México, near the southern shore of Lake Chapala. It serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name... , Mexico |
1928 | Martyr, Saint of the Cristero War | |
| Blessed Anton Maria Schwartz | 1852 | 1929 | |||
| Blessed Dina Belanger | 1897 | 1929 | |||
| Blessed Francis Garate | 1857 | 1929 | |||
| Blessed Joseph-Mary Rubio y Peralta | 1864 | Dalías Dalías -External links: - Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía - Diputación Provincial de Almería... , Spain |
1929 | Aranjuez Aranjuez Aranjuez is a town lying 48 km south of Madrid, in the southern part of the Community of Madrid. It is located at the confluence of the Tagus and Jarama rivers, 48 km from Toledo. As of 2009, it has a population of 54,055.-History:... , Spain |
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| Blessed Julia Salzano | 1846 | 1929 | |||
| Riccardo Pampuri Riccardo Pampuri Riccardo Pampuri , was an Italian medical doctor from Trivolzio and is a canonized saint in the Roman Catholic Church. Born Erminio Filippo Pampuri, he took the name Brother Riccardo when he entered the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God... |
1897 | Trivolzio Trivolzio Trivolzio is a comune in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 25 km southwest of Milan and about 12 km northwest of Pavia... , Italy |
1930 | Milan, Italy | |
| Blesseds Louis Versiglia and Calixtus Caravario | 1930 | Li-Thau-Tseul, China | Martyr Saints of China Martyr Saints of China The Martyr Saints of China, or Augustine Zhao Rong and his 119 companions, are saints of the Roman Catholic Church. The 87 Chinese Catholics and 33 Western missionaries, from the mid-17th century to 1930, were martyred because of their ministry and, in some cases, for their refusal to apostatize... |
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| Blessed Angel Dario Acosta Zurita | 1908 | 1931 | |||
| Blessed Ignatius Klopotowski | 1866 | 1931 | |||
| Blessed László Batthyány-Strattmann László Batthyány-Strattmann The Blessed Prince László Batthyány-Strattmann de Németújvár, in German Ladislaus Fürst Batthyány-Strattmann von Güssing, was a Hungarian aristocrat and physician. The devout Catholic became known as the "doctor of the poor"... |
1870 | Dunakiliti Dunakiliti Dunakiliti is a village in Győr-Moson-Sopron county, Hungary.- External links :*... , Austria-Hungary |
1931 | Vienna Vienna Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre... , Austria |
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| Blessed Philip Rinaldi | 1856 | 1931 | |||
| Blessed Angela of the Cross | 1846 | 1932 | |||
| Blessed Eurosia Fabris Eurosia Fabris Blessed Eurosia Fabris , also known as Mamma Rosa, was best known to Catholics as a model of holiness in the daily life of a Catholic family. She gained some attention outside of the Catholic community in 2005 when the Vatican started her on the process of canonization... |
1866 | Quinto Vicentino Quinto Vicentino Quinto Vicentino is a town and comune in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is east of A31.The town is the birthplace of Urbano Lazzaro, the Italian partisan who identified and arrested Benito Mussolini in 1945. Its main attraction is Villa Thiene.... , Italy |
1932 | Marola Marola Marola can be one of several villages in Italy:*Marola in the comune of Torri di Quartesolo, in the province of Vicenza, Veneto.*Marola in the comune of La Spezia, in Liguria.... , Italy |
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| Cirilo Bertran, Marciano Jose, Inocencio de la Immaculada, and companions | 1934 | ||||
| Blessed Maria Domenica Mantovani | 1862 | 1934 | |||
| Blessed Antonia Mesina Antonia Mesina Blessed Antonia Messina was born on 21 June 1919. She was the second of ten children born to a poor family. After four years of school she took over housekeeping to help her bedridden mother, Grazia. She joined Catholic Action at the age of ten. While gathering firewood on 17 May 1935, she was... |
1919 | Orgosolo Orgosolo Orgosolo is a comune located in the Province of Nuoro, in the Italian region Sardinia, at about 110 km north of Cagliari and about 13 km south of Nuoro.... , Sardinia Sardinia Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It is an autonomous region of Italy, and the nearest land masses are the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Spanish Balearic Islands.The name Sardinia is from the pre-Roman noun *sard[],... |
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| Blessed Eusebia Palomino Yenes | 1899 | 1935 | |||
| Blessed Leonid Feodorov Leonid Feodorov Blessed Leonid Ivanovich Feodorov was Exarch of the Russian Catholic Church, in addition to being a survivor of the GULAG. After painstaking investigation, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II on June 27, 2001.-Early life:... |
1879 | Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea... , Russia |
1935 | Viatka Kirov, Kirov Oblast Kirov , formerly known as Vyatka and Khlynov, is a city in northeastern European Russia, on the Vyatka River, and the administrative center of Kirov Oblast. Population: -History:... , Russia |
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| Blessed Maria Karlowska | 1865 | 1935 | |||
| Blessed Peter Bonilli | 1841 | 1935 | |||
| Blessed Amparo Rosat Balasch and Maria del Calvario Romero Clariana | 1936 | ||||
| Blessed Andrea Giacinto Longhin | 1863 | 1936 | |||
| Blessed Angela of Saint Joseph and 16 companions | 1936 | ||||
| Blessed Bartolome Blanco Marquez Bartolome Blanco Marquez Blessed Bartolomé Blanco Márquez Bartolomé Blanco Márquez was born in Pozoblanco, Córdoba Province, Spain in 1914. He was arrested as a Catholic leader—he was the secretary of Catholic Action and a delegate to the Catholic Syndicates—on Aug. 18, 1936. He was executed on Oct... |
1914 | Pozoblanco Pozoblanco Pozoblanco is a town in the province of Córdoba, southern Spain, in the north-central part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is located near the headwaters of the Guadamatillas and of other small sub-tributaries of the Guadiana, in the lowlands of Los Pedroches, which lie between the... , Spain |
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| Blessed Ceferino Giménez Malla Ceferino Giménez Malla Ceferino Giménez Malla was a Spanish Gypsy, a Roman Catholic catechist and activist for Spanish Romani causes, considered the patron saint of Romani people in Roman Catholicism... |
1861 | Fraga Fraga Fraga is the major town of the comarca of Bajo Cinca in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain. It is located by the river Cinca.King Alfonso I of Aragon died at its walls in 1134 while trying to conquer it... , Spain |
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| Blessed Clemencia Riba Mestres and Companions | 1936 | ||||
| Blessed Daniel Brottier Daniel Brottier Blessed Daniel Jules Alexis Brottier, C.S.Sp. was a French Roman Catholic priest in the Congregation of the Holy Ghost. He was awarded the Croix de guerre and the Légion d'honneur for his services as a chaplain during World War I, did missionary work in Senegal, and administered an orphanage in... |
1876 | La Ferté-Saint-Cyr La Ferté-Saint-Cyr La Ferté-Saint-Cyr is a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department of central France.-See also:*Communes of the Loir-et-Cher department... , France |
1936 | Paris | Spiritan Holy Ghost Fathers The Congregation of the Holy Spirit is a Roman Catholic congregation of priests, lay brothers, and since Vatican II, lay associates... priest |
| Blessed Denis Pamplona and 12 Companions | 1936 | ||||
| Blessed Deogracias Palacios and Companions | 1936 | ||||
| Blessed Dolores de Santa Eulalia Puig Bonany | 1936 | ||||
| Blessed Felipe de Jesus Munarriz and Companions | 1936 | ||||
| Blessed Florentino Asensio Barroso | 1877 | 1936 | Bishop of Barbastro | ||
| Blessed Jacinto Hoyuelos Gonzalo | 1914 | 1936 | |||
| Blessed Jose Ruiz Bruixola | 1857 | 1936 | |||
| Blessed Josefa de San Juan Ruano Garcia | 1936 | ||||
| Blessed Juan Bautista Ferreres Boluda | 1861 | 1936 | |||
| Blessed Lucio Martinez Mancebo and Companions | 1936 | ||||
| Blessed Maria Gabriela de Hinojosa Naveros and Companions | 1936 | ||||
| Blessed Maria Sagrario | 1881 | 1936 | |||
| Blessed Maria Teresa Ferragud Roig | 1936 | ||||
| Blessed Mary Ginard Marti | 1894 | 1936 | |||
| Blessed Martyrs of Daimiel Martyrs of Daimiel The Passionist Martyrs of Daimiel were a group of priests and brothers of the Passionist Congregation killed by anti-clericalist forces during the Spanish Civil War.-Martyrdom:... |
1936 | Daimiel Daimiel Daimiel is a municipality in Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It has a population of 17,342. The Tablas de Daimiel National Park, a well-known natural reserve, lies partly within the boundaries of the town.-Spanish Civil War:... , Spain |
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| Blessed Mercedes Prat y Prat | 1880 | 1936 | |||
| Blessed Niceta Plaja Xifra de San Prudencia and companions | 1936 | ||||
| Blessed Pedro de Alcantara Villanueva Larrayoz | 1881 | 1936 | |||
| Blessed Peter Poveda Castroverde | 1874 | 1936 | |||
| Blessed Philip de Jesus Monarriz and companions | 1936 | ||||
| Blessed Proceso Ruiz Cascales and Companions | 1936 | ||||
| Blessed Santiago Mestre Iborra de Rafelbunol | 1909 | 1936 | |||
| Blessed Tomas Sitiar Fortia and companions | 1936 | ||||
| Blessed Victoria Diez y Bustos de Molina | 1903 | 1936 | |||
| Blessed Vincente Soler | 1867 | 1936 | |||
| Blesseds Carlos Erana Guruceta, Fidel Fuidio, and Jesus Hita | 1936 | ||||
| Blesseds Francisca de Rafelbunol (Maria Fenollosa Alcayna) and Jose Fenollosa Alcayna | 1936 | ||||
| Blesseds Jose Aparicio Sanz, Enrique Juan Requena, and Jose Perpina Nacher | 1936 | ||||
| Blesseds Jose Ferrer Esteve and Alfredo Parte Saiz | 1936 | ||||
| Blesseds Joseph Tapies Sirvant and Pascal Araguas Guardia | 1936 | ||||
| Blesseds Maria de Jesus Maria de Jesus Maria de Jesus dos Santos was a Portuguese supercentenarian who was the world's oldest verified living person for 37 days, until her death at 115 years 114 days. She assumed this status after the 26 November 2008 death of American Edna Parker, who was 115 years 220 days old... , Dolores Aguiar-Mella Diaz, and Consuelo Aguiar-Mella Diaz |
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| Blesseds Maria de la Purificacion Ximenez Ximenez, Maria Jesefa del Rio Messa, and Sofia Ximenez Ximenez | 1936 | ||||
| Blesseds Maria del Carmen Moreno Benitez and Maria Amparo Carbonell Munoz | 1936 | ||||
| Blesseds Maria Jesus, Maria Veronica, Maria Felicidad Masia Ferragud | 1936 | ||||
| Blesseds Maria Pilar Martinez | 1936 | ||||
| Blesseds Pedro Ruiz de los Panos y Angel and Jose Sala Pico | 1936 | ||||
| Blesseds Rita Delores Pujalte and Francisca Aldea | 1936 | ||||
| Cristobal Magallanes Jara Cristóbal Magallanes Jara Saint Cristóbal Magallanes Jara, also known as Christopher Magallanes is a martyr and saint venerated in the Catholic Church who was killed without trial on the way to say Mass during the Cristero War after the trumped up charge of inciting rebellion. He was born in Totatiche, Jalisco, Mexico on... and Companions |
1915 | Totatiche Totatiche The municipality and town of Totatiche is located in the northern extreme of the state of Jalisco, Mexico between 21°48’30” and 22°06’00” latitude north and 103°20’00” and 103°34’00” longitude east at a height of above sea level. The municipality is bordered on the north and southeast by the... , Mexico |
1937 | Jalisco, Mexico | Priest and Martyr |
| Jaime Hilario Barbal | 1898 | Enviny, Spain | 1937 | ||
| André Bessette André Bessette Saint André Bessette, CSC , born Alfred Bessette and since his canonisation sometimes known as Saint André of Montreal, was a Holy Cross Brother and a significant figure of the Roman Catholic Church among French-Canadians, credited with thousands of reported miraculous healings. He was declared... |
1845 | Saint-Grégoire d'Iberville, Canada | 1937 | ||
| Blessed Tobias Borras Roman | 1861 | 1937 | |||
| Blessed Vincent Vilar David | 1889 | 1937 | |||
| Blessed Enrico Rebuschini | 1860 | 1938 | |||
| Faustina Kowalska | 1905 | Głogowiec, Russian Empire Russian Empire The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union... |
1938 | Kraków Kraków Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life... , Poland |
Author of "Divine Mercy in my Soul: The Diary of Maria Faustina Kowalska" |
| Blessed Julio Junyer Padern | 1892 | 1938 | |||
| Rafael Arnaiz Baron Rafael Arnáiz Barón Saint Rafael Arnáiz, is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church.. He was a trappist monk and he is considered one of the greatest mystics of the XX century.... |
1911 | 1938 | |||
| Rafael Guizar Valencia | 1878 | Cotija, Mexico | 1938 | Mexico City Mexico City Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole... , Mexico |
Bishop of Veracruz Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Jalapa The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Jalapa is a Metropolitan Archdiocese in Mexico, based in the city of Xalapa, Veracruz. It is responsible for the suffragan dioceses of Coatzacoalcos, Córdoba, Orizaba, Papantla, San Andrés Tuxtla, Tuxpan and Veracruz.... |
| Blessed Alice Kotowska | 1899 | 1939 | Piaśnica Piasnica Wielka Piaśnica is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Puck, within Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately west of Puck and north-west of the regional capital Gdańsk... , Poland |
One of the 108 Martyrs of World War Two 108 Martyrs of World War Two The 108 Martyrs of World War II, known also as 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs , were Roman Catholics from Poland killed during World War II by the Nazis.... |
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| Blessed Anselm Polanco and Philip Ripoll Morata | 1939 | ||||
| Blessed Ursula Ledóchowska | 1865 | Loosdorf Loosdorf Loosdorf is a little town in the district of Melk in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. One of its historical buildings is the Hohe Schule , the first school in Central Europe with a written curriculum, founded in 1574 by the Austrian nobleman Hans Wilhelm von Losenstein , the lord of the nearby... , Austria |
1939 | Rome, Italy | |
| Blessed Agnes Phila and companions | 1940 | Martyrs of Thailand Martyrs of Thailand The Martyrs of Thailand are seven Roman Catholic Thais executed in Songkhon, Thailand in December 1940 by local police forces... |
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| Ascensión Nicol Goñi | 1868 | Tafalla Tafalla Tafalla is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain.-External links:**... , Spain |
1940 | Peru | Missionary and mother superior Abbess An abbess is the female superior, or mother superior, of a community of nuns, often an abbey.... of the Congregation of Dominican Missionaries of the Rosary |
| Blessed Franciszek Rogaczewski Franciszek Rogaczewski Franciszek Rogaczewski was a Polish Catholic priest who was arrested by the Nazis and killed at Stutthof concentration camp. He is considered a martyr, and was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 13 June 1999.-Life:... |
1892 | 1940 | |||
| Luigi Orione Luigi Orione Saint Luigi Orione is an Italian saint.- Life :Luigi Giovanni Orione was born into a poor family at Pontecurone, in the Province of Alessandria, Piedmont on the Vigil of the feast day of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. He was named after Saint Aloysius Gonzaga and Saint John the Baptist... |
1872 | Pontecurone Pontecurone Pontecurone is a comune in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located on the left bank of the Curone, about 100 km east of Turin and about 25 km east of Alessandria.... , Kingdom of Italy |
1940 | Sanremo Sanremo Sanremo or San Remo is a city with about 57,000 inhabitants on the Mediterranean coast of western Liguria in north-western Italy. Founded in Roman times, the city is best known as a tourist destination on the Italian Riviera. It hosts numerous cultural events, such as the Sanremo Music Festival... , Kingdom of Italy |
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| Blessed Manuel Gonzalez Garcia | 1877 | 1940 | |||
| Blessed Maria Bernardina Jablonska | 1878 | 1940 | |||
| Blessed Otto Neururer | 1882 | 1940 | |||
| Blessed Philip Siphong Onphitak | 1907 | 1940 | Martyrs of Thailand | ||
| Maximilian Kolbe Maximilian Kolbe Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe OFM Conv was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi German concentration camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II.He was canonized on 10 October 1982 by Pope John Paul II, and... |
1894 | Zduńska Wola Zdunska Wola Zduńska Wola is a town in central Poland with 44,671 inhabitants .Situated in the Łódź Voivodeship , previously in Sieradz Voivodeship . It is the seat of Zduńska Wola County.- Famous people from Zduńska Wola :... , Russian Empire |
1941 | Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz concentration camp Concentration camp Auschwitz was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II... , Poland |
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| Blessed Andriy Ishchak Andriy Ishchak Blessed Andriy Ishchak was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and martyr.Ishchak was born in the city of Mykolayiv in the Lviv Oblast. He studied theology in Lviv and Innsbruck. He received his doctorate of theology from the University of Innsbruck in 1914 and was ordained to the priesthood... |
1887 | 1941 | |||
| Blessed Yakym Senkivskyi Yakym Senkivskyi Blessed Yakym Senkivskyi was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and martyr.Senkivskyi was born in the village of Hayi Velykyi in Ternopil Oblast. He studied theology in Lviv, and was ordained a priest on 4 December 1921. He received a doctorate in theology from Innsbruck. In 1923 he went to... |
1896 | Hayi Velykyi, Ukraine | 1941 | Drohobych Drohobych Drohobych is a city located at the confluence of the Tysmenytsia River and Seret, a tributary of the former, in the Lviv Oblast , in western Ukraine... , Ukraine |
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| Blessed Liduina Meneguzzi | 1901 | 1941 | |||
| Blessed Mykola Konrad Mykola Konrad Blessed Mykola Konrad was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and martyr.Konrad was born on 16 May 1876 in the village of Strusiv in Ternopil Region. He studied philosophy and theology in Rome, where he defended his dissertation and received his doctorate. He was ordained a priest in 1899... |
1876 | 1941 | |||
| Blessed Secondo Pollo | 1908 | 1941 | |||
| Blessed Volodymyr Pryjma Volodymyr Pryjma Blessed Volodymyr Pryjma was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic choir director and martyr.Pryjma was born on 17 July 1906 in the village of Stradch, Yavoriv District. He graduated from a school for cantors, which was at that time under the care of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, and then he was made the... |
1906 | 1941 | |||
| Leopold of Chateauneuf | 1866 | 1942 | |||
| Teresa Benedicta of the Cross Edith Stein Saint Teresia Benedicta of the Cross, sometimes also known as Saint Edith Stein , was a German Roman Catholic philosopher and nun, regarded as a martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church... (Edith Stein) |
1891 | Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) | 1942 | KL Auschwitz, Nazi Germany Nazi Germany Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by... (now Poland) |
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| Blessed Mary Restituta Kafka | 1894 | 1942 | |||
| Blessed Mislav Bohatkiewicz | 1904 | 1942 | |||
| Pauline of the Suffering Heart of Jesus | 1865 | 1942 | |||
| Blessed Peter Edward Dankowski | 1908 | 1942 | |||
| Blessed Santia Szymkowiak | 1910 | 1942 | |||
| Blessed Titus Brandsma Titus Brandsma Blessed Titus Brandsma was a Dutch Carmelite priest and professor of philosophy. Brandsma was vehemently opposed to Nazi ideology and spoke out against it many times before the Second World War.... |
1881 | 1942 | |||
| Blessed Wojciech Nierychlewski | 1903 | 1942 | |||
| Blessed Anthony Leszczewicz | 1890 | 1943 | |||
| Blessed Bernard Lichtenberg | 1875 | 1943 | |||
| Blessed Caritas Brader | 1860 | 1943 | |||
| Blessed Emil Szramek | 1887 | 1943 | |||
| Blessed Jakob Gapp | 1897 | 1943 | |||
| Blessed Maria Stella Mardosewicz and companions | 1943 | ||||
| Blessed Nazaire Marcii Mesa | 1889 | 1943 | |||
| Blessed Emilian Kovch | 1884 | 1944 | |||
| Blessed Nicholas Bunkerd Kitbamrung | 1895 | 1944 | |||
| Blessed Tarsykia Matskiv | 1919 | 1944 | |||
| Blessed Teresa Bracco | 1924 | 1944 | |||
| Blessed Teresa Grillo Michel | 1855 | 1944 | |||
| Blessed Karl Leisner Karl Leisner Blessed Karl Leisner was a Roman Catholic priest interned in the Dachau concentration camp. He died of tuberculosis shortly after being liberated by the Allied forces... |
1915 | 1945 | |||
| Blessed Marcel Callo | 1921 | 1945 | |||
| Blessed Maria Pilar Izquierdo Albero | 1906 | 1945 | |||
| Blessed Mary Raphael Cimatti | 1861 | 1945 | |||
| Blessed Natalie Tulasiewicz | 1906 | 1945 | |||
| Blessed Nikolaus Gross | 1898 | 1945 | |||
| Blessed Peter To Rot | 1912 | 1945 | |||
| Blessed Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski Blessed Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski was a Polish priest, scout and is patron of Polish Scouts. He joined Scouting on March 21, 1927. Stefan served as Patrol leader, later as Troop Leader and during his years in the High Seminary of Pelplin Diocese he was an active member of its Scout Club... |
1913 | 1945 | |||
| Blessed Alberto Marvelli Alberto Marvelli Alberto Marvelli was an Italian member of the Catholic Action.Born at Ferrara, he was given a Christian formation by his mother, who kept their home open to the poor... |
1918 | 1946 | |||
| Alphonsa Muttathupadathu Alphonsa Muttathupadathu Saint Alphonsa Muttathupadathu, F.C.C., or Saint Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception was a Catholic Franciscan Religious Sister who is now honored as a saint, the first person of Indian origin to be canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church and the first canonized saint of the Syro-Malabar... |
1910 | Arpookara Arpookara Arpookara is a village in Kottayam district in the state of Kerala, India.The Kottayam Medical College is situated in Arpookara.The main attraction is the backwaters in Arpookara.- Demographics :... , Kerala Kerala or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions.... , India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world... |
1946 | Bharananganam Bharananganam Bharananganam, an important pilgrim centre in South India, is located on the banks of Meenachil river, 5 km east of Pala in Kottayam district in the state of Kerala. Bharananganam and surrounding places are bestowed with natural beauty due to hilly areas and lot of vegetation.- Saint Alphonsa's... , Kerala Kerala or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions.... , India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world... |
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| Blessed Boleslawa Lament | 1862 | 1946 | |||
| Blessed Vitaliy Bairak | 1907 | 1946 | |||
| Josephine Bakhita Josephine Bakhita Josephine Bakhita was a Sudanese-born former slave who became a Roman Catholic Canossian nun in Italy, living and working there for 45 years. In 2000, she was declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.-Early life:... |
1869 | 1947 | |||
| Blessed Claude Granzotto | 1900 | 1947 | |||
| Blessed Josaphat Kotsylovsky Josaphat Kotsylovsky Blessed Josaphat Joseph Kotsylovsky was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop and martyr.Kotsylovsky was born 3 March 1876 in the village of Pakoszowka , of the Lemko Region. Kotsylovsky was of Lemko origin, and Ukrainian national orientation... , O.S.B.M. |
1876 | Pakoshivka, Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia... |
1947 | Przemyśl Przemysl Przemyśl is a city in south-eastern Poland with 66,756 inhabitants, as of June 2009. In 1999, it became part of the Podkarpackie Voivodeship; it was previously the capital of Przemyśl Voivodeship.... , Poland |
Bishop of Przemyśl Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Przemysl–Warsaw The Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Przemyśl–Warsaw is an archeparchy located in the cities of Przemyśl and Warsaw in Poland.-History:In 1087 the Eparchy of Przemyśl was established.... |
| Blessed Maria Teresa Fasce | 1881 | 1947 | |||
| Blessed Theodore Romzha Theodore Romzha Blessed Theodore Romzha was bishop of the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Mukacheve from 1944 to 1947. Assassinated by Stalin's NKVD, he was beatified as a martyr by Pope John Paul II on June 27, 2001.-Early life:... |
1911 | 1947 | Bishop of Mukachevo | ||
| Blessed John Adalbert Balicki | 1869 | 1948 | |||
| Blessed Joseph Giaccardo | 1896 | 1948 | |||
| Maria Vicenta of Saint Dorothy Chavez Orozco | 1867 | 1949 | |||
| Blessed Laura Montoya Upegui | 1874 | 1949 | |||
| Blessed Maria Candida of the Eucharist Maria Candida of the Eucharist Blessed Maria Candida of the Eucharist, O.C.D., was a Roman Catholic Carmelite nun, beatified by Pope John Paul II. The daughter of an appellate court judge, Pietro Barba, the family home was in Palermo, Sicily, but she was born in Catanzaro, Italy, during a brief assignment of her father to that... |
1884 | 1949 | |||
| Blessed Nykyta Budka Nykyta Budka Blessed Nykyta Budka was a clergyman of the of Ukrainian Catholic Church who lived and worked in Austria-Hungary, Canada, Poland, and the Soviet Union. In Canada he is noted as the first bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada... |
1877 | 1949 | |||
| Blessed Roman Lysko Roman Lysko Blessed Roman Lysko was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and martyr.Lysko was born on 14 August 1914 in Horodok, Lviv Oblast. He studied theology and graduated from the Lviv Theological Academy. On August 28, 1941 he was ordained a priest by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky. He was Pastor of the... |
1914 | 1949 | |||
| Blessed Hryhory Lakota | 1883 | 1950 | Bishop of Przemyśl | ||
| Blessed Pere Tarres i Claret | 1905 | 1950 | |||
| Blessed Pina Suriano | 1915 | 1950 | |||
| Blessed Artemide Zatti | 1880 | 1951 | |||
| Blessed Clement Sheptytsky Clement Sheptytsky Blessed hieromartyr Clement Sheptytsky was the Archimandrite of the Studite monks, martyred by the Soviets in Siberia.He was born in the village of Prylbychi, near Lviv in Galicia then under Austro-Hungarian rule to the old Rutheniana noble family of Sheptytsky as a younger brother of the future... |
1869 | 1951 | |||
| Blessed Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi | 1880 | 1951 | |||
| Blessed Mykola Tsehelskyi | 1896 | 1951 | |||
| Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga | 1901 | Viña del Mar Viña del Mar Viña del Mar , is a city and commune on central Chile's Pacific coast. Its long stretches of white sandy beaches are a major attraction for national and international tourists. The city is Chile's main tourist attraction. Known as "La Ciudad Jardín" , Viña del Mar is a Chilean Municipality located... , Chile |
1952 | Author of Is Chile a Catholic Country?, Founder of the Chilean Trade Union Association | |
| Blessed Ivan Ziatyk Ivan Ziatyk Blessed Ivan Ziatyk was a member of the Redemptorists a religious congregation in the Latin Rite branch of the Catholic Church and is considered a martyr by the Church.-Family background:... |
1899 | 1952 | |||
| Blessed Kamen Vitchev Kamen Vitchev Born May 23, 1893 at Srem, Bulgaria, Peter Vitchev came from a peasant family. He joined the Catholic congregation known as the Assumptionists, or Augustinians of the Assumption, in 1910, beginning his novitiate in Gempe, Belgium, and later taking the name Kamen. He pursued his studies of... |
1893 | 1952 | |||
| Blessed Josaphat Chichkov Josaphat Chichkov Robert-Matthew Chichkov in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, was a priest, rector and teacher sentenced to death in the early 1950s.He came from a large and fervent Latin rite Catholic family. He entered the Assumptionist high school seminary in Adrianopolis and entered the Assumptionist novitiate in Phanaraki,... |
1884 | 1952 | |||
| Blessed Laurentia Herasymiv | 1911 | 1952 | |||
| Blessed Olympia Bida | 1903 | 1952 | |||
| Blessed Paolo Manna Paolo Manna Paolo Manna a missionary in Burma who was the superior general of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions. He was the founder of the Pontifical Missionary Union. He was beatified by John Paul II in 2001.-Externals links:*... |
1872 | 1952 | |||
| Blessed Pavel Djidjov Pavel Djidjov Pavel Djidjov was a Bulgarian theologian who was executed after a show trial and beatified in 2002 by Pope John Paul II.-Education, career:... |
1919 | 1952 | |||
| Blessed Eugene Bossilkov Eugene Bossilkov Blessed Eugene Bossilkov , born Vincent Bossilkov , was a member of the Passionist Congregation, bishop of Nicopolis and martyr in the Communist campaign in Bulgaria against religion. He had studied in Rome for his doctorate at the Pontifical Oriental Institute and became a parish priest in the... |
1900 | 1952 | |||
| Katharine Drexel Katharine Drexel Saint Katharine Drexel, S.B.S., was an American Religious Sister, heiress, philanthropist and educator, later canonized as a Roman Catholic saint.-Life and religious work:... |
1858 | 1953 | |||
| Blessed Alfred Ildefonse Schuster | 1880 | Rome, Italy | 1954 | Venegono Inferiore Venegono Inferiore Venegono Inferiore is a comune in the Province of Varese in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 35 km northwest of Milan and about 11 km southeast of Varese... near Milan Milan Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,... |
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| Blessed John of Calabria | 1873 | 1954 | |||
| Blessed Alexandrina Maria da Costa Alexandrina Maria da Costa Alexandrina Maria da Costa , also known as Blessed Alexandrina of Balasar, was a Portuguese mystic of the Eucharist, who was born and died in Balasar . Alexandrina left many written works, which have been studied mainly in Italy by Fr. Umberto Pasquale and Signorile couple... |
1904 | 1955 | |||
| Blessed Maria Euthymia Uffing | 1914 | 1955 | |||
| Blessed Zdenka Schelingova | 1916 | 1955 | |||
| Blessed Genevieve Torres Morales | 1870 | 1956 | |||
| Blessed Maria Petkovic | 1892 | 1956 | |||
| Blessed Maria Crocifissa Curcio | 1877 | 1957 | |||
| Blessed Mary Elisabeth Hesselblad | 1870 | 1957 | |||
| Blessed Perrinne Morosini | 1931 | 1957 | |||
| Blessed Petro Verhun | 1890 | 1957 | |||
| Blessed Pierina Morosini Pierina Morosini Pierina Morosini was born in Fiobbio, a frazione of Albino, Bergamo, Italy on 7 January 1931 to farmers Rocco Morosini and Sara Noris.... |
1931 | 1957 | |||
| Blessed Nicholas of Gesturi | 1882 | Gesturi Gesturi Gesturi is a comune in the Province of Medio Campidano in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 60 km north of Cagliari and about 20 km northeast of Sanluri... , Italy |
1958 | Cagliari Cagliari Cagliari is the capital of the island of Sardinia, a region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name Casteddu literally means castle. It has about 156,000 inhabitants, or about 480,000 including the outlying townships : Elmas, Assemini, Capoterra, Selargius, Sestu, Monserrato, Quartucciu, Quartu... , Italy |
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| Blessed Maria de Jesus Sacramentado Venegas | 1868 | 1959 | |||
| Blessed Methodius Dominic Trcka | 1886 | 1959 | |||
| Blessed Mykola Charnetsky | 1884 | 1959 | |||
| Blessed Aloysius Stepinac Aloysius Stepinac Aloysius Viktor Stepinac , also known as Blessed Aloysius Stepinac, was a Croatian Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Zagreb from 1937 to 1960. In 1998 he was declared a martyr and beatified by Pope John Paul II.... |
1898 | Brezarić | 1960 | Krašić Krašic Krašić is a village in central Croatia, located near Jastrebarsko and Ozalj, south of Žumberak and north of Kupa, about 50 km southwest of Zagreb. Krašić comprises an area of about 3.63 km²... |
Cardinal, Archbishop of Zagreb |
| Blessed Pavel Peter Gojdic | 1888 | 1960 | Bishop of Prešov Archeparchy of Prešov The Archeparchy of Prešov is an archeparchy of the Slovak Greek Catholic Church which covers the territory of the Prešov Region. It has the suffragans of: Eparchy of Košice and Eparchy of Bratislava. As of 2004 it had 136,593 Greek Catholic faithful. and its seat is in Prešov.-History:The eparchy... |
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| Gianna Beretta Molla Gianna Beretta Molla Saint Gianna Beretta Molla was an Italian pediatrician, wife and mother who is best known for refusing both an abortion and a hysterectomy when she was pregnant with her fourth child, despite knowing that continuing with the pregnancy could result in her death... |
1922 | Magenta Magenta Magenta is a color evoked by light stronger in blue and red wavelengths than in yellowish-green wavelengths . In light experiments, magenta can be produced by removing the lime-green wavelengths from white light... , Italy |
1962 | Magenta, Italy | |
| Blessed Maria Ludovica de Angelis | 1880 | 1962 | |||
| Blessed Carlos Manuel Rodriguez Santiago | 1918 | 1963 | |||
| Blessed John XXIII Pope John XXIII -Papal election:Following the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, Roncalli was elected Pope, to his great surprise. He had even arrived in the Vatican with a return train ticket to Venice. Many had considered Giovanni Battista Montini, Archbishop of Milan, a possible candidate, but, although archbishop... |
1881 | 1963 | pope | ||
| Blessed Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala | 1878 | 1963 | |||
| Blessed Oleksiy Zarytskyi | 1912 | 1963 | |||
| Blessed Anwarite Nengapeta | 1939 | 1964 | |||
| Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi was an Igbo Nigerian ordained a Roman Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Onitsha, Nigeria on December 19, 1937... |
1903 | 1964 | |||
| Blessed Simeon Lukach | 1893 | 1964 | |||
| Blessed Maria Corsini Beltrame Quattrocchi | 1884 | 1965 | |||
| Blessed Maria Alvarado Cardozo | 1875 | 1967 | |||
| Pio of Pietrelcina Pio of Pietrelcina Saint Pio of Pietrelcina was a Capuchin priest from Italy who is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church. He was born Francesco Forgione, and given the name Pio when he joined the Capuchins; he was popularly known as Padre Pio after his ordination to the priesthood. He became famous for his ... |
1887 | 1968 | |||
| Blessed James Alberione | 1884 | 1971 | |||
| Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky Vasyl Velychkovsky Blessed Martyr Vasyl Velychkovsky was a priest, and later bishop, of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church .In 1920 he entered the seminary in Lviv... |
1903 | 1973 | |||
| Blessed Maria Maravillas de Jesus | 1891 | 1974 | |||
| Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer was a Roman Catholic priest from Spain who founded Opus Dei, an organization of laypeople and priests dedicated to the teaching that everyone is called to holiness and that ordinary life is a... |
1902 | 1975 | |||
| Blessed Vasil Hopko | 1904 | Hrabské Hrabské Hrabské is a village and municipality in Bardejov District in the Prešov Region of north-east Slovakia.-Geography:The municipality lies at an altitude of 230 metres and covers an area of 7.855km².It has a population of about 500 people.-External links:... , Slovakia Slovakia The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south... |
1976 | Prešov Prešov Prešov Historically, the city has been known in German as Eperies , Eperjes in Hungarian, Fragopolis in Latin, Preszów in Polish, Peryeshis in Romany, Пряшев in Russian and Пряшів in Rusyn and Ukrainian.-Characteristics:The city is a showcase of Baroque, Rococo and Gothic... , Slovakia |
Auxiliary Bishop of Prešov Archeparchy of Prešov The Archeparchy of Prešov is an archeparchy of the Slovak Greek Catholic Church which covers the territory of the Prešov Region. It has the suffragans of: Eparchy of Košice and Eparchy of Bratislava. As of 2004 it had 136,593 Greek Catholic faithful. and its seat is in Prešov.-History:The eparchy... |
| Blessed Maria Romero Meneses Maria Romero Meneses Blessed María Romero Meneses, was a Salesian Sisters, beatified by Pope John Paul II on the 14 April 2002.-Early life:... |
1902 | 1977 | |||
| Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko Jerzy Popieluszko Jerzy Popiełuszko was a Roman Catholic priest from Poland, associated with the Solidarity union. He was murdered by three agents of the Polish communist internal intelligence agency, the Służba Bezpieczeństwa, who were shortly thereafter tried and convicted of the murder... |
1947 | 1984 | |||
| Blessed Teresa of Calcutta | 1910 | Albania | 1997 | Calcutta, India |
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