List of blesseds
Encyclopedia
This is a list of beatified persons
Beatification
Beatification is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a dead person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in his or her name . Beatification is the third of the four steps in the canonization process...

 or blesseds
according to the Catholic Church. The list is in alphabetical order by Christian name but, if necessary, by surname, the place or attribute part of name as well.
Blessed Date of death Date of beatification
Beatification
Beatification is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a dead person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in his or her name . Beatification is the third of the four steps in the canonization process...

Adolph Kolping
Adolph Kolping
Adolph Kolping was a German Catholic priest.-Life:Kolping grew up as the son of a shepherd. At the age of 18 he went to Cologne as a shoemaker’s assistant. He was shocked by the living conditions of most people living there, which influenced his decision to become a priest...

1865 1991
Agnellus of Pisa
Agnellus of Pisa
Blessed Agnellus of Pisa was a Friar Minor and founder of the English Franciscan Province. He was born in 1195 at Pisa,of the prominent family, Angenelli. This similarity to the upbringing of St.Francis makes it no surprise that Agnellus was approached by St. Francis himself and asked to join the...

1236 1882
Albertina Berkenbrock
Albertina Berkenbrock
Blessed Albertina Berkenbrock was a Brazilian Roman Catholic virgin.-Biography:Albertina was born in São Luís, Imaruí, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Her grandparents immigrated from Schöppingen, Germany to Brazil and brought with them their three children, one of who was Johann Hermann, who would become...

1931 2007
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...

1955 2004
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...

1910 2001
Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster
Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster
Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, O.S.B. was a Benedictine monk and Cardinal Archbishop of Milan during World War II...

1954 1996
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....

1960 1998
Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy
Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy
The Blessed Amadeus IX , surnamed the Happy, was the Duke of Savoy from 1465 to 1472. He was the son of Louis, Duke of Savoy, and Anne de Lusignan, daughter of Janus of Cyprus, King of Cyprus....

1472 1677
Ana de los Angeles Monteagudo
Ana de los Angeles Monteagudo
Ana de los Angeles Monteagudo was born in Arequipa, Peru. She was a Dominican nun who was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1985. She was a cloistered nun at the Santa Catalina Monastery. Her feast day is January 10th....

1686 1985
Angela of Foligno
Angela of Foligno
Angela of Foligno was a Christian author, Franciscan tertiary, and mystic. She was noted not only for her spiritual writings, but also for founding a religious order.-Early life and conversion:...

1309 1693
Angelina di Marsciano
Angelina di Marsciano
Blessed Angelina di Marsciano, T.O.R., was an Italian religious Sister and foundress, and is a beata of the Roman Catholic Church. She founded a congregation of Third Order Regular Sisters, known today as the Franciscan Sisters of Blessed Angelina...

1435 1825
Angelo Paoli
Angelo Paoli
Blessed Angelo Paoli was an Italian Carmelite, known as "the father of the poor".-Life:He was born at born at Argigliano, Tuscany, the son of Angelo Paoli and Santa Morelli, as a young man he spent the greater part of his leisure time in teaching Catholic doctrine to the poor children of Argigliano...

1720 2010
Anna Maria Taigi
Anna Maria Taigi
Anna Maria Gesualda Antonia Taigi was an Italian woman who was beatified by Pope Benedict XV in 1920.-Life:...

1837 1920
Anne Catherine Emmerich
Anne Catherine Emmerich
Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich was a Roman Catholic Augustinian nun, stigmatic, mystic, visionary and ecstatic....

1824 2004
Anne of Saint Bartholomew
Anne of Saint Bartholomew
Blessed Anne of St. Bartholomew, O.C.D., was a Spanish Discalced Carmelite nun, and companion to Saint Teresa of Avila.-Life:...

1626 1917
Anne-Marie Javouhey
Anne-Marie Javouhey
Blessed Anne-Marie Javouhey was a French nun who founded the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Cluny. She is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church...

1851 1950
Anton Martin Slomšek
Anton Martin Slomšek
Anton Martin Slomšek was a Slovene bishop, author, poet, and advocate of Slovene culture.Slomšek was born to a peasant family in the hamlet of Slom near the village of Ponikva in the Municipality of Šentjur, Lower Styria. He studied theology and philosophy before being ordained in 1824 at the...

1862 1999
Anne-Marie Rivier
Anne-Marie Rivier
Blessed Anne-Marie Rivier was a Religious Sister in the Latin Rite branch of the Catholic Church and foundress of the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary, a religious congregation ministering in eighteen different countries...

1838 1982
Antoni Julian Nowowiejski
Antoni Julian Nowowiejski
Antoni Julian Nowowiejski was a Polish bishop of Płock , titular archbishop of Silyum, first secretary of Polish Episcopal Conference , honorary citizen of Płock and historian...

1941 1999
Antonio Rosmini-Serbati
Antonio Rosmini-Serbati
Blessed Antonio Rosmini-Serbati was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and philosopher. He founded the Rosminians, officially the Institute of Charity or Societas a charitate nuncupata.-Biography:...

1855 2007
Anthony Baldinucci
Anthony Baldinucci
Anthony Baldinucci was an Italian Jesuit priest and missionary, best known for his unusual methods of conducting missions.-Life:...

1665 1893
Anthony Neyrot
Anthony Neyrot
Anthony Neyrot was an Italian Dominican priest, apostate, reconvert, and martyr.-Life:...

1460 1767
Archangela Girlani 1494 1864
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...

1909 2003
Ascensión Nicol Goñi
Mother Ascensión Nicol Goñi
Blessed María Ascensión Nicol y Goñi, O.P., was a Spanish Roman Catholic Religious Sister of the Third Order of St. Dominic, having previously been a cloistered nun of the Dominican Second Order...

1940 2005
August Czartoryski
August Czartoryski
Blessed August Franciszek Maria Anna Józef Kajetan Czartoryski, Duke of Vista Alegre was a Prince of the Polish Czartoryski family, born in Paris during the family's exile. A sickly child, he spent much of his youth being shuttled to various health spas. He was accompanied and tutored by a...

1893 2004
Augustine Fangi
Augustine Fangi
Augustine Fangi, O.P. was an Italian Dominican friar and priest. He was commonly regarded in his time as a miracle worker, and as prior of several houses, was concerned with restoring and maintaining regular observance of the Rule of Saint Dominic...

1493 1878
Baptista Varani
Baptista Varani
Baptista Varani , O.S.C., was an Italian Poor Clare nun and ascetical writer.-Life:...

1527 1843
Bartholomew of Braga 1514 2001
Bartolo Longo
Bartolo Longo
Blessed Bartolo Longo was a Satanist priest who later repented and became a lay Dominican, dedicating his life to the Virgin Mary. He was eventually awarded a papal knighthood.-Early years:...

1926 1980
Basil Moreau
Basil Moreau
The Blessed Father Basil Anthony Marie Patrice Moreau, CSC was the French priest who founded the Congregation of Holy Cross from which three additional congregations were founded, namely the Marianites of Holy Cross, the Sisters of the Holy Cross, and the Sisters of Holy Cross...

1873 2007
Beatrice d'Este
Beatrice d'Este (died 1226)
Blessed Beatrice d'Este was the daughter of Azzo VI of the Este family by his second wife, Sophia Eleanor, daughter of Humbert III, Count of Savoy. She was the aunt of Saint Beatrice d'Este....

1226 1763
Beatrix d'Ornacieux
Beatrix d'Ornacieux
Blessed Beatrix d'Ornacieux was a Carthusian nun. Her feast day is 13 February.Beatrice was a Carthusian nun who founded a settlement of the order at Eymieux in the department of Drôme...

1306 1869
Benôite (Benedicta) Rencurel
Benôite (Benedicta) Rencurel
Benoîte Rencurel was a shepherdess from Saint-Étienne-le-Laus, France who saw apparitions from the Virgin Mary beginning from 1664 through 1718. The apparitions became known as Our Lady of Laus, and the site receives thousands of pilgrim visits a year. The site gained Vatican approval in May 2008...

1647 1984
Caius of Korea
Caius of Korea
Blessed Caius of Korea is the 128th of the 205 Roman Catholic Martyrs of Japan beatified by Pope Pius IX on 7 July 1867, after he had canonized the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan five years before on 8 June 1862.The 19th century French Catholic missionary Claude-Charles Dallet wrote of him in his A...

1624 1867
Candlemas of San José
Blessed Candlemas of San José
Mother Candlemas of San José is the founder of the congregation known today as the Hermanas Carmelitas de Madre Candelaria...

1940 2008
Carlos Manuel Rodriguez
Carlos Manuel Rodríguez
Blessed Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Santiago was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico. Rodríguez was a layperson of the Roman Catholic Church, who was beatified on April 29, 2001...

1963 2001
Catherine Jarrige
Catherine Jarrige
Blessed Catherine Jarrige , known as Catinon Menette, a beatified third-order Dominican of the Catholic Church.- Youth :...

1836 1996
Ceferino Namuncurá
Ceferino Namuncurá
Blessed Ceferino Namuncurá was a saintly religious student and the object of a Roman Catholic cultus of veneration in northern Patagonia and throughout Argentina.- Early life :...

1905 2007
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...

1936 1997
Celine Borzecka
Celine Borzecka
Mother Celine Chludzińska Borzęcka, also known as Blessed Celine Borzęcka , was a foundress, along with her daughter Hedwig Borzecka, of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Resurrection, a Roman Catholic religious order.Celine was born in Antowil, Orsza, formerly Poland, today in Belarus, one of...

1913 2007
César de Bus
César de Bus
Blessed César de Bus was a French Catholic priest, founder of two religious congregations.-Life:...

1607 1821
Charles I, Count of Flanders
Charles I, Count of Flanders
Blessed Charles the Good was Count of Flanders from 1119 to 1127. He is most remembered for his murder and its aftermath.-History:...

1127 1884
Charles I of Austria and Hungary 1922 2004
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...

1916 2005
Chiara Badano
Chiara Badano
Chiara Badano, called Chiara “Luce” , was an Italian teenager who has been declared "Blessed" within the Catholic Church. She belonged to the Focolare Movement and died prematurely at eighteen after succumbing to osteosarcoma, an aggressive and painful form of bone cancer...

1990 2010
Christina von Stommeln
Christina von Stommeln
Blessed Christina of Stommeln , also known as Christina Bruso and Christina Bruzo, was a Roman Catholic mystic, ecstatic, and stigmatic....

1312 1908
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 1987
Christopher Wharton
Christopher Wharton
Christopher Wharton was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...

1600 1987
Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás
Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás
Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Toledo, Primate of Spain and Patriarch of the West Indies....

1909 2009
Clare of Rimini
Clare of Rimini
Blessed Clare of Rimini, born as Chiara Agolanti, was born at Rimini in 1282 and died there on February 10, 1346. She was deprived at an early age of the support and guidance of her parents and, later, of her pious husband...

1346 1782
Clemens August Graf von Galen
Clemens August Graf von Galen
Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen was a German count, Bishop of Münster, and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church....

1946 2005
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....

1501 1625
Conrad of Offida
Conrad of Offida
The Blessed Conrad of Offida was an Italian Friar Minor preacher and founder of the Celestines.-Biography:Conrad was born at Offida, a little town in the March of Ancona, c. 1241...

1306 1817
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...

1964 1998
Didacus Joseph of Cadiz
Didacus Joseph of Cadiz
Blessed Didacus Joseph , O.F.M. Cap., of Cadiz was born on March 29, 1743 and given the name Joseph Francis. His lineage dated from the Visigoth kings....

1801 1894
Dominic Barberi
Dominic Barberi
Blessed Dominic of the Mother of God, born Dominic Barberi was an Italian theologian and a member of the Passionist Congregation...

1849 1963
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,...

1594 1987
Edmund Catherick
Edmund Catherick
Edmund Catherick was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...

1642 1929
Edmund Ignatius Rice
Edmund Ignatius Rice
Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice , was a Roman Catholic missionary and educationalist. Edmund was the founder of two orders of religious brothers: the Congregation of Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers....

1844 1996
Elisabeth Hesselblad
Elisabeth Hesselblad
Blessed Elisabeth Hesselblad, religious name Maria Elisabetta Hesselblad, was a Swedish nurse, nun, and beatified woman....

1957 2000
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...

1906 1984
Eufrasia of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Eufrasia of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Blessed Eufrasia of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was born on October 7, 1877 in Edathuruthy, a locale in the city of Thrissur, Kerala, India. She was named Rosa Eluvathingal...

1952 2006
Francesco Bonifacio
Francesco Bonifacio
Francesco Giovanni Bonifacio was an Italian Catholic priest, killed by the Yugoslav communists in Grisignana ; he was beatified in Trieste on .-Early life:...

1946 2008
Francesco Faà di Bruno
Francesco Faà di Bruno
Francesco Faà di Bruno was an Italian mathematician and priest, born at Alessandria. He was of noble birth, and held, at one time, the rank of captain-of-staff in the Sardinian Army. He is the eponym of Faà di Bruno's formula...

1888 1988
Francesco Spoto
Francesco Spoto
Francesco Spoto was a Sicilian missionary killed in the Congo. He was beatified in Palermo, Sicily on April 27, 2007.-Web sources:...

1964 2007
Francis of Fabriano
Francis of Fabriano
Francis of Fabriano was an Italian Franciscan writer. He was beatified in 1775.-Life:...

1322 1775
Francis Xavier Seelos
Francis Xavier Seelos
Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos was a German-American Roman Catholic priest and Redemptorist missionary....

1867 2000
Francisco Marto
Jacinta and Francisco Marto
Francisco Marto and his sister Jacinta Marto , also known as Blessed Francisco Marto and Blessed Jacinta Marto, together with their cousin, Lúcia dos Santos were the children from Aljustrel near Fátima, Portugal, who said they witnessed three apparitions of an angel in 1916 and...

1919 2000
Francisco Palau
Francisco Palau
Blessed Francis Palau y Quer is a beatified Discalced Carmelite Spanish priest. He founded "The School of the Virtue" -- which was a model of catechetical teaching for adult persons—at Barcelona. In 1860-61, he also founded a mixed Congregation of Third Order of Discalced Carmelites, both Brothers...

1872 1980
Franciszka Siedliska
Franciszka Siedliska
Blessed Franciszka Siedliska , also known as Mother Mary of Jesus the Good Shepherd, was the founder of a Roman Catholic religious order of nuns, the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth.-Life:...

1902 1989
François de Laval
François de Laval
This article is in part a sermon and generally comes close to hagiography.Blessed François-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval was the first Roman Catholic bishop of Quebec and was one of the most influential men of his day. He was appointed when he was 36 years old by Pope Alexander VII. He was a member...

1708 1980
Françoise d'Amboise
Françoise d'Amboise
Françoise d'Amboise was born in the castle of Thouars. She was the daughter of the rich noble Louis d'Amboise, prince of Talmont and Viscount of Thouars....

1485 1863
Franz Jägerstätter
Franz Jägerstätter
Blessed Franz Jägerstätter, O.F.S., was an Austrian conscientious objector during World War II. Jägerstätter was sentenced to death and executed...

1943 2007
George Napper
George Napper
George Napper was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929 by Pope Pius XI.-Life:George Napper a son of Edward Napper George Napper (Napier) (born at Holywell manor, Oxford, 1550; executed at Oxford 9 November 1610) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a...

1610 1929
Giovanni Antonio Farina 1888 2001
Giovanni Dominici
Giovanni Dominici
Giovanni Dominici was an Italian Cardinal, statesman and writer. His ideas were a profound influence on the art of Fra Angelico.-Life:Dominici was born in Florence....

1420 1832
Giselle of Bavaria
Giselle of Bavaria
Blessed Gisela of Hungary was the first queen of Hungary.- Biography :Gisela was a daughter of Henry II, Duke of Bavaria and Gisela of Burgundy....

 Queen consort of Hungary
1065 1975
Gregor Lakota
Gregor Lakota
Blessed Hryhorij Lakota was a Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church auxiliary bishop who suffered religious persecution and was martyred by the Soviet Government....

1950 2001
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...

1902 1995
Gunther of Bohemia 1045
Helen Enselmini
Helen Enselmini
Blessed Helen Enselmini of Arcella , also known as Sister Elena Elsimi, was a Catholic Saint. She was born in Padua, Italy, and became a Clarisse nun at age 12, receiving the veil from Saint Francis of Assisi at San Nicola Arcella, near Padua, Italy. She is said to have had the gift of inedia,...

1242 1695
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 1895
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 1886
Imelda Lambertini
Imelda Lambertini
Blessed Imelda Lambertini is the patroness of First Holy Communicants.- Early life :Imelda was born in 1322 in Bologna, the only child of Count Egano Lambertini and Castora Galuzzi. Her parents were devout Catholics and were known for their charity and generosity to the underprivileged of Bologna...

1333 1826
Irmã Dulce
Irmã Dulce
The Blessed Irmã Dulce, S.M.I.C., was a Brazilian Catholic Franciscan Sister who was the founder of the Obras Sociais Irmã Dulce also known as the Charitable Works Foundation of Sister Dulce. Her work with the poor population in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, has made her a candidate for sainthood in...

1992 2011
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...

1916 1984
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 1928
Jacinta Marto
Jacinta and Francisco Marto
Francisco Marto and his sister Jacinta Marto , also known as Blessed Francisco Marto and Blessed Jacinta Marto, together with their cousin, Lúcia dos Santos were the children from Aljustrel near Fátima, Portugal, who said they witnessed three apparitions of an angel in 1916 and...

1920 2000
Jacques Desire Laval (Father) 1864 1979
James Salomoni
James Salomoni
Blessed James Salomoni was an Italian Dominican priest, ascetic, and mystic who is venerated as a beatus by the Catholic Church.Born in Venice into a noble family, Salomoni was brought up by his mother after his father died. His mother later became a Cistercian nun and he was then raised by his...

1314 1568
Jerzy Popiełuszko 1984 2010
Joana, Princess of Portugal 1490 1693
1963 2000
John Baptist Scalabrini
John Baptist Scalabrini
Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini was ordained priest on 30 May 1863. He was made Bishop of Piacenza in Italy, on 28 November 1887 he founded the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles now known as the Scalabrinian Fathers and Brothers...

1901 1997
John Henry Newman 1890 2010
2005 2011
John Pibush
John Pibush
John Pibush was an English Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...

1601 1929
Jolenta of Poland
Jolenta of Poland
Jolenta of Poland was the daughter of Béla IV of Hungary and Maria Laskarina. She was the sister of Saint Margaret of Hungary and Saint Kinga...

1298 1927
Josaphata Hordashevska
Josaphata Hordashevska
Blessed Josaphata Hordashevska, S.S.M.I., born Michaelina Hordashevska, a Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Religious Sister, was the first member of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate....

1919 2001
José Olallo
José Olallo
José Olalla was a Cuban friar, beatified in 2008. He was abandoned at 30 days of age, and was raised in an orphanage in Havana.A member of the Hospitallier Order of Saint John of God, he helped the sick and wounded during Cuba's Ten Years' War, giving aid to people on both sides.Raul Castro...

1889 2008
Joseph Gérard
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...

1914 1988
Joseph Vaz
Joseph Vaz
Blessed Joseph Vaz was a Catholic Oratorian priest from Goa. He is known as theApostle of Ceylon....

1711 1995
Josephine Leroux
Josephine Leroux
Josephine Leroux , born Anne-Joseph Leroux, was an Ursuline nun. She was born in Cambrai, France. She became an Ursuline in Valenciennes, taking the name Josephine. She fled to Mons, Hainaut when the monasteries and convents were suppressed during the French Revolution, but returned to Valenciennes...

1794 1920
Junípero Serra
Junípero Serra
Blessed Junípero Serra, O.F.M., , known as Fra Juníper Serra in Catalan, his mother tongue was a Majorcan Franciscan friar who founded the mission chain in Alta California of the Las Californias Province in New Spain—present day California, United States. Fr...

1784 1988
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...

1927 1987
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...

1952 2002
Kateri Tekakwitha
Kateri Tekakwitha
Kateri Tekakwitha or Catherine Tekakwitha was a Mohawk-Algonquian woman from New York and an early convert to Catholicism, who has been beatified in the Roman Catholic Church.-Her life:...

1680 1980
Kuriakose Elias Chavara
Kuriakose Elias Chavara
Blessed Kuriakose Elias Chavara was the co-founder and first prior-general of the Congregation of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate and of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Mother of Carmel....

1871 1886
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"...

1931 2003
Laura Vicuña
Laura Vicuña
Blessed Laura Vicuña is a blessed person in the Roman Catholic Church. She is the patron of abuse victims.-Escape from Chile:...

1904 1988
Louis Martin
Louis Martin (blessed)
Blessed Louis Martin was a French layman and the father of Saint Thérèse de Lisieux. His wife was Blessed Marie-Azélie Guérin.-Early life:...

1894 2008
Louis-Zéphirin Moreau
Louis-Zéphirin Moreau
Louis-Zéphirin Moreau was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and fourth Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe, from 1875 to 1901.He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 10 May 1987.-References:...

1901 1987
Ludovica Albertoni
Ludovica Albertoni
Ludovica Albertoni , sometimes known as Louisa Albertoni or Ludovica Albertoni Cetera, is considered a blessed person in Christianity. Her feast day is January 31....

1533 1671
Ludovico of Casoria
Ludovico of Casoria
Blessed Ludovico of Casoria, O.F.M., was an Italian Franciscan friar, renowned social reformer and founder of the "Gray Friars of Charity" and the "Gray Sisters of St. Elizabeth".-Life:Born Archangelo Palmentieri, he apprenticed as a cabinet maker in his youth...

1885 1993
Luis Magaña Servin 1928 2004
Mafalda of Portugal
Mafalda of Portugal
Infanta Mafalda of Portugal was a Portuguese infanta , later Queen consort of Castile for a brief period. She was the second youngest daughter of King Sancho I of Portugal and Dulce of Aragon....

1256 1793
Margaret of Castello
Margaret of Castello
Blessed Margaret of Castello is an Italian Roman Catholic Church patron of the poor, crippled, and the unwanted. She was born blind, lame, deformed, hunchbacked and a dwarf, into a family of nobles in the castle of Metola, in southeast of Florence...

1320 1609
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 1921
Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury
Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury was an English peeress, one of two women in sixteenth-century England to be a peeress in her own right with no titled husband, the daughter of George of Clarence, the brother of King Edward IV and King Richard III...

1541 1886
Margaret of Savoy
Blessed Margaret of Savoy
The Blessed Margaret of Savoy was Marchioness of Montferrat.-Family:Margaret was the eldest of the four children—all daughters—born to Amadeo of Savoy, and his wife Catherine of Geneva.Her paternal grandparents were Giacomo of Savoy, titular Prince of Achaea and his second wife...

1464 1669
Margareta Ebner
Margareta Ebner
Blessed Margareta Ebner, O.P., was a German nun who is considered part of the tradition of German mysticism and a visionary...

1351 1979
Maria Adeodata Pisani
Maria Adeodata Pisani
Born 29 December 1806 at Naples, Italy; Died 25 February 1855 at the Benedictine monastery at Mdina, MaltaVenerated: 24 April 2001 by Pope John Paul II Beatified: 9 May 2001 by Pope John Paul II...

1855 2001
Maria Alfonsina Danil Ghattas (Maria Soultaneh) 1843 1927
Maria Gabriella Sagheddu
Maria Gabriella Sagheddu
Blessed Sister Maria Gabriella Sagheddu was a Trappist nun. She was born in Sardinia in 1914 and died of tuberculosis in the Trappist monastery of Grottaferrata in 1939...

1939 1981
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:...

1977 2002
Maria Restituta
Maria Restituta
Sister Maria Restituta was a nun and a nurse. Her birthname was Helen Kafka...

1943 1998
Maria Teresia Ledóchowska 1922 1975
Maria Theresa Chiramel
Maria Theresa Chiramel
Blessed Maria Theresa Chiramel was a Syro-Malabarese Catholic nun who was beatified in 2000. She was the daughter of Thoma and Thanda Chiramel Mankidiyan in the village of Puthenchira, Thrissur District, in Kerala, India. She was baptized Thresia Chiramel Mankidiyan on May 3, 1876. She was the...

1926 2000
Mariam Baouardy
Mariam Baouardy
Blessed Mariam Baouardy was a Melkite Greek Catholic Carmelite nun. She was born on January 5, 1846 in I'billin. In April 1878 she played an important role in the identification of the Biblical Emmaus thanks to a private revelation. She died on August 26, 1878 in Bethlehem...

1878 1983
Marianne Cope 1918 2005
Marie Anne Blondin 1890 2001
Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas
Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas
Blessed Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas was a Palestinian Christian nun who was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009...

1927 2009
Marie-Azélie Guérin Martin
Marie-Azélie Guérin Martin
Blessed Marie-Azélie "Zélie" Martin née Guérin was a French laywoman and the mother of Saint Thérèse de Lisieux. Her husband was Blessed Louis Martin.-Early life:...

1877 2008
Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta
Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta
Blessed Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta was a member of the Holy Family Sisters in Bafwabaka, Belgian Congo, respectively Republic of the Congo ...

1964 1985
Marie-Geneviève Meunier
Marie-Geneviève Meunier
Blessed Marie-Geneviève Meunier , also known as Sister Constance, was a Carmelite novice and one of the Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne. She took the religious habit on 16 December 1788. She mounted the platform singing Laudate Dominum before being guillotined in Paris.Marie-Geneviève was beatified...

1794 1906
Marija Petković
Marija Petkovic
Marija Petković, also known as "The Blessed Mary of Jesus Crucified Petković" , was the founder of the Catholic Congregation of the Daughters of Mercy...

1966 2003
Mark Barkworth
Mark Barkworth
Mark Barkworth was a Catholic priest and martyr .He was born about 1572 at Searby in Lincolnshire. He studied for a time at Oxford, though no record remains of his stay there. He was received into the Catholic Church at Douai in 1593, by Father George, a Flemish Jesuit and entered the College...

1601 1929
Mary of the Divine Heart
Mary of the Divine Heart
Blessed Mary of the Divine Heart , born Maria Droste zu Vischering, was a German Roman Catholic nun best known for influencing Pope Leo XIII's consecration of the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus...

1899 1975
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 1902
Matthew Carrieri
Matthew Carrieri
Blessed Matthew Carrieri of Mantua was a Dominican friar noted for the "austerity of his life." He was the spiritual instructor of Stephana de Quinzanis, and like her, an alleged stigmatic.-Life:...

1470 1482
Maurus Scott
Maurus Scott
Blessed Maurus Scott , born William Scott, was an English lawyer who became a Benedictine monk and priest, serving as a missionary in England during the period of recusancy. He was executed at Tyburn, and is a Catholic martyr....

1612 1929
Mercedes de Jesús Molina
Mercedes de Jesús Molina
Blessed Mercedes de Jesús Molina is a Roman Catholic blessed from Baba, Ecuador. She was a missionary who devoted her life to the care of abandoned children and founded the order of the Sisters of Mariana de Jesús...

1828 1883
Michał Sopoćko 1975 2008
Miguel Agustín Pro 1927 1988
Miles Gerard
Miles Gerard
Miles Gerard was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...

1590 1929
Nazju Falzon
Nazju Falzon
Blessed Ignatius Falzon was a Maltese priest who was beatified in 2001.Falzon was born to Francis Joseph Falzon, a judge, and Mary Teresa Falzon, the daughter of a judge. He had three brothers; all four became lawyers, and two of the brothers entered the priesthood...

1865 2001
Notker the Stammerer 912 1512
Odo of Novara
Odo of Novara
Odo of Novara was an Italian Carthusian monk.A native of Novara, he was appointed as prior of Geirach in Slovenia. However, he experienced difficulties with Dietrich, the local bishop, who persecuted him...

1200 1859
Odoric of Pordenone
Odoric of Pordenone
Odoric of Pordenone was an Italian late-medieval traveler...

1331 1775
Osanna of Mantua
Osanna of Mantua
Blessed Osanna Andreasi of Mantua was a Dominican tertiary, stigmatic, and mystic.-Life:...

1505 1694
Ozana of Kotor 1565 1934
Patrick O'Hely
Patrick O'Hely
Patrick O'Hely was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop of Mayo, Ireland, who was executed by the English secular authorities.-Biography:...

1579 1992
Pavol Peter Gojdič
Pavol Peter Gojdic
Pavol Gojdič, also known as Pavel Peter Gojdič or Peter Gojdič , was a Basilian monk and the bishop of the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Prešov martyred by the communist regime in Czechoslovakia....

1960 2001
Pedro Calungsod
Pedro Calungsod
Blessed Pedro Calungsod is a Filipino Roman Catholic martyr who was killed while doing missionary work in Guam in 1672. He was beatified on March 5, 2000, by Pope John Paul II. As a skilled sacristan and teacher of cathecism, he was a companion of Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores to the Marianas...

1672 2000
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....

1925 1990
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....

1957 1987
Pierre de Luxembourg
Pierre de Luxembourg
Pierre de Luxembourg was a Catholic ecclesiastic. He was beatified in 1527.Pierre was born July 20, 1369, in Ligny-en-Barrois, Meuse, France. He was the second of the six children of Guy of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny, and Saint-Pol, and Mahaut de Châtillon.Both of Pierre's parents died while he...

1387 1527
1878 2000
Ralph Corbie
Ralph Corbie
Ralph Corbie was an Irish Jesuit. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...

1644 1929
Richard Whiting
Richard Whiting
Richard Whiting may refer to:* Richard Whiting , the last Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey before the Dissolution of the Monasteries...

1539 1895
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...

1586 1987
Robert Nutter
Robert Nutter
Robert Nutter was an English Catholic martyr. He was beatified in 1987....

1600 1987
Rose-Chrétien de la Neuville
Rose-Chrétien de la Neuville
Blessed Rose-Chrétien de la Neuville was a French Carmelite nun and one of the Martyrs of Compiègne. She married young but was widowed. She was professed as a nun in 1777, taking the name Sister Julie Louise of Jesus, and sang in the convent choir...

1794 1906
Rudolf Komorek 1949 1995
Sancha of Portugal 1229 1705
Sadok and 48 Dominican martyrs from Sandomierz 1260 1807
Sára Salkaházi
Sara Salkahazi
Blessed Sára Salkaházi, S.S.S. , born as Sára Schalkház, was a Hungarian Roman Catholic religious sister who saved the lives of approximately one hundred Jews during World War II...

1944 2006
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 1886
Seraphina Sforza
Seraphina Sforza
Seraphina Sforza , born Sveva da Montefeltro, was an Italian noblewoman and nun, a Poor Clare after her husband Alessandro Sforza discarded her....

1478 1754
Stanislaus Papczyński
Stanislaus Papczynski
Blessed Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary Papczyński , a priest of the Roman Catholic church, a member of the Piarist Order, the founder of the Congregation of Marian Fathers; beatified by the Roman Catholic Church in 2007. Son of Tomasz Papka—a blacksmith—and Zofia née Tacikowska...

1701 2007
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...

1945 1999
Stephana de Quinzanis
Stephana de Quinzanis
Blessed Stephana de Quinzanis was an Italian Dominican tertiary and stigmatic.-Life:...

1530 1740
Stephen Nehmé
Stephen Nehmé
Stephen Nehmé was a Lebanese Maronite Catholic monk in the Lebanese Maronite Order. He was beatified on 27 June 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI.-Life:...

1938 2010
Szilárd Bogdánffy
Szilárd Bogdánffy
Szilárd Ignác Bogdánffy was a Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Satu Mare and Oradea of the Latins. On October 30, 2010 he was proclaimed blessed in a ceremony held in St...

1953 2010
Terence Albert O'Brien
Terence Albert O'Brien
Terence Albert O'Brien was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop of Emly. He was beatified among the Seventeen Irish Martyrs by Pope John Paul II on September 27, 1992.-Biography:...

1651 1992
Teresa of Calcutta 1997 2003
Teresa of Portugal
Teresa of Portugal
Theresa of Portugal was Queen of Léon as the first wife of King Alfonso IX of Léon...

1250 1705
Thaddeus McCarthy
Thaddeus McCarthy
Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy was an Irish ecclesiastic, who was appointed Bishop of Ross, Ireland in 1482 and Bishop of Cork and Cloyne in 1490. His feast day is 25 October.- Early life :...

1492 1896
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:...

1947 2001
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:...

1582 1886
Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland
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:...

1572 1895
Thomas Thwing
Thomas Thwing
Blessed Thomas Thwing was an English Catholic priest and martyr.Born at Heworth Hall, near York, in 1635, he was the son of George Thwing, Esquire, of Kilton Castle, Brotton, and Heworth Hall, and was the nephew of the Catholic martyr Edward Thwing. His mother was Anne, sister of the Sir Thomas...

1680 1929
Thurston Hunt
Thurston Hunt
The Blessed Thurston Hunt was an English Roman Catholic priest. He was tried and executed with the Blessed Robert Middleton, also a priest. They were declared to be martyrs by the Catholic Church, and beatified in 1987, by Pope John Paul II.A contemporary sang ofIn November 1600, Middleton was...

1601 1987
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....

1942 1985
1099 1881
Valentinus Paquay
Valentinus Paquay
Valentinus Paquay , born Jan Louis, also known as the little holy father of Hasselt , was a Friar Minor....

1905 2003
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...

1973 2001
Vilmos Apor
Vilmos Apor
Blessed Baron Vilmos Apor de Altorja was the Bishop of Győr during World War II who became famous for protesting against the persecution of the Hungarian Jews...

 of Hungary
1945 1997
Vincent Romano
Vincent Romano
Blessed Vincent Romano, also called Vincenzo Dominico Romano, was born in Torre del Greco, Naples, Italy. Vincent was a parish priest of the village of Herulano who was noted for his very simple way of life and his care of orphans. He was oppressed by French invaders in his area, and also by some...

1831 1963
William Andleby
William Andleby
William Andleby was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...

1597 1929
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 1886
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...

1594 1929
William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford
William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford
Blessed William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford was the youngest son of Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, and his wife, the former Alethea Talbot. He was a supporter of the Royalist cause before being implicated in the Popish Plot and executed for treason...

1680 1929
William Joseph Chaminade
William Joseph Chaminade
William Joseph Chaminade or Guillaume-Joseph Chaminade, now called by his liturgical title of Blessed Chaminade , was a French Roman Catholic priest who survived persecution during the French Revolution. He founded the Society of Mary, also called the Marianists, in 1817...

1850 2000
Wincenty Kadłubek 1223 1764
Zdenka Cecília Schelingová
Zdenka Cecilia Schelingová
Blessed Zdenka Cecília Schelingová , was a Slovak nun of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Holy Cross and a victim of communist persecution in the former Czechoslovakia.She was born at Krivá na Orave...

1955 2003

See also

  • Chronological list of saints and blesseds
    Chronological list of saints and blesseds
    A list of Christian saints and blesseds in chronological order, sorted by date of death:*1st century *2nd century *3rd century *4th century *5th century *6th century *7th century...

  • Beatification
    Beatification
    Beatification is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a dead person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in his or her name . Beatification is the third of the four steps in the canonization process...

  • List of people beatified by Pope John Paul II

Marie Anne Blondin 1890 2001

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