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1917–1936 · Contemporary · Passionists

Abilio Ramos y Ramos (Resoba, February 22, 1917 – Manzanares, July 23, 1936), better known by his religious name Abilio de la Cruz, was a Spanish Passionist religious who was executed by firing squad in 1936 during the religious persecution that broke out in Spain during the Civi…

1887–1936 · Contemporary · Dominican Sisters of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin

Adelfa Soro of Our Lady of the Rosary, born Adelfa Josefa Fermina Soro Bó (Villanueva de Castellón, Valencia, March 6, 1887 – Vallvidrera, Barcelona, July 27, 1936), was a Spanish Dominican nun, martyr of the faith, and blessed.

1910–1936 · Contemporary

Adolf Mariano was born in Josa, Spain, in 1910. He died in 1936 and has been recognized as a blessed.

1908–1924 · Contemporary

Adílio Daronch (25 October 1908 – 21 May 1924) was a Brazilian Catholic adolescent. Daronch was born to immigrants and lived his entire life in Brazil where he was known to have had a love for football and riding.

1881–1940 · Contemporary

Agatha Phutta (1881 – December 26, 1940) was a Thai blessed of the Catholic Church. Born into a pagan family, she was baptized at the age of 21 and worked as a school cook. Between 1940 and 1944, Thailand was at war with French Indochina.

1909–1940 · Contemporary · Lovers of the Holy Cross

The Martyrs of Songkhon (Thai: มรณสักขีแห่งสองคอน) (also called Seven Blessed Martyrs of Songkhon) are seven Christian Thais executed in the village Songkhon in Pong Kham subdistrict, Wan Yai District, Mukdahan Province, northeastern Thailand, in December 1940 by local police for…

1893–1936 · Contemporary

Agatha of Our Lady of the Virtues Hernández Amorós (born January 5, 1893; died August 19, 1936) was a Spanish blessed of the Catholic Church and a nun of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity.

1900–1936 · Contemporary

Agustina Pena Rodríguez was a Spanish nun born in 1900. She died in 1936 and has been recognized as a blessed.

1907–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Josep Alsina i Casas, known as Friar Agustí de Montclar (Montclar d'Urgell, December 8, 1907 – Barcelona, August 12, 1936), was a Capuchin friar, preacher, and poet. He is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1914–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Agostino Viela Ezcurdia, C.M.F. (Oteiza de la Solana, April 4, 1914 – Barbastro, August 15, 1936), was a Spanish religious who was martyred in Barbastro during the Spanish Civil War and is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1919–1994 · Contemporary · White Fathers

Alain Dieulangard was a French priest, a member of the Society of Missionaries of Africa, a blessed martyr, born on May 21, 1919, in Saint-Brieuc, and killed on December 27, 1994, in Tizi Ouzou.

1919–1931 · Contemporary

Albertina Berkenbrock (11 April 1919 – 15 June 1931) was a Brazilian Catholic girl killed "in defensum castitatis" ("in defence of chastity") in 1931 after she resisted her attacker's rape attempts.

1918–1946 · Contemporary

Alberto Marvelli (21 March 1918 – 5 October 1946) was an Italian Catholic and a member of the Catholic Action movement. He became noted for his defense of the poor and for selflessness during World War II in tending to the homeless and wounded despite the devastating air raids wh…

1876–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Piotr Mas Ginestar, also known as Peter of Benisa, born Alejandro Mas Ginestar (December 11, 1876, in Benisa, Alicante province; died August 26, 1936, in Vergel, Archdiocese of Valencia), was a Spanish Catholic blessed, martyr, priest, Capuchin friar, and victim of anti-Catholic…

1878–1936 · Contemporary

Alejandro Planas Saurí was born in Mataró, Spain, in 1878. A practitioner of Catholicism, he died in Garraf in 1936 from a gunshot wound. He is recognized as a blessed.

1912–1963 · Contemporary

Oleksiy Vasyliovych Zaryckyy (Ukrainian: Олексій Васильович Зарицький; 17 October 1912 — 30 October 1963) was a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. On 27 June 2001, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II. Zaryckyy was born in the village of Bilche in the Lviv region.

1904–1955 · Contemporary

Alexandrina Maria da Costa (30 March 1904 – 13 October 1955), best known as Blessed Alexandrina of Balazar, was a Portuguese mystic and victim soul, member of the Association of Salesian Cooperators, who was born and died in Balazar (a rural parish of Póvoa de Varzim).

1884–1963 · Contemporary

Alexandru Rusu (22 November 1884 – 9 May 1963) was a Romanian bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church. One of twelve children born to a priest in Șăulia Commune, Mureș County, he was himself ordained a priest in 1910. Rusu was ordained Bishop of Maramureş in 1931.

1891–1944 · Contemporary · Carmelites

Alfons Maria Mazurek, also known as Alfons Maria of the Holy Spirit (1 March 1891 – 18 August 1944) was a Polish Discalced Carmelite friar and priest. He was shot by the Gestapo. He is one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II.

1910–1936 · Contemporary

Alfonso Sebastiá Viñals (born May 27, 1910, in Valencia; died September 1, 1936, in Paterna) was a Spanish Catholic priest and a blessed of the Catholic Church. He was the son of a laborer. He began his studies at the seminary in Orihuela and was ordained a priest in 1933.

1896–1946 · Contemporary

Alfons Tracki (2 December 1896 – 18 July 1946) was an Albanian Catholic priest of German origin, who died as a martyr as a result of the religious persecution by the regime of Enver Hoxha in communist Albania.

1878–1936 · Contemporary · Conventual Franciscans

Alfonso López López (Secorún, November 16, 1878 – Samalús, August 3, 1936) was a Spanish religious of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual. He is venerated as a martyr of the Spanish Civil War and a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1914–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Alfonso Miquel Garriga, C.M.F. (Prades de Molsosa, February 24, 1914 – Barbastro, August 13, 1936), was a Spanish religious who was martyred in Barbastro during the Spanish Civil War and is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1912–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Alfonso Sorribes Teixidó, C.M.F. (Rocafort de Vallbona, December 17, 1912 – Barbastro, August 15, 1936), was a Spanish religious who was martyred in Barbastro during the Spanish Civil War and is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1902–1953 · Contemporary · Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions

Alfredo Cremonesi (15 May 1902 – 7 February 1953) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions. He studied in Crema and Milan before setting off from Genoa to Naples and then to the Burmese missions via boat.

1867–1936 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Alfredo Fanjul Acebal was a Spanish Catholic priest, Dominican friar, and author born in Oviedo in 1867. He died in 1936 in Paracuellos de Jarama from a gunshot wound. He is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1880–1954 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, O.S.B. was an Italian Catholic prelate and professed member of the Benedictines who served as the Archbishop of Milan from 1929 until his death.

1899–1936 · Contemporary · Piarists

Alfred Parte Saiz, SchP (Spanish: Alfredo Parte Saiz; born June 2, 1899, in Cilleruelo de Bricia; died December 27, 1936, in Santander) was a Spanish priest of the Piarist Order, a victim of the Red Terror during the Spanish Civil War, murdered in hatred of the faith (odium fidei…

1914–1936 · Contemporary

Alfred Pellicer Muñoz, OFM (born Alfredo Pellicer Muñoz; 10 April 1914 in Bellreguard, died 4 October 1936 near Gandia) was a Spanish blessed of the Catholic Church, a martyr, a Franciscan friar, and a victim of anti-Catholic persecution during the Spanish Civil War.

1877–1936 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Alfred Simón Colomina SJ (born March 18, 1877, in Valencia, died November 29, 1936, near Valencia) was a Spanish Catholic blessed, priest, victim of anti-Catholic persecution, and martyr.

1914–1943 · Contemporary

Alojs Andritzki (firstname also written Aloys, in Upper Sorbian Alojs Andricki, 2 July 1914 - 3 February 1943) was a Sorbian Roman Catholic priest who suffered martyrdom in the Dachau Concentration Camp in 1943.

1875–1923 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Luigi Variara (15 January 1875 – 1 February 1923) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Salesians of Don Bosco. He served for most of his life as part of the missions in Colombia where he worked with lepers and the children of outcast lepers.

1878–1913 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Alojzije Palić OFM (Latin: Aloysius Mathaeus Paliq, Albanian: Luigj Paliq; 1877 or 1878 – 7 March 1913) was a Kosovo Croat Franciscan and Catholic priest in Albania and martyr, murdered by Montenegrin soldiers in 1913.

1908–1936 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Alvaro Sanjuán Canet was a Spanish member of the Salesians of Don Bosco born in Alcosser in 1908. He died in Villena in 1936 and is recognized as a blessed within the Catholic Church.

1845–1906 · Contemporary

Ana Petra Pérez Florido (6 December 1845 – 16 August 1906), religious name Petra of Saint Joseph, was a Spanish religious sister. She established the Congregation of the Mothers of the Forsaken and St.

1888–1936 · Contemporary

Ana María Aranda Riera (Alicante, January 24, 1888 – Paterna, October 14, 1936) was a Catholic martyr killed during the Spanish Civil War. A single woman who participated in various parish work groups, she was beatified by Pope John Paul II on March 11, 2001.

1888–1927 · Contemporary

Anacleto González Flores (July 13, 1888 – April 1, 1927) was a Mexican Catholic layman and lawyer who was tortured and executed during the persecution of the Catholic Church under Mexican President Plutarco Elías Calles.

1914–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Anastasio González Rodríguez (born October 11, 1914, in Villaute; died August 16, 1936, in Fuente el Fresno) was a Spanish Franciscan, seminarian, Christian martyr, and blessed of the Roman Catholic Church.

1898–1936 · Contemporary · Passionists

Anatolio García Nozal (Becerril del Carpio, Palencia Province, March 15, 1898 – Manzanares, Ciudad Real Province, October 23, 1936), better known by his religious name Ildefonso de la Cruz, was a Spanish Passionist who was executed by firing squad in 1936 during the religious per…

1850–1921 · Contemporary

Andrea Ferrari (13 August 1850 – 2 February 1921) – later adopting the middle name "Carlo" – was an Italian Catholic prelate who served as a cardinal and as the Archbishop of Milan from 1894 until his death.

1863–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Giacinto Bonaventura Longhin (22 November 1863 – 26 June 1936) - in religious Andrea di Campodarsego - was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate and professed member from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin who served as the Bishop of Treviso from 1904 until his death.

1887–1941 · Contemporary

Andriy Ishchak (Ukrainian: Андрі́й Іща́к; 23 September 1887 – 26 June 1941) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and martyr. Ishchak was born in the city of Mykolayiv in the Lviv Oblast. He studied theology at universities in Lviv (Ukraine) and Innsbruck (Austria).

1894–1937 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Andrés Gómez Sáez was a member of the Salesians of Don Bosco who lived from 1894 to 1937. He has been recognized as a blessed.

1895–1927 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Andrés Solá y Molist, C.M.F. (Taradell, Spain, October 7, 1895 – April 25, 1927, León, Mexico) was a Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Congregation of Missionaries of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Claretians).

1883–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Miguel Francisco González-Díez González-Núñez, known in religion as Andrés of Palazuelo (May 8, 1883, Palazuelo de Torío – July 31, 1936, Madrid), was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest, a friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, and a martyr.

1889–1938 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Angel Fuertes was a Spanish lay brother of the Benedictine order who was born in Zaragoza in 1889. He died in Barbastro in 1938 and has been recognized as a blessed.

1881–1922 · Contemporary

Angela Salawa, T.O.S.F. (Polish: Aniela Salawa) (9 September 1881 – 12 March 1922) was a Polish woman who served in hospitals in World War I. She was the 11th child and lived in a very religious family.

1934–1995 · Contemporary · Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles

Jeanne Littlejohn, known in religion as Sister Angèle-Marie, was a Maltese nun of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles, born on November 22, 1934, in Tunis and killed on September 3, 1995, in Algiers. She taught sewing and language in the Belcourt district of Algiers.

1875–1941 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Anicet Adalbert Kopliński (né Koplin; 30 July 1875 – 16 October 1941) was a Polish Capuchin friar of German descent and priest in Warsaw. He was imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, where he died.

1831–1900 · Contemporary

Rosa Maria Benedetta Gattorno Custo (14 October 1831 – 6 May 1900) was an Italian Roman Catholic who was widowed and later became a nun. She was also the founder of the Daughters of Saint Anne and assumed the new name of "Anna Rosa" after she had established her order and made he…