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1859–1936 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Juan Herrero Arroyo was a Spanish Dominican priest born in 1859 in Barriosuso. He died in 1936 during the Paracuellos massacres in Paracuellos de Jarama. He is recognized as a blessed in the Latin Catholic Church.

1912–1936 · Contemporary

Juan José Caballero Rodríguez, OMI (March 5, 1912, in Fuenlabrada – November 28, 1936, in Paracuellos de Jarama) was a Spanish Oblate of the Immaculate Mary. He made his first vows in the Oblate congregation on August 15, 1930, and his perpetual vows on February 25, 1936.

1898–1937 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order

Juan Joya Cordero (February 25, 1934 – March 29, 2007) was a Peruvian association football player, recognized as one of Peru's most important strikers.

1895–1936 · Contemporary

Juan Lucena Rivas (Baena, Córdoba, January 4, 1895 – Puente Genil, Córdoba, July 27, 1936) was a Spanish priest. He is considered one of the martyrs of the religious persecution in the Diocese of Córdoba between 1936 and 1939.

1891–1936 · Contemporary · Priests of the Sacred Heart

Juan María de la Cruz, S.C.I. (born Mariano García Méndez, San Esteban de los Patos, Province of Ávila, 25 September 1891 – Silla, Valencia, 23 August 1936) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest. The Roman Catholic Church considers him a martyr.

1914–1936 · Contemporary

Juan Pedro Cotillo Fernández, OMI (born May 1, 1914, in Siero de la Reina; died July 24, 1936, in Pozuelo, Madrid), was a Spanish Oblate of the Immaculate Mary. As a theology student, he lived at the Oblate house of studies in Pozuelo.

1913–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Giovanni Sánchez Munárriz, C.M.F. (born Juan Sánchez Munárriz; Malón, June 15, 1913 – 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.

1875–1936 · Contemporary

Juan Ventura Solsona was a Spanish presbyter of the Catholic Church born in 1875. He died in 1936 and is recognized as a blessed.

1895–1937 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order

John of Jesus and Mary, born Juan Otazua y Madariaga (Errigoiti, February 8, 1895 – Mancha Real, April 3, 1937), was a Spanish priest of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity.

1914–1936 · Contemporary · Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God

Juan dela Cruz or Maria dela Cruz (feminized form) is the national personification of the Philippines, often used to represent the "Filipino everyman".

1862–1916 · Contemporary · Carmelites

Juana María Condesa Lluch (30 March 1862 – 16 January 1916) was a Spanish religious sister who established the Handmaids of Mary Immaculate in her hometown of Valencia. She made her vows in 1911.

1892–1938 · Contemporary

Julio Junyer Padern, also known as Juli Junyer i Padern SDB (born October 31, 1892, in Vilamaniscle, Alt Empordà; died April 26, 1938, in Barcelona), was a Spanish religious priest who suffered martyrdom during the Spanish Civil War in 1938.

1903–1936 · Contemporary · Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer

Julian Pozo Ruiz de Samaniego was a Spanish Catholic priest and member of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer. Born in 1903 and dying in 1936, he is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1900–1936 · Contemporary

Julio Melgar Salgado was a Spanish Catholic priest and secretary born in 1900 in Bercero. He died in 1936 in Peralvillo due to religious persecution during the Second Republic and the Spanish Civil War.

1871–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Augustinian Recollects

Julian Moreno, O.A.R., born Julian Benigno Moreno (March 16, 1871, in La Rioja – July 25, 1936, in Motril), was a blessed of the Catholic Church, a religious priest of the Order of Augustinian Recollects, a publicist, and a martyr.

1904–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Julián Navío Colado (born August 12, 1904, in Mazarete, died August 16, 1936, in Fuente el Fresno) was a Spanish Franciscan, priest, historian, Christian martyr, and blessed of the Roman Catholic Church.

1878–1936 · Contemporary

Julián Rivas Rojano (Baena, Córdoba, February 16, 1878 – Cabeza del Buey, Badajoz, August 13, 1936) was a Spanish priest. He was baptized the day after his birth by his parents, José María Rivas Cordero and María del Carmen Rojano Bujalance.

1887–1936 · Contemporary · Order of St. Augustine

Eusebio Julián Zarco-Bacas y Cuevas (Cuenca, July 27, 1887 – Paracuellos de Jarama, November 30, 1936) was a Spanish Augustinian friar and historian, librarian of El Escorial, and member of the Royal Academy of History.

1871–1927 · Contemporary

Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius (Polish: Jerzy Matulewicz; 13 April 1871 - 27 January 1927) was a Latin Church Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Vilnius from late 1918 until his resignation in 1925.

1897–1936 · Contemporary

Justa of the Immaculate Conception Maiza Goicoechea (born July 13, 1897, in Azpeitia; died November 24, 1936, in Paterna) was a Spanish Carmelite Sister of Charity, martyr, and blessed of the Catholic Church.

1910–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

Justo Gil Pardo, born on October 18, 1910, in Lúquin, Navarre, and died on November 28, 1936, in Paracuellos de Jarama, was a deacon and member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate who was martyred at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.

1915–1936 · Contemporary

Justo González Lorente, O.M.I. (October 14, 1915, in Villaverde de Arcayos – July 24, 1936, in Pozuelo, Madrid) was a Spanish Oblate of the Immaculate Mary. He began attending the Oblate minor seminary in 1927 and took his first vows on August 15, 1933.

1931–1957 · Contemporary · Cistercians

János Brenner, O.Cist was a Hungarian Catholic priest and member of the Cistercian Order. Brenner studied for the priesthood during a period of communist persecution of religious orders.

1887–1936 · Contemporary

José Boher y Foix (born November 2, 1887, in Sant Salvador de Toló, died August 13, 1936, in Salàs de Pallars) was a Spanish priest of the Diocese of Urgell, a Christian martyr, and a blessed of the Roman Catholic Church, one of the six companions of Josep Tàpies i Sirvant.

1904–1940 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Józef Cyrek (13 September 1904 –2 September 1940) was a Polish Jesuit and writer who shortly after the Nazi invasion of Poland was arrested by the Gestapo, imprisoned at several places of detention, and lastly deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp where he was murdered.

1883–1942 · Contemporary

Józef Czempiel (born 21 September 1883 in Piekary Śląskie – 4 May 1942) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest, activist. He was murdered in Dachau concentration camp. On 13 June 1999, Czempiel was among 108 Polish martyrs of World War II, beatified in Warsaw by Pope John Paul II.

1890–1940 · Contemporary · Conventual Franciscans

Innocent Guz OFM Conv. (Polish: Innocenty Guz; March 18, 1890 in Lemberg, Austria – June 6, 1940), born Joseph Adalbert Guz (Polish: Józef Wojciech Guz), was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar who was martyred by a Nazi guard at the Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen concentration camp…

1911–1942 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Józef Kowalski (13 March 1911 – 4 July 1942) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest from the Salesian Society murdered at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. He was beatified in Warsaw on 13 June 1999.

1916–1944 · Contemporary · Pallottines

Józef Stanek, S.A.C., born on December 6, 1916, in Łapsze Niżne, Lesser Poland, and died on September 23, 1944, in Warsaw, was a Polish Catholic priest of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate, beatified as a martyr by John Paul II on June 13, 1999.

1893–1952 · Contemporary · Assumptionists

Peter Vitchev, also known as Kamen Vitchev, was a Bulgarian Eastern Catholic and an Assumptionist priest who was martyred by the Bulgarian communist regime. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 2002.

1915–1945 · Contemporary

Karl Leisner (28 February 1915 in Rees – 12 August 1945 in Planegg, Germany) was a German Catholic priest interned in the Dachau concentration camp. He died of tuberculosis shortly after being liberated by the Allied forces.

1911–1954 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Karl Serreqi, OFM (born February 2, 1911, in Shkodër; died April 5, 1954, in Burrel Prison), was a Franciscan priest who, in atheist Albania under the Enver Hoxha regime, upheld the seal of the confessional while under torture.

1898–1914 · Contemporary

Karolina Kózka (2 August 1898 – 18 November 1914) was a sixteen-year old Polish victim of a sex attack and murder. Prior to that she was known locally for her strong faith and her eagerness to catechize her neighbours and children.

1912–1942 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Kazimierz Dembowski (3 August 1912 – 10 August 1942) was a Polish Jesuit involved in the religious publishing industry, who shortly after the German invasion of Poland was arrested by the Gestapo, imprisoned at several places of detention, and lastly deported to the Dachau concen…

1884–1942 · Contemporary

Kazimierz Witold Gostyński (born April 8, 1884, in Warsaw, died May 6, 1942, in Dachau concentration camp) was a Polish Catholic priest, educator, scout leader, founder of the Union of Lublin High School No. 3 and the Jan Hetman Zamoyski High School No.

1907–1942 · Contemporary

Kazimierz Grelewski was a Latin Catholic priest born in 1907 in Dwikozy, Second Polish Republic. He died in 1942 at the Dachau concentration camp. He is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1882–1941 · Contemporary

Kazimierz Sykulski was a Polish Catholic priest, chaplain, and member of the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic who was born in Końskie in 1882. He died in 1941 at Auschwitz after being executed by shooting. He is recognized as a blessed.

1904–1941 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Kazimierz Wojciechowski, SDB (16 August 1904 – 27 June 1941) was a Polish Catholic priest, a member of the Salesians of Don Bosco. He was involved in the education of the youth, and after the Nazi invasion of Poland was arrested by the Gestapo, imprisoned at Montelupich, and subs…

1863–1916 · Contemporary

Klara Szczęsna, S.S.C.J. (18 July 1863 – 7 February 1916) was a Polish Catholic religious sister. She was the co-founder of the Sisters, Servants of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus which she established with Józef Sebastian Pelczar.

1869–1951 · Contemporary

Klymentiy Sheptytsky (Polish: Klemens Szeptycki, Ukrainian: Климентій Шептицький; 17 November 1869 – 1 May 1951) also known as Klymentiy of Univ (Ukrainian: Климентій Унівський) was the archimandrite of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Order of Studite Monks and a hieromartyr.

1909–1943 · Contemporary

Krystyn Gondek was a Polish Catholic priest born in 1909 in Słona. He died in 1943 at the Dachau concentration camp and is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1875–1967 · Contemporary · Sisters Augustines Recollects of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Laura Evangelista Alvarado Cardozo (25 April 1875 - 2 April 1967) was a Venezuelan religious sister who had established the Augustinian Recollect Sisters of the Heart of Jesus as a means of aiding the ill. Upon her profession she assumed the religious name María de San José.

1891–1904 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Laura del Carmen Vicuña Pino (5 April 1891 – 22 January 1904) was a Chilean child who was noted for her religious devotion. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1988 as the patron of abuse victims, having herself experienced physical abuse.

1892–1945 · Contemporary

Lazër Shantoja (7 July 1891 – 5 March 1945) was an Albanian blessed, publicist, poet, satirist, and translator into Albanian from Goethe, Schiller and Leopardi, as well as his country's first Esperantist.

1870–1936 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Leandro Cuesta Andrés was a Spanish Catholic priest and Benedictine monk born in 1870 in Rupelo. He died in 1936 in Barbastro from a gunshot wound and is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1891–1948 · Contemporary

Lek Sirdani was an Albanian Catholic presbyter born in 1891. He died in 1948 in Koplik and is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1859–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Augustinian Recollects

León Inchausti, O.A.R. (born June 27, 1859, in Ajánguiz, Biscay; died July 25, 1936, in Motril) was a blessed of the Catholic Church and a priest of the Order of Augustinian Recollects. He entered the Augustinian order in 1878.

1881–1915 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Leonard Melki (4 October 1881 – 11 June 1915) – born Yūsuf Habīb Melkī and in religion Līūnār of B'abdāt – was a Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. His name is often Romanized in various texts.

1889–1936 · Contemporary

Leonardo Olivera Buera was a Catholic priest born in 1889 in Campo, Spain. He died in 1936 in El Saler as one of the Spanish martyrs of the 20th century. He is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1883–1929 · Contemporary

Leonardo Pérez Larios (Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, November 28, 1889 – April 25, 1927, León, Mexico) was a layman beatified by Benedict XVI in the city of Guadalajara. He was martyred alongside the Claretian priests Andrés Solá y Molist and José Trinidad Rangel.