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1915–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Emanuele Torras Sais, C.M.F., born Manuel Torras Sais (Sant Martí Vell, February 12, 1915 – 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.

1902–1936 · Contemporary

Manuel Torró Garcia (born July 2, 1902, died September 21, 1936) was a Spanish martyr and a blessed of the Catholic Church. He came from a religious family and was married. He was also a member of Catholic Action. During the Spanish Civil War, he was murdered at the age of 34.

1863–1936 · Contemporary

Manuel Vázquez Alfalla was a Spanish Catholic priest born in Motril in 1863. He died in Motril in 1936 and has been beatified as a blessed.

1891–1936 · Contemporary · Sisters of Adoration, Handmaids of the Blessed Sacrament and of Charity

Manuela Arriola Uranga (Ondarroa, December 29, 1891 – Madrid, November 10, 1936), better known as Manuela of the Sacred Heart, was a Spanish religious sister and one of the twenty-three Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament murdered during the religious persecution that broke out duri…

1921–1945 · Contemporary

Marcel Callo (6 December 1921 – 19 March 1945) was a French Catholic member of the Young Christian Workers, a Catholic Action movement inspiring lay participation and solidarity with the poor.

1827–1911 · Contemporary

Marcelina Darowska (16 January 1827 – 5 January 1911) was a Polish religious sister who was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1996. She was inspired to co-found the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a congregation in Poland, Belarus and Ukraine.

1913–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Marcelino Ovejero Gómez (born September 13, 1913, in Becedas, died August 16, 1936, in Fuente el Fresno) was a Spanish Franciscan, seminarian, Christian martyr, and blessed of the Roman Catholic Church.

1910–1936 · Contemporary

Marcelino Sánchez Fernández was a Spanish Catholic born in 1910 and deceased in 1936. He is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1835–1906 · Contemporary

Marcelo Rafael José María de los Dolores Hilario Spínola y Maestre (14 January 1835 - 19 January 1906) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the Archbishop of Seville. He established the Handmaids of the Divine Heart.

1884–1934 · Contemporary · Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy

Blessed María Pilar López de Maturana Ortiz de Zárate (25 July 1884 – 23 July 1934), also known by her religious name Margarita María, was a Spanish Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Mercedarian Missionaries of Bérriz.

1848–1925 · Contemporary · Poor Daughters of Saint Joseph Calasanz

Maria Anna Donati (26 October 1848 - 18 March 1925) was an Italian Roman Catholic nun who had established the Calasanzian Sisters in Florence with the aid of Celestino Zini.

1881–1942 · Contemporary · School Sisters of Notre Dame

Maria Antonina Kratochwil (21 August 1881 – 7 October 1942) was beatified by Pope John Paul II as one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II. She tried to help the Jews survive during the Holocaust.

1878–1905 · Contemporary · Franciscan Missionaries of Mary

Maria Assunta Pallotta (20 August 1878 - 7 April 1905), born Assunta Maria Pallotta, was an Italian Roman Catholic nun who served as a member of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary and also as part of the missions to China in the aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion.

1924–1980 · Contemporary

Maria Bolognesi (21 October 1924 – 30 January 1980) was an Italian Catholic. Throughout her life she suffered from debilitating diseases and was reportedly subject to various demonic possessions and visions.

1884–1949 · Contemporary · Carmelites

Maria Candida of the Eucharist, OCD (born Maria Barba; 16 January 1884 – 12 June 1949) was an Italian Discalced Carmelite. Barba desired to become a nun in her adolescence but her parents forbade this and she was forced to wait two decades to realize her dream; she entered the or…

1884–1965 · Contemporary · Secular Franciscan Order

Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi (12 January 1880 – 9 November 1951) and Maria Corsini-Beltrame Quattrocchi (24 June 1884 – 26 August 1965) were two married Italian Catholic laypeople who became the first couple to be beatified together in 2001.

1896–1963 · Contemporary · Capuchin Poor Clares

Maria Costanza Panas, born Agnese Pacifica Panas, (15 January 1896 - 28 May 1963), was an Italian Capuchin Poor Clare. Panas did her education in northern Italian cities before she worked as a teacher.

1877–1957 · Contemporary · Order of the Brothers Discalced of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Maria Crocifissa Curcio, CMST (born Rosa Curcio; 30 January 1877 – 4 July 1957) was an Italian Catholic religious sister who established the congregation of the Carmelite Missionary Sisters of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus.

1862–1934 · Contemporary

Maria Domenica Mantovani (12 November 1862 - 2 February 1934) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious, and the co-founder of the Little Sisters of the Holy Family; she established them alongside Giuseppe Nascimbeni.

1827–1922 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Maria Fortunata Viti (born Anna Felicia Viti; 10 February 1827 – 20 November 1922) was an Italian Benedictine nun who has been beatified by the Roman Catholic Church. Anna Felicia Viti was born in Veroli, a comune in Italy's Province of Frosinone, on 10 February 1827.

1914–1939 · Contemporary · Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance

Maria Sagheddu (17 March 1914 – 23 April 1939) - in religious Maria Gabriella - was an Italian Catholic professed religious and a professed member from the Trappists.

1892–1973 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Maria Gargani, religious name Maria Crocifissa del Divino Amore, (23 December 1892 - 23 May 1973), was an Italian member of the Secular Franciscan Order and the founder of the Sisters Apostles of the Sacred Heart.

1896–1948 · Contemporary · Carmelites

Giuseppina Catanea, OCD (18 February 1894 - 14 March 1948) was an Italian Catholic professed member of the Discalced Carmelites and who assumed the religious name, Maria Giuseppina of Jesus Crucified.

1866–1912 · Contemporary

Maria Grazia Tarallo, CAE (in religion, Maria of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ; 23 September 1866 – 27 July 1912) was an Italian Catholic member of the Crucified Sisters Adorers of the Holy Eucharist.

1895–1936 · Contemporary

Maria Józefa od św. Zofii del Río Messa was born in Tarragona in 1895 and died in 1936. She was a citizen of Spain and is recognized as a blessed.

1865–1935 · Contemporary

Maria Karłowska (4 September 1865 – 24 March 1935) – in religious Maria of Jesus Crucified – was a Polish Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Sisters of the Divine Shepherd of Divine Providence.

1880–1962 · Contemporary

Maria Ludovica De Angelis (born Antonina De Angelis, 24 October 1880 – 25 February 1962) was an Italian religious sister of the Daughters of Our Lady of Mercy, established by Maria Giuseppa Rossello.

1845–1921 · Contemporary · Servite Order

Blessed Costanza Starace (5 September 1845 – 13 September 1921) was an Italian Roman Catholic nun. She was the founder of the religious congregation known as the Compassionist Sisters Servants of Mary.

1926–1940 · Contemporary

Maria Phon (born January 6, 1926; died December 26, 1940) was a Thai blessed of the Catholic Church. She was baptized when she was one month old. Between 1940 and 1944, Thailand was at war with French Indochina.

1881–1951 · Contemporary · Sisters of the Holy Face

Blessed Maria Pia Mastena (7 December 1881 - 28 June 1951) - born Teresa Maria - was an Italian religious sister in the Roman Catholic Church. She was the founder of the Religious Sisters of the Holy Face.

1890–1945 · Contemporary

Maria Pierina De Micheli (11 September 1890 – 26 July 1945) was a Roman Catholic religious sister who was born near Milan in Italy. She is best known for her association with devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus and for introducing a medal bearing an image from the Shroud of Turin…

1861–1945 · Contemporary · Sisters Hospitallers of Mercy

Maria Raffaella Cimatti (7 June 1861 – 23 June 1945) was an Italian member of the Hospitaller Sisters of Mercy, a religious institute dedicated to medical care. She was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1996.

1878–1936 · Contemporary

Blessed Maria Refugia od św. Anioła was a Spanish citizen born in 1878. She died in 1936.

1894–1943 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Maria Restituta Kafka (1 May 1894 – 30 March 1943) was an Austrian nurse of Czech descent and religious sister of the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity (Sorores Franciscanae a Caritate Christiana).

1902–1977 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

María Romero Meneses, FMA (13 January 1902 – 7 July 1977) was a Nicaraguan Catholic religious sister and a professed member from the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco dubbed the "Social Apostle of Costa Rica".

1844–1910 · Contemporary

Maria Schininà (10 April 1844 – 11 June 1910), also known by her religious name Maria of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, was an Italian Roman Catholic nun and the founder of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (1889).

1855–1938 · Contemporary · Carmelite Daughters of the Divine Heart of Jesus

Blessed Maria Teresa of Saint Joseph, DCJ (born Anna Maria Tauscher van den Bosch; 19 June 1855 – 20 September 1938), was a German religious sister and the founder of the Carmelite Daughters of the Divine Heart of Jesus.

1830–1905 · Contemporary · Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration

Maria Theresia Bonzel (17 September 1830 – 6 February 1905), born Regina Christine Wilhelmine Bonzel, was a German religious sister. She was the founder of the Sisters of Saint Francis of Perpetual Adoration.

1864–1937 · Contemporary

Maria Teresa Casini (27 October 1864 – 3 April 1937) was an Italian nun and was the founder of the Oblate Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

1853–1936 · Contemporary

Maria Teresa Ferragut Roig was born in 1853 in Algemesí, Spain. She died in 1936 and is recognized as a blessed.

1863–1922 · Contemporary · Third Order of Saint Francis

Mary Theresa Ledóchowska, SSPC; 29 April 1863 – 6 July 1922), was a Polish Catholic religious sister who founded the Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver, dedicated to spreading Catholicism in Africa. She was beatified in 1975. Mary Theresa was the eldest of seven children.

1883–1969 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Maria Troncatti, FMA (16 February 1883 – 25 August 1969) was an Italian Catholic member of the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco. Troncatti was from a farming family and entered that congregation in 1907; she worked as a nurse during World War I and became part of the missions in Ecu…

1928–1950 · Contemporary

Maria Tuci was an Albanian laywoman and one of the 38 martyrs of Albania. She was tortured and killed by the communist regime of Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha. Maria was born in the village of Ndorfushaz, near Rrëshen in Albania and was born into a devout Roman catholic family.

1942–1944 · Contemporary

Blessed Maria Ulma was born in 1942 in Markowa, Poland, to parents Józef and Wiktoria Ulma. A member of the Latin Church, she died in Markowa in 1944 from a gunshot wound.

1882–1936 · Contemporary

Maria Vicenta Masia Ferragut was a Spanish nun born in Alicante in 1882 to Maria Teresa Ferragut Roig. She died in 1936 and has been recognized as a blessed.

1871–1936 · Contemporary

Maria de la Purificación od św. Józefa Ximénez Ximénez was born in Valencia, Spain, in 1871. She died in 1936 and is recognized as a blessed.

1954–1995 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Rani Maria Vattalil, FCC (29 January 1954 – 25 February 1995) was an Indian Catholic religious sister and social worker of the Franciscan Clarists who worked in the Diocese of Indore.

1903–1940 · Contemporary

Marian Górecki (born May 2, 1903, in Poznań; died March 22, 1940, at Stutthof concentration camp) was a Polish Catholic priest, venerated as a martyr and blessed by the Catholic Church. His feast day is March 22.

1856–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Fidelis of Puzol, born Mariano Climent Sanchis (January 8, 1856, in Puzol, Valencian Community – September 27, 1936, near Sagunto), was a Spanish Capuchin friar, Catholic martyr, and blessed of the Catholic Church, who was a victim of anti-Catholic persecution during the Spanish…

1897–1936 · Contemporary

Mariano Mullerat i Soldevila (24 March 1897 - 13 August 1936) was a Spanish Roman Catholic doctor who also served as the mayor for Arbeca from 1924 until March 1930.