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1930–1995 · Contemporary · Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles

Denise Leclercq (or Leclerc), in religion Sister Bibiane, was a French nun, blessed and martyr, born in 1930 in Gazeran and killed on September 3, 1995, in Algiers. She was beatified on December 8, 2018.

1883–1918 · Contemporary · Ursulines of Calvarienberg

Blandine Merten (religious name; born Maria Magdalena Merten; 10 July 1883 – 18 May 1918) was a German Ursulines. Merten worked as a teacher in a secular environment from 1902 to 1908.

1864–1936 · Contemporary · Sisters of Adoration, Handmaids of the Blessed Sacrament and of Charity

Juana Francisca Pérez de Labeaga García (Desojo, January 29, 1864 – Madrid, November 10, 1936), better known as Blasa de María, was a Spanish religious sister and member of the Handmaids of the Blessed Sacrament and of Charity, who was killed during the religious persecution of t…

1863–1940 · Contemporary · Carmelite nuns

Candelaria of Saint Joseph, O.Carm (born Susana Paz-Castillo Ramírez; 11 August 1863 – 31 January 1940) was a Venezuelan Catholic religious sister who founded the Carmelite Sisters of Venezuela, also known as the "Carmelites of Mother Candelaria".

1885–1942 · Contemporary

Bogumiła Noiszewska was a Catholic nun born in 1885 in Užumiškiai. She died in 1942 in Slonim from a gunshot wound. She is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1896–1941 · Contemporary

Bolesław Strzelecki (1896–1941) was a Polish and Roman Catholic priest. He was imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. He is one of the 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs. Bolesław Strzelecki was born on June 10 1886 in Poland.

1862–1946 · Contemporary

Bolesława Maria Lament (3 July 1862 – 29 January 1946) was a Polish religious sister and the founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Family.

1889–1940 · Contemporary

Bronisław Komorowski (25 May 1889 – 22 March 1940) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest, active in the interwar period in the predominantly German Free City of Danzig.

1915–1942 · Contemporary

Bronisław Kostkowski (March 11, 1915 – September 27, 1942) was a Polish and Roman Catholic seminarian. He was born in Stolp. He was imprisoned in the Nazi Sachsenhausen concentration camp and later died at the Nazi Dachau concentration camp.

1842–1912 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Bronisław Markiewicz, SDB (13 July 1842 – 29 January 1912) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Salesians of Don Bosco.

1917–1972 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Blessed Bruna Pellesi (11 November 1917 – 1 December 1972), known as Maria Rosa of Jesus, was an Italian nun who was a member of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Christ.

1930–1996 · Contemporary · Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance

Christian Charles Joseph Lemarchand (in religion Father Bruno), born on March 1, 1930, in Saint-Maixent-l'École (Deux-Sèvres) and died (assassinated) after April 20, 1996, in Algeria, was a French Trappist monk of the Abbey of Notre-Dame de l'Atlas in Tibhirine who, along with si…

1866–1936 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Buenaventura García de Paredes (April 19, 1866 in Castañedo de Valdés – August 12, 1936) was a Dominican priest and Master of the Order of Preachers. Paredes was born and baptized on April 19, 1866 in Castañedo de Valdés, near Luarca (Asturias).

1887–1936 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order

Bonaventura of Saint Catherine (Spanish: Buenaventura de Santa Catalina), born Buenaventura Gavicaechevarría Guerricabeitia (Ajangiz, July 14, 1887 – Alcázar de San Juan, July 26, 1936), was a Spanish priest of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity.

1933–1994 · Contemporary · Sisters Augustines Missionaries

Caridad Álvarez Martín was a Spanish religious sister, born in Santa Cruz de la Salceda, Burgos, Spain, on May 9, 1933. A member of the Augustinian Missionaries, she was murdered on October 23, 1994, alongside Sister Esther Paniagua Alonso.

1894–1944 · Contemporary

Carl Lampert (9 January 1894 – 13 November 1944) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest who served as the pro-vicar for the Diocese of Feldkirch in addition to being an outspoken critic of Nazism during World War II.

1902–1956 · Contemporary

Carlo Gnocchi (25 October 1902 – 28 February 1956) was an Italian priest, educator and writer. He is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1866–1932 · Contemporary

Blessed Carlo Liviero was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop who led the Diocese of Città di Castello. He was beatified in 2007 and his cause for sainthood continues. He established the Little Servants of the Sacred Heart.

1907–1936 · Contemporary

Carlos Díaz Gandía was a Spanish citizen born in 1907. He died in 1936 and has been recognized as a blessed.

1894–1936 · Contemporary

Carlos López Vidal was born in 1894 in Gandia, Spain. He died in 1936 and has been recognized as a blessed.

1918–1963 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Carlos Manuel Cecilio Rodríguez Santiago, also known as "Blessed Charlie" (November 22, 1918 – July 13, 1963), was a Catholic catechist and liturgist who was beatified by Pope John Paul II on April 29, 2001.

1911–1936 · Contemporary · Piarists

Carlos Navarro Miquel, Sch.P. (born February 11, 1911, in Torrente de Cinca, died September 22, 1936, at the Monastery of Montserrat) was a Spanish priest of the Piarist Order and a victim of the anti-Catholic persecutions during the Spanish Civil War, murdered in hatred of the f…

1890–1936 · Contemporary

Carmelo Sastre Sastre was a Spanish presbyter of the Catholic Church born in 1890. He died in 1936 and is recognized as a blessed.

1888–1937 · Contemporary · Capuchin Sisters of the Holy Family

Carmen García Moyón was born in 1888 in Nantes and held citizenship in both France and Spain. A member of the Capuchin Sisters of the Holy Family, she died in 1937 in Torrent as one of the Spanish martyrs of the 20th century. She is recognized as a blessed within Catholicism.

1903–1977 · Contemporary

Carmen Elena Rendiles Martínez, SJC (11 August 1903 – 9 May 1977) María Carmen in religion and also known as Maria del Monte Carmelo Rendiles, was a Venezuelan Catholic religious sister who founded the congregation of the Servants of Jesus of Caracas.

1924–1940 · Contemporary

Cecilia Butsi (born December 16, 1924; died December 26, 1940) was a Thai martyr and a blessed of the Catholic Church. She was baptized in 1926 at the age of two. Between 1940 and 1944, Thailand was at war with French Indochina.

1910–1928 · Contemporary · Servite Order

Cecilia Eusepi (17 February 1910 – 1 October 1928) was an Italian Roman Catholic and a professed member from the Secular Servites. Since an early age she had desired to become a nun, but did not manage to do due to a severe case of tuberculosis which confined her to her bed.

1901–1936 · Contemporary

Cecilio López López was a Spanish religious figure born in 1901 in Fondón. He died in 1936 in Boadilla del Monte and has been beatified as a blessed.

1913–1936 · Contemporary

Cecilio Vega Domínguez, OMI (born September 8, 1913, in Villamor de Órbigo; died July 24, 1936, in Pozuelo, Madrid) was a Spanish Oblate of the Immaculate Mary. He made his first vows on August 15, 1931, and his perpetual vows in 1934.

1861–1936 · Contemporary · Third Order of Saint Francis

Ceferino Giménez Malla (also known as El Pelé, "the Strong One", or "the Brave One"; 26 August 1861 – 9 August 1936) was a Spanish Romani Catholic catechist and activist.

1886–1905 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Ceferino Namuncurá (August 26, 1886 – May 11, 1905) was a religious student, the object of a Roman Catholic cultus of veneration in northern Patagonia and throughout Argentina.

1862–1936 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Celestino José Alonso Villar was a Spanish Latin Catholic priest and member of the Dominican Order. Born in 1862 in Margolles, he died in 1936 in La Tiera. He is recognized as a blessed.

1833–1913 · Contemporary · Sisters of the Resurrection

Celine Chludzińska Borzęcka (29 October 1833 – 26 October 1913) was a Roman Catholic professed religious and the co-foundress - along with her daughter Jadwiga Borzęcka - of the Sisters of the Resurrection.

1924–1994 · Contemporary · White Fathers

Charles Deckers, born in Antwerp on December 26, 1924, and died on December 27, 1994, in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, was a Belgian White Father assassinated in a terrorist act carried out by the GIA.

1971–1990 · Contemporary

Chiara Badano (October 29, 1971 – October 7, 1990) was an Italian woman who has been beatified by the Roman Catholic Church. At age nine she joined the Focolare Movement and received the nickname "Luce" ("light") by the founder Chiara Lubich.

1958–1994 · Contemporary · White Fathers

Christian Chessel, born in Digne-les-Bains on October 27, 1958, and murdered in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, on December 27, 1994, was a French Catholic priest and White Father.

1937–1996 · Contemporary · Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance

Charles-Marie Christian de Chergé, O.C.S.O (Colmar, 18 January 1937 – 21 May 1996), was a French Cistercian, one of the seven monks kidnapped from the Abbey of Our Lady of Atlas in Tibhirine, Algeria, and believed to have been later killed by Islamists in 1996.

1950–1996 · Contemporary · Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance

Christophe Lebreton OCSO (October 11, 1950 – May 21, 1996) was a French Trappist monk. He was one of seven Trappist monks from the Our Lady of the Atlas Abbey of Tibhirine near Médéa, Algeria who were kidnapped and killed during the Algerian Civil War.

1833–1909 · Contemporary

Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás (17 June 1833 – 25 February 1909) was a Spanish cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as the Archbishop of Toledo in addition to being the Primate of Spain and the Patriarch of the West Indies.

1900–1947 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Claudio Granzotto (23 August 1900 – 15 August 1947, born Riccardo Granzotto) was an Italian professed religious from the Order of Friars Minor and a noted sculptor.

1861–1930 · Contemporary

Clelia Merloni (10 March 1861 – 21 November 1930) was an Italian Roman Catholic nun and the founder of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

1878–1946 · Contemporary

Clemens Augustinus Emmanuel Joseph Pius Anthonius Hubertus Marie Graf von Galen (16 March 1878 – 22 March 1946), better known as Clemens August Graf von Galen, was a German count, Bishop of Münster, and cardinal of the Catholic Church.

1897–1988 · Contemporary

Blessed Father Clement Vismara (September 6, 1897 – June 15, 1988) was an Italian priest and missionary. He is venerated by the Roman Catholic Church. He spent 65 of his 91 years in forests of Burma assisting Akhà and Ikò tribal peoples, particularly children and widows.

1849–1911 · Contemporary

Clotilde Micheli (11 September 1849 - 24 March 1911) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious who established the order known as the Sisters of Angels; she assumed the religious name Maria Serafina of the Sacred Heart upon the order's foundation and her profession into i…

1858–1926 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Colomba Matylda Gabriel (3 May 1858 - 24 September 1926) - religious name Janina - was a Ukrainian Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Benedictine Sisters of Charity.

1858–1923 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Columba Marmion O.S.B, born Joseph Aloysius Marmion (1 April 1858 – 30 January 1923) was an Irish Benedictine monk and the third Abbot of Maredsous Abbey in Belgium.

1861–1937 · Contemporary

Concepción Cabrera de Armida (December 8, 1862 – March 3, 1937) was a Mexican Catholic mystic and writer. She is also referred to as María Concepción Cabrera Arias de Armida, sometimes as Conchita Cabrera de Armida or Conchita Cabrera Arias de Armida, and often simply as "Conchi…

1895–1936 · Contemporary

Concepción Rodríguez Fernández de Santa Magdalena (born December 13, 1895, in Eulalia; died November 24, 1936, in Paterna) was a Spanish Carmelite Sister of Charity, martyr, and blessed of the Catholic Church.

1866–1936 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Constantino Carbonell Sempere (born April 12, 1866, in Alcoy, died August 23, 1936, in Tabernes de Valldigna) was a Jesuit priest, a martyr of the Spanish Civil War, and a victim of anti-Catholic persecution, beatified by the Catholic Church.

1907–1936 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Constantino Fernández Álvarez was a Spanish Catholic priest and member of the Dominican Order born in La Vecilla in 1907. He died in 1936 and has been recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.