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1907–1936 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Eliseo García García was a Spanish member of the Salesians of Don Bosco born in 1907 in El Manzano. He died in 1936 in Garraf and has been recognized as a blessed.

1875–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Joan Ayats Plantalech (4 June 1875 – 28 July 1936) was a Catalan capuchin friar whose religious name was friar Eloi de Bianya. He died as a martyr after declaring that he was a friar and he is considered as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1883–1936 · Contemporary

Elvira of the Nativity of Our Lady (Spanish: Elvira de la Natividad de Nuestra Señora), born Elvira Torrentallé Paraire on June 29, 1883, in Balsareny, and died on August 19, 1936, was a blessed of the Catholic Church, a Spanish martyr of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity, and a v…

1869–1936 · Contemporary

Elias Carbonell Molla (born November 20, 1869, in Cocentaina, Alicante; died October 2, 1936) was a Spanish blessed of the Catholic Church. He was born into a large family; his father was a physician.

1882–1928 · Contemporary · Order of St. Augustine

Mateo Elías Nieves Castillo (21 September 1882 – 10 March 1928) was a Mexican Roman Catholic priest who was also a member of the Order of Saint Augustine who assumed the name of Elias del Socorro when he became a member of the order.

1887–1942 · Contemporary

Emil Szramek (29 September 1887 – 13 January 1942) was a Polish and Roman Catholic priest. He graduated from the University of Wrocław. He died in a Nazi concentration camp at Dachau. He is one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II who were beatified in 1999 by Pope John Paul II.

1914–1955 · Contemporary

Eurythimia Üffing (born as Emma Üffing, 8 April 1914 – 9 September 1955) was a German religious sister of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin and Our Lady of Sorrows. She was beatified on 7 October, 2001.

1836–1909 · Contemporary · Diocesan Labour Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Manuel Domingo y Sol (1 April 1836 - 25 January 1909) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Pontifical Spanish College in Rome and the religious order known as the Diocesan Labour Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (1883).

1888–1936 · Contemporary

Encarnación Gil Valls (Ontinyent, January 27, 1888 – L'Olleria, September 24, 1936) was a Catholic martyr killed during the Spanish Civil War.

1911–1945 · Contemporary

Engelmar Unzeitig , born Hubert Unzeitig, was a German Roman Catholic priest who died in the Dachau Concentration Camp during World War II on the charge of being a priest.

1890–1936 · Contemporary · Piarists

Blessed Enrique Canadell (1890–1936) was a Spanish Piarist priest who died as a martyr in Castellfollit de la Roca, Catalonia, during the Spanish Civil War in 1936. He was beatified by John Paul II in 1995. He is buried in his village church, Saint Stephen's Church in Olot.

1930–1994 · Contemporary · Society of Mary

Henri Vergès (in Catalan: Enric Vergés), born on July 15, 1930, in Matemale (Pyrénées-Orientales) and murdered on May 8, 1994, in Algiers (Algeria), was a French Marist brother and teacher.

1891–1951 · Contemporary

Enrichetta Alfieri (23 February 1891 – 23 November 1951), born Maria Angela Domenica Alfieri, was an Italian Roman Catholic religious sister and a member of the Sisters of Divine Charity.

1923–1976 · Contemporary

Enrique Ángel Angelelli Carletti (17 July 1923 – 4 August 1976) was a bishop of the Catholic Church in Argentina who was assassinated during the Dirty War for his involvement with social issues.

1913–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Enrique García Beltrán (Almassora, March 16, 1913 – Castellón, August 16, 1936) was a Capuchin friar from Castellón who died as a martyr at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.

1907–1936 · Contemporary

Enrique Juan Requena (Ayelo de Malferit, Valencia, March 2, 1907 – December 29, 1936) was a Spanish priest, venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church. He was a priest of the Archdiocese of Valencia.

1908–1936 · Contemporary

Enrique Morant Pellicer (born October 13, 1908, in Bellreguard, Valencia; died October 4, 1936, in Xaraco) was a blessed of the Catholic Church. He was born into a deeply religious family. He moved to Madrid to study architecture but later decided to enter the seminary.

1896–1936 · Contemporary

Enrique Vidaurreta Palma (October 10, 1896 – August 31, 1936) was a martyr of the religious persecution during the Spanish Civil War, born in Antequera, Spain. He was beatified in Rome on October 28, 2007, alongside 498 martyrs of the 20th century in Spain.

1916–1936 · Contemporary · Passionists

Epifanio Sierra Conde was a brother of the Passionist Congregation who was killed by anticlerical forces during the Spanish Civil War. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on October 1, 1989.

1883–1936 · Contemporary

Blessed Erundina Colino Vega was born in 1883 in Lagarejos de la Carballeda, Spain. She died in 1936 in Ischnarctia.

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

Esteve Casadevall i Puig (Argelaguer, March 6, 1913 – Barbastro, August 13, 1936) was a Claretian religious. He is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church. He entered the Claretian college in Cervera and continued his studies in Alagón, Barbastro, and Vic.

1949–1994 · Contemporary · Sisters Augustines Missionaries

Esther Paniagua Alonso was a Spanish nun, born in Izagre (León, Spain), on June 7, 1949, daughter of Nicasio Paniagua and Dolores Alonso, and member of the congregation of Augustinian missionaries. As a nurse, she was sent to Algeria where she worked in Bab El Oued, in Algiers.

1897–1934 · Contemporary

Euphrasius of the Child Jesus, born Barredo Fernández (February 8, 1897, in Cancienes – October 12, 1934, in Oviedo), was a Discalced Carmelite and a blessed of the Catholic Church. After taking his religious vows in 1916, he began studies in theology and philosophy.

1900–1952 · Contemporary · Passionists

Eugene Bossilkov, CP (born Vincent Bossilkov 16 November 1900 – 11 November 1952) was a Bulgarian Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Nicopolis from 1947 until his execution by Bulgaria's communist regime in 1952. He was a member of the Passionists.

1845–1900 · Contemporary

Eugenia Maria Ravasco (4 January 1845 - 30 December 1900) was an Italian Roman Catholic nun of the Ravasco Institute that she herself had established - the order was also known as the Daughters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and was founded in the Archdiocese of Genoa whe…

1880–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

José María of Manila (Spanish: José María de Manila : 5 September 1880 – 17 August 1936) was a Criollo Catholic priest and friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.

1876–1904 · Contemporary

Eugénie Joubert (11 February 1876 – 2 July 1904) was a French Roman Catholic professed religious from the Sisters of the Holy Family of the Sacred Heart.

1899–1935 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Eusebia Palomino Yenes (15 December 1899 – 10 February 1935) was a Spanish Roman Catholic professed religious and a professed member of the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco.

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

Eusebio Maria Codina Millá, C.M.F. (Albesa, December 7, 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.

1867–1946 · Contemporary

Joseph Kugler, OH (15 January 1867 - 10 June 1946) was a German Roman Catholic professed religious of the Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God. Kugler entered the congregation in 1893 and assumed his religious name Eustachius upon admittance into the novitiate.

1890–1943 · Contemporary

Eustáquio van Lieshout, SSCC (also Eustachius or Eustache; 3 November 1890 – 30 August 1943) was a Dutch Catholic missionary priest in Brazil from the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

1876–1936 · Contemporary

Facunda Margenat (1876–1936) was a Spanish religious sister of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Girona. Assassinated in odium fidei during the religious persecution of the Spanish Civil War, she is venerated as a blessed and martyr by the Catholic Church.

1881–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Facundo Escanciano Tejerina, known in religion as Aurelio of Ocejo (February 4, 1881, Ocejo – August 17, 1936, Madrid), was a Spanish Roman Catholic friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin and a martyr. The Catholic Church venerates him as a blessed.

1890–1936 · Contemporary · Piarists

Faustino Oteiza Segura, or Faustino of Our Lady of Sorrows, Sch. P. (Ayegui, February 14, 1890 – Azanuy, August 9, 1936), was a Piarist priest of the Peralta de la Sal community, a martyr during the Spanish Civil War in 1936, and is venerated as a blessed in the Catholic Church.

1911–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Faustino Pérez García (Barindano, July 30, 1911 – Barbastro, August 15, 1936) was a Navarrese Claretian friar. Because he was murdered along with other members of his community while at the Barbastro seminary, he was beatified by John Paul II in 1992.

1915–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Federico Herrera Bermejo (born February 21, 1915, in Almagro, died August 16, 1936, in Fuente el Fresno) was a Spanish Franciscan, seminarian, Christian martyr, and blessed of the Roman Catholic Church.

1893–1936 · Contemporary · Carmelites

Feliciana Uribe Orbe was a Spanish nun and nurse born in 1893 in Muxika. A member of the Carmelites, she died in 1936 in Paterna from a gunshot wound. She is recognized as a blessed.

1878–1939 · Contemporary

Felipe Ripoll Morata (born September 14, 1878, in Teruel; died February 7, 1939, near Girona) was a Spanish Catholic priest, Christian martyr, and blessed of the Roman Catholic Church. He came from a poor, religious family.

1905–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Ferdinand Saperas Aluja (born September 8, 1905, in Alió, died August 13, 1936, in Mas Claret) was a Spanish religious of the Claretians, a martyr, a victim of the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939, and a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1875–1936 · Contemporary

Fernando Español Berdié was a Spanish Catholic priest, lawyer, and secretary born in Anciles in 1875. He died in 1936 in Villar de Olalla, Cuenca, from a gunshot wound. He is recognized as a blessed.

1905–1936 · Contemporary

Fernando Garcia Sendra (born March 3, 1905, in Pego; died September 18, 1936) was a blessed of the Catholic Church. He served as an altar boy before entering the Franciscan College. After three years in Benissa, he returned home due to illness.

1886–1936 · Contemporary

Ferdinand González Añón (born February 17, 1886, in Turís; died August 27, 1936, in Picassent) was a Spanish priest and a blessed of the Catholic Church. He came from a religious family, the son of Fernando González Pons and Isabel Navarro Añón.

1873–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Fernando Olmedo Reguera OFMCap (10 January 1873 – 12 August 1936), also known as Fernando of Santiago, was a Catholic priest and victim of the Spanish Civil War.

1883–1936 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Fernando Salinas Romeo was a Spanish Benedictine monk born in 1883 in Pozán de Vero. He died in Barbastro in 1936 and has been recognized as a blessed.

1880–1936 · Contemporary · Society of Mary

Fidel Fuidio Rodríguez (Yécora, April 24, 1880 – Carrión de Calatrava, October 17, 1936) was a Spanish archaeologist, teacher, and Marianist. He was executed by firing squad during the Civil War, a victim of the repression in the Republican zone.

1906–1942 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Fidelis Chojnacki (1 November 1906 – 9 July 1942) was a Polish Capuchin friar and Roman Catholic priest. He was imprisoned in the Nazi Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He is one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II.

1858–1915 · Contemporary

Flavianos Michael Malke (Syriac: ܦܠܒܝܐܢܘܣ ܡܝܟܐܝܠ ܡܠܟܝ, Flavyānus Mikhayil Malké), born Ya'Qūb Melkī; (1858 – 29 August 1915) was an Eastern Catholic prelate of the Brothers of Saint Ephrem of a Syriac background. He became the Syrian Catholic eparch of Gazarta (modern Cizre).

1890–1936 · Contemporary

Florencia Caerols Martínez was a Catholic martyr killed during the Spanish Civil War. Single and very active in her parish, she worked as a catechist in the region.

1877–1936 · Contemporary

Florentino Asensio Barroso (16 October 1877 – 9 August 1936) was a Spanish Catholic prelate who served as the Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Barbastro. He served as a chaplain of both the Little Sisters of the Poor and the Servants of Jesus as a priest.

1856–1936 · Contemporary · Piarists

Florentín Felipe Naya, born Francisco Felipe Naya and known in religion as Florentín de San Francisco de Borja (Alquézar, October 10, 1856 – Azanuy, August 9, 1936), was a Piarist religious of the Peralta de la Sal community.