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1845–1918 · Contemporary

Giuseppe Toniolo (7 March 1845 – 7 October 1918) was an Italian Catholic economist, sociologist, and pioneer of Christian democracy. A leading political and social economist, Toniolo condemned both socialism and laissez-faire capitalism, advocating instead for an economic system…

1843–1906 · Contemporary · Lay Carmelites

Giuseppina Gabriela Bonino (5 September 1843 – 8 February 1906), also known by her religious name Giuseppina Gabriella of Jesus, was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Suore della Sacra Famiglia di Savigliano.

1863–1924 · Contemporary · Congregation of the Mission

Giuseppina Nicoli, DC (18 November 1863 – 31 December 1924) was an Italian Catholic member of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul who served as a catechist in Sardinia. She held several positions of leadership in Turin and elsewhere.

1915–1950 · Contemporary

Giuseppina Suriano (18 February 1915 - 19 May 1950) was an Italian Roman Catholic member of the Catholic Action. Suriano was born to simple farmers near Palermo and became a noticeable and integral figure in Catholic Action during her life while also working alongside the Young C…

1925–1946 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Gjelosh Lulashi was born in 1925 and served as military personnel. A member of the Society of Jesus, he died in Shkodër in 1946. He is recognized as a blessed.

1907–1946 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Gjon Shllaku was a Catholic philosopher and member of the Order of Friars Minor born in Shkodër in 1907. He died in Shkodër in 1946 and is recognized as a blessed.

1883–1936 · Contemporary

Gonzalo Viñes Masip (born January 19, 1883, in Xàtiva, died December 10, 1936) was a blessed of the Catholic Church. He completed secondary school and subsequently entered the seminary in Valencia. In 1906, at the age of 23, he was ordained a priest.

1880–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Gregorio Chirivás Lacambra, C.M.F. (Siétamo, April 24, 1880 – Barbastro, August 12, 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

Gregorio Escobar García, OMI (born September 12, 1912, in Estella; died 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.

1883–1902 · Contemporary · Passionists

Grimoaldo of the Purification (4 May 1883 – 18 November 1902) – born Ferdinando Santamaria – was an Italian Roman Catholic clerical student from the Passionists.

1911–1943 · Contemporary · Divine Word Missionaries

Grzegorz (Gregory) Bolesław Frąckowiak (July 18, 1911 – May 5, 1943) was a Society of the Divine Word (SVD) martyr. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 13 June 1999 as one of the 108 Polish Martyrs of World War II.

1916–1975 · Contemporary

Guadalupe Ortiz de Landázuri Fernández de Heredia (12 December 1916 – 16 July 1975) was a Spanish Catholic professor and a member of Opus Dei. She was one of the first women to join Opus Dei, after meeting the founder Josemaría Escrivá in 1944.

1908–1936 · Contemporary

Guillermo Plaza Hernández (born June 25, 1908, in Yuncos; died August 9, 1936, in Argés) was a blessed priest, a victim of anti-Catholic persecution during the Spanish Civil War.

1869–1936 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Gumersindo Soto Barros was a Spanish Catholic priest and a member of the Dominican Order. Born in 1869, he died in Calanda in 1936. He is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1920–1945 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Gérard-Martin Cendrier, born on June 16, 1920, in Paris and died on January 25, 1945, was a Catholic religious figure who was persecuted, deported, and died in a concentration camp during the Second World War.

1902–1973 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Hanna Helena Chrzanowska (7 October 1902 – 29 April 1973), sometimes anglicized as Hannah Helen Chrzanowska, was a Polish Roman Catholic who served as a nurse and was also a Benedictine oblate.

1852–1903 · Contemporary · Divine Word Missionaries

Hendrina Stenmanns, SSpS (Josefa in religion; 28 May 1852 - 20 May 1903) was a German Catholic religious sister who co-founded the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit, which she founded alongside Arnold Janssen and Helena Stollenwerk.

1904–1941 · Contemporary

Henryk Hlebowicz (1 July 1904 – 9 November 1941) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest. Born in Grodno, he served as a parish priest and lecturer at Vilnius University between 1930 and 1935.

1908–1942 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Henryk Krzysztofik was a friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin born in 1908 in Zachorzów, Second Polish Republic. A member of the Catholic Church, he died in 1942 at the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps. He is recognized as a blessed.

1889–1936 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Enrique Sáiz Aparicio (born December 1, 1889, in Ubierna, Burgos; died October 2, 1936, in Madrid) was a Spanish priest, a Salesian of Don Bosco (SDB), a Christian martyr, and a blessed of the Roman Catholic Church.

1912–1943 · Contemporary

Hermann Lange (16 April 1912 – 10 November 1943) was a Roman Catholic priest and martyr of the Nazi period in Germany. He was guillotined in a Hamburg prison by the Nazi authorities in November 1943, along with the three other Lübeck martyrs.

1879–1936 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order

Ermenegildo dell'Assunta, born Hermenegildo Iza y Aregita (Mendata, April 13, 1879 – Alcázar de San Juan, July 26, 1936), was a Spanish priest of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity.

1887–1936 · Contemporary

Herminia Martínez Amigó was a Catholic martyr who was killed during the Spanish Civil War. Due to her public displays of religious devotion, she was murdered alongside her husband and was beatified by Pope John Paul II on March 11, 2001.

1877–1936 · Contemporary

Blessed Herminio Motos Torrecillas (born in María, Almería, December 9, 1877; died in María, Almería, October 13, 1936) was the archpriest and parish priest of María (1912–1936). He was killed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War as a victim of religious persecution.

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

Hilario María Llorente Martín was a Spanish Catholic seminarian and a member of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. He died in 1936 in Barbastro from a gunshot wound. He is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1907–1945 · Contemporary · Carmelites

Hilary Paweł Januszewski, O.Carm (June 11, 1907, in Krajenki – March 25, 1945, in Dachau concentration camp), was a Polish priest, Carmelite friar of the Ancient Observance and Catholic priest.

1883–1933 · Contemporary

Hildegard Lea Burjan (née Hildegard Freund; 30 January 1883 – 11 June 1933) was an Austrian politician and convert from Judaism to the Roman Catholic Church. She founded the Sisterhood of Caritas Socialis.

1829–1916 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Honorat Koźmiński (16 October 1829 – 16 December 1916), born Florentyn Wacław Jan Stefan Koźmiński, was a Polish priest and professed member from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin who went on to establish sixteen religious congregations.

1908–1936 · Contemporary

Honorato Zorraquino Herrero was born in 1908 in Bañón, Spain. He died in 1936 in Valencia and is recognized as a blessed.

1883–1950 · Contemporary

Hryhoriy Lakota, also known as Gregor Lakota (Ukrainian: Григорій Лакота, Polish: Grzegorz Łakota; 31 January 1883 – 12 November 1950), was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic auxiliary bishop who suffered religious persecution and was martyred by the Soviet Union.

1867–1947 · Contemporary

Hryhoriy Khomyshyn (also Hryhorij Khomyshyn, Ukrainian: Григорій Лукич Хомишин, Polish: Grzegorz Chomyszyn) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop and hieromartyr. Khomyshyn was born on 25 March 1867 in the village of Hadynkivtsi, eastern Galicia, in what is now Ternopil Oblast.

1832–1916 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier (8 December 1832 – 17 December 1916) was a French Dominican friar and religious priest, who served as the 76th Master of the Order of Preachers from 1904 until 1916. Cormier was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 20 November 1994.

1839–1904 · Contemporary · Sisters of Mary Reparatrix

Hélène Marie Philippine de Chappotin de Neuville (Nantes, 21 May 1839 – Sanremo, 15 November 1904), known as Mary of the Passion (French: Mère Marie de la Passion), was a French religious sister and missionary, who founded the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary in British India in 1…

1916–1936 · Contemporary · Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God

Ignacio Tejero Molina was a Spanish religious member of the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God, born in 1916 in Monzalbarba. He died in 1936 in Calafell from a gunshot wound and has been beatified as a blessed.

1893–1936 · Contemporary · Piarists

Ignacy Casanovas Perramón, SchP (born Ignasi Casanovas Perramón on June 15, 1893, in Igualada; died September 16, 1936, in Òdena) was a Spanish priest of the Piarist Order.

1897–1936 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Ildefonso Fernández Muñiz was a Benedictine Catholic priest born in 1897 in Muros de Nalón, Spain. He died in 1936 in Barbastro from a gunshot wound and is recognized as a blessed of the Latin Church.

1880–1959 · Contemporary

Ioan Bălan (11 February 1880 – 4 August 1959) was a Romanian bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church. He is venerated as a Blessed in the Roman Catholic Church. He was born in Teiuș, Alba County, the son of Ștefan Bălan and Ana, née Muntean.

1907–1953 · Contemporary

Ioan Suciu (December 4, 1907 – June 27, 1953) was a Romanian bishop of the Greek Catholic Church, born into a clerical family in Blaj. Suciu studied in Rome, Italy first at Sant'Atanasio and then at the Pontificium Institutum Internationale Angelicum, the future Pontifical Unive…

1891–1930 · Contemporary

Irene Stefani, IMC (born Aurelia Mercede Stefani; 22 August 1891 – 31 October 1930) was an Italian religious sister of the Consolata Missionaries.

1962–1982 · Contemporary

Isabel Cristina Mrad Campos (29 July 1962 – 1 September 1982) was a Brazilian Catholic laywoman. She served as a Vincentian in her parish, although she never formally joined the movement. In her spare time, she devoted herself to faith.

1882–1936 · Contemporary · Order of the Immaculate Conception

Isabel Lacaba Andía was born in Borja, Spain, in 1882 and served as a cloistered nun and abbess within the Order of the Immaculate Conception. She died in 1936 and has been beatified as a blessed.

1913–1941 · Contemporary

Isabel Lete Landa was a Spanish nun born in 1913 in Osintxu. She died of tuberculosis in 1941 in Eibar and has been beatified as a Blessed.

1887–1909 · Contemporary · Carmelites

Isidore Bakanja (c. 1880–1890 – 15 August 1909) was a Congolese Catechist who was killed by a plantation agent. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1994. Isidore Bakanja, a member of the Boangi tribe, was born in Bokendela, Congo Free State, between 1880 and 1890.

1918–1950 · Contemporary

Isidoro Ngei Ko Lat (17 September 1918 – 24 May 1950) was a catechist from Myanmar who was killed in 1950. He was beatified in 2014. Isidoro Ngei Ko Lat was the son of peasants and the priest Dominic Pedrotti baptized him on 7 September 1918.

1881–1916 · Contemporary · Passionists

Isidore De Loor (18 April 1881 – 6 October 1916), also known by his religious name Isidore of Saint Joseph, was a Belgian professed religious from the Passionists.

1890–1936 · Contemporary

Isidoro Bover Oliver (born May 2, 1890, in Vinaròs, died October 2, 1936, in Castellón de la Plana) was a blessed priest, a victim of anti-Catholic persecution during the Spanish Civil War, murdered in hatred of the faith (odium fidei) and recognized by the Catholic Church as a m…

1902–1936 · Contemporary

Ismael Escrihuela Esteve was born in 1902 and died in 1936. He was a citizen of Spain and is recognized as a blessed.

1904–1957 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Itala Mela (28 August 1904 – 29 April 1957) was an Italian Roman Catholic theologian and mystic who was a lapsed Christian until a sudden conversion of faith in the 1920s and as a Benedictine oblate virgin assumed the name of "Maria della Trinità".

1885–1970 · Contemporary

Iuliu Hossu (30 January 1885 – 28 May 1970) was a Romanian Greek-Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Cluj-Gherla. Pope Paul VI elevated Hossu to the rank of cardinal in pectore, that is, secretly, in 1969 but did not publish his appointment until after Hossu's death.

1896–1973 · Contemporary

Ivan Slezyuk (Ukrainian: Іван Слезюк, Polish: Iwan Słeziuk; 14 January 1896 – 2 December 1973) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop and hieromartyr.