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1901–1936 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Jacinto Serrano López was a Spanish Catholic priest, teacher, and philosopher who belonged to the Dominican Order. Born in Urrea de Gaén in 1901, he died in 1936. He is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1912–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Jaime Falgarona Vilanova, C.M.F. (Argelaguer, June 6, 1912 – Barbastro, August 18, 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.

1884–1936 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Jaime Bonet Nadal was a Spanish member of the Salesians of Don Bosco born in 1884. He died in Tàrrega in 1936 and is recognized as a blessed within the Catholic Church.

1897–1924 · Contemporary · Premonstratensians

Franz Alexander Kern (11 April 1897 - 20 October 1924), also known by his religious name Jakob, was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member from the Premonstratensians.

1875–1954 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Jacques Ghazir Haddad, OFM Cap., born Khalil al-Haddad, was a Lebanese Catholic priest and Capuchin friar. He was the founder of the Franciscan Sisters of the Cross, and a noted preacher and founder of various orphanages and schools across Lebanon.

1884–1971 · Contemporary

James Alberione, SSP (Italian: Giacomo) (4 April 1884 – 26 November 1971), was an Italian Catholic priest, and the founder of the Society of St. Paul, of the Daughters of St.

1869–1948 · Contemporary

Jan Wojciech Balicki (25 January 1869 – 15 March 1948) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest who served as a confessor and spiritual director to seminarians in Poland around the time of World War II; he also acted in various leadership positions in the education of new priests and w…

1850–1912 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Jan Beyzym, SJ (15 May 1850 – 2 October 1912) was a Polish Catholic priest and a professed member of the Jesuits. He served as an educator in Jesuit boarding schools for a while after his ordination though later left Poland to work alongside lepers in Madagascar where he remained…

1897–1944 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Prince Jan Franciszek Czartoryski or Blessed Michał (19 February 1897–6 September 1944) was a Polish noble and a Dominican friar. John Czartoryski was born in Pelkinie (Jaroslaw) on 19 February 1897.

1914–1942 · Contemporary

Jan Franciszek Macha (18 January 1914 – 3 December 1942) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest. He was once rejected for ecclesial studies so studied law for some months before being accepted as a seminarian.

1885–1942 · Contemporary

Jan Nepomucen Chrzan was a Catholic priest, preacher, confessor, and dean who held citizenship in the Kingdom of Prussia and the Second Polish Republic. Born in 1885 in Gostyczyna, he died in 1942 at the Dachau concentration camp.

1889–1936 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Jan Rafał Marian Alcocer Martínez was a Spanish Catholic priest, Benedictine monk, and author born in Madrid in 1889. He died in Madrid in 1936 and is buried in the Church of Nuestra Señora de Montserrat. He is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1922–1942 · Contemporary

Jarogniew Wojciechowski (born November 5, 1922, in Poznań; died August 24, 1942, in Dresden) was a Polish youth and a student of the Salesians of Don Bosco.

1877–1936 · Contemporary · Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer

Javier Gorosterratzu Jaunarena (Urroz de Santesteban, Navarre, August 28, 1877 – Cuenca, August 10, 1936) was a Spanish Catholic priest and historian. Born into a Basque-speaking farming family, he joined the Redemptorists at the age of 16.

1912–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Saverio Luigi Bandrés Jiménez, C.M.F., born Javier Luis Bandrés Jiménez (Sangüesa, December 1, 1912 – 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.

1925–1994 · Contemporary

Jean Chevillard, born in Angers on August 27, 1925, was a French missionary priest of the Society of Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers), who was assassinated in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, on December 27, 1994.

1929–1970 · Contemporary

Jerzy Ciesielski (12 February 1929 – 9 October 1970) was a Polish Roman Catholic from Kraków and a member from the Focolare Movement. Ciesielski was married and was also a close personal friend of Karol Józef Wojtyła – the future Pope John Paul II.

1904–1943 · Contemporary

Jury Kashyra (Polish: Jerzy Kaszyra; Belarusian: Юрый Кашыра; 4 April 1904 – 18 February 1943) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and a Belarusian apostle of the unity between Catholic and Orthodox Christians.

1916–1989 · Contemporary

Jesús Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve (16 February 1916 – 2 October 1989) was a Colombian Roman Catholic prelate who was a professed member of the Xaverian Missionaries of Yarumal and served as the Bishop of Arauca from 1984 until his assassination.

1900–1936 · Contemporary · Society of Mary

Jesús Hita Miranda, born on April 17, 1900, in Calahorra, in the province of Logroño, and died on September 25, 1936, in Carrión de Calatrava, province of Ciudad Real, was a Marianist religious.

1906–1918 · Contemporary

Gildas Irwa, born around 1906 in Kitgum, Uganda, and killed in Paimol around October 19, 1918, was a young Ugandan convert to Christianity who was killed for his faith and his work as a catechist.

1874–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Joan Mercer i Soler, also known as Joan Mercé i Soler (Albinyana, October 14, 1874 – Sallent, July 25, 1936), was a Catholic clergyman of the Claretians who was executed by firing squad during the Spanish Civil War and beatified in 2016 by Pope Francis.

1878–1936 · Contemporary · Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God

Joaquín Piña Piazuelo was a Spanish religious of the Latin Church and a member of the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God. Born in Caspe in 1878, he died in Barcelona in 1936 from a gunshot wound. He is recognized as a blessed.

1888–1936 · Contemporary

Joaquín Vilanova Camallonga was a Catholic priest and vicar born in Ontinyent, Spain, in 1888. He died in 1936 and is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1874–1936 · Contemporary

Jocund Bonet Mercadé (Tarragona, 1874 – Reus, August 14, 1936) was a Catalan priest who died at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. He served as a soldier in the Cuban War, and after completing his studies at the Seminary of Tarragona, he was ordained a priest in 1900 by Arc…

1911–1943 · Contemporary

Johannes Prassek (13 August 1911 – 10 November 1943) was a German Catholic priest, and one of the Lübeck martyrs, guillotined for opposing the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler in 1943. Prassek was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2011.

1884–1952 · Contemporary

Robert-Matthew Chichkov (9 February 1884 – 11 November 1952) was a Bulgarian priest, rector and teacher, executed by firing squad by the ruling communist government. He is venerated as blessed by the Catholic Church.

1876–1947 · Contemporary · Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat

Josaphat Joseph Kotsylovsky OSBM (Ukrainian: Йосафат Йосиф Коциловський; 3 March 1876 – 17 November 1947) was a bishop and martyr of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He was the bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Przemyśl–Warsaw from 1917 to 1947.

1861–1936 · Contemporary

Józef Rada, O.A.R. (born November 17, 1861, in Zaragoza; died July 25, 1936, in Motril) was a blessed of the Catholic Church and a priest of the Order of Augustinian Recollects. At the age of 16, he entered the Augustinian novitiate in Monteagudo.

1906–1946 · Contemporary

Josef Marxen (born August 2, 1906, in Worringen near Cologne; died November 16, 1946, near Tirana) was a German Roman Catholic priest. In 1936, he was sent as a missionary to Albania, where he was shot in 1946. He is one of the Forty Martyrs of Albania.

1910–1945 · Contemporary

Josef Mayr-Nusser (27 December 1910 – 24 February 1945) was an Italian Roman Catholic who served as the President of the Saint Vincent de Paul Conference of the Bolzano division as well as a member of Catholic Action.

1905–1942 · Contemporary

Josef Quinke (born October 18, 1905, in Fretter; died December 16, 1942, in Sachsenhausen concentration camp) was a German master baker and a victim of National Socialism. He died in Sachsenhausen concentration camp and was later declared a martyr of the 20th century.

1881–1936 · Contemporary

Josefa María Barrera Izaguirre, known as María del Carmen, was born in Ferrol on March 23, 1881, and died a martyr in Madrid on November 18, 1936. She was a Galician Catholic religious sister and a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1854–1936 · Contemporary

Josefa María Ruano García (Berja, July 9, 1854 – Buñol, September 8, 1936), better known by her religious name Josefa of Saint John of God, was a Spanish Catholic nun of the Little Sisters of the Abandoned Aged. She was killed during the Spanish Civil War in the 20th century.

1880–1936 · Contemporary

Josefina Moscardó Montalvá was a Catholic martyr who was killed during the Spanish Civil War. A single laywoman, she was martyred for publicly expressing her faith and participating in parochial activities. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II on March 11, 2001.

1916–1936 · Contemporary

Josep Casas Ros (Ordal, Alt Penedès, August 19, 1916 – Moja, Alt Penedès, September 29, 1936) was a Catalan seminarian murdered during the religious persecution at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. He was born in Ordal on August 19, 1916.

1877–1936 · Contemporary

Josep Joan Perot i Juanmartí was a Catholic priest born in Toulouse in 1877 and a citizen of Spain. He died in La Pobla de Segur in 1936 and is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1909–1969 · Contemporary · Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

Joseph Boissel, born on December 20, 1909, near Pontmain, in the hamlet of La Tiolais in the commune of Le Loroux in the Archdiocese of Rennes, Brittany, and murdered on July 5, 1969, near Hat Lêt, Laos, was a French and Breton Catholic missionary considered a blessed and martyr…

1894–1944 · Contemporary

Joseph Müller (19 August 1894 – 11 September 1944) was a German Catholic priest and critic of the Nazi regime. He was tried by the People's Court and executed at Brandenburg-Görden Prison.

1918–1954 · Contemporary

Joseph Thao Tiên (born December 5, 1918, in Houaphanh Province, Laos (Indochina); died June 2, 1954) was a Laotian Catholic priest assassinated in odium fidei during the persecution of Catholics by communist authorities.

1879–1936 · Contemporary · Order of St. Augustine

José Agustín Fariña Castro, O.S.A. (born Alfredo Fernando; Valladolid, March 20, 1879 – Paracuellos de Jarama, November 30, 1936), was a Spanish Augustinian friar, writer, editor, preacher, and martyr.

1869–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Aurelius Ample Alcaide, also known as Aurelius of Vinalesa, born José Ample Alcaide (February 3, 1896, in Vinalesa – August 28, 1936, in Foyos), was a Spanish Capuchin priest, Catholic blessed, martyr, and victim of the anti-Catholic persecutions during the Spanish Civil War.

1878–1936 · Contemporary · Benedictines

José Antón Gómez was a Spanish Catholic priest, Benedictine monk, author, and prior born in Hacinas in 1878. He died in Madrid in 1936 and is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1893–1936 · Contemporary

José Aparicio Sanz (March 12, 1893, Enguera, Valencia, Spain – December 29, 1936, Picadero de Paterna, Spain) was a Spanish priest, archpriest of Enguera, and a victim and one of the Spanish Martyrs of the 20th century during the religious persecution against the Catholic Church…

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

José Brengaret Pujol, C.M.F. (Sant Jordi Desvalls, January 18, 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.

1872–1936 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

José Calasanz Marqués, SDB—sometimes spelled Marquéz or Margués—(November 23, 1872, in Azanuy; July 29, 1936, in Valencia) was a Spanish religious priest. On July 17, 1936, a military coup against the Second Spanish Republic began, marking the start of the Spanish Civil War.

1903–1936 · Contemporary

José Canet Giner was a Spanish Catholic presbyter born in 1903. He died in Gandia in 1936 and has been beatified by the Catholic Church.

1885–1936 · Contemporary

José Cecilio Rodríguez González was born in 1885 in La Molina de Ubierna and died in 1936 in Tahal. He is recognized as a blessed.

1903–1936 · Contemporary

José Fenollosa Alcayna was a Spanish Catholic presbyter born in 1903 in Rafelbunyol. He died in 1936 in Sagunto and has been beatified by the Catholic Church.

1879–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Joachim Ferrer Adell, OFMCap., also known as Joachim of Albocácer (born Joaquín José Ferrer Adell on April 23, 1879, in Albocácer, Castellón; died August 30, 1936, in Villafamés, Archdiocese of Valencia), was a Spanish Blessed of the Catholic Church, a martyr, a friar of the Orde…