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1852–1900 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Rémy Isoré was a French Jesuit priest who was killed during Boxer Rebellion in China. He was declared a saint by Pope John Paul II in 2000. Isoré was born in Bambecque, France on 22 January 1852.

1883–1927 · Contemporary

Sabás Reyes Salazar (3 December 1883 – 13 April 1927) was a Mexican Catholic vicar and one of many priests martyred during the Cristero War. Reyes was canonized by Pope John Paul II on 21 May 2000 as one the Martyrs of the Cristero War.

1875–1915 · Contemporary

Sahag Odabashian was a Christian minister and pedagogue born in 1875. He died in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide and is recognized as a saint.

1867–1915 · Contemporary

Sahak Gratlyan (1867, Sivas, Sivas Province – 1915) was an Armenian pharmacist and a member of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party. Born in 1867 in the city of Sivas, the center of Sivas Province, he received a pharmaceutical education and worked as a pharmacist.

1836–1918 · Contemporary

Shri Sai Baba of Shirdi (c. 1838 – 15 October 1918), also known as Shirdi Sai Baba, Shree Sainath was an Indian spiritual guru considered to be a saint, and revered by both Hindu and Muslim devotees during and after his lifetime.

1910–1946 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Saint Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception (19 August 1910 – 28 July 1946), born as Anna Muttathupadathu, was an Indian Catholic nun and educator.

1898–1937 · Contemporary

New Martyr Anna of Rybinsk (secular name Maria Alekseyevna Blagoveshchenskaya; January 30, 1898, Borisogleb village, Poshekhonsky Uyezd, Yaroslavl Governorate — March 11, 1937, Yaroslavl) was an Orthodox nun and a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church, canonized as a new martyr in…

1869–1960 · Contemporary

Saint Anthimos of Chios (Chios, 1869 – February 15, 1960), born Argyrios K. Vagianos, was a 20th-century Greek monk widely known for his monastic life and his work in caring for patients with Hansen's disease.

1873–1922 · Contemporary

Benjamin of Petrograd (Russian: Вениамин Петроградский, Veniamin Petrogradsky, 29 April [O.S. 17 April] 1873 – 13 August [O.S. 31 July] 1922), born Vasily Pavlovich Kazansky (Russian: Василий Павлович Казанский), was a hieromartyr under Soviet anti-religious persecution, a bishop…

1903–1991 · Contemporary

Saint Gerasimos the Mikragiannanitis, born Anastasios-Athanasios Graikas (Droviani, Northern Epirus, September 5, 1903 – Mount Athos, December 7, 1991), was an Orthodox Christian monk and a contemporary hymnographer.

1871–1957 · Contemporary

Saint Jerome of Simonopetra was an Eastern Orthodox monk born in Reisdere in 1871. He died in 1957 and is recognized as a saint.

1868–1959 · Contemporary · Franciscans

María Natividad Venegas de la Torre (religious name María of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, 8 September 1868 – 30 July 1959) was a Mexican religious sister in the Roman Catholic Church.

1865–1942 · Contemporary

Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus, C.I.I.C. (born Amabile Lucia Visintainer; December 16, 1865 – July 9, 1942), was a Catholic immigrant from Austria-Hungary to Brazil who became the foundress of the Congregation of the Little Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, religious…

1937 · Contemporary

Saint Sandaki Baba was a politician, Sufi, and writer born in the Swat District of the British Raj. He died in 1937 and is recognized as a saint.

1968–1991 · Contemporary

Santa Scorese (6 February 1968 – 16 March 1991) was an Italian student and Catholic activist, who was murdered for resisting harassment. As her beatification process has been opened, she is considered a servant of God by the Catholic Church.

1855–1915 · Contemporary

Sargis Azoyan was an Ottoman Empire pediatrician born in Adana in 1855. He died in Aleppo in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide and is recognized as a saint.

1873–1915 · Contemporary

Sarkis Minassian (1873–1915), also known as Aram Ashod, was an Armenian journalist, writer, political activist, and educator. He became the chief editor of the newspaper Hairenik in Watertown, Massachusetts.

1884–1941 · Contemporary

Sava Trlajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Сава Трлајић; 19 July 1884 – August 1941) was a bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church serving as Bishop of the Eparchy of Gornji Karlovac in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1938 until the beginning of World War II.

1862–1948 · Contemporary

Saint Savvas of Kalymnos (also known as Saint Savvas the New) is the patron saint of the Greek island of Kalymnos, where he lived during the last twenty years of his life as the priest and spiritual father of the nuns of the Convent of All Saints.

1896–1997 · Contemporary

Schema-nun Sephora (secular name Daria Nikolayevna Shnyakina, née Senyakina; March 19, 1896, Glukhovo village, now Gavrilovsky District, Tambov Governorate — May 13, 1997, Klykovo, Kaluga Oblast, Russia) was a nun of the Russian Orthodox Church and a starets.

1880–1937 · Contemporary

Serafin, secular name Mikhail Ostroumov (born 6 November 1880 in Moscow, died 8 December 1937 in Katyn forest) was a Russian Orthodox bishop and saint New Martyr.

1881–1937 · Contemporary

Serafim Samoylovich was born in 1881 in Myrhorod and served as an Eastern Orthodox priest and bishop. A citizen of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, he died in 1937 in the Kemerovo Oblast. He is venerated as a hieromartyr.

1881–1950 · Contemporary

Born in 1881 in the Russian Empire, Serafin served as an Eastern Orthodox priest and archbishop. He held the position of bishop until his death in 1950 in Sofia, where he is buried in the Russian Church. He is recognized as a thaumaturge.

1899–1931 · Contemporary

A seraph is a celestial or heavenly being originating in Ancient Judaism. The term plays a role in subsequent Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Tradition places seraphim in the highest rank in Christian angelology and in the fifth rank of ten in the Jewish angelic hierarchy.

1856–1937 · Contemporary

Metropolitan Seraphim (Russian: Митрополи́т Серафи́м 9 June or 9 January 1856 – 11 December 1937), born Leonid Mikhailovich Chichagov (Russian: Леони́д Миха́йлович Чичаго́в, was a Metropolitan bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church who was executed by firing squad, and was canoniz…

1883–1937 · Contemporary

Seraphim Zvezdinsky was an Eastern Orthodox bishop and priest born in Moscow in 1883. A citizen of the Soviet Union, he died in Ishim in 1937. He is venerated as a hieromartyr.

1866–1949 · Contemporary

Seraphim, secular name Vasily Nikolayevich Muravyov (born April 1/13, 1866, in the village of Vakhromeyevo, Rybinsk Uyezd, Yaroslavl Governorate; died April 3, 1949, in Vyritsa), was a Russian Orthodox clergyman and monastic saint.

1873–1918 · Contemporary

Sergi Florinski was an Eastern Orthodox priest born in Suzdal in 1873. A citizen of the Russian Empire, he died in Rakvere in 1918. He is recognized as a hieromartyr.

1870–1948 · Contemporary

Sergius (or Serge) and Bacchus (Greek: Σέργιος & Βάκχος; Classical Syriac: ܣܪܓܝܤ ܘܒܟܘܤ, romanized: Sargīs wa Bākūs; Arabic: سركيس و باخوس, romanized: Sarkīs wa Bākhūs, also called Arabic: سرجيس و باكوس, romanized: Sarjīs wa Bākūs) were fourth-century Syrian Christian soldiers rev…

1870–1937 · Contemporary

Sergius (or Serge) and Bacchus (Greek: Σέργιος & Βάκχος; Classical Syriac: ܣܪܓܝܤ ܘܒܟܘܤ, romanized: Sargīs wa Bākūs; Arabic: سركيس و باخوس, romanized: Sarkīs wa Bākhūs, also called Arabic: سرجيس و باكوس, romanized: Sarjīs wa Bākūs) were fourth-century Syrian Christian soldiers rev…

1871–1922 · Contemporary

Sergius, born Vasily Pavlovich Shein (December 30, 1870, in Kolpna, Tula Governorate – August 13, 1922, in Petrograd), was an archimandrite of the Russian Orthodox Church and a holy new martyr. From 1912 to 1917, he served as a deputy to the State Duma.

1892–1942 · Contemporary

Sergey (Sergius) Alexeyevich Mechev (September 30, 1892, Moscow — January 6, 1942, Yaroslavl) was a protopresbyter and a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was canonized as a hieromartyr in 2000. He was the son of Saint Alexius Mechev.

1863–1940 · Contemporary

Archimandrite Sevastijan (Sebastian, Serbian Cyrillic: Архимандрит Севастијан, secular name John Dabovich or Jovan Dabović; June 9, 1863 – November 30, 1940) was a Serbian-American monk and missionary who became the first Serbian Orthodox monk naturalized in North America.

1844–1909 · Contemporary

Shah Akbar Danapuri (1844–1914) also known as Shah Muhammad Akbar Abulolai Danapuri was an Indian Islamic scholar, preacher, writer, linguist and Sufi poet. He belonged to the Naqshbandi Abulolaiya order of Sufism.

1886–1915 · Contemporary

Shavarsh Krissian (22 July 1886 – 15 August 1915) was an athlete, writer, publicist, journalist, educator, and editor of Marmnamarz, the first sports magazine of the Ottoman Empire.

1845–1913 · Contemporary

Brahmachaitanya (also popularly known as Gondavalekar Maharaj) pronunciation (19 February 1845 – 22 December 1913) was an Indian Hindu saint and spiritual master. He was a devotee of the Hindu deity Rama, and signed his name as "Brahmachaitanya Ramdasi".

1878–1915 · Contemporary

Adom Yarjanian (Armenian: Ատոմ Եարճանեան), better known by his pen name Siamanto (Սիամանթօ; 15 August 1878 – August 1915), was an influential Armenian writer, poet and national figure from the late 19th century and early 20th century.

1866–1938 · Contemporary

Silouan the Athonite (Russian: Силуан Афонский) also sometimes referred to as Silouan of Athos, Saint Silvanus the Athonite or Staretz Silouan (January 17, 1866 – September 24, 1938) was an Eastern Orthodox monk of Russian origin, born Simeon Ivanovich Antonov who was a poet and…

1861–1920 · Contemporary

Silvester Olshevsky was an Eastern Orthodox archbishop born in 1860 in Kosivka, Ukraine, within the Russian Empire. He died in 1920 in Omsk and is venerated as a hieromartyr.

1886–1900 · Contemporary

The Martyr Saints of China (traditional Chinese: 中華殉道聖人; simplified Chinese: 中华殉道圣人; pinyin: Zhōnghuá xùndào shèngrén), or Augustine Zhao Rong and his Companions, are 120 saints of the Catholic Church.

1848–1922 · Contemporary

Simon Gelchyan was an Ottoman Empire physician born in Tokat in 1848. He died in 1922 during the Armenian Genocide and is recognized as a saint.

1915 · Contemporary

Simon Goyunyan (Kharpert, Kharpert Province – 1915, Mush) was an Armenian pharmacist. He was born in the city of Kharpert, the center of Kharpert Province. He received a pharmaceutical education and worked as a pharmacist.

1855–1900 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Simon Qin Cunfu was a Franciscan friar born in Hebei in 1855. He died in Taiyuan in 1900 and is recognized as a Catholic saint and blessed within the Catholic Church.

1870–1915 · Contemporary

Saint Simon Tayljlyan was a physician born in Malatya, Turkey, in 1870. He died in Malatya in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide.

1862–1915 · Contemporary

Smpad Piurad or Smbat Byurat in Eastern transliteration (Armenian: Սմբատ Բյուրատ, March 3, 1862 – 1915) was an Armenian intellectual, writer, publisher and public activist. He was murdered during the Armenian genocide.

1883–1938 · Contemporary

Spiridon Yevtushenko was an Eastern Orthodox deacon born in 1883 in Solonytsivka. A citizen of the Soviet Union, he died in Kharkiv in 1938. He is venerated as a saint and hieromartyr.

1876–1942 · Contemporary

Stanisław Kubski was a Polish Catholic priest, parson, and vicar born in 1876 in Książ, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. He died in 1942 at the Buchenwald concentration camp. He is recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church.

1896–1942 · Contemporary

Stanisław Mysakowski (born September 15, 1896, in Wojsławice, died October 30, 1942, in Dachau) was a Polish Catholic priest, social activist, pastor, and youth mentor, and a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1913–1942 · Contemporary

Stanisław Pyrtek was a Polish Catholic presbyter and vicar born in 1913 in Bystra Podhalańska. He died in 1942 in Hlybokaye and is recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church.

1895–1941 · Contemporary

Stanisław Kostka Starowieyski (1895-1941) is Polish Blessed of the Catholic Church, who was a church, social, and charitable activist, as well as and a papal chamberlain.