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1897–1918 · Contemporary

Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley (Russian: Князь Владимир Павлович Палей; 9 January 1897 – 18 July 1918) was a Russian nobleman and poet who was murdered by the Bolsheviks when he was 21 years old.

1892–1938 · Contemporary

Vladimir Vasilevsky was an Eastern Orthodox priest born in Tashkent in 1892 and a citizen of the Soviet Union. He died in Kharkiv in 1938 and is recognized as a saint within the Eastern Orthodox Church.

1876–1940 · Contemporary

Vladimir Mikhailovich Vorobyov (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Воробьёв; born 6 January 1969) is an officer of the Russian Navy. He currently holds the rank of Admiral, and is a deputy commander in chief of the Russian Navy since 2024.

1869–1931 · Contemporary

Vladimir Fyodorovich Vvedensky (1869–April 3, 1931) was a Russian Orthodox priest, martyr, and saint, born in Shuya (Vladimir Governorate) and who died on Anzer Island (one of the Solovetsky Islands). He was canonized in 2002.

1881–1937 · Contemporary

Vladimir Dmitrievich Vvedensky (July 14, 1881, Kalyazinsky Uyezd, Tver Governorate — November 3, 1937, Kashin, Kalinin Oblast) was a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church, venerated as a hieromartyr.

1906–1941 · Contemporary

Volodymyr Pryjma (Ukrainian: Володимир Прийма; 17 July 1906 – 26 June 1941) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic choir director and martyr. Pryjma was born on 17 July 1906 in the village of Stradch, Yavoriv District.

1943 · Contemporary

Vukašin Mandrapa (Serbian Cyrillic: Вукашин Мандрапа; died 1942 or 1943), also known as Vukašin of Klepci (Serbian: Вукашин Клепачки, romanized: Vukašin Klepački) is venerated as a Serbian Orthodox saint who was allegedly murdered in the Jasenovac concentration camp.

1882–1918 · Contemporary

Vyacheslav Georgiyevich Lukanin (March 4, 1882, Perm — August 3, 1918, Nevyansk) was a deacon of the Perm and Yekaterinburg dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church.

1879–1941 · Contemporary

Vassian, born Vladimir Vasilyevich Pyatnitsky (26 February/10 March 1879 in Moscow – 9 January 1941 in the Komi Autonomous Republic or 27 December 1938 in Sverdlovsk), was a Russian Orthodox bishop and a holy new martyr.

1916–1943 · Contemporary

Weronika Narmontowicz, CSFN, known as Sister Maria Boromea (born December 5/18, 1916, in Wiercieliszki; died August 1, 1943, near Nowogródek), was a Polish religious sister of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth and a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1869–1940 · Contemporary

Wincenty Matuszewski (born March 3, 1869, in Wola Chruścińska, died May 24, 1940, in a forest near Witowo-Kolonia) was a Polish Catholic priest and a blessed of the Catholic Church. He was the son of Józef and Józefa, née Strużyńska.

1908–1944 · Contemporary

Władysław Błądziński, CSMA (born July 6, 1908, in Myślatycze, died c. September 8, 1944, in Gross-Rosen) was a Polish Catholic priest, a member of the Congregation of Saint Michael the Archangel, a blessed of the Catholic Church, and a martyr of Gross-Rosen.

1884–1940 · Contemporary

Władysław Demski was born in 1884 in Straszewo, Pomeranian Voivodeship, and served as a Catholic priest, vicar, and presbyter. A citizen of Poland, he died in 1940 at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He is recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church.

1910–1942 · Contemporary

Władysław Maćkowiak was a Polish Catholic presbyter born in 1910 in Sytki. He died in 1942 in Hlybokaye and is recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church.

1892–1942 · Contemporary

Władysław Miegoń (born September 30, 1892, in Samborzec; died October 15, 1942, in Dachau concentration camp) was a military chaplain of the Polish Navy of the Second Polish Republic, ultimately holding the rank of senior chaplain.

1911–1942 · Contemporary

Władysław Mączkowski (born June 24, 1911, in Ociąż; died August 20, 1942, in Dachau) was a Polish Catholic priest and a blessed of the Catholic Church. The son of Szczepan, he passed his secondary school final examinations in 1931 at the Boys' Gymnasium in Ostrów Wielkopolski.

1886–1940 · Contemporary

Włodzimierz Laskowski was a Polish Catholic presbyter and vicar born in 1886 in Rogoźno. He died in 1940 at the Mauthausen concentration camp. He is recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church.

1885–1938 · Contemporary

Włodzimierz Pasternacki was born in 1885 in Dudzičy and served as a parson in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. He died in 1938 in Smolensk and is recognized as a hieromartyr.

1896–1941 · Contemporary

Yakym Senkivskyi (Ukrainian: Яким Сеньківський; 2 May 1896 – 29 June 1941) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and martyr. Senkivskyi was born in the village of Velyki Hayi in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (present-day Velyki Hayi, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine).

1855–1928 · Contemporary

Georgy Kossov (Russian: Георгий Коссов) also known as Yegor Chekryakovsky (Егор Чекряковский, literally Yegor of Chekryak, Yegor being a simplified form of Georgy; 4 April 1855 – 19 April 1928) was a Russian Orthodox priest, confessor and starets.

1875–1937 · Contemporary

Ekaterina Andreyevna Arskaya (born April 1, 1875, in Saint Petersburg; died December 17, 1937, in Novgorod) was a Russian Orthodox saint and new martyr. She came from a merchant family.

1887–1938 · Contemporary

Ekaterina Grigoryevna Konstantinova (November 11 [23], 1887 – March 20, 1938) was a novice at the Moscow Convent of the Sorrowful Mother of God. She is venerated as a venerable martyr in the Russian Orthodox Church.

1881–1915 · Contemporary

Yenovk Shahen (Armenian: Ենովք Շահէն; 3 February 1881 – 28 May 1915) was an ethnic Armenian actor and director who lived in the Ottoman Empire. He was killed during the Armenian genocide.

1906–1976 · Contemporary

Saint Yostos El Antony, Yustos El Anthony, or Abouna Yustos or The Silent Monk Arabic: يسطس الانطونى (1910 – 1976) was a Christian monk from Egypt. St Yustos was born in Zarabie El-Muharraq. His father named him Nagyib.

1865–1937 · Contemporary

Zechariah was a Jewish priest mentioned in the New Testament and as a prophet in Quran, and venerated in Christianity and Islam. In the Bible, he is the father of John the Baptist, a priest of the sons of Aaron in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 1:67–79), and the husband of Elizabeth wh…

1843–1900 · Contemporary

Zhang Huailu was born in Hebei in 1843 and died in the same province in 1900. He is recognized as a Catholic saint and blessed.

1896–1985 · Contemporary

Zinobi was an Eastern Orthodox priest and metropolitan who was born in Hlukhiv in 1896 and died in Tbilisi in 1985. A citizen of the Russian Empire, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union, he served as a religious leader and prelate. He is buried at the Alexander Nevsky Church in Tbilisi.

1871–1938 · Contemporary

Zofia Sieliwiorstowa, born Sofiya Panfilovna Selivyorstova (September 17, 1871, in Iznair – February 28, 1938, at the Butovo firing range), was a Russian novice who was canonized in 2000 as part of the Synaxis of New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.

1845–1920 · Contemporary

Zygmunt Gorazdowski (1 November 1845 – 1 January 1920) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Sisters of Saint Joseph. Gorazdowski suffered from tuberculosis during his childhood which impeded his studies for the priesthood and which required him to take time o…

1902–1943 · Contemporary

Zygmunt Pisarski was a Polish Catholic priest born in 1902 in Krasnystaw. He died in 1943 in Gdeszyn as a murder victim and is recognized as a Catholic saint.

1897–1940 · Contemporary

Zygmunt Sajna was a Catholic priest born in 1897 in Żurawlówka and a citizen of the Second Polish Republic. He died in 1940 in Palmiry and is buried at the Palmiry Cemetery. He is recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church.

1911–1941 · Contemporary

Georgije Bogić was a Serbian Orthodox protopresbyter and the parish priest of the Orthodox church in Našice; who was martyred by the Ustaše during the Second World War, for which he was canonized as Saint George of Slavonia (Serbian: Георгије Славонски, romanized: Georgije Slavon…

1889–1937 · Contemporary

Hieromartyr John (Melnichenko), born Ivan Sidorovich Melnichenko (September 26, 1889, Ustye, Bershad Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine — September 15, 1937, Burma, Shet Raion, Karaganda Oblast, Kazakhstan), was a priest and hieromartyr.