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1845–1913 · Contemporary

1841–1926 · Contemporary · Third Order of Saint Dominic

Bartolo Longo, TOSD (10 February 1841 – 5 October 1926) was an Italian lawyer and former Satanic priest who returned to the Catholic faith and became a Dominican tertiary, dedicating his life to the rosary and the Virgin Mary.

1876–1930 · Contemporary

Bishop Vasily (secular name Vasily Ivanovich Zelentsov; March 8, 1876, Zimarovo village, Ranenburg Uyezd, Ryazan Governorate — February 7, 1930, Moscow) was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Bishop of Pryluky, and vicar of the Poltava Diocese.

1867–1918 · Contemporary

Bazyli was an Eastern Orthodox priest, theologian, and bishop born in Kineshma in 1876. A citizen of the Soviet Union, he died in Krasnoyarsk Krai in 1945. He is recognized as a prelate.

1874–1945 · Contemporary

Bazyli Aleksandrowicz Martysz, also known as Wasyl Martysz (born February 21, 1874, in Teratyn, died May 4, 1945, in the same place), was an Orthodox clergyman, protopresbyter, Chief Orthodox Chaplain of the Polish Armed Forces, and an Orthodox saint, one of the Chełm and Podlasi…

1837–1905 · Contemporary

Bonifacia Rodríguez y Castro (6 June 1837 – 8 August 1905) was the co-foundress of the Religious Congregation of the Servants of St. Joseph, who developed the "Nazareth workshop" as both a new format for consecrated life and to help poor and unemployed women.

1871–1932 · Contemporary

Beniamin (Armenian: Բենիամին) is a village in the Akhuryan Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia. The town was renamed in 1945 in honor of Beniamin Galstian, a World War II general and native of the town.

1841–1914 · Contemporary · Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God

Benedict Menni, OH (11 March 1841 – 24 April 1914), born Angelo Ercole Menni Figini, was an Italian Roman Catholic priest. Menni was a professed member of the Order of the Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God and he went on to establish a religious congregation of women kno…

1908–1934 · Contemporary · Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools

Saint Benjamin Julian (born Vicente Alonso Andrés; Jaramillo de la Fuente, Burgos, October 27, 1908 – Turón, Asturias, October 9, 1934) was a Spanish religious brother who was killed during the Revolution of Asturias of 1934.

1880–1928 · Contemporary

Jesús Méndez Montoya (Tarímbaro, June 10, 1880 – Mexico, February 5, 1928) was a Mexican priest. As vicar of Valtierrilla, he was a victim of the Cristero War: on February 5, 1928, the Mexican army broke into his church and executed him by firing squad in the building's courtyar…

1937–1992 · Contemporary

Awadhut Mahaprabhu Aghoreshwar Baba Bhagwan Ram (1937–1992) was an Indian guru from Varanasi, a saint of the ascetic Aghori Panth tradition, and a successor in the lineage (parampara) of the Hindu saint Kina Ram.

1901–1982 · Contemporary

Bhakti Hridaya Bon (Sanskrit: भक्ति हृदय वन, IAST: Bhakti Hṛdaya Vana), also known as Swami Bon (Baharpur, 23 March 1901 – Vrindavan, 7 July 1982), was a disciple of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati and a guru in the Gaudiya Math following the philosophy of bhakti, specifically that of…

1898–1968 · Contemporary

Bhakti Prajnan Keshava (IAST: Bhakti Prajñāna Keśava; 24 January 1898 – 6 October 1968), addressed by the honorific Mahārāja (Mahārāja), was a Gaudiya Vaishnava guru, disciple of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati and the founder-acharya of the religious organisation "Sri Gaudiya Vedanta…

1898–1999 · Contemporary

Bhakti Pramode Puri Goswami (born Pramoda Bhushan Chakravarty) was a saint of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, a philosopher, writer, theologian, and the founder and acharya of the Gaudiya Vaishnava religious organization Sri Gopinatha Gaudiya Math.

1895–1988 · Contemporary

Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar (IAST: Bhakti-rakṣaka Śrīdhara; 10 October 1895 – 12 August 1988) was an Indian guru, writer, sannyasi and spiritual leader in the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, founder-president-acharya of the Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math.

1853–1937 · Contemporary

Biśuddhānanda Paramahaṃsa was born in 1853 and died in 1937. He is recognized as a saint.

1913–1942 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Boniface Zukowski (born Piotr Żukowski on January 13, 1913, in Baran-Rapa; died at Auschwitz on April 10, 1942) was a Conventual Franciscan, a martyr of Nazism, and was beatified by John Paul II on June 13, 1999. His feast day is April 10.

1875–1937 · Contemporary

Boris, born Semyon Timofeyevich (Petrovich?) Voskoboynikov (born August 20/September 1, 1875, in Alexandrovskaya Sloboda, Voronezh Governorate; died December 6, 1937, in Kazakhstan), was a Russian Orthodox bishop and a holy new martyr.

1905–1942 · Contemporary

Brunon Zembol, OFM, born Jan Brunon Zembol (September 7, 1905, in Łętownia – August 21, 1942, in Dachau), was a Polish Catholic priest, a Friar Minor (Reformed), a martyr of World War II, and a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1861–1918 · Contemporary

Budrin Alexey was an Eastern Orthodox Christian minister, politician, and deputy who served as a member of the State Duma of the Russian Empire. Born in the Perm Governorate in 1861, he died in Krasnoufimsk in 1918 from a gunshot wound. He is recognized as a hieromartyr.

1903–1930 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Callistus Caravario (18 June 1903 ― 25 February 1930) was a Salesian priest serving in China, who along with Luigi Versiglia was martyred in China on 25 February 1930. Caravario was born in Cuorgnè, Italy on 18 June 1903.

1845–1912 · Contemporary

Cándida María de Jesús (31 May 1845 – 9 August 1912), born in Andoain, as Juana Josefa Cipitria y Barriola, was a Spanish nun and the founder of the Daughters of Jesus.

1852–1923 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Carolina Santocanale (2 October 1852 - 27 January 1923) was an Italian Roman Catholic nun who assumed the name of "Maria of Jesus" and established the Capuchin Sisters of the Immaculata of Lourdes.

1913–1944 · Contemporary

Celestina Catarina Faron was a Polish Christian nun and teacher born in 1913 in Zabrze. A member of the Catholic Church, she died in 1944 at Auschwitz. She is recognized as a blessed Catholic saint.

1873–1900 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Cesidio of Fossa (born Angelo Giacomantonio on August 30, 1873, in Fossa, Italy; died July 4, 1900, in Hengchow, Hunan province, China) was an Italian Reformed Franciscan missionary.

1858–1916 · Contemporary · Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance

Charles de Foucauld, born as Charles Eugène, vicomte de Foucauld de Pontbriand, (15 September 1858 – 1 December 1916), religious name Charles of Jesus, was a French monk, Catholic priest and hermit who lived among the Tuareg people in the Sahara in Algeria.

1867–1922 · Contemporary

Chrysostomos Kalafatis (Greek: Χρυσόστομος Καλαφάτης; 8 January 1867 – 9 September 1922), also known as Saint Chrysostomos of Smyrna, Chrysostomos of Smyrna and Metropolitan Chrysostom, was the Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Smyrna (İzmir) between 1910 and 1914, and again…

1905–1975 · Contemporary

Constantin Sârbu (born January 10, 1905, in Cavadinești, Romania; died October 23, 1975, in Bucharest, Romania) was a Romanian Orthodox priest, canonized as a saint by the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church during its session on July 11–12, 2024, under the title Saint Pri…

1869–1927 · Contemporary

Cristóbal Magallanes Jara (anglicized as Christopher Magallanes; July 30, 1869 – May 25, 1927) was a Mexican Catholic priest and martyr who was killed without trial on the way to say Mass during the Cristero War. He had faced trumped-up charges of inciting rebellion.

1863–1937 · Contemporary

Cyril (also Cyrillus or Cyryl) is a masculine given name. It is derived from the Greek name Κύριλλος (Kýrillos), meaning 'lordly, masterful', which in turn derives from Greek κυριος (kýrios) 'lord'.

1919–1942 · Contemporary

Czesław Jóźwiak (also known as Ceslaus; born September 7, 1919, in Łążyn near Bydgoszcz; died August 24, 1942, in Dresden) was a Polish resistance fighter associated with the Salesians of Don Bosco.

1878–1937 · Contemporary

Damaskin (Macedonian: Дамаскин) is a chronicle of church-liturgical books. Later, the damaskins became church collections with teaching words and lives. They appeared at the end of the 16th century in the western Bulgarian lands and existed until the middle of the 19th century.

1873–1937 · Contemporary

Cosmas and Damian (c. 3rd century – c. 287 or c. 303 AD) were two Arab physicians and early Christian martyrs. They practised their profession in the seaport of Aegeae, then in the Roman province of Cilicia.

1884–1915 · Contemporary

Daniel Varoujan (Armenian: Դանիէլ Վարուժան, 20 April 1884 – 26 August 1915) was an Armenian poet of the early 20th century. At the age of 31, when he was reaching international stature, he was deported and murdered by the Young Turk government, as part of the officially planned a…

1870–1938 · Contemporary

Daria Zaitseva was born in 1870 in the Ryazan Governorate and was a follower of Eastern Orthodoxy in the Soviet Union. She died in 1938 at the Butovo firing range, where she is also buried. She is recognized as a Reverend Martyr.

1881–1915 · Contemporary

David Galván Bermúdez (29 January 1881 – 30 January 1915) was a Mexican Catholic priest who was killed during the Cristero War. He was canonized by Pope John Paul II on 21 May 2000 as one of 25 Martyrs of the Cristero War.

1902–1926 · Contemporary

David Roldán Lara (2 March 1902 – 15 August 1926) was a Mexican layman who was killed during the Cristero War. A pro-Catholic activist during the anticlerical period under President Plutarco Elías Calles, he was captured by government forces, and was executed for refusing to reno…

1889–1927 · Contemporary

David Uribe Velasco (Buenavista de Cuéllar, Guerrero, December 29, 1889 – San José Vista Hermosa, Morelos, April 12, 1927) was a Mexican priest and martyr of the Catholic Church.

1865–1937 · Contemporary

Demetrius is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek male given name Dēmḗtrios (Δημήτριος), meaning "devoted to goddess Demeter". Alternate forms include Demetrios, Dimitrios, Dimitris, Dmytro, Dimitri, Dimitrie, Dimitar, Dumitru, Demitri, Dhimitër, Dimitrije and Zmicier, in addi…

1901–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Augustinian Recollects

Deogracias Palacios, O.A.R. (born May 22, 1901, in Baños de Valdearados; 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 15, he entered the Augustinian order.

1839–1919 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Giuseppe Oddi (6 June 1839 - 3 June 1919) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious - though not a priest - of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.

1884–1915 · Contemporary

Dikran Chögürian (Տիգրան Չէօկիւրեան, 1884, Gümüşhane, Ottoman Empire – 1915) was an ethnic Armenian writer and teacher, editor of the journal Vostan (Ոստան) and a victim of the Armenian genocide.

1904–1944 · Contemporary

Dimitri Andreyevich Klepinin, or Saint Dimitri of Paris (Russian: Димитрий Андреевич Клепинин), was a Russian Orthodox priest, a stateless resistance fighter in occupied Paris, who died for France, and is recognized as a martyr and saint.

1902–1975 · Contemporary

Saint Dimitrios Gagastathis (August 1, 1902 – January 29, 1975) was a 20th-century Greek clergyman and father of nine children, who was canonized by the Orthodox Church in 2025 and is commemorated on January 29, the day of his repose.

1862–1915 · Contemporary

Diran Kelekian (Dikran Kelegian, Armenian: Տիրան Քէլէկեան, 1862–1915) was an Ottoman Armenian journalist and professor at the Darülfünûn-u Şahâne (now the University of Istanbul). He was editor of two newspapers, Cihan (since 1883) and Sabah (since 1908).

1871–1937 · Contemporary

Dmitry Lebedev was an Eastern Orthodox theologian and protoiereus who lived from 1871 to 1937. He is recognized as a hieromartyr.

1924–1975 · Contemporary

Dometie Manolache (October 15, 1924, Bălănești, Romania – July 6, 1975, Râmeț, Romania) was a Romanian Orthodox monk with the rank of archimandrite, canonized as a saint by the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church during its session on July 11–12, 2024, under the title Sain…

1886–1942 · Contemporary

Dominik Jędrzejewski (4 August 1886 – 29 August 1942) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest killed at the Dachau concentration camp during World War II. He was beatified in Warsaw on 13 June 1999. Jędrzejewski was born in Kowal, Poland, and was the youngest of six children.

1882–1961 · Contemporary

Donizetti Tavares de Lima (3 January 1882 – 16 June 1961) was a Brazilian Catholic priest. Tavares de Lima was ordained to the priesthood in 1908 and served as a parish priest in various churches across Brazil but was noted for his extensive work at the San Antonio church in Tam…

1877–1945 · Contemporary

Dositej Vasić (Serbian Cyrillic: Доситеј Васић; 5 December 1878 – 13 January 1945) was the first Serbian Orthodox Metropolitan of Zagreb and a victim of the genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia. He is an Eastern Orthodox saint.