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1909–1936 · Contemporary

Jose Richard Diez OAR was born in 1909 in León and died in 1936 in Motril. He is a Catholic saint recognized by the Catholic Church.

1913–1928 · Contemporary

José Luis "Joselito" Sánchez del Río (March 28, 1913 – February 10, 1928) was a Mexican Cristero put to death by government officials because he refused to renounce his Catholic faith.

1902–1975 · Contemporary

Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás (9 January 1902 – 26 June 1975) was a Spanish Catholic priest who founded Opus Dei, an organization of laypeople and priests dedicated to the principle of everyday holiness. He was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2002.

1833–1901 · Contemporary · Sons of the Holy Family

Josep Manyanet i Vives, SF (7 January 1833 – 17 December 1901) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Sons of the Holy Family and the Missionary Daughters of the Holy Family.

1945–1980 · Contemporary · Missionaries of the Sacred Heart

José María Gran Cirera (born 27 April 1945 in Barcelona, died 4 June 1980 in Xeixojbitz, Quiché Department) was a Spanish Catholic priest serving in Guatemala, a missionary, member of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, martyr, victim of the Guatemalan Civil War, and a Blessed…

1852–1908 · Contemporary · Divine Word Missionaries

Joseph Freinademetz SVD (simplified Chinese: 圣福若瑟; traditional Chinese: 聖福若瑟; pinyin: Shèng Fú Ruòsè; April 15, 1852 – January 28, 1908), was a Ladin Catholic priest and missionary in China. He was a member of the Society of the Divine Word.

1831–1914 · Contemporary

Joseph Gérard, OMI (12 March 1831 – 29 May 1914) was a French Catholic priest and a professed member from the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; he worked in the missions among the Basotho people in Lesotho and the Free State province of South Africa.

1840–1900 · Contemporary

1863–1900 · Contemporary

1823–1900 · Contemporary

1853–1900 · Contemporary

1897–1959 · Contemporary

Saint Joseph the Hesychast (Greek: Ιωσήφ ο Ησυχαστής; born Fragkiskos Kottis, Greek: Φραγκίσκος Κόττης; 12 February 1897 – 15 August 1959) was a Greek Orthodox monk and elder who led a small group of monks at Mount Athos.

1869–1947 · Contemporary

Josephine Margaret Bakhita, FDCC (Arabic: جوزفين بخيتة; c. 1869 – 8 February 1947) was a Sudanese Catholic religious sister who joined the Canossians after winning her freedom from slavery. She served in Italy for 50 years until her death in 1947.

1840–1914 · Contemporary

Saint Joseph Gabriel of the Rosary (sometimes José Gabriel del Rosario Brochero; 16 March 1840 – 26 January 1914), also referred to as Priest Brochero (in Spanish:Cura Brochero), was a Catholic priest who suffered leprosy throughout his life.

1864–1919 · Contemporary · Secular Franciscan Order

José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros, O.F.S. was a Venezuelan physician and active member of the Third Order of Saint Francis. Born in Isnotú, Trujillo State, he became a highly renowned doctor, more so after his death.

1851–1904 · Contemporary

José María de Yermo y Parres (10 November 1851 – 20 September 1904) was a Mexican Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and of the Poor.

1888–1927 · Contemporary

José María Robles Hurtado (May 3, 1888 – June 26, 1927) was a Mexican priest and one of several priests martyred during the Cristero War. He was born to the devoutly-Catholic family of Antonio Robles and Petronilla Hurtado in Mascota, Jalisco.

1864–1929 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Jose Maria Rubio, SJ (22 July 1864 – 2 May 1929) was a Spanish Jesuit, known as the "Apostle of Madrid". He was canonised in 2003 by Pope John Paul II.

1900–1943 · Contemporary

Julia Rapiej (Maria Sergia of the Mother of God of Sorrows; born August 18, 1900, in Rogożyn, died August 1, 1943, near Nowogródek) was a Polish religious sister of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth and a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1878–1937 · Contemporary

Juvenaly, born Yevgeny Alexandrovich Maslovsky (January 15, 1878, in Livny – died the night of October 24–25, 1937), was a Russian Orthodox bishop who was venerated as a new martyr from 2000 to 2013.

1911–1943 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Józef Achilles Puchała (18 March 1911 – 19 July 1943) was a Polish Franciscan friar from the Iwieniec (Ivyanets) monastery, tortured and killed by the Nazis during World War II and beatified by Pope John Paul II on 13 June 1999.

1860–1923 · Contemporary

Józef Bilczewski (26 April 1860 – 20 March 1923) was a Polish Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Lviv from 1900 until his death.

1902–1941 · Contemporary

Józef Cebula (23 March 1902 – 9 May 1941) was a Polish priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI). Born on 23 March 1902 into a modest family in Mallnie, Upper Silesia, German Empire (now Malnia, Poland), Joseph Cebula was the eldest of three children.

1910–1941 · Contemporary · Pallottines

Joseph Jankowski, SAC, born on November 17, 1910, in Czyczkowy, Kashubia, and died on October 16, 1941, in Auschwitz, was a Polish Catholic priest of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate (Pallottines), beatified by John Paul II on June 13, 1999, in Warsaw.

1910–1940 · Contemporary

Józef Kurzawa (1910–1940) was a Polish and Roman Catholic priest. He was executed by firing squad. He is one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II who were beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1999.

1890–1942 · Contemporary

Józef Pawłowski (born 29 August 1990) is a Polish actor. He has appeared in more than ten films since 2011. Józef is the grandson of Jerzy Pawlowski and actress Teresa Szmigielówny. His older brother, Stefan, is also an actor.

1842–1924 · Contemporary

Józef Sebastian Pelczar (17 January 1842 – 28 March 1924) was a Polish Roman Catholic bishop and was also the co-founder of the Sister Servants of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus which he had established in 1894 with Ludwika Szczęsna.

1885–1942 · Contemporary

Józef Straszewski (born January 18, 1885, in Włocławek, died August 12, 1942, in Hartheim) was a Polish Catholic priest and a blessed of the Catholic Church. He was the first pastor of St. Stanislaus Parish in Włocławek (starting March 15, 1922) and the builder of its church.

1904–1945 · Contemporary

Józef Zapłata was a Polish Catholic priest born in 1904 in Jerka. He died of typhus in 1945 at the Dachau concentration camp. He is recognized as a blessed saint within the Catholic Church.

1896–1943 · Contemporary

Józefa Chrobot, CSFN, Sister Maria Kanuta of the Lord Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane (born May 22, 1896, in Raczyn; 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 Catho…

1876–1934 · Contemporary

Archbishop John (Latvian: Аrhibīskaps Jānis, Russian: Архиепископ Иоанн, secular name Jānis Pommers or Ivan Andreyevich Pommer, Russian: Иван Андреевич Поммер; 6 (18) January 1876 – 29 September (12 October) 1934) was the first Latvian Archbishop of the Latvian Orthodox Church, s…

1919–1984 · Contemporary

Greek theologian

1884–1966 · Contemporary

Sebastian, born Stepan Vasilyevich Fomin (October 28, 1884, in Kosmodemyanskoye, Oryol Governorate – April 19, 1966), was a Russian Orthodox clergyman and a member of the Synaxis of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.

1910–1943 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Hermann Stępień (21 October 1910 – 19 July 1943) was a Polish Roman Catholic martyr. Karol Stępień was born into a poor family on 21 October 1910, in Łódź, Poland. Stępień was educated in Łódź. He attended the Franciscan seminary in Lviv, graduating in 1929.

1858–1955 · Contemporary · Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament

Katharine Drexel, SBS (born Catherine Mary Drexel; November 26, 1858 – March 3, 1955) was an American Catholic religious sister, and educator. In 1891, she founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, a religious congregation serving Black and Indigenous Americans.

1883–1915 · Contemporary

Kegham Parseghian (Գեղամ Բարսեղեան) (1883 – 1915), was an Armenian writer, teacher, editor, and journalist. Kegham Parseghian was born in the Gedik Paşa district of Constantinople.

1863–1915 · Contemporary

Khachatur Malumian (Armenian: Խաչատուր Մալումեան; 1863 – 1915), also known by the pseudonym E. Aknuni (also Aknouni or Agnouni; Armenian: Է․ Ակնունի), was an Armenian journalist and political activist. He was a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.

1889–1937 · Contemporary

Kira Oboleńska was born in 1889 in Hrubieszów to her father, Ivan Obolensky. A teacher by profession, she died in 1937 in Borovichi. She is recognized as a saint.

1878–1915 · Contemporary

Kirakos Azaryan was an ophthalmologist and physician born in 1878 in Ulukent, Ottoman Empire. He died in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide and is recognized as a saint.

1864–1937 · Contemporary

Konstantin, secular name Konstantin Grigoryevich Dyakov (born May 9/21, 1871 or 1875 in the Chernigov Governorate, died November 10, 1937, in Kyiv) was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church and a new martyr.

1852–1918 · Contemporary

Konstantin Dmitriyevich Golubev (Russian: Константи́н Дми́триевич Го́лубев; 27 March 1896 – 9 June 1956) was a Soviet general and army commander. He was born in Petrovsk, Saratov Governorate (in present-day Saratov Oblast).

1896–1918 · Contemporary

Konstantin of Merkushino (Konstantin Stefanovich Bogoyavlensky) (May 18, 1896 – July 14 [27], 1918) was a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church who was executed by firing squad in Merkushino in 1918 and canonized as a hieromartyr in 2002.

1874–1918 · Contemporary

Konstantin Minyatov was a Russian Empire lawyer born in 1874 in Oryol. He died in 1918 in Yekaterinburg from a gunshot wound. He is recognized as a saint within Eastern Orthodoxy.

1876–1938 · Contemporary

Nikolai Konstantinovich Krasovsky (May 7, 1876, Vladimir Governorate — January 31, 1938, Butovo firing range, Moscow Oblast) was a priest and a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church, canonized as a hieromartyr in 2001 for veneration by the entire church.

1884–1915 · Contemporary

Krikor Torosian (Armenian: Գրիգոր Թորոսյան, 1884 – 1915) was an Armenian satirical writer, journalist, and publisher. He started his own satirical journal entitled Gigo, which became popular among the Armenians in Constantinople.

1861–1915 · Contemporary

Krikor Zohrab (Armenian: Գրիգոր Զոհրապ; 26 June 1861 – 1915) was an Armenian writer, politician, and lawyer from Constantinople. At the onset of the Armenian genocide he was arrested by the Turkish government and sent to appear before a military court in Diyarbakır.

1859–1937 · Contemporary

Kronid, born Konstantin Petrovich Lyubimov (1 May/13 May 1859 in Levkiyevo – 10 December 1937 at the Butovo firing range), was a Russian Orthodox monk, archimandrite, and the last superior of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius before its closure by the Bolshevik authorities.

1875–1964 · Contemporary

Kuksha of Odessa, born Kuzma Kirillovich Velichko (25 January [O.S. January 12] 1875 in Arbuzynka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire – 24 December 1964 in Odessa, USSR), was an imperial Russian priest and a Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) saint who was canonized…

1855–1918 · Contemporary

St. Kyrion II (Georgian: კირიონ II) (November 10, 1855 – 26 June 1918) was a Georgian religious figure and historian who served as the first Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia after the restoration of independence (autocephaly) of the Georgian Orthodox Church from the Russian Or…

1871–1900 · Contemporary

Saint Lang Yang (Chinese: 郎楊) (born 1871 in Lu, Hebei, China; died July 16, 1900, in Lujiapo, Hebei) was a saint of the Catholic Church and a martyr. Lang Yang was born in the village of Lu in Hebei province. She had one son, Paul Lang Fu.