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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.

1904–1940 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Józef Cyrek (13 September 1904 –2 September 1940) was a Polish Jesuit and writer who shortly after the Nazi invasion of Poland was arrested by the Gestapo, imprisoned at several places of detention, and lastly deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp where he was murdered.

1883–1942 · Contemporary

Józef Czempiel (born 21 September 1883 in Piekary Śląskie – 4 May 1942) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest, activist. He was murdered in Dachau concentration camp. On 13 June 1999, Czempiel was among 108 Polish martyrs of World War II, beatified in Warsaw by Pope John Paul II.

1890–1940 · Contemporary · Conventual Franciscans

Innocent Guz OFM Conv. (Polish: Innocenty Guz; March 18, 1890 in Lemberg, Austria – June 6, 1940), born Joseph Adalbert Guz (Polish: Józef Wojciech Guz), was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar who was martyred by a Nazi guard at the Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen concentration camp…

1911–1942 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Józef Kowalski (13 March 1911 – 4 July 1942) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest from the Salesian Society murdered at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. He was beatified in Warsaw on 13 June 1999.

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.

1900–1944 · Contemporary

The Ulma family (Polish: Rodzina Ulmów) or Józef and Wiktoria Ulma with Seven Children (Polish: Józef i Wiktoria Ulmowie z siedmiorgiem Dzieci) were a Polish Catholic family in Markowa, Poland, during the Nazi German occupation in World War II who attempted to rescue Polish Jewis…

1892–1975 · Contemporary

József Mindszenty was a Hungarian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Esztergom and leader of the Catholic Church in Hungary from 1945 to 1973.

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…

1893–1952 · Contemporary · Assumptionists

Peter Vitchev, also known as Kamen Vitchev, was a Bulgarian Eastern Catholic and an Assumptionist priest who was martyred by the Bulgarian communist regime. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 2002.

1915–1945 · Contemporary

Karl Leisner (28 February 1915 in Rees – 12 August 1945 in Planegg, Germany) was a German Catholic priest interned in the Dachau concentration camp. He died of tuberculosis shortly after being liberated by the Allied forces.

1838–1922 · Contemporary

Karmni Grima (2 February 1838 – 25 May 1922) was a Maltese peasant whose mystical religious experience led to the constructions and services as an apostle of Our Lady of Ta' Pinu. Karmni Grima was born in the village of Għarb in Gozo, the sister island of Malta.

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.

1898–1914 · Contemporary

Karolina Kózka (2 August 1898 – 18 November 1914) was a sixteen-year old Polish victim of a sex attack and murder. Prior to that she was known locally for her strong faith and her eagerness to catechize her neighbours and children.

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.

1912–1942 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Kazimierz Dembowski (3 August 1912 – 10 August 1942) was a Polish Jesuit involved in the religious publishing industry, who shortly after the German invasion of Poland was arrested by the Gestapo, imprisoned at several places of detention, and lastly deported to the Dachau concen…

1904–1941 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Kazimierz Wojciechowski, SDB (16 August 1904 – 27 June 1941) was a Polish Catholic priest, a member of the Salesians of Don Bosco. He was involved in the education of the youth, and after the Nazi invasion of Poland was arrested by the Gestapo, imprisoned at Montelupich, and subs…

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.

1863–1916 · Contemporary

Klara Szczęsna, S.S.C.J. (18 July 1863 – 7 February 1916) was a Polish Catholic religious sister. She was the co-founder of the Sisters, Servants of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus which she established with Józef Sebastian Pelczar.

1869–1951 · Contemporary

Klymentiy Sheptytsky (Polish: Klemens Szeptycki, Ukrainian: Климентій Шептицький; 17 November 1869 – 1 May 1951) also known as Klymentiy of Univ (Ukrainian: Климентій Унівський) was the archimandrite of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Order of Studite Monks and a hieromartyr.

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).

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.

1885–1941 · Contemporary

Marija Krizina Bojanc FDC (May 14 1885 – December 15, 1941), baptized Jožefa, was a Slovenian Roman Catholic nun, farmer, and martyr. She was a sister of the Institute of the Daughters of Divine Charity, and is one of the five Blessed Martyrs of Drina.

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…

1878–1942 · Contemporary

Lambert Ehrlich (18 September 1878 – 26 May 1942) was a Carinthian Slovene Roman Catholic priest, political figure, and ethnologist. Ehrlich was born in the hamlet of Seifnitz in the Canal Valley (Slovene: Žabnice) in the town of Tarvisio, then part of the Duchy of Carinthia (no…

1875–1967 · Contemporary · Sisters Augustines Recollects of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Laura Evangelista Alvarado Cardozo (25 April 1875 - 2 April 1967) was a Venezuelan religious sister who had established the Augustinian Recollect Sisters of the Heart of Jesus as a means of aiding the ill. Upon her profession she assumed the religious name María de San José.

1891–1904 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Laura del Carmen Vicuña Pino (5 April 1891 – 22 January 1904) was a Chilean child who was noted for her religious devotion. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1988 as the patron of abuse victims, having herself experienced physical abuse.

1875–1949 · Contemporary

Laura Montoya, in full María Laura de Jesús Montoya Upegui (26 May 1874 – 21 October 1949), religious name Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena, was a Colombian Roman Catholic religious sister and the founder of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Virgin Mar…

1936–2011 · Contemporary

Laureana Franco (4 July 1936 – 17 October 2011), also known as "Ka Luring Franco", was a Filipino Catholic catechist and member of the Legion of Mary who devoted her life to serving her local diocese and its poor.

1877–1918 · Contemporary

Saint Lawrence or Laurence (Latin: Laurentius, lit. 'laurelled'; 31 December 225 – 10 August 258) was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the persecution of the Christians ordered by the Roman emperor Valerian in 258.

1892–1945 · Contemporary

Lazër Shantoja (7 July 1891 – 5 March 1945) was an Albanian blessed, publicist, poet, satirist, and translator into Albanian from Goethe, Schiller and Leopardi, as well as his country's first Esperantist.

1843–1925 · Contemporary

Léon-Gustave Dehon, SCJ (14 March 1843 – 12 August 1925), also known as Jean of the Sacred Heart, was a French Catholic priest and the founder of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (the Dehonians).

1913–1939 · Contemporary

Leon Nowakowski, nom de guerre "Lig", (born 1908 near Odessa, died 1944 in Warsaw) was a Polish soldier, a member of the Home Army and the moderate faction of the National Armed Forces which merged with it, with a rank of major, creator and later the commander of the Chrobry II B…

1886–1941 · Contemporary

Leon Wetmański (10 April 1886 - 1941) was a Polish Catholic auxiliary Bishop of the Płock diocese who was killed in Soldau concentration camp. He was beatified in 1999 as one of the 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs. He was born in 1886 to a wealthy family.

1881–1915 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Leonard Melki (4 October 1881 – 11 June 1915) – born Yūsuf Habīb Melkī and in religion Līūnār of B'abdāt – was a Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. His name is often Romanized in various texts.

1862–1912 · Contemporary

Leonardo Castellanos y Castellanos (5 November 1862 in Ecuandureo, Michoacán − 19 May 1912) was a Mexican Roman Catholic bishop. Ordained to the priesthood on 20 March 1886, Castellanos y Castellanos was named bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tabasco, Mexico in 1908 and d…

1828–1900 · Contemporary

Leonardo Murialdo, CSI (26 October 1828 – 30 March 1900) was an Italian Catholic priest and the co-founder of the Congregation of Saint Joseph - also known as the Murialdines (which he founded alongside Eugenio Reffo).

1884–1972 · Contemporary

Leontius, secular name Lew Fomich Stasievich (born 20 March 1884 in Tarnogród, died 9 February 1972 in Mikhaylovskoye) was a clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church, archimandrite, one of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Orthodox Church.

1940–2006 · Contemporary

Leonella Sgorbati, born Rosa Maria Sgorbati, (9 December 1940 – 17 September 2006) was an Italian religious sister of the Consolata Missionaries who served in the missions in both Kenya and in Somalia.

1872–1938 · Contemporary

Leonid (Russian: Леонид [lʲɪɐˈnʲit]; Ukrainian: Леонід [leoˈn⁽ʲ⁾id]; Belarusian: Леанід, romanized: Leaníd [lʲɛaˈnʲit]) is a Slavic version of the given name Leonidas. The French version is Leonide. People with the name include: Fictional characters include:

1879–1935 · Contemporary

Leonid Ivanovich Feodorov (Russian: Леонид Иванович Фёдоров; 4 November 1879 – 7 March 1935) was a Studite hieromonk from the Russian Greek Catholic Church, the first Exarch of the Russian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Russia, and a survivor of the Gulag at Solovki prison camp.…

1844–1914 · Contemporary · Oblates of St. Francis de Sales

Léonie Aviat (16 September 1844 – 10 January 1914), her religious name Françoise de Sales, was a Roman Catholic professed religious and the co-founder along with Louis Brisson of the Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales.

1866–1942 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Leopold Bogdan Mandić [Mandich], OFMCap (also known as Leopold of Castelnuovo, Italian: Leopoldo da Castelnuovo; 12 May 1866 – 30 July 1942) was a Croatian Capuchin friar and Catholic priest, who suffered from disabilities that would plague his speech and stature.

1864–1956 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Leopold of Alpandeire (Spanish: Leopoldo de Alpandeire; 24 June 1864 – 9 February 1956) – born Francisco Tomás de San Juan Bautista Márquez y Sánchez – was a Spanish Capuchin friar.