Library

1907–1999 · Contemporary

Varvara (born Natalya Fyodorovna Tretyakova; October 25, 1907, Pozhegdin village [now the village of Pozhegdin, Ust-Kulomsky District, Komi Republic] – October 14, 1999, Saint Petersburg) was a schemanun of the Russian Orthodox Church and a spiritual daughter of Saint Seraphim of…

1874–1937 · Contemporary

Vasily Mikhailovich Arkhangelsky (January 20, 1874, Tula Governorate — November 16, 1937, Butovo firing range) was a priest and a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church, canonized as a hieromartyr in 2000 for universal church veneration.

1907–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Wenceslaus Clarís Vilaregut, C.M.F. (Olost, January 3, 1907 – Barbastro, August 12, 1936), was a Spanish religious who was martyred in Barbastro during the Spanish Civil War and is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1861–1933 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Vendelin Vošnjak (Šenbric near Velenje, Slovenia, September 13, 1861 – Zagreb, March 18, 1933) was a Slovenian priest of Croatian descent, a Franciscan, the first provincial of the Croatian Franciscan Province of Saints Cyril and Methodius, a general visitor, a member of the gene…

1910–1936 · Contemporary

Vicente Galbis Girones (born September 9, 1910; died September 21, 1936) was a Spanish martyr and a blessed of the Catholic Church. He was married and had a son. A lawyer by profession, he was murdered during the Spanish Civil War.

1891–1936 · Contemporary

Vicente María Izquierdo Alcón (born May 24, 1891, in Mosqueruela; died August 18, 1936, in Rafelbuñol) was a Spanish blessed of the Catholic Church. He was born into a very religious family and entered the seminary in Valencia.

1868–1936 · Contemporary

Vicente Pelufo Corts (born February 26, 1868; died September 11, 1936) was a Spanish blessed of the Catholic Church. He studied at the seminary in Orihuela and was ordained a priest in 1894. He served as pastor of the parish of Saint Vincent in San Vicente del Raspeig.

1874–1936 · Contemporary

Vicente Rubiols Castelló (born March 13, 1874, in Gandia; died August 4, 1936) was a Spanish blessed of the Catholic Church. He studied at the seminary in Valencia and was ordained a priest in 1894. For nearly 40 years, he served as the parish priest in La Pobla Llarga.

1881–1936 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Vicente Sales Genovés (born October 15, 1881, in Valencia, died September 29, 1936) was a Spanish Jesuit religious brother, a martyr of the Spanish Civil War, and a victim of anti-Catholic persecution, beatified by the Catholic Church.

1859–1936 · Contemporary

Vicente Sicluna Hernández (born September 30, 1859, in Navarrés; died September 22, 1936, in Bolbaite) was a Spanish blessed of the Catholic Church. He studied theology at the seminary in Valencia. He was ordained a priest in 1884 and became the parish priest in Navarrés.

1894–1936 · Contemporary

Vicente de Paúl Canelles Vives (Onda, Castellón, Spain, June 25, 1894 – Calafell, Tarragona, Spain, July 30, 1936) was a Spanish religious, first an Ancient Observance Carmelite and later a Hospitaller of Saint John of God, martyr, and blessed of the Catholic Church.

1885–1966 · Contemporary · Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools

Victorin-Nymphas Pagès, born in 1885 and died in 1966, was a French priest, a member of the De La Salle Brothers, and a missionary and teacher in Cuba, Florida, and Puerto Rico. Pope Francis declared him venerable in April 2019.

1921–1961 · Contemporary · Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

Vincent L'Hénoret, known as Visant Enored in his native Breton, was born on March 12, 1921, in Pont-l'Abbé and was assassinated on May 11, 1961, in Ban Na Thoum, Laos.

1943–1995 · Contemporary · Sisters of the Poor, Palazzolo Institute

Maria Rosa Zorza, known in religion as Sister Vitarosa, was an Italian nun and nurse born on October 9, 1943, in Bergamo, Italy, and died on May 28, 1995, in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

1892–1937 · Contemporary

Vladimir Ambartsumovich Ambartsumov (September 20 [October 2], 1892, Shemakha, Baku Governorate, Russian Empire — November 5, 1937, Moscow, USSR) was a priest and clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church.

1870–1937 · Contemporary

Vladimir Nikolayevich Damaskin (1870–1937) was a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church and a hieromartyr. He was canonized as one of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church for universal veneration at the Jubilee Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in Aug…

1876–1918 · Contemporary

Vladimir Fyodorovich Dmitrievsky (1876, Novgorod Governorate — 1918, Semirechye Oblast) was a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church, canonized in 2000 as a member of the Synaxis of New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.

1885–1937 · Contemporary

Vladimir Konstantinovich Lyubich-Yarmolovich-Lozina-Lozinsky (May 26, 1885, Dukhovshchina, Smolensk Governorate — December 26, 1937, Novgorod) was a protopresbyter of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was canonized as a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.

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.

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.

1902–1936 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Víctor Chumillas Fernández (Olmeda del Rey, Cuenca, Spain, July 28, 1902 – Fuente el Fresno, Ciudad Real, Spain, August 16, 1936) was a Spanish Franciscan friar, martyr, and blessed of the Catholic Church.

1888–1966 · Contemporary

Valentina of Minsk, born Valentina Sulkovskaya, née Chernyavskaya (April 7, 1888, in Koski – February 6, 1969, ibid.), was an Orthodox saint. She was born into the family of the Orthodox priest Fyodor Chernyavsky, rector of the St.

1907–2003 · Contemporary

Sister Wanda Boniszewska, born on May 20, 1907, in Nowa Kamionka near Nowogródek and died on March 2, 2003, in Chylice, often nicknamed Konwalia (Lily of the Valley), was a Polish stigmatized religious sister of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Angels of Vilnius.

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.

1936–1976 · Contemporary

Wenceslao Pedernera (1936–1976) was a vineyard worker in Mendoza, Argentina, an organizer for the Catholic rural movement, and a collaborator of Bishop Enrique Angelelli. He was assassinated during the military dictatorship.

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.

1896–1936 · Contemporary · Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer

Victor (Victorian) Calvo Lozano (born December 23, 1896, in Horche, in the province of Guadalajara, Spain; died August 10, 1936) was a Spanish Redemptorist, religious brother, martyr, and blessed of the Catholic Church.

1912–1944 · Contemporary

Józef (Markowa, March 2, 1900 – Markowa, March 24, 1944) and Wiktoria Ulma (Markowa, December 10, 1912 – Markowa, March 24, 1944) were a Polish Catholic couple from Markowa, Poland, who attempted to save Jewish families during the German occupation in World War II by hiding them…

1905–1934 · Contemporary

Saint Victoriano Pío (San Millán de Lara, Burgos, July 7, 1905 – Turón, Asturias, October 9, 1934) was a Spanish religious brother who was killed during the Revolution of Asturias of 1934. Considered a martyr by the Catholic Church, he was canonized in 1999.

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.

1894–1936 · Contemporary

Vincent Queralt Lloret (born November 16 or 17, 1894, in Barcelona; died November 30, 1936, in Valencia) was a Spanish priest of the Congregation of the Mission, a martyr, a victim of the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939, and a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1903–1942 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Wojciech Nierychlewski, CSMA (also known as Adalbert Nierychlewski), born on April 20, 1903, in Dąbrowice and died on February 7, 1942, in Auschwitz, was a Polish priest beatified in 1999. He is commemorated on February 7 according to the Roman Martyrology.

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.

1898–1945 · Contemporary

Władysław Goral, born on May 1, 1898, in Stoczek and died in February 1945 in Oranienburg, was a Polish Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Lublin, and titular bishop of Meloë in Isauria from 1938 to 1945.

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.

1883–1942 · Contemporary

Włodzimierz Szembek, S.D.B. (born April 2, 1883, in Poręba Żegoty; died September 22, 1942, at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp), was a Polish Salesian priest and a victim of National Socialism, for which he is honored by the Roman Catholic Church as a Servant of God.

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.

1958–1991 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Zbigniew Strzałkowski (July 3, 1958 – August 9, 1991) was a Polish priest and missionary of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual who was martyred in hatred of the faith (in odium fidei) in Peru. He is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

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.

1820–1935 · Contemporary

Zosima of Ennat (secular name Evdokia Yakovlevna Sukhanova; March 1, 1820, Sentsovka village, Orenburg Uyezd, Orenburg Governorate — March 1, 1935, Sentsovka village, Sharlyksky District, Orenburg Oblast) was a Russian Orthodox saint and venerable nun.

1895–1936 · Contemporary

Zósimo Izquierdo Gil (born December 17, 1895, in Teruel; died July 30, 1936) was a Spanish Christian martyr and a blessed of the Catholic Church. Zósimo Gil was born on December 17, 1895, into a very religious family. He entered the seminary and was ordained a priest in 1920.

1880–1936 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order

Álvaro Santos Cejudo (Daimiel, February 19, 1880 – Alcázar de San Juan, September 17, 1936) was a Spanish Trinitarian tertiary who was executed by firing squad by Republicans during the Spanish Civil War.

1877–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Ángel Hernández-Ranera de Diego (born October 1, 1877, in Pastrana; died August 16, 1936, in Fuente el Fresno) was a Spanish Franciscan, priest, missionary, Christian martyr, and blessed of the Roman Catholic Church.

1890–1936 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Ángel Marina Álvarez (born March 28, 1890, in Barruelo de los Carabeos; died August 14, 1936, in El Picado near Almagro) was a Spanish Catholic priest, a Dominican friar, a martyr, a victim of the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939, and a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1882–1936 · Contemporary

Ángel de la Red Pérez, known in religious life as Arcángel of Valdavida (February 26, 1882, Valdavida – August 14, 1936, Jove), was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest, a friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, and a martyr. The Catholic Church venerates him as a blessed.

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.