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1880–1949 · Contemporary · Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul

Gabriella Borgarino, born on September 2, 1880, in Boves, Italy, and died on January 1, 1949, in Luserna San Giovanni, Turin, was an Italian Catholic nun.

1922–1945 · Contemporary · Teutonic Order

Gabrijel Novak was a monk of the Teutonic Order born in Ljubljana in 1922. He died in Ljubljana in 1945 and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1936–1997 · Contemporary

Gaetana Tolomeo (10 April 1936 – 24 January 1997), also known as "Nuccia", was an Italian Roman Catholic laywoman. who has been beatified in 2019.

1879–1963 · Contemporary

Gaetano Catanoso (14 February 1879 – 4 April 1963) was an Italian Catholic priest and the founder of the Suore Veroniche del Santo Volto (1934).

1882–1915 · Contemporary · Mechitarists

Karapet Movsesi Ter-Sahakyan (August 25, 1882, Mush, Bitlis Vilayet, Ottoman Empire – June 18, 1915, Anifa, Trabzon Vilayet, Ottoman Empire) was an Armenian historian, Byzantinist, philologist, poet, and editor. He was a member of the Mechitarist Congregation of Venice.

1885–1915 · Contemporary

Garegin Gyurjyan (also spelled Kyurjyan or Kenjyan, 1885, Kharpert, Kharpert Province – 1915) was an Armenian pharmacist. He was born in 1885 in the city of Kharpert, the center of Kharpert Province. He received a pharmaceutical education and worked as a pharmacist in Melitene.

1867–1915 · Contemporary

Garegin Khazhak (also Karekin Khajag, Armenian: Գարեգին Խաժակ; 6 October 1867 – 1915) was an Armenian journalist, writer, political activist and educator. A member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Khajag traveled around the world to help support revolutionary activity.

1878–1915 · Contemporary

Garegin Kozikyan was a public figure and member of the editing staff born in Baku in 1878. A citizen of the Russian Empire, he died in the Trebizond vilayet in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide. He is recognized as a saint.

1888–1915 · Contemporary

Garnik Tughlajian (1888, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire – 1915) was an Armenian editor and educator. Born in Constantinople, he served as an editor for the newspapers Manzume-i Efkâr and Oragir. On the eve of World War I, he worked as a French teacher at a school in Sivas.

1897–1992 · Contemporary

Gerontissa Gavrielia (Mother Gabriela), also known as Saint Gabriela of the Ascetic of Love (15 October 1897 – 28 March 1992) was a Greek Orthodox nun, known for her care of the poor and sick.

1871–1937 · Contemporary

Gavriil Maslennikov was born in 1871 in Mikhaylov and served as a deacon. He died in 1937 in Ryazan and is recognized as a hieromartyr.

1888–1959 · Contemporary

Archimandrite Gabriel (secular name Ivan Ivanovich Igoshkin; May 23, 1888, village of Samodurovka (Sadovka), Penza Governorate — October 18, 1959, Melekess) was a clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church and rector of the Church of Saint Nicholas in Pyzhi.

1880–1938 · Contemporary

Gavriil Protopopov was an Eastern Orthodox ierey born in 1880 in Pechenihy. A citizen of the Soviet Union, he died in 1938 in Kharkiv. He is recognized as a saint.

1847–1913 · Contemporary

Bavaliya Baba, also known as Paramahansa Ganesh Narayan and Bavaliya Pandit (1847–1913), was an Indian Hindu saint associated with the Aghori sect.

1882–1953 · Contemporary

Panikkervettil Thomas Panicker Geevarghese (21 September 1882 – 15 July 1953), known formally as Geevarghese Mar Ivanios, was a prominent Indian bishop and the first metropolitan archbishop and the founder of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church.

1847–1903 · Contemporary

Geltrude Caterina Comensoli, also known as Mother Geltrude (January 18, 1847 – February 18, 1903) is the Patroness of Youth, Val Camonica and Relic Custodians. Her first attempt at religious life was curtailed by illness, and she took up work as a domestic.

1878–1903 · Contemporary · Passionists

Gemma Umberta Maria Galgani (12 March 1878 – 11 April 1903), also known as Gemma of Lucca, was an Italian mystic, canonized as a saint in the Catholic Church in 1940. She has been called the "daughter of the Passion" because of her profound imitation of the Passion of Christ.

1864–1936 · Contemporary

Genaro Fueyo Castañón (born January 23, 1864, in Linares; died October 20, 1936, in Madrid) was a Spanish priest, a victim of the Spanish Civil War, and a blessed of the Catholic Church. He was born on January 23, 1864, in southern Spain.

1881–1966 · Contemporary · Passionists

Généreux of the Most Holy Crucifix, born Angelo Fontanarosa on November 6, 1881, in Vetralla (Viterbo, Italy) and died on January 9, 1966, in Mascalucia (Catania, Sicily), was an Italian professed priest of the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ.

1870–1956 · Contemporary · Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Angels

Genoveva Torres Morales (3 January 1870 – 5 January 1956) was a Spanish Roman Catholic nun who established her own congregation known as the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and of the Holy Angels. She wanted her new congregation to focus on the care of women.

1900–1942 · Contemporary · Lay Carmelites

Joseph Georg Simon Häfner (19 October 1900, Würzburg – 20 August 1942, Dachau Concentration Camp) was a German Roman Catholic priest and martyr from the Diocese of Würzburg. On 15 May 2011 he was beatified in Würzburg Cathedral.

1880–1962 · Contemporary · Lay Carmelites

George Franco Preca, T.OCarm (in Maltese: Ġorġ Preca) (12 February 1880 – 26 July 1962) was a Maltese Catholic priest, the founder of the Society of Christian Doctrine and a Third Order Carmelite. Pope John Paul II dubbed him "Malta’s second father in faith".

1921–1944 · Contemporary

Yuri (Georgy) Danilovich Skobtsov (February 27, 1921, Tiflis — February 1, 1944, Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp) was a subdeacon, social activist, and member of the French Resistance who was canonized as a saint.

1874–1937 · Contemporary

Georgy Yakovlevich Izvekov (February 24 [March 8], 1874, Kaluga — November 27, 1937, Moscow, Butovo firing range) was a Russian expert and collector of Russian folk songs, a sacred music composer, a priest, an archpriest, and a hieromartyr.

1906–1945 · Contemporary · Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul

Geralda Jakob (Donjara near Carevdar, July 17, 1906 – Jazovka pit, May 15, 1945) was a Croatian Catholic nun, a Sister of Charity, and a victim of the Yugoslav communist regime.

1871–1936 · Contemporary · Order of St. Augustine

Gerardo Gil Leal was a Spanish friar of the Order of St. Augustine and an author born in La Vid in 1871. He died in 1936 and has been recognized as a blessed.

1907–1942 · Contemporary

Gerhard Hirschfelder (17 February 1907 – 1 August 1942) was a German Roman Catholic priest. He was a vocal critic of Nazism and used his sermons to condemn Nazi propaganda and other aspects of Nazism which drew suspicion on him from the authorities who monitored him and even inte…

1883–1937 · Contemporary

Bishop German (secular name Nikolai Stepanovich Ryashentsev; November 10 (22), 1883, Tambov — September 15, 1937, Syktyvkar) was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Bishop of Vyazniki, and vicar of the Vladimir Diocese.

1895–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Germán Garrigues Hernández, also known as Germán of Carcaixent (born Germán (Jorge María) Garrigues Hernández on February 12, 1895, in Carcaixent, Valencian Community; died August 9, 1936, in Carcaixent), was a Spanish Catholic blessed, martyr, priest, and Capuchin friar, who was…

1913–1936 · Contemporary

Germán Gozalbo Andreu (born August 30, 1913, died September 22, 1936) was a Spanish Catholic priest and a blessed of the Catholic Church. He was ordained a priest just a few weeks before his death.

1877–1964 · Contemporary

Gervasios Paraskevopoulos (Greek: Γερβάσιος Παρασκευόπουλος), known as Saint Gervasios of Patras (1877 – 30 June 1964) was a Greek priest, theologian and monk. In 2023, he was proclaimed a saint of the Orthodox Church.

1875–1915 · Contemporary

Vahan Ghazaryan (1875, Marsovan – 1915, Edessa) was an Armenian physician and editor.

1900–1948 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Beniamino Filon (2 August 1900 - 21 July 1948) - in religious Giacomo da Balduina - was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.

1896–1962 · Contemporary · Third Order of Saint Francis

Giacomo Gaglione, TOSF (July 20, 1896 – May 28, 1962) was an Italian member of the Third Order of St. Francis, and a lifelong invalid, who became the founder of the Apostolate of Suffering.

1921–2004 · Contemporary

Gianfranco Chiti (Gignese, May 6, 1921 – Rome, November 20, 2004) was an Italian general and a Franciscan Catholic priest. He has been recognized as a Servant of God by the Catholic Church since the introduction of his cause for beatification.

1922–1962 · Contemporary

Gianna Beretta Molla (4 October 1922 – 28 April 1962) was an Italian Catholic paediatrician. Although aware of possible fatal consequences, Molla refused both an abortion and a hysterectomy during her pregnancy with her fourth child in order to preserve the child's life.

1904–1977 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Giorgio La Pira, TOSD (Raimondo in religious life; 9 January 1904 – 5 November 1977) was an Italian Catholic politician who served as the mayor of Florence.

1841–1913 · Contemporary

Giovanni Battista Piamarta (26 November 1841 - 25 April 1913) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and educator. Piamarta was also the founder of the Congregation of the Holy Family of Nazareth.

1880–1962 · Contemporary

Giovanni Battista Pinardi (15 August 1880 - 2 August 1962) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served as a bishop in Turin serving under three archbishops for the archdiocese.

1839–1905 · Contemporary · Q29858947

Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, CS (8 July 1839 – 1 June 1905) was an Italian Catholic missionary who served as Bishop of Piacenza from 1876 until his death.

1873–1954 · Contemporary

Giovanni Calabria (8 October 1873 – 4 December 1954) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest who dedicated his life to the plight of the poor and the ill.

1899–1946 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Giovanni Fausti, born on October 19, 1899, in Marcheno, in the province of Brescia (Italy), and died by firing squad on March 4, 1946, in Shkodër, Albania, was an Italian Catholic priest of the Society of Jesus and a missionary in Albania who was killed in odium fidei during the…

1901–1992 · Contemporary · Somaschi Fathers

Giovanni Ferro (13 November 1901 – 18 April 1992) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate and professed member from the Somascans, who served as the Archbishop of Reggio Calabria from 1950 until his resignation in 1977.

1848–1913 · Contemporary

Giovanni Maria Boccardo (20 November 1848 - 30 December 1913) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Poor Daughters of Saint Cajetan.

1954–2016 · Contemporary

Giovanni Nadiani was an Italian translator and teacher born in Cotignola in 1954. He died in Reda in 2016 and is recognized as a Venerable within the Catholic Church.

1909–1945 · Contemporary

Giovanni Palatucci (31 May 1909 – 10 February 1945) was an Italian police official who was long believed to have saved thousands of Jews in Fiume between 1939 and 1944 (current Rijeka in Croatia) from being deported to Nazi extermination camps.

1903–1967 · Contemporary · Congregazione di San Giuseppe

Giovanni Schiavo, CSI (8 July 1903 – 27 January 1967) was an Italian Catholic priest in the Congregation of Saint Joseph, also known as the Murialdines. Schiavo entered the Murialdines during World War I in 1917, and was admitted by Eugenio Reffo.

1997–2011 · Contemporary

Giulia Gabrieli was an Italian writer born in 1997 in Bergamo. She died in Bergamo in 2011 and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1846–1929 · Contemporary

Giulia Salzano (13 October 1846 – 17 May 1929) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Catechetical Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (1905).

1884–1958 · Contemporary

Giulio Facibeni (Galeata, July 29, 1884 – Florence, June 2, 1958) was an Italian priest and anti-fascist, founder of the Opera della Divina Provvidenza Madonnina del Grappa, recognized as one of the Righteous Among the Nations for his efforts on behalf of Jews in Florence during…