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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…

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.

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.

1911–1954 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Karl Serreqi, OFM (born February 2, 1911, in Shkodër; died April 5, 1954, in Burrel Prison), was a Franciscan priest who, in atheist Albania under the Enver Hoxha regime, upheld the seal of the confessional while under torture.

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…

1884–1942 · Contemporary

Kazimierz Witold Gostyński (born April 8, 1884, in Warsaw, died May 6, 1942, in Dachau concentration camp) was a Polish Catholic priest, educator, scout leader, founder of the Union of Lublin High School No. 3 and the Jan Hetman Zamoyski High School No.

1907–1942 · Contemporary

Kazimierz Grelewski was a Latin Catholic priest born in 1907 in Dwikozy, Second Polish Republic. He died in 1942 at the Dachau concentration camp. He is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1886–1941 · Contemporary

Kazimierz Lach (born February 27, 1886, in Strzelczyska, died April 5, 1941, in Dachau concentration camp) was a Polish Catholic priest, a diocesan priest of the Diocese of Przemyśl, a victim of German terror during World War II, a Servant of God, and a martyr.

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…

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.

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.

1909–1943 · Contemporary

Krystyn Gondek was a Polish Catholic priest born in 1909 in Słona. He died in 1943 at the Dachau concentration camp and is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

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…

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.

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.

1873–1951 · Contemporary

Laura Meozzi (born January 5, 1873, in Florence, died August 30, 1951, in Pogrzebień) was an Italian nun, the first provincial superior of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (Salesian Sisters) in Poland, and a Venerable Servant of God of the Catholic Church.

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.

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.

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.

1870–1936 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Leandro Cuesta Andrés was a Spanish Catholic priest and Benedictine monk born in 1870 in Rupelo. He died in 1936 in Barbastro from a gunshot wound and is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1891–1948 · Contemporary

Lek Sirdani was an Albanian Catholic presbyter born in 1891. He died in 1948 in Koplik and is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1906–1943 · Contemporary · Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth

Leokadia Matuszewska (Maria Heliodora Matuszewska; born February 8, 1906, in Stara Huta, 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.

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).

1859–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Augustinian Recollects

León Inchausti, O.A.R. (born June 27, 1859, in Ajánguiz, Biscay; died July 25, 1936, in Motril) was a blessed of the Catholic Church and a priest of the Order of Augustinian Recollects. He entered the Augustinian order in 1878.

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).

1889–1936 · Contemporary

Leonardo Olivera Buera was a Catholic priest born in 1889 in Campo, Spain. He died in 1936 in El Saler as one of the Spanish martyrs of the 20th century. He is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1875–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Leonzio Pérez Ramos, C.M.F. (Muro de Aguas, September 12, 1875 – Barbastro, August 2, 1936), was a Spanish priest who was martyred in Barbastro during the Spanish Civil War and is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic 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.

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.

1911–1952 · Contemporary

Lavrentia (Levkadia) Herasymiv (alternatively transliterated Harasymiv, in Ukrainian: Лаврентія Левкадія Іллівна Гарасимів) was an ethnic Ukrainian Soviet Greek Catholic nun and martyr. Lavrentia Herasymiv, born Levkadia, on September 30, 1911 in Rudnyky, Lviv Region.

1901–1941 · Contemporary

Elisa Angela Meneguzzi (12 September 1901 - 2 December 1941) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious and a member of the Sisters of Saint Francis de Sales. She assumed the religious name of "Liduina" upon making her solemn profession into the order.

1866–1924 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Lino Maupas was a Catholic priest of the Order of Friars Minor and a citizen of the Kingdom of Italy. Born in Split in 1866 and dying in Parma in 1924, he is recognized by the Catholic Church as the Venerable. He is buried in the Villetta Cemetery.

1880–1936 · Contemporary

Blessed Lluís Janer Riba (March 4, 1880, Pontils – July 23, 1936, Tarragona) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and martyr, murdered by Republicans during the Spanish Civil War. He was beatified on October 13, 2013, in Tarragona as part of a group of 522 Spanish martyrs.

1923–1943 · Contemporary

Lojze Grozde (27 May 1923 – 1 January 1943) was a Slovenian student who was murdered by Partisans during World War II. His death is recognised as martyrdom by the Catholic Church. He was beatified on 13 June 2010.

1910–1999 · Contemporary

Lojze Kozar Sr. (born Kozár Alajos, November 11, 1910 – April 29, 1999), was a Slovene Roman Catholic priest, writer, and translator. He was the uncle of the priest, writer, and poet Lojze Kozar Jr.

1964–1981 · Contemporary

Lorena D'Alessandro was an Italian Catholic born in Rome in 1964. She died in 1981 and is buried at the Chiesa di Nostra Signora di Częstochowa. She has been declared Venerable by the Catholic Church.

1872–1936 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Lorenzo Santolaria Ester was a Spanish Catholic priest and a member of the Benedictine order. Born in 1872 and deceased in 1936, he is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.