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1897–1983 · Contemporary

Saint Haranāma Siṅgha was born in 1897 and died in 1983. He is recognized as a saint.

1856–1915 · Contemporary

Harutiun Jangülian (Armenian: Յարութիւն Ճանկիւլեան; 1855 – 15 June 1915) was an Armenian historian, political activist, and member of the Armenian National Assembly. He was especially known for his involvement in the Kum Kapu demonstration.

1860–1915 · Contemporary

Harutiun Shahrigian (Armenian: Յարութիւն Շահրիկեան; 1860–1915) was an Armenian politician, soldier, lawyer, and author. Better known by nicknames Atom, (Armenian: Ատոմ), Nitra (Armenian: Նիթրա), he had a prominent role in the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) and was also…

1863–1906 · Contemporary

Hedwig Borzęcka, sometimes written as Jadwiga Borzęcka, (1 February 1863 – 27 September 1906) was a religious sister and the co-foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Resurrection along with her natural mother, Celine Borzecka. She was born in the Russian Empire.

1900–1943 · Contemporary

Helena Cierpka, Sister Maria Gwidona of the Divine Mercy (born April 11, 1900, in Granowiec, 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.

1991–2017 · Contemporary

Helena Agnieszka Kmieć (9 February 1991 – 24 January 2017) was a Polish Catholic missionary who was awarded the Polish Gold Cross of Merit. In May 2024, her sainthood cause was opened and she was named a Servant of God.

1852–1900 · Contemporary · Divine Word Missionaries

Helena Stollenwerk, SSpS (28 November 1852 - 3 February 1900) was a German Catholic religious sister who collaborated with Arnold Janssen and Hendrina Stenmanns and co-founded the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit.

1852–1903 · Contemporary · Divine Word Missionaries

Hendrina Stenmanns, SSpS (Josefa in religion; 28 May 1852 - 20 May 1903) was a German Catholic religious sister who co-founded the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit, which she founded alongside Arnold Janssen and Helena Stollenwerk.

1903–1996 · Contemporary

Henri Caffarel, born on July 30, 1903, in Lyon and died on September 18, 1996, in Beauvais (Oise), was a French Catholic priest, founder of the Teams of Our Lady and the magazine L'Anneau d'Or. He was declared venerable on March 23, 2026, by a decree of Leo XIV.

1912–1942 · Contemporary

Henrik Novak was a Catholic priest born in 1912 in Hrib pri Hinjah. He died in 1942 in Kočevski Rog and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1882–1939 · Contemporary

Henryk Antoni Szuman was a Polish Catholic presbyter, parson, and dean born in Toruń in 1882. He died in 1939 in Fordon, Bydgoszcz, and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1904–1941 · Contemporary

Henryk Hlebowicz (1 July 1904 – 9 November 1941) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest. Born in Grodno, he served as a parish priest and lecturer at Vilnius University between 1930 and 1935.

1888–1942 · Contemporary

The 108 Martyrs of World War II, known also as the 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs (Polish: 108 błogosławionych męczenników), were Catholics from Poland killed during World War II by Nazi Germany. Their liturgical feast day is 12 June.

1908–1942 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Henryk Krzysztofik was a friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin born in 1908 in Zachorzów, Second Polish Republic. A member of the Catholic Church, he died in 1942 at the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps. He is recognized as a blessed.

1889–1936 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Enrique Sáiz Aparicio (born December 1, 1889, in Ubierna, Burgos; died October 2, 1936, in Madrid) was a Spanish priest, a Salesian of Don Bosco (SDB), a Christian martyr, and a blessed of the Roman Catholic Church.

1883–1937 · Contemporary

Herman was an Eastern Orthodox priest and bishop who held citizenship in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Born in 1883, he died in 1937 at Bamlag. He is recognized as a hieromartyr.

1912–1943 · Contemporary

Hermann Lange (16 April 1912 – 10 November 1943) was a Roman Catholic priest and martyr of the Nazi period in Germany. He was guillotined in a Hamburg prison by the Nazi authorities in November 1943, along with the three other Lübeck martyrs.

1881–1961 · Contemporary

Venerable Hermelinda Simón Prieto was a Spanish religious figure born in 1881 in Baños de Molgas. She died in Madrid in 1961.

1879–1936 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order

Ermenegildo dell'Assunta, born Hermenegildo Iza y Aregita (Mendata, April 13, 1879 – Alcázar de San Juan, July 26, 1936), was a Spanish priest of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity.

1887–1936 · Contemporary

Herminia Martínez Amigó was a Catholic martyr who was killed during the Spanish Civil War. Due to her public displays of religious devotion, she was murdered alongside her husband and was beatified by Pope John Paul II on March 11, 2001.

1877–1936 · Contemporary

Blessed Herminio Motos Torrecillas (born in María, Almería, December 9, 1877; died in María, Almería, October 13, 1936) was the archpriest and parish priest of María (1912–1936). He was killed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War as a victim of religious persecution.

1858–1918 · Contemporary

Georgiy Yefremovich Dolganyov (Георгий Ефремович Долганёв; 25 April 1858 – April 1918) was a prominent Russian Orthodox religious figure, a monarchist and anti-communist, who supported the Union of the Russian People and Black Hundreds.

1841–1919 · Contemporary

Jérôme (Hieronymus) Jaegen, born in Trier on August 23, 1841, and died in the same city on February 26, 1919, was a figure of social Catholicism in Germany, recognized as venerable by the Catholic Church.

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

Hilario María Llorente Martín was a Spanish Catholic seminarian and a member of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. He died in 1936 in Barbastro from a gunshot wound. He is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1907–1945 · Contemporary · Carmelites

Hilary Paweł Januszewski, O.Carm (June 11, 1907, in Krajenki – March 25, 1945, in Dachau concentration camp), was a Polish priest, Carmelite friar of the Ancient Observance and Catholic priest.

1894–1985 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Hildebrand Gregori, O.S.B. Silv., (8 May 1894 – 12 November 1985), was an Italian Benedictine monk, who served as the Abbot General of the Sylvestrine congregation of the Order.

1883–1933 · Contemporary

Hildegard Lea Burjan (née Hildegard Freund; 30 January 1883 – 11 June 1933) was an Austrian politician and convert from Judaism to the Roman Catholic Church. She founded the Sisterhood of Caritas Socialis.

1829–1916 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Honorat Koźmiński (16 October 1829 – 16 December 1916), born Florentyn Wacław Jan Stefan Koźmiński, was a Polish priest and professed member from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin who went on to establish sixteen religious congregations.

1908–1936 · Contemporary

Honorato Zorraquino Herrero was born in 1908 in Bañón, Spain. He died in 1936 in Valencia and is recognized as a blessed.

1870–1915 · Contemporary

Hovhannes Gazanchian was an Ottoman Empire linguist and literary scholar born in Tokat in 1870. He died in Tokat in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide and is recognized as a saint.

1915 · Contemporary

Hrand Yegavian was an Ottoman Empire physician born in Arapgir. He died in Istanbul in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide and is recognized as a saint.

1883–1950 · Contemporary

Hryhoriy Lakota, also known as Gregor Lakota (Ukrainian: Григорій Лакота, Polish: Grzegorz Łakota; 31 January 1883 – 12 November 1950), was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic auxiliary bishop who suffered religious persecution and was martyred by the Soviet Union.

1867–1947 · Contemporary

Hryhoriy Khomyshyn (also Hryhorij Khomyshyn, Ukrainian: Григорій Лукич Хомишин, Polish: Grzegorz Chomyszyn) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop and hieromartyr. Khomyshyn was born on 25 March 1867 in the village of Hadynkivtsi, eastern Galicia, in what is now Ternopil Oblast.

1832–1916 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier (8 December 1832 – 17 December 1916) was a French Dominican friar and religious priest, who served as the 76th Master of the Order of Preachers from 1904 until 1916. Cormier was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 20 November 1994.

1910–1934 · Contemporary · Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools

Héctor Valdivielso Sáez was an Argentine religious figure born in Buenos Aires in 1910. A member of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, he died in Turón in 1934. He is recognized as a saint.

1839–1904 · Contemporary · Sisters of Mary Reparatrix

Hélène Marie Philippine de Chappotin de Neuville (Nantes, 21 May 1839 – Sanremo, 15 November 1904), known as Mary of the Passion (French: Mère Marie de la Passion), was a French religious sister and missionary, who founded the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary in British India in 1…

1914–1936 · Contemporary

Ignacio Aláez Vaquero was a Spanish Catholic seminarian born in Madrid in 1914. He died in Madrid in 1936 from a gunshot wound as one of the Spanish martyrs of the 20th century. He is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1916–1936 · Contemporary · Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God

Ignacio Tejero Molina was a Spanish religious member of the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God, born in 1916 in Monzalbarba. He died in 1936 in Calafell from a gunshot wound and has been beatified as a blessed.

1887–1938 · Contemporary

Ignacy is a Polish given name, equivalent of the name Ignatius. Notable people with the name include:

1890–1941 · Contemporary

Ignacy Antonowicz was a Catholic priest born in 1890. He died in 1941 in Oświęcim at Auschwitz and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1866–1931 · Contemporary

Ignacy Kłopotowski (20 July 1866 – 7 September 1931) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Loreto (1920); he founded this congregation with the assistance of the Polish nuncio Achille Ratti - the future Pope Pius XI.

1893–1936 · Contemporary · Piarists

Ignacy Casanovas Perramón, SchP (born Ignasi Casanovas Perramón on June 15, 1893, in Igualada; died September 16, 1936, in Òdena) was a Spanish priest of the Piarist Order.

1867–1932 · Contemporary

St. Ignatius Elias III (Syriac: ܐܝܓܢܛܝܘܣ ܐܠܝܐܣ ܬܠܝܬܝܐ, born Nasri, 13 October 1867 – 13 February 1932) was the 119th Patriarch of Antioch, and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1917 until his death in 1932.

1869–1915 · Contemporary

Ignatius Maloyan, ICPB (Armenian: Իգնատիոս Մալոյան, April 8, 1869 – June 11, 1915), born as Shukrallah Maloyan, was an Armenian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Mardin from 1911 to 1915.

1884–1938 · Contemporary

Hieromartyr Ignatius (secular name Alexander Alexandrovich Lebedev; May 28, 1884, Chukhloma, Kostroma Governorate — September 11, 1938, correctional labor colony near Alatyr, Chuvash ASSR) was a schema-archimandrite and a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church, canonized as a hiero…

1876–1931 · Contemporary

Ignaty Markov was born in 1876 and died in 1931. He is recognized as a saint.

1897–1937 · Contemporary

Igor Alexandrovich Akulov (Epiphany, Epiphanius; 13 April 1897, Novo-Nikitskaya, Korchevsky County, province of Tver — 27 August 1937, Leningrad) originally a Russian Orthodox monk, later a priest of the Russian Catholic Church and victim of Joseph Stalin's Great Purge.

1871–1937 · Contemporary

Hieromonk Hilarion (secular name Ilarion Pavlovich Pisarets; 1871, Sobichevo village, Glukhov Uyezd, Chernigov Governorate — December 3, 1937, Butovo firing range, Moscow Oblast) was a clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church, canonized as a hieromartyr in 2000.

1863–1938 · Contemporary

Ilarion Zhukov was born in 1863 in the Novoaidar Raion and died in 1938 in Kharkiv. A citizen of the Soviet Union and a practitioner of Eastern Orthodoxy, he is recognized as a saint.

1897–1936 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Ildefonso Fernández Muñiz was a Benedictine Catholic priest born in 1897 in Muros de Nalón, Spain. He died in 1936 in Barbastro from a gunshot wound and is recognized as a blessed of the Latin Church.