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1892–1943 · Contemporary

Maria Rajmunda of Jesus and Mary, CSFN, born Anna Kokołowicz (Kukołowicz) (August 24, 1892, in Barwaniszki, Vilnius region – 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 Cath…

1888–1940 · Contemporary

Anna Vasilyevna Serova (1888 – early 1940s) was a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church, canonized as a martyr for universal veneration at the Jubilee Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.

1870–1937 · Contemporary

Anna Ivanovna Zertsalova (January 31, 1870, Moscow — November 27, 1937, Butovo firing range) was a spiritual writer and a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church, canonized as a martyr in 2000 for universal church veneration.

1886–1900 · Contemporary

Anna Wang was a young Chinese Christian, born around 1886, who was killed at the age of fourteen on July 22, 1900, in Majiazhuang, near Daining in Hebei province. During the Boxer Rebellion, she refused to renounce her faith and was beheaded.

2002–2010 · Contemporary

Anne-Gabrielle Caron, born in Toulon on January 29, 2002, was a young French Christian who died of cancer at the age of eight on July 23, 2010, in the fifth arrondissement of Marseille. She is renowned for her faith and holiness.

1936–1995 · Contemporary · Sisters of the Poor, Palazzolo Institute

Celeste Maria, in religion Annelvira Ossoli, born on August 26, 1936, and died on May 23, 1995, in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo, was a religious sister of the Sisters of the Poor of Bergamo, a missionary, and a nurse in Africa.

1881–1939 · Contemporary · Order of St. Augustine

Anselmo Polanco Fontecha (Buenavista de Valdavia, April 16, 1881 – Pont de Molins, February 7, 1939) was a Spanish Catholic bishop. Attacked by rebels after the outbreak of the Civil War, he was taken prisoner by the Republican army in January 1938 following the capture of Teruel…

1915–1988 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Ante (Antoine) Gabrić, born on February 28, 1915, in Metković, Croatia, and died on October 20, 1988, in Mariapolli, Bengal, India, was a Croatian Jesuit priest and missionary in Bengal.

1875–1936 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Antero Mateo García (March 4, 1875, Valdevimbre – August 8, 1936, Sant Andreu de Palomar) was a Spanish Roman Catholic layman, a Dominican tertiary, and a martyr of the Spanish Civil War. The Catholic Church venerates him as a blessed.

1906–1945 · Contemporary

Antoine Charmet, born on December 26, 1906, in Saint-Martin-la-Plaine and died on April 2, 1945, in Buchenwald, was a French Catholic priest and a victim of Nazism.

1912–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Antolín Calvo y Calvo, C.M.F. (Gumiel de Mercado, September 2, 1912 – Barbastro, August 13, 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.

1901–1945 · Contemporary

Anton Granig (born September 17, 1901, in Mitten im Mölltal, municipality of Großkirchheim, Carinthia; died April 15, 1945, in Stein an der Donau) was an Austrian priest and resistance fighter against National Socialism.

1921–1948 · Contemporary

Anton Muzaj (born March 19, 1921, in Vërnakolla, in present-day Kosovo; died spring 1948 in Shkodër; Croatian: Anton Muzić) was a Roman Catholic priest who was arrested and tortured for his faith in atheist Albania under the Enver Hoxha regime.

1902–1946 · Contemporary

Anton Zogaj (born 1902, or according to other sources 1905 or July 26, 1908, in Kthella, Mirdita; died 1946, or according to another source 1948, in Durrës) was an Albanian Roman Catholic priest who was shot for his faith under the communist regime.

1885–1936 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Antonio María Martín Hernández, S.D.B. (born July 18, 1885, in La Calzada de Béjar; died December 10, 1936, in Picadero de Paterna, Salamanca province) was a Spanish Salesian priest, a martyr of the Spanish Civil War, and a victim of anti-Catholic persecution who is honored as a…

1870–1936 · Contemporary

Antonia Gosens Saez de Ibarra de San Timoteo (born January 17, 1870, died November 24, 1936) was a Spanish blessed of the Catholic Church. Coming from a religious family, she felt a calling to religious life and joined the Carmelite Sisters of Charity.

1907–2008 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Antonietta Böhm, born in Bottrop, Germany, on September 23, 1907, and died in Mexico on April 27, 2008, was a German Catholic religious sister of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians. A missionary in Latin America for 74 years, she was particularly devoted to the poor.

1918–1930 · Contemporary

Antônio da Rocha Marmo (São Paulo, October 19, 1918 – São Paulo, December 21, 1930), known as "Antoninho," was a Catholic child from São Paulo who was attributed with the gift of predicting future events.

1908–1936 · Contemporary

Antonio Arribas Hortigüela (born April 29, 1908, in Cardeñadijo; died September 29, 1936, in Serinyà) was a Spanish religious of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, a martyr for the faith, and a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1912–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Antonio Dalmau Rosich, C.M.F. (Miralcamp, October 4, 1912 – Barbastro, August 13, 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.

1892–1936 · Contemporary

Antonio Silvestre Moya (born October 26, 1892, in Olleria; died August 8, 1936, in El Salter) was a Spanish Catholic priest and a blessed of the Catholic Church. He was born on October 26, 1892, and was baptized the same day.

1914–1936 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Antonio Sáez de Ybarra López de Arcaute, O.F.M., born Ruperto (Hijona, Álava, March 25, 1914 – Azuaga, Badajoz, September 22, 1936), was a Spanish blessed and martyr.

1902–1936 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order

Antonio de Jesús y María, born Juan Antonio Salútregui y Uribarren (Guernica, February 5, 1902 – Alcázar de San Juan, July 26, 1936), was a Spanish priest of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity.

1883–1942 · Contemporary · Teutonic Order

Anselm Leo Polák (April 8, 1883, Dolní Životice – October 17, 1942, Jasenovac concentration camp, Gradina Donja, present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, then the Independent State of Croatia) was a Catholic priest, a member of the Teutonic Order, and a martyr of Nazi totalitarianism.

1867–1936 · Contemporary · Carmelite Sisters of Charity

Apolonia Lizárraga Ochoa de Zabalegui (18 April 1867 – 8 September 1936), known in religion as Mother Apolonia of the Blessed Sacrament, was a Carmelite nun and superior of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity.

1833–1905 · Contemporary

Arsenia, born Anna Gavrilovna Dobronravova, and known in the great schema as Thomaisa (born 1879 in Shagarskoye, died January 23, 1939, in Ivanovo), was a Russian Orthodox nun and a holy new martyr.

1901–1936 · Contemporary

Arturo Ros Montalt (born October 26, 1901; died August 28, 1936) was a blessed of the Catholic Church. On November 26, 1927, he married Mary Llopis Sirer, and six children were born from this union. He founded the Catholic Action Center.

1911–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Atanasio Vidaurreta Labra (Adiós, May 2, 1911 – Barbastro, August 18, 1936) was a Spanish religious, martyred in Barbastro during the Spanish Civil War and venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1901–1933 · Contemporary

Aurora Calvo Hernández-Agero, born on December 9, 1901, in Béjar, Spain, and died on November 22, 1933, in the same city, was a Spanish laywoman renowned for her holiness. She has been recognized as venerable by Pope Francis.

1906–1975 · Contemporary

Simon Mpeke, best known by the nickname Baba Simon (Father Simon), born in 1906 and died in 1975, was a Cameroonian priest, the first leader of Jesus Caritas in Africa, and later a missionary to the Kirdi people, becoming known as the champion of Kirdi identity.

1865–1934 · Contemporary · Order of the Brothers Discalced of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Ildefonso Sánchez Mayorga, in religion Balbino of the Carmel (Balbino del Carmelo), born March 7, 1865, in El Fresno and died May 12, 1934, in Ávila, was a Spanish Carmelite priest. His cause for beatification was opened in 1961.

1849–1900 · Contemporary

Barbe Cui Lianzhi was born in 1849 in Liushuitao, China. She was killed during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 because she had embraced the Catholic faith. She was canonized on October 1, 2000, by Pope John Paul II, along with the 120 Martyrs of China.

1876–1930 · Contemporary

Bishop Vasily (secular name Vasily Ivanovich Zelentsov; March 8, 1876, Zimarovo village, Ranenburg Uyezd, Ryazan Governorate — February 7, 1930, Moscow) was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Bishop of Pryluky, and vicar of the Poltava Diocese.

1874–1945 · Contemporary

Bazyli Aleksandrowicz Martysz, also known as Wasyl Martysz (born February 21, 1874, in Teratyn, died May 4, 1945, in the same place), was an Orthodox clergyman, protopresbyter, Chief Orthodox Chaplain of the Polish Armed Forces, and an Orthodox saint, one of the Chełm and Podlasi…

1909–1937 · Contemporary · Order of the Brothers Discalced of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Angelo Calvi, in religion Benignus of the Child Jesus (Italian: Benigno di santa teresa di gesù bambino), born July 23, 1909, and died October 25, 1937, in Milan, was an Italian Carmelite priest. His cause for beatification was opened in 1991.

1906–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Benigno Prieto del Pozo (born November 25, 1906, in Salce; died August 16, 1936, in Fuente el Fresno) was a Spanish Franciscan, priest, Christian martyr, and blessed of the Roman Catholic Church.

1908–1934 · Contemporary · Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools

Saint Benjamin Julian (born Vicente Alonso Andrés; Jaramillo de la Fuente, Burgos, October 27, 1908 – Turón, Asturias, October 9, 1934) was a Spanish religious brother who was killed during the Revolution of Asturias of 1934.

1880–1928 · Contemporary

Jesús Méndez Montoya (Tarímbaro, June 10, 1880 – Mexico, February 5, 1928) was a Mexican priest. As vicar of Valtierrilla, he was a victim of the Cristero War: on February 5, 1928, the Mexican army broke into his church and executed him by firing squad in the building's courtyar…

1867–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Bernard of Lugar Nuevo de Fenollet, born José Bleda Grau (July 23, 1867, in Lugar Nuevo de Fenollet – September 4, 1936, in Genovés), was a Spanish Blessed of the Catholic Church, a martyr, a Capuchin friar, and a victim of the anti-Catholic persecutions during the Spanish Civil…

1902–1932 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Bernardo Vaz Lobo Teixeira de Vasconcelos, O.S.B. (São Romão do Corgo, Celorico de Basto, July 7, 1902 – Foz do Douro, July 4, 1932), better known as Friar Bernardo de Vasconcelos, was a mystical poet and Benedictine monk who, despite passing away just days before turning 30, lef…

1937–1992 · Contemporary

Awadhut Mahaprabhu Aghoreshwar Baba Bhagwan Ram (1937–1992) was an Indian guru from Varanasi, a saint of the ascetic Aghori Panth tradition, and a successor in the lineage (parampara) of the Hindu saint Kina Ram.

1898–1999 · Contemporary

Bhakti Pramode Puri Goswami (born Pramoda Bhushan Chakravarty) was a saint of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, a philosopher, writer, theologian, and the founder and acharya of the Gaudiya Vaishnava religious organization Sri Gopinatha Gaudiya Math.

1925–1940 · Contemporary

Bibiana Khampai (November 4, 1925 – December 26, 1940) was a Thai blessed of the Catholic Church. Between 1940 and 1944, Thailand was at war with French Indochina.

1930–1995 · Contemporary · Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles

Denise Leclercq (or Leclerc), in religion Sister Bibiane, was a French nun, blessed and martyr, born in 1930 in Gazeran and killed on September 3, 1995, in Algiers. She was beatified on December 8, 2018.

1864–1936 · Contemporary · Sisters of Adoration, Handmaids of the Blessed Sacrament and of Charity

Juana Francisca Pérez de Labeaga García (Desojo, January 29, 1864 – Madrid, November 10, 1936), better known as Blasa de María, was a Spanish religious sister and member of the Handmaids of the Blessed Sacrament and of Charity, who was killed during the religious persecution of t…

1913–1942 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Boniface Zukowski (born Piotr Żukowski on January 13, 1913, in Baran-Rapa; died at Auschwitz on April 10, 1942) was a Conventual Franciscan, a martyr of Nazism, and was beatified by John Paul II on June 13, 1999. His feast day is April 10.

1875–1937 · Contemporary

Boris, born Semyon Timofeyevich (Petrovich?) Voskoboynikov (born August 20/September 1, 1875, in Alexandrovskaya Sloboda, Voronezh Governorate; died December 6, 1937, in Kazakhstan), was a Russian Orthodox bishop and a holy new martyr.

1865–1960 · Contemporary

Brigida Maria Postorino, born on November 19, 1865, in Catona, Calabria, and died on March 30, 1960, in Frascati near Rome, was an Italian religious sister and founder of the Daughters of the Immaculate, an order dedicated to serving the poor.

1930–1996 · Contemporary · Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance

Christian Charles Joseph Lemarchand (in religion Father Bruno), born on March 1, 1930, in Saint-Maixent-l'École (Deux-Sèvres) and died (assassinated) after April 20, 1996, in Algeria, was a French Trappist monk of the Abbey of Notre-Dame de l'Atlas in Tibhirine who, along with si…

1907–1972 · Contemporary · Piarists

Bruno Martínez Sacedo, Sch. P. (Moscardón, Teruel, Spain, November 9, 1907 – León, Nicaragua, December 29, 1972) was a Piarist priest from Teruel who worked in education in Nicaragua. He died in León from injuries sustained in the 1972 Managua earthquake.