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1851–1914 · Contemporary

Mathew Makil (27 March 1851 – 26 January 1914) was the second Vicar Apostolic and the first indigenous Vicar Apostolic of the Vicariate of Changanacherry, which is the Syro Malabar Archeparchy of Changanacherry today.

1902–1936 · Contemporary · Piarists

Matías Cardona Meseguer (born December 23, 1902, in Vallibona, died August 20, 1936, in the same place) was a Spanish priest of the Piarist Order. He was a victim of the anti-Catholic persecutions during the Spanish Civil War, murdered out of hatred for the faith (odium fidei).

1910–1949 · Contemporary

Maurice Tornay, CRSA (31 August 1910 – 11 August 1949) was a Swiss Catholic priest of the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine – of the Hospitallers of Saint Nicholas and Grand-St-Bernard of Mont Joux branch – who served as part of the missions in China and Tibet.

1903–1936 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Mauro Palazuelos was a Spanish Catholic priest, theologian, and Benedictine prior born in 1903 in Peñacastillo. He died in 1936 in Barbastro from a gunshot wound. He is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1887–1944 · Contemporary

Max Josef Metzger (3 February 1887 – 17 April 1944) was a Catholic priest and leading German pacifist. Due to his activities for peace between nations, Metzger was a thorn in the side of the National Socialists.

1848–1925 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Meinrad Eugster was a Swiss Benedictine monk born in Altstätten in 1848. He died in Einsiedeln in 1925 and has been declared Venerable within the Catholic Church.

1899–1936 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order

Melchior of the Holy Spirit, born Melchor Rodríguez Villastrigo (Laguna de Negrillos, January 29, 1899 – Cuenca, September 24, 1936), was a Spanish priest of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity.

1880–1936 · Contemporary · Society of St. Teresa of Jesus

Mercè Prat i Prat, STJ (6 March 1880 - 24 July 1936) was a Spanish Catholic nun who was a member of the Societatis Sanctae Teresiae a Iesu. She assumed the religious name of Maria Mercè of the Sacred Heart.

1935–2004 · Contemporary · Order of the Immaculate Conception

Mercedes de Jesús Egido y Izquierdo, (29 March 1935 – 3 August 2004) was a Spanish Roman Catholic nun of the Order of the Immaculate Conception who undertook a major reform of the Order's way of life. The cause for her beatification is being investigated by the Holy See.

1837–1910 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Michele Rua (English: Michael Rua; 9 June 1837 – 6 April 1910) was an Italian Catholic priest and professed member of the Salesians of Don Bosco.

1960–1991 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Michał Tomaszek (September 23, 1960 – August 9, 1991) was a Polish Catholic priest and missionary of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual. Having been killed in hatred of the faith (in odium fidei) in Peru, he is venerated as a martyr and blessed by the Catholic Church.

1893–1943 · Contemporary

Michał Kozal (27 September 1893 – 26 January 1943) was a Polish Roman Catholic bishop. Kozal was noted for his intelligence and dedication to studies and studied to become a priest during World War I, which disrupted his studies but did not prevent his ordination in 1918; he gain…

1900–1942 · Contemporary

Michał Oziębłowski was a Polish Catholic priest and catechist born in 1900 in Izdebno Kościelne. He died in 1942 at the Dachau concentration camp and is recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church.

1885–1940 · Contemporary

Michael Piaszczynski (1 November 1885 – 18 December 1940) was a Polish Catholic priest who was arrested by the Nazis and killed at Sachsenhausen concentration camp. As a martyr he was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 13 June 1999.

1888–1975 · Contemporary

Michael Sopoćko (Polish: Michał Sopoćko [ˈmixaw sɔˈpɔt͡ɕkɔ]; 1 November 1888 – 15 February 1975) was a Polish Catholic priest and professor at Vilnius University. He is best known as the spiritual director of Faustina Kowalska. He was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2008.

1875–1942 · Contemporary

Michał Woźniak (born 1 July 1999) is a Polish pair skater. With his current skating partner, Ioulia Chtchetinina, he is the 2025 Four National champion, the 2024 Four National silver medalist, a three-time Polish national champion (2024–26), and the 2024 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb…

1904–1942 · Contemporary

Mieczysław Bohatkiewicz was a Catholic priest, confessor, preacher, and parochus born in 1904 in Krykaly. A citizen of the Second Polish Republic, he died in 1942 in Hlybokaye. He is recognized as a blessed within the Catholic Church.

1902–1941 · Contemporary · Capuchin Poor Clares

Mieczysława Kowalska was a Polish religious sister of the Capuchin Poor Clares born in Warsaw in 1902. She died of tuberculosis in 1941 at the Soldau concentration camp. She is recognized as a saint in the Catholic Church.

1912–1976 · Contemporary

Miguel Afonso de Andrade Leite (29 September 1912 – 30 September 1976), better known as "Padre Miguel do Cajuru", was a Brazilian Roman Catholic priest.  He was the son of Francisco Afonso de Andrade Leite and Afonsina Batista de Carvalho.

1888–1971 · Contemporary

Miguel Ángel Builes Gómez (9 September 1888 - 29 September 1971) was a Colombian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos from 1924 until his death.

1854–1910 · Contemporary · Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools

Francisco Luis Febres-Cordero y Muñoz (7 November 1854 – 9 February 1910), known as (later Saint) Miguel Febres Cordero and Brother Miguel, was an Ecuadorian Roman Catholic religious brother.

1913–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Michele Masip González (Llardecans, June 8, 1913 – Barbastro, August 15, 1936) was a Spanish religious, martyred in Barbastro during the Spanish Civil War and venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1891–1927 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

José Ramón Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez, also known as Blessed Miguel Pro, SJ (January 13, 1891 – November 23, 1927) was a Mexican Jesuit priest executed under the presidency of Plutarco Elías Calles on the false charges of bombing and attempted assassination of former Mexican Presi…

1935–1974 · Contemporary

Mikel Beltoja (April 17, 1935 – February 10, 1974) was an Albanian Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Shkodër who was murdered in odium fidei under the communist and atheist regime of Enver Hoxha. He is venerated as a blessed and martyr by the Catholic Church.

1920–1947 · Contemporary

Miroslav Bulešić (13 May 1920 – 24 August 1947) was a Croatian Catholic priest. He studied in Rome before being recalled to his native Istria where he was ordained in 1943 during World War II prior to two parish postings where he became a vocal critic of communism.

1847–1900 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

The Martyr Saints of China (traditional Chinese: 中華殉道聖人; simplified Chinese: 中华殉道圣人; pinyin: Zhōnghuá xùndào shèngrén), or Augustine Zhao Rong and his Companions, are 120 saints of the Catholic Church.

1880–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Modest García Martí, also known as Modest of Albocácer (Spanish: Modesto García Martí; born January 18, 1880, in Albocácer, Castellón province; died August 30, 1936, near Albocácer), was a Spanish blessed of the Catholic Church, a martyr, priest, Capuchin friar, and victim of the…

1912–1936 · Contemporary · Conventual Franciscans

Modesto Vegas was a Spanish Franciscan friar who was born on February 24, 1912, in La Serna, Spain. During the Spanish Civil War, he was killed in 1936 in Lliçà d'Amunt, along with friars Alfonso Lopez, Dionisio Vicente, Pedro Rivera, Francisco Remón, and Miguel Remón.

1893–1950 · Contemporary · Missionaries of the Holy Spirit

Blessed Moisés Lira Serafín (16 September 1893 – 25 June 1950) was a Mexican priest who founded the Congregation of the Missionaries of Charity of Mary Immaculate. Moisés Lira Serafín was born in Tlatempa, Zacatlán, Mexico, on 16 September 1893.

1941–1959 · Contemporary

María Montserrat Grases García (10 July 1941 – 26 March 1959) was a Catalan Catholic laywoman who was a secular member of Opus Dei. Grases became part of Opus Dei on 24 December 1957 after she discerned whether or not her path would allow her to join their ranks.

1831–1913 · Contemporary · Carmelites

Eliswa Vakayil, religious name Eliswa of the Blessed Virgin Mary, (15 October 1831 – 18 July 1913) was a religious sister from Kerala. She was the founder of the first indigenous Carmelite community for women in India, the Third Order of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns (TOCD), which…

1893–1983 · Contemporary

Maria Josefa Alhama y Valera, religious name Maria Esperanza of Jesus, (30 September 1893 – 8 February 1983) was a Spanish religious sister. She was the founder of both the Handmaids of Merciful Love in 1930 and the Sons of Merciful Love in 1951.

1851–1926 · Contemporary · Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne Congregation of Saint Rose of Lima

Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, OP, also known as Mother Mary Alphonsa (May 20, 1851 – July 9, 1926), was an American Dominican religious sister, writer, social worker, and foundress of the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne.

1823–1906 · Contemporary · Order of the Brothers Discalced of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Veronica of the Passion, OCD (born Sophie Leeves; 1 October 1823 – 11 November 1906) was an Ottoman-born English Catholic nun who founded the Sisters of the Apostolic Carmel, a religious congregation for women based in India.

1841–1917 · Contemporary · Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools

Mutien-Marie Wiaux (also known as Mutien-Marie of Malonne; 20 March 1841 – 30 January 1917) was a Belgian member of the Brothers of Christian Schools, who spent his life as a teacher and is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church.

1876–1941 · Contemporary

Mykola Konrad (Ukrainian: Микола Конрад; 16 May 1876 – 26 June 1941) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and martyr. Konrad was born on 16 May 1876 in the village of Strusów, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (modern-day Strusiv, Ukraine).

1896–1951 · Contemporary

Mykola Tsehelskyi (Ukrainian: Мико́ла Цеге́льський; December 17, 1896 – May 25, 1951), sometimes rendered as Nicholas Tsehelskyi, was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, considered to be a martyr by the Catholic Church for his refusal to convert even under duress.

1882–1936 · Contemporary

Narciso de Esténaga y Echevarría (Logroño, October 29, 1882 – Miguelturra, August 22, 1936) was a Spanish Catholic bishop. He was one of the thirteen bishops killed in the Republican zone during the Spanish Civil War, a victim of religious persecution.

1877–1942 · Contemporary

Narcyz Putz (born October 28, 1877, in Sieraków; died December 5, 1942, in Dachau) was a Polish Catholic priest, a blessed of the Roman Catholic Church, administrator and pastor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus parish in Bydgoszcz (1920–1925), pastor of St.

1879–1942 · Contemporary

Narcyz Turchan was a Polish monk and presbyter born in 1879 in Wieliczka. He died in 1942 at the Dachau concentration camp. He is recognized as a saint in the Catholic Church.

1866–1936 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Narcisse Basté Basté (1866–1936) was a Spanish Jesuit who was assassinated during the Spanish Civil War in Valencia, Spain, on October 15, 1936.

1891–1945 · Contemporary

Lenart "Narte" Velikonja (June 8, 1891 – June 25, 1945) was a Slovene writer and cultural figure. Narte Velikonja was born in Predmeja, the son of Ignatius Velikonja and Maria (née Beuk) Velikonja, and he was baptized Leonardus Velikonja at the parish church in Otlica.

1906–1945 · Contemporary

Natalia Tułasiewicz (9 April 1906 – 31 March 1945) was a Polish teacher in Poznań, Second Polish Republic, and a leader in the Catholic lay apostolate. A member of the Polish Underground State, she was murdered in a gas chamber at the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

1889–1943 · Contemporary

Nazaria Ignacia March Mesa (10 January 1889 – 6 July 1943) – in religious Nazaria of Saint Teresa of Jesus – was a Spanish Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Missionaries of the Crusade.

1887–1958 · Contemporary

Dom Ndoc Suma (born July 31, 1887, in Nënshat, Zadrima; died April 22, 1958) was a Roman Catholic priest who died for his faith in communist Albania. He is one of the Thirty-eight Martyrs of Albania.

1841–1936 · Contemporary

Nelson Henry Baker (February 16, 1842 – July 29, 1936) was an American Catholic monsignor in Lackawanna, New York, whom the Vatican has declared as venerable.

1928–2002 · Contemporary

Phanxicô Xaviê Nguyễn Văn Thuận, also known as Francis-Xavier Nguyễn Văn Thuận , was a Vietnamese cardinal in the Catholic Church. He was a nephew of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm, and of Archbishop Ngô Đình Thục.

1890–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Nicasio Sierra Ucar, C.M.F. (Cascante, October 11, 1890 – Barbastro, August 12, 1936), was a Spanish priest of Basque origin who was martyred in Barbastro during the Spanish Civil War and is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1895–1944 · Contemporary

Nicholas Bunkerd Kitbamrung (Thai: นิโคลาส บุญเกิด กฤษบำรุง; RTGS: Bunkoet Kritbamrung; 31 January 1895 – 12 January 1944) was a Thai Catholic priest.

1884–1959 · Contemporary · Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer

Nicholas Charnetsky, Mykolai Charnetskyi or Mykolay Charnetsky (Ukrainian: Миколай Чарнецький; December 14, 1884 – April 2, 1959) also known as Nicholas of Volyn ((Ukrainian: Миколай Волинський) was a member of the Redemptorists (Congregation of the Holy Redeemer), a religious co…