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1904–1998 · Contemporary

Nicola Riezzo (11 December 1904 - 20 August 1998) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Otranto from 1969 until his retirement in 1981.

1882–1958 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Nicola da Gesturi (4 August 1882 – 8 June 1958), born Giovanni Angelo Salvatore Medda, was an Italian Roman Catholic and a professed member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. Throughout his life he encouraged and led charitable works in Sardinia.

1943–1964 · Contemporary · Clerics Regular of the Ministers of the Sick

Venerable Nicola D'Onofrio (24 March 1943 – 12 June 1964) was a Catholic Seminarian and member of the Camillian order from Abruzzo, Italy who was declared Venerable by Pope Francis in 2013.

1893–1936 · Contemporary · Passionists

Vicente Díez Tejerina (Herreruela de Castillería, February 17, 1893 – Manzanares, July 23, 1936), better known by his religious name Nicéforo de Jesús y María, was a Catholic Passionist priest who was executed by firing squad in 1936 during the religious persecution that broke ou…

1898–1945 · Contemporary

Nikolaus Gross (German: Groß) (30 September 1898 – 23 January 1945) was a German Roman Catholic layman and trade unionist. Gross first worked in crafts requiring skilled labor before becoming a coal miner like his father while joining a range of trade union and political movement…

1979–1993 · Contemporary

Niña Ruiz Abad (October 31, 1979 – August 16, 1993) was a Filipino Catholic girl widely known as "the girl who always wore a rosary". She is in the process of being canonized, and is currently a Servant of God.

1877–1949 · Contemporary

Nykyta Budka (Ukrainian: Никита Будка aka Nikita, Mykyta, or Nicetas Budka; June 7, 1877 in Dobromirka, Austria-Hungary – October 1, 1949 in Karaganda, USSR) was a Austro-Hungarian-born priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church who lived and worked in Austria-Hungary, Canada,…

1879–1958 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Octavio Ortiz Arrieta (19 April 1879 – 1 March 1958) was a Peruvian Roman Catholic Church prelate and a professed member of the Salesians of Don Bosco who served as the Bishop of Chachapoyas from 1921 until his death.

1932–1995 · Contemporary · Little Sisters of the Sacred Heart

Odette Prévost (17 July 1932 – 10 November 1995) was a French Roman Catholic nun, who was working as a teacher and a librarian when she was killed in Algiers en route to Mass. She is recognized as a martyr and was proclaimed blessed on 8 December 2018.

1907–1944 · Contemporary

Odoardo Focherini (sometimes referred to as Edward Focherini; 6 June 1907 – 27 December 1944) was an Italian Roman Catholic journalist. He issued false documents to Jews during World War II in order for them to escape the Nazi regime but was arrested and sent to a concentration c…

1903–1952 · Contemporary

Olympia (Olga) Bida (1903–1952) was a Ukrainian Catholic nun of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Immaculate Virgin Mary who died in the Kharsk detention camp near Tomsk, Siberia. She is one of the 25 Ukrainian martyrs beatified by Pope John Paul II in Lviv on June 27, 2001.

1882–1969 · Contemporary

Olinto Marella (14 June 1882 – 6 September 1969) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest who exercised his pastoral service in the Archdiocese of Bologna. Marella was a classmate of Pope John XXIII in Rome and the pope held him in high esteem and supported his pastoral initiatives.

1884–1944 · Contemporary

Omelyan Hryhorovych Kovch (Ukrainian: Омелян Григорович Ковч; August 20, 1884, Kosmach — March 25, 1944) was a Ukrainian Greek-Catholic priest murdered in Majdanek concentration camp.

1882–1940 · Contemporary

Otto Neururer (25 March 1882 – 30 May 1940) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and was the first priest to die in a Nazi concentration camp.

1915–1972 · Contemporary

Ottorino Zanon was an Italian Catholic priest, presbyter, and partisan born in Vicenza in 1915. He died in a traffic collision in Brescia in 1972. He is recognized as Venerable by the Catholic Church.

1862–1933 · Contemporary · Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

Ovide Charlebois, OMI (17 February 1862 - 20 November 1933) was a Canadian Missionary Oblate of Mary Immaculate who served as the Apostolic Vicar of Keewatin from his appointment in 1910 until his death.

1830–1904 · Contemporary

Pablo de Anda Padilla (July 5, 1830 – June 29, 1904) was a Catholic priest and founder of the Minim Daughters of Mary Immaculate. Pablo de Anda Padilla was born on July 5, 1830, in the city of San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, Mexico.

1908–1927 · Contemporary

Paola Renata Carboni (21 February 1908 - 11 September 1927) was an Italian teenager who is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church. Carboni was the fourth of eight children of a physician who refused to permit his children to attend church or be instructed in religion.

1872–1952 · Contemporary

Paolo Manna (16 January 1872 – 15 September 1952) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a member from the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions as well as the founder of the Pontifical Missionary Union.

1917–1936 · Contemporary

Pascual Aláez Medina, OMI (born May 11, 1917, in Villaverde de Arcayos; died July 24, 1936, in Pozuelo, Madrid), was a Spanish Oblate of the Immaculate Mary. He took his first vows on August 16, 1935.

1894–1936 · Contemporary

Paschalis Penadés Jornet (born January 3, 1894; died September 15, 1936) was a Spanish blessed of the Catholic Church. He began his studies at the seminary in Valencia and was ordained a priest in 1921. He was murdered during the Spanish Civil War.

1882–1900 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Saint Patrick Dong Bodi, OFS (Chinese: 董博弟) (born c. 1882 in Guchengyin, Shanxi province, China – died July 9, 1900, in Taiyuan) was a seminarian, a Franciscan tertiary, a martyr, and a saint of the Catholic Church.

1909–1992 · Contemporary · Congregation of the Holy Cross

Patrick Peyton, CSC (9 January 1909 – 3 June 1992), also known as "the Rosary priest", was an Irish-born Catholic priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, and founder of the Family Rosary Crusade.

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.

1839–1900 · Contemporary

1893–1900 · Contemporary

Paul Lang Fu (Chinese: 郎福保祿) (born 1893 in Lu, Hebei, China – died July 16, 1900, in Lujiapo, Hebei) was a saint of the Catholic Church and a martyr. He was the son of Saint Lang Yang. During the Boxer Rebellion in China, Christians were persecuted.

1821–1900 · Contemporary

1897–1978 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Pope Paul VI (born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini; 26 September 1897 – 6 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978.

1838–1900 · Contemporary

Saint Paul Wu Anjyu was born in 1838 in Hebei and died in 1900 in the same province. A member of the Catholic Church, he is recognized as a Catholic saint and blessed.

1884–1900 · Contemporary

1905–1943 · Contemporary

Paulina Borowik was born in 1905 in Rudno and died in 1943 in the Navahrudak District. She is a Catholic saint.

1919–1952 · Contemporary

Pavel Djidjov (19 July 1919 – 3 October 1952) was a Bulgarian theologian who was executed after a show trial and beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2002. He is commemorated on November 11. Pavel Djidjov was born to a Latin rite Catholic family in Plovdiv.

1888–1960 · Contemporary · Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat

Pavel Peter Gojdič (also known as Pavol Gojdič or Peter Gojdič; 17 July 1888 — 17 July 1960), was a Rusyn Basilian monk and the eparch of the Slovak Greek Catholic Eparchy of Prešov.

1907–1991 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Pedro Arrupe y Gondra, SJ (14 November 1907 – 5 February 1991) was a Spanish Catholic priest who served as the 28th superior general of the Society of Jesus from 1965 to 1983.

1890–1936 · Contemporary

Pedro Asúa Mendía (30 August 1890 – 29 August 1936) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and engineer. He studied under the Jesuits and he trained also as an architect. He graduated in that field in 1915.

1996–2018 · Contemporary

Pedro Ballester Arenas (1996–2018) was a chemical engineer, student, and numerary member of Opus Dei who held citizenship in Spain and the United Kingdom. Born and raised in Manchester, he died there from bone cancer and is buried in the same city.

1903–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Pedro Cunill Padrós, C.M.F. (Vic, March 17, 1903 – Barbastro, August 12, 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.

1913–1983 · Contemporary · Piarists

Pedro Díez Gil was a Spanish Piarist priest and teacher who was born in the town of Pampliega, Burgos, on April 14, 1913, and died in Zaragoza on January 14, 1983. He is considered venerable by the Catholic Church.

1886–1936 · Contemporary

Pedro Gambín was a Spanish diocesan priest and archpriest born in Cartagena in 1886. He died in 1936 at La Cadena Pass from a gunshot wound. He is recognized as a blessed within Catholicism.

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

Pedro García Bernal, C.M.F. (Santa Cruz de la Salceda, April 27, 1911 – 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.

1887–1936 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Pedro Gelabert Amer (born March 29, 1887, in Manacor; died August 23, 1936, in Tabernes de Valldigna) was a Jesuit lay brother, a martyr of the Spanish Civil War, and a victim of anti-Catholic persecution, beatified by the Catholic Church.

1887–1963 · Contemporary · Order of the Brothers Discalced of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Pedro Landeta Azcueta, also known as Aureliano of the Blessed Sacrament, was a Professed Priest of the Discalced Carmelites. Azcueta was born on 27 June 1887 in Artunduaga de Basauri, Spain.

1901–1936 · Contemporary

Pedro Martret Moles was a Catholic priest born in Alt Urgell, Spain, in 1901. He died in 1936 and is recognized as a blessed within the Catholic Church.

1899–1948 · Contemporary

Pedro María Ramírez Ramos (23 October 1899 – 10 April 1948) was a Colombian Roman Catholic priest killed during the outbreak of the Colombian civil war known as La Violencia. He served as the pastor of Armero, where he was stationed until his murder in 1948.

1874–1936 · Contemporary

Pedro Poveda (born Pedro José Luis Francisco Javier Poveda Castroverde; 3 December 1874 – 28 July 1936) was a Spanish Catholic priest, humanitarian, and educator. He was the founder of the Teresian Association.

1892–1937 · Contemporary

Pedro de Jesús Maldonado Lucero (June 15, 1892 – February 11, 1937) was a Mexican diocesan priest who became the first canonized saint and martyr from Chihuahua City, Mexico.

1878–1961 · Contemporary · Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer

Pelágio Sauter (9 November 1878 – 23 November 1961) was a German Roman Catholic priest who worked in the missions of Brazil. He was a member of the Redemptorists. He served in the Brazilian missions from 1909 until his death, never returning to his homeland.

1905–1950 · Contemporary

Pere Tarrés i Claret (30 May 1905 – 31 August 1950) was a Catholic doctor from Barcelona, who became a priest. Claret served as a doctor during the Spanish Civil War, and administered to the poor and to those who suffered from tuberculosis; he also co-established a clinic for tho…

1837–1900 · Contemporary

1843–1900 · Contemporary