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1914–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Raimondo Illa Salvia (Bellvís, February 12, 1912 – 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.

1902–1936 · Contemporary

Ramón Martí Soriano was a Spanish Catholic presbyter born in 1902. He died in 1936 and is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1835–1907 · Contemporary · Order of the Brothers Discalced of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Raphael of Saint Joseph Kalinowski OCD (1 September 1835 – 15 November 1907) was a Polish Carmelite, social activist, participant in the January Uprising, and a saint of the Catholic Church.

1841–1900 · Contemporary

1904–1936 · Contemporary

Recaredo Centelles Abad (Vall de Uxó, Castellón, May 23, 1904 – Nules, Castellón, October 25, 1936) was a Spanish priest and Doctor of Theology of the Brotherhood of Diocesan Worker Priests, dedicated to the formation of seminarians.

1893–1936 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Recaredo de los Ríos Fabregat, SDB (born January 11, 1893, in Bétera; died December 9, 1936, in Picadero de Paterna) was a Spanish Salesian priest, a martyr of the Spanish Civil War, and a victim of anti-Catholic persecution, beatified by the Catholic Church.

1875–1936 · Contemporary · Congregation of the Mission

Ricardo Atanes Castro, born in Cualedro on August 5, 1875, and died in Gijón on August 14, 1936, was a Galician Latin Catholic priest and a martyr of the Spanish Civil War, beatified by Pope Francis on October 13, 2013.

1897–1930 · Contemporary · Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God

Riccardo Pampuri, OH (2 August 1897 – 1 May 1930) - born Erminio Filippo Pampuri was an Italian medical doctor and a veteran of World War I who was also a professed member of the Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God.

1900–1945 · Contemporary · Pallottines

Richard Henkes (26 May 1900 – 22 February 1945) was a German Roman Catholic priest of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate (Pallottines). Henkes served as a teacher but was best known for his preaching abilities in the pulpit where he made strong-worded condemnations of Nazism…

1848–1913 · Contemporary · Sisters of the Institute of Jesus, Mary and Joseph

Rita Lopes de Almeida (religious name Rita Amada de Jesus, 5 March 1848 – 6 January 1913), was a Portuguese religious sister and the founder of the Sisters of Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

1886–1963 · Contemporary

Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman was a Luxembourg-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian democratic (Popular Republican Movement) political thinker and activist.

1931–1945 · Contemporary

Rolando Maria Rivi (7 January 1931 – 13 April 1945) was an Italian Roman Catholic seminarian. Rivi was noted for his studious and pious nature with an intense love for Jesus Christ, which was evident through frequent confession and the reception of the Eucharist.

1882–1943 · Contemporary

Romain Archutowski (1882–1943) was a Polish Catholic priest arrested and deported by the Nazis to the Majdanek extermination camp. He died there of typhus in 1943.

1914–1949 · Contemporary

Roman Volodymyrovych Lysko (Ukrainian: Роман Володимирович Лиско; 14 August 1914 – 14 October 1949) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and martyr. Lysko was born on 14 August 1914 in Horodok, Lviv Oblast. He studied theology and graduated from the Lviv Theological Academy.

1880–1942 · Contemporary

Roman Sitko (30 March 1880 – 12 October 1942) was a Polish Catholic priest. In 1941 he was arrested by the Nazis and murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. He is considered a martyr and was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 13 June 1999.

1921–1978 · Contemporary · Cistercians

Romano Bottegal (Lamon, 28 December 1921 – Beirut, 19 February 1978) was an Italian religious priest of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance). Bottegal joined the order in the 1940s and lived as a hermit in Lebanon.

1874–1964 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Rosa Elena Cornejo Pazmiño (11 December 1874 – 24 October 1964), also known by her religious name María Francisca of the Wounds, was an Ecuadorian religious sister in the Roman Catholic Church.

1826–1906 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Maria Rosa Flesch (born Margaretha Flesch, 24 February 1826 – 25 March 1906), was a German religious sister in the Roman Catholic Church. She founded the Franciscan Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Angels, whose first Mother Superior she was.

1871–1954 · Contemporary · Carmelite Sisters of Saint Joseph (Barcelona)

Rosa Ojeda i Creus (Vilanova i la Geltrú, August 30, 1871 – Barcelona, May 15, 1954), in religion Rose of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, was a Spanish nun, founder of the Carmelite Sisters of Saint Joseph, and recognized as venerable by the Catholic Church since 1998.

1878–1900 · Contemporary

Christian laywoman, martyr, saint

1878–1900 · Contemporary

1855–1900 · Contemporary

Rose Fan Hui was a Chinese Catholic teacher born in Hebei in 1855. She died in Hebei in 1900 and is recognized as a blessed Catholic saint.

1890–1949 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Rudolf Komórek (11 October 1890 – 11 December 1949) was a Polish priest and a professed member of the Salesians of Don Bosco while also serving as part of the missions in Brazil.

1876–1945 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Rupert Mayer (23 January 1876 – 1 November 1945) was a German Jesuit priest and a leading figure of the Catholic resistance to Nazism in Munich. In 1987, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II. Mayer was born and grew up in Stuttgart, one of five siblings.

1928–1977 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Rutilio Grande García, SJ (5 July 1928 in El Paisnal – 12 March 1977 in Aguilares) was a Salvadoran Jesuit priest assassinated in 1977 by Salvadoran security forces.

1852–1900 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Rémy Isoré was a French Jesuit priest who was killed during Boxer Rebellion in China. He was declared a saint by Pope John Paul II in 2000. Isoré was born in Bambecque, France on 22 January 1852.

1876–1961 · Contemporary · Third Order of Saint Francis

Countess Róża Maria Czacka (also known under religious name Elżbieta; 22 October 1876 – 15 May 1961) was a Polish religious sister who founded the Franciscan Sisters Servants of the Cross.

1883–1927 · Contemporary

Sabás Reyes Salazar (3 December 1883 – 13 April 1927) was a Mexican Catholic vicar and one of many priests martyred during the Cristero War. Reyes was canonized by Pope John Paul II on 21 May 2000 as one the Martyrs of the Cristero War.

1910–1946 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Saint Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception (19 August 1910 – 28 July 1946), born as Anna Muttathupadathu, was an Indian Catholic nun and educator.

1868–1959 · Contemporary · Franciscans

María Natividad Venegas de la Torre (religious name María of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, 8 September 1868 – 30 July 1959) was a Mexican religious sister in the Roman Catholic Church.

1862–1936 · Contemporary

Salvador Estrugo Solves was a Spanish presbyter of the Catholic Church who lived from 1862 to 1936. He has been beatified and holds the status of blessed.

1880–1936 · Contemporary

Salvador Ferrandis Seguí, born on May 25, 1880, and died on August 3, 1936, was a Spanish priest. He was a priest in Lucena, and along with Francisco Bandrés Sánchez, a Salesian priest in Barcelona, Alfonso López López, a priest in Samalús, and Miguel Remón Salvador, a layman in…

1896–1936 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Salvador Mollar Ventura (1896–1936), born Jean-Baptiste Mollar Ventura, was a Spanish Franciscan friar who was murdered during the Spanish Civil War in Paterna, near Valencia, Spain, on October 27, 1936.

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

Salvatore Pigem Serra, C.M.F. (Vilobí d'Onyar, December 15, 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.

1877–1936 · Contemporary · Oratory of Saint Philip Neri

Salvi Huix Miralpéix (in Spanish: Salvio Huix Miralpéix; 22 December 1877 – 5 August 1936) was a Catalan Roman Catholic cleric who served as Bishop of Lleida from 1935 to 1936.

1910–1942 · Contemporary

Janina Szymkowiak (10 July 1910 – 29 August 1942) - in religious Sancja - was a Polish Roman Catholic professed religious from the Daughters of the Sorrowful Mother of God.

1961–1984 · Contemporary

Sandra Maria Assunta Sabattini (19 August 1961 – 2 May 1984) was an Italian diarist, medical student, and member of the Pope John XXIII Community, who was beatified by the Catholic Church on 24 October 2021.

1903–1936 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order

James of Jesus, born Santiago Arriaga y Arrien (Arrieta, November 22, 1903 – Cuenca, September 24, 1936), was a Spanish priest of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity.

1909–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Santiago Mestre Iborra (Rafelbuñol, Valencia province, April 10, 1909 – Masamagrell, September 29, 1936) was a Spanish religious. He was murdered, along with his eight brothers, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, a victim of the terror unleashed in the Republican zone.

1881–1936 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Santiago Pardo López was a Spanish Catholic priest and Benedictine monk born in 1881 in Palacios de Benaver. He died in 1936 in Barbastro from a gunshot wound and is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1929–1958 · Contemporary

Satoko Kitahara (北原 怜子, Kitahara Satoko; 22 August 1929 – 23 January 1958) – later known as Elisabeth Maria Kitahara – was a Japanese Roman Catholic.

1897–1987 · Contemporary

Orsola Rivata, in religion Mother Scholastica, born July 12, 1897, in Guarene and died March 24, 1987, in Sanfrè, was an Italian Catholic nun, co-founder and first Superior General of the Pious Disciples of the Divine Master.

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

Sebastián Calvo Martínez, C.M.F. (Gumiel de Izán, January 20, 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.

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

Sebastiano Riera Coromina (Ribes de Freser, October 13, 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.

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

Secundino Ortega García, C.M.F. (Santa Cruz de la Salceda, May 20, 1912 – Barbastro, August 13, 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.

1891–1936 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order

Segundo de Santa Teresa, born Segundo García Cabezas (Los Barrios de Nistoso, March 24, 1891 – Andújar, July 31, 1936), was a Spanish priest of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity.

1893–1947 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Serafin Koda, OFM (born April 25, 1893, in Janjeva, Kosovo; died May 11, 1947, in Lezhë) was a Roman Catholic Franciscan friar who was arrested and tortured for his faith in atheist Albania under the Enver Hoxha regime.

1884–1936 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Sergio Cid Pazo was a Spanish Catholic priest and a member of the Salesians of Don Bosco. Born in 1884 and dying in 1936, he is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1889–1941 · Contemporary

Severian Stefan Baranyk (Ukrainian: Северіян Бараник; 18 July 1889 - c. June 1941) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and martyr. Baranyk was born in Uhnów in Austrian Galicia (modern-day Uhniv, Ukraine).

1898–1971 · Contemporary

Shtjefën Kurti (24 December 1898 – 20 October 1971) was an Albanian Roman Catholic priest killed during a period of communist persecution. Kurti served as a priest during a volatile period for his nation in which communist repression enjoined state atheism and led to strict rules…