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1891–1904 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Laura del Carmen Vicuña Pino (5 April 1891 – 22 January 1904) was a Chilean child who was noted for her religious devotion. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1988 as the patron of abuse victims, having herself experienced physical abuse.

1875–1949 · Contemporary

Laura Montoya, in full María Laura de Jesús Montoya Upegui (26 May 1874 – 21 October 1949), religious name Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena, was a Colombian Roman Catholic religious sister and the founder of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Virgin Mar…

1936–2011 · Contemporary

Laureana Franco (4 July 1936 – 17 October 2011), also known as "Ka Luring Franco", was a Filipino Catholic catechist and member of the Legion of Mary who devoted her life to serving her local diocese and its poor.

1877–1918 · Contemporary

Saint Lawrence or Laurence (Latin: Laurentius, lit. 'laurelled'; 31 December 225 – 10 August 258) was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the persecution of the Christians ordered by the Roman emperor Valerian in 258.

1868–1950 · Contemporary

Lawrence (Russian: Лавре́нтий, Lavrentiy; born Luka Evseevich Proskura; 1868, Karilskoie village, Krolevetsky District, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire – January 19, 1950, Chernigov, USSR) was a Russian clergyman and archimandrite of the Russian Orthodox Church.

1892–1945 · Contemporary

Lazër Shantoja (7 July 1891 – 5 March 1945) was an Albanian blessed, publicist, poet, satirist, and translator into Albanian from Goethe, Schiller and Leopardi, as well as his country's first Esperantist.

1870–1936 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Leandro Cuesta Andrés was a Spanish Catholic priest and Benedictine monk born in 1870 in Rupelo. He died in 1936 in Barbastro from a gunshot wound and is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1891–1948 · Contemporary

Lek Sirdani was an Albanian Catholic presbyter born in 1891. He died in 1948 in Koplik and is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1906–1943 · Contemporary · Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth

Leokadia Matuszewska (Maria Heliodora Matuszewska; born February 8, 1906, in Stara Huta, 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.

1843–1925 · Contemporary

Léon-Gustave Dehon, SCJ (14 March 1843 – 12 August 1925), also known as Jean of the Sacred Heart, was a French Catholic priest and the founder of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (the Dehonians).

1859–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Augustinian Recollects

León Inchausti, O.A.R. (born June 27, 1859, in Ajánguiz, Biscay; died July 25, 1936, in Motril) was a blessed of the Catholic Church and a priest of the Order of Augustinian Recollects. He entered the Augustinian order in 1878.

1913–1939 · Contemporary

Leon Nowakowski, nom de guerre "Lig", (born 1908 near Odessa, died 1944 in Warsaw) was a Polish soldier, a member of the Home Army and the moderate faction of the National Armed Forces which merged with it, with a rank of major, creator and later the commander of the Chrobry II B…

1886–1941 · Contemporary

Leon Wetmański (10 April 1886 - 1941) was a Polish Catholic auxiliary Bishop of the Płock diocese who was killed in Soldau concentration camp. He was beatified in 1999 as one of the 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs. He was born in 1886 to a wealthy family.

1881–1915 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Leonard Melki (4 October 1881 – 11 June 1915) – born Yūsuf Habīb Melkī and in religion Līūnār of B'abdāt – was a Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. His name is often Romanized in various texts.

1862–1912 · Contemporary

Leonardo Castellanos y Castellanos (5 November 1862 in Ecuandureo, Michoacán − 19 May 1912) was a Mexican Roman Catholic bishop. Ordained to the priesthood on 20 March 1886, Castellanos y Castellanos was named bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tabasco, Mexico in 1908 and d…

1828–1900 · Contemporary

Leonardo Murialdo, CSI (26 October 1828 – 30 March 1900) was an Italian Catholic priest and the co-founder of the Congregation of Saint Joseph - also known as the Murialdines (which he founded alongside Eugenio Reffo).

1889–1936 · Contemporary

Leonardo Olivera Buera was a Catholic priest born in 1889 in Campo, Spain. He died in 1936 in El Saler as one of the Spanish martyrs of the 20th century. He is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1883–1929 · Contemporary

Leonardo Pérez Larios (Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, November 28, 1889 – April 25, 1927, León, Mexico) was a layman beatified by Benedict XVI in the city of Guadalajara. He was martyred alongside the Claretian priests Andrés Solá y Molist and José Trinidad Rangel.

1875–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Leonzio Pérez Ramos, C.M.F. (Muro de Aguas, September 12, 1875 – Barbastro, August 2, 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.

1884–1972 · Contemporary

Leontius, secular name Lew Fomich Stasievich (born 20 March 1884 in Tarnogród, died 9 February 1972 in Mikhaylovskoye) was a clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church, archimandrite, one of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Orthodox Church.

1940–2006 · Contemporary

Leonella Sgorbati, born Rosa Maria Sgorbati, (9 December 1940 – 17 September 2006) was an Italian religious sister of the Consolata Missionaries who served in the missions in both Kenya and in Somalia.

1872–1938 · Contemporary

Leonid (Russian: Леонид [lʲɪɐˈnʲit]; Ukrainian: Леонід [leoˈn⁽ʲ⁾id]; Belarusian: Леанід, romanized: Leaníd [lʲɛaˈnʲit]) is a Slavic version of the given name Leonidas. The French version is Leonide. People with the name include: Fictional characters include:

1879–1935 · Contemporary

Leonid Ivanovich Feodorov (Russian: Леонид Иванович Фёдоров; 4 November 1879 – 7 March 1935) was a Studite hieromonk from the Russian Greek Catholic Church, the first Exarch of the Russian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Russia, and a survivor of the Gulag at Solovki prison camp.…

1844–1914 · Contemporary · Oblates of St. Francis de Sales

Léonie Aviat (16 September 1844 – 10 January 1914), her religious name Françoise de Sales, was a Roman Catholic professed religious and the co-founder along with Louis Brisson of the Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales.

1866–1942 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Leopold Bogdan Mandić [Mandich], OFMCap (also known as Leopold of Castelnuovo, Italian: Leopoldo da Castelnuovo; 12 May 1866 – 30 July 1942) was a Croatian Capuchin friar and Catholic priest, who suffered from disabilities that would plague his speech and stature.

1864–1956 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Leopold of Alpandeire (Spanish: Leopoldo de Alpandeire; 24 June 1864 – 9 February 1956) – born Francisco Tomás de San Juan Bautista Márquez y Sánchez – was a Spanish Capuchin friar.

1889–1937 · Contemporary

Archimandrite Lev (Leonid Mikhailovich Egorov; February 26, 1889 - September 20, 1937) - clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church, brother of Metropolitan Gurij (Egorov). In July 2003, he was glorified as a hieromartyr by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.

1911–1952 · Contemporary

Lavrentia (Levkadia) Herasymiv (alternatively transliterated Harasymiv, in Ukrainian: Лаврентія Левкадія Іллівна Гарасимів) was an ethnic Ukrainian Soviet Greek Catholic nun and martyr. Lavrentia Herasymiv, born Levkadia, on September 30, 1911 in Rudnyky, Lviv Region.

1887–1915 · Contemporary

Levon Aghababyan (Armenian: Լևոն Աղաբաբյան 1887–1915) was an Armenian mathematician, headmaster of high schools in Kütahya and Akşehir (1908–14), directed his own school in Kütahya for three years. Levon was born in 1887 in Baghesh and graduated from the Sanasaryan College.

1875–1915 · Contemporary

Levon Larents (Kirisciyan) (Armenian: Լեւոն Լարենց (Քիրիշճեան), 1875–1915) was an Armenian writer, translator, journalist, editor, novelist, poet, and teacher. He was an editor of many newspapers around the world and the founder of many others.

1919–1944 · Contemporary

Lew Korobczuk was born in 1919 and died in 1944 in Łasków. He is recognized as a hieromartyr.

1901–1941 · Contemporary

Elisa Angela Meneguzzi (12 September 1901 - 2 December 1941) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious and a member of the Sisters of Saint Francis de Sales. She assumed the religious name of "Liduina" upon making her solemn profession into the order.

1953–1993 · Contemporary · Congregation of the Mission

Lindalva Justo de Oliveira, DC (20 October 1953 - 9 April 1993) was a Brazilian Catholic member of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul.

1866–1924 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Lino Maupas was a Catholic priest of the Order of Friars Minor and a citizen of the Kingdom of Italy. Born in Split in 1866 and dying in Parma in 1924, he is recognized by the Catholic Church as the Venerable. He is buried in the Villetta Cemetery.

1880–1936 · Contemporary

Blessed Lluís Janer Riba (March 4, 1880, Pontils – July 23, 1936, Tarragona) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and martyr, murdered by Republicans during the Spanish Civil War. He was beatified on October 13, 2013, in Tarragona as part of a group of 522 Spanish martyrs.

1923–1943 · Contemporary

Lojze Grozde (27 May 1923 – 1 January 1943) was a Slovenian student who was murdered by Partisans during World War II. His death is recognised as martyrdom by the Catholic Church. He was beatified on 13 June 2010.

1910–1999 · Contemporary

Lojze Kozar Sr. (born Kozár Alajos, November 11, 1910 – April 29, 1999), was a Slovene Roman Catholic priest, writer, and translator. He was the uncle of the priest, writer, and poet Lojze Kozar Jr.

1964–1981 · Contemporary

Lorena D'Alessandro was an Italian Catholic born in Rome in 1964. She died in 1981 and is buried at the Chiesa di Nostra Signora di Częstochowa. She has been declared Venerable by the Catholic Church.

1911–1936 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Lorenzo Ibáñez Caballero was a Spanish Catholic deacon and a member of the Benedictine order. Born in 1911, he died in Barbastro in 1936. He is recognized as a blessed.

1872–1936 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Lorenzo Santolaria Ester was a Spanish Catholic priest and a member of the Benedictine order. Born in 1872 and deceased in 1936, he is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1874–1936 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Lorenzo Sobrevia Cañardo was a Spanish Catholic priest and Benedictine born in Huesca in 1874. He died in Barbastro in 1936 from a gunshot wound and is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1817–1908 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Louis Brisson, OSFS (23 June 1817 – 2 February 1908) was a French Roman Catholic priest and the founder of both the Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales and the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales.

1923–1961 · Contemporary

Louis Leroy was a French 19th-century printmaker, painter, and playwright. He is remembered as the journalist and art critic for the French satirical newspaper Le Charivari, who coined the term "impressionists" to satirise the artists now known by the word.

1873–1930 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Luigi Versiglia, S.D.B. (5 June 1873 – 25 February 1930) was an Italian Catholic prelate and professed member from the Salesians of Don Bosco who served as the first apostolic vicar of Shaoguan from 1920 until his murder.

1824–1901 · Contemporary

Louis-Zéphirin Moreau (1 April 1824 – 24 May 1901) was a Canadian Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe from 1875 until his death in 1901. He was also the cofounder of the Sisters of St. Joseph of St.

1868–1915 · Contemporary

Louise-Marguerite Claret de la Touche, born Marguerite-Céline on March 15, 1868, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, and died on May 14, 1915, in Vische, Turin, Italy, was a French nun and mystic.

1914–1996 · Contemporary · Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance

Paul Gabriel Dochier, better known by his religious name Brother Luc, born on January 31, 1914, in Bourg-de-Péage (Drôme) and murdered on April 20, 1996, was one of the seven monks of Tibhirine killed during the Algerian Civil War of 1993–2000, a conflict that claimed 200,000 liv…

1917–1940 · Contemporary · Lovers of the Holy Cross

Lucia Khambang (1917 – 1940) also referred to as Lucy Khambang, was a Thai Roman Catholic nun and martyr, who was beatified by Pope John Paul II on Mission Sunday, October 22, 1989, during a world tour, along with six other martyrs who with her refused to renounce their faith.

1896–1946 · Contemporary

Lucia Mangano was an Italian religious figure born in 1896 in the Metropolitan City of Catania. She died in the same location in 1946. She is recognized as a Venerable.

1900–1976 · Contemporary

Lucia Eleonora Schiavinato, better known as Lucia Schiavinato (Musile di Piave, October 31, 1900 – Verona, November 17, 1976), was an Italian religious figure; a consecrated laywoman of great spirituality, she was the founder of the "Piccoli Rifugi" (recognized as a secular insti…