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1869–1900 · Contemporary

Saint Lucy Wang Wang (born 1869 in Weixian, Hebei, China; died July 22, 1900, in Majiazhuang) was a saint of the Catholic Church and a martyr. During the Boxer Rebellion in China, Christians were subjected to persecution.

1908–1947 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Lucien Botovasoa, TOFS (1908 – 14 April 1947) was a Malagasy Catholic schoolteacher and a member of the Secular Franciscan Order. Botovasoa served as a teacher for his entire life and was dedicated to both the religious and secular education of children.

1919–1945 · Contemporary

Lucien Croci was a militant of the Young Christian Workers (JOC). He was born on November 15, 1919, in Aubervilliers and died on March 17 or 27, 1945, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

1882–1900 · Contemporary

Lucy Wang Cheng was born in 1882 in Hebei and died in 1900 in the same province. A member of the Catholic Church, she is recognized as a Catholic saint and blessed.

1904–1941 · Contemporary

Ludwik Gietyngier was a Catholic priest, confessor, and preacher born in 1904 in Żarki, Second Polish Republic. He died in 1941 at the Dachau concentration camp. He is recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church.

1905–1940 · Contemporary · Divine Word Missionaries

Ludwik Mzyk (22 April 1905 – 20 February 1940) a priest of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) and one of the 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs beatified on 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II in Warsaw, Poland. He was born to a mining and deeply religious family in Chorzów.

1909–1941 · Contemporary

Ludwik Pius Bartosik (August 21, 1909 – December 13, 1941) was a Polish Franciscan friar born in Kokanin. He was martyred in 1941 and beatified as one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II by Pope John Paul II on June 13, 1999. His feast day is June 12.

1880–1951 · Contemporary · Secular Franciscan Order

Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi (12 January 1880 – 9 November 1951) and Maria Corsini-Beltrame Quattrocchi (24 June 1884 – 26 August 1965) were two married Italian Catholic laypeople who became the first couple to be beatified together in 2001.

1922–1977 · Contemporary

Luigi Bordino (12 August 1922 - 25 August 1977), born Andrea Bordino, was a Catholic Religious Brother and a member of the Brothers of Saint Joseph Benedict Cottolengo. He assumed the name of "Luigi of the Consolata" after he entered that order.

1909–1994 · Contemporary

Luigi Bosio (1909–1994) was an Italian Catholic priest who served as the parish priest of Belfiore for 30 years and subsequently as a canon of Verona Cathedral for more than 20 years.

1937–1972 · Contemporary

Luigi Calabresi (14 November 1937 – 17 May 1972) was an Italian Polizia di Stato officer in Milan. Responsible for investigating far-left political movements, Calabresi was assassinated in 1972 by members of Lotta Continua, who blamed him for the death of anarchist activist Giuse…

1842–1915 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Luigi Guanella (19 December 1842 – 24 October 1915) was an Italian Catholic priest who founded several religious communities. He was beatified on 25 October 1964 by Pope Paul VI and was canonized on 23 October 2011 in a celebration that Pope Benedict XVI celebrated in Saint Peter…

1881–1945 · Contemporary

Luigi Lenzini (28 May 1881 – 21 July 1945) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest that served as a pastor in the Archdiocese of Modena-Nonatola. Communist partisans killed him at his parish.

1873–1943 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Luigi Maria Olivares (Corbetta, October 18, 1873 – Pordenone, May 19, 1943) was an Italian Catholic bishop of the sees of Sutri and Nepi. He was declared venerable by Pope John Paul II on December 20, 2004.

1825–1900 · Contemporary

Luigi Maria Monti, CFIC (24 July 1825 – 1 October 1900) was an Italian Catholic religious brother and the founder of the Sons of the Immaculate Conception. He was referred to as "Father" despite not being an ordained priest.

1914–1984 · Contemporary

Luigi Novarese (29 July 1914 - 20 July 1984) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and the co-founder (alongside Sr. Elvira Myriam Psorulla) of the Apostolate of the Suffering as well as the Silent Workers of the Cross.

1872–1940 · Contemporary

Luigi Giovanni Orione (June 23, 1872 - March 12, 1940) was an Italian priest who was active in answering the social needs of his nation as it faced the social upheavals of the late 19th century. To this end, he founded a religious institute of men.

1841–1923 · Contemporary · Clerics Regular of the Ministers of the Sick

Luigi Tezza (1 November 1841 - 26 September 1923) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Camillians. He established the Daughters of St. Camillus and is known as the Apostle of Lima.

1900–1922 · Contemporary

Luigia Mazzotta was born in 1900 in Lecce and died in the same city in 1922. She is recognized as Venerable.

1896–1947 · Contemporary

Luigj Prendushi was born in 1896 in Shkodër. He died in 1947 and is recognized as a blessed.

1854–1934 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

José María Amigó Ferrer (17 October 1854 – 1 October 1934) was a Spanish Roman Catholic who served as the Bishop of Segorbe. He was also a professed member of the Order of Friars Minor - also known as the Capuchin order — and was also the founder of two religious orders: the Capu…

1905–1936 · Contemporary

Luis Campos Górriz (born June 30, 1905, died November 28, 1936, in Picadero de Paterna) was a Spanish layman, a martyr of the Spanish Civil War, and a victim of anti-Catholic persecution, beatified by the Catholic Church.

1901–1987 · Contemporary

Luis Chávez y González (1901–1987) was the seventh Bishop and third Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador, and immediate predecessor of Archbishop Óscar Romero.

1891–1937 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order

Louis of St. Michael of the Saints, born Luis Erdoiza y Zamalloa (Amorebieta-Etxano, August 25, 1891 – Cuenca, September 24, 1936), was a Spanish priest of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity.

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

Luigi Escalé Binefa (Fondarella, September 18, 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.

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

Luigi Lladó Teixidor (Viladasens, May 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.

1902–1928 · Contemporary

Blessed Luis Magaña Servín (born in Arandas, Jalisco, August 24, 1902 – died in Arandas, Jalisco, February 9, 1928) was the eldest son of Raimundo Magaña Zúñiga and María Concepción Servín, and brother to Delfino and José Soledad.

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

Luis Masferrer Vila, C.M.F. (Torelló, July 9, 1912 – Barbastro, August 15, 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.

1950–1981 · Contemporary

Luis Navarro, TOFS (21 June 1950 – 1 July 1981) was a Guatemalan Catholic missionary dedicated to catechesis and evangelization among the local people in Guatemala. He was member of the Secular Franciscan Order.

1882–1936 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Luis Urbano Lanaspa (Zaragoza, June 3, 1882 – Valencia, August 21, 1936) was a Spanish Catholic priest, Dominican friar, philosopher, theologian, and physicist. He was a member of the Royal Spanish Society of Physics and Chemistry and the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society.

1870–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Ambrose of Benaguacil, born Luis Valls Matamales (May 3, 1870, in Benaguacil – August 26, 1936, in Vinalesa, Archdiocese of Valencia), was a Spanish Catholic blessed, martyr, priest, Capuchin friar, and preacher who was a victim of anti-Catholic persecution during the Spanish Civ…

1901–1936 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Luis Vidaurrázaga González was a Spanish Catholic priest and Benedictine monk born in Bilbao in 1901. He died in Madrid in 1936 and is buried in the Church of Nuestra Señora de Montserrat. He is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1932–1979 · Contemporary

Luisa Guidotti Mistrali (16 May 1932 – 6 July 1979) was an Italian laywoman of the Roman Catholic Church who worked in the missions in Rhodesia. She was a member of the Women's Medical Missions Association.

1896–1936 · Contemporary

Luisa María Frías Cañizares (Valencia, June 20, 1896 – Paterna, December 6, 1936) was a researcher and professor at the University of Valencia who was tortured and executed during the first months of the Spanish Civil War.

1905–1944 · Contemporary

Luís Gonzaga do Monte (Vitória de Santo Antão, January 3, 1905 — Natal, February 28, 1944), known as Father Monte or Canon Monte, was a Brazilian Catholic priest, a presbyter of the clergy of Natal, and a founding member of the North-Riograndense Academy of Letters.

1877–1973 · Contemporary

Luiza Andaluz, born on February 12, 1877, and died on August 20, 1973, was a Portuguese Catholic nun and founder of the Congregation of the Servants of Our Lady of Fatima. She is recognized as venerable by the Catholic Church.

1877–1961 · Contemporary

Valentin Felixovich Voyno-Yasenetsky (Russian: Валенти́н Фе́ликсович Во́йно-Ясене́цкий; 27 April [O.S. 15 April] 1877 – 11 June 1961) – now known as Luke of Simferopol, Saint Luke the Blessed Surgeon, or Saint Luke of Crimea – was a Russian surgeon, spiritual writer, a bishop of…

1864–1927 · Contemporary

Lukas Etlin was a Swiss monk born in Sarnen in 1864. He died in 1927 and is buried in Clyde. He is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1870–1931 · Contemporary

László, 7th Prince Batthyany-Strattmann (German: Ladislaus Batthyány-Strattmann; 28 October 1870 – 22 January 1931) was a Hungarian aristocrat and physician. Until 1914, he was known as László Batthyány.

1825–1907 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

François-Léon Clergue (23 December 1825 – 8 February 1907) – in religion Marie-Antoine de Lavaur – was a French Roman Catholic priest and professed member from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.

1857–1900 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Saint Léon-Ignace Mangin (who adopted the Chinese name Ren Defen), born on July 30, 1857, in Verny, Moselle (France), and died on July 20, 1900, in Zhujiahe, Hebei (China), was a Jesuit missionary priest in China who was massacred during the Boxer Rebellion.

1863–1941 · Contemporary

Léonie Martin, also known as Sister Françoise-Thérèse, VHM (3 June 1863 – 17 June 1941) was a French Catholic nun who led a cloistered life as a member of the Visitation Sisters.

1888–1974 · Contemporary

Léontine Dolivet, born in Betton near Rennes in Brittany on December 28, 1888, and died in Betton on November 14, 1974, was a Christian laywoman who dedicated her life to the catechism of children. Her cause for beatification has been open in the Diocese of Rennes since 2017.

1902–1936 · Contemporary

Lúcio Martínez Mancebo was a Spanish priest born in 1902. He died in 1936 from a gunshot wound and is recognized as a blessed.

1835–1926 · Contemporary

Metropolitan Macarius (Russian: Митрополит Макарий, secular name Mikhail Andreyevich Nevsky, Russian: Михаил Андреевич Невский; 1 October 1835 – 2 March 1926) was the Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna from 1912 to 1917, an outstanding missionary and enlightener of the masses in…

1893–1970 · Contemporary

Elena Raparelli, born on April 2, 1893, in Grottaferrata and died on February 26, 1970, in Mezzojuso, was an Italian Catholic nun. In religious life, she was known as Mother Macrina and was the founder of the Basilian Sisters, Daughters of Saint Macrina.

1847–1908 · Contemporary

Maddalena Caterina Morano (15 November 1847 - 26 March 1908) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious who was a member of the Salesian Sisters.

1904–1964 · Contemporary

Madeleine Delbrêl (24 October 1904 – 13 October 1964) was a French Catholic author, poet, and mystic. She came to the Catholic faith after a youth spent as an atheist. Delbrêl died unexpectedly from a brain hemorrhage in 1964 and now has an open cause for canonization.

1918–1946 · Contemporary · Daughters of the Church

Madeleine Rose Volpato (in Italian: Maddalena Rosa Volpato), in religion Madeleine of the Child Jesus, born July 24, 1918, in Zero Branco and died May 28, 1946, in Venice, was an Italian Catholic nun of the Congregation of the Daughters of the Church, declared venerable by Pope F…

1881–1900 · Contemporary

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.