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1871–1944 · Contemporary

Saint Makary was a Christian minister in the Russian Empire who was born in 1876. He died in 1922 in Moscow and is buried at the Kalitnikovskoye Cemetery. He is recognized as a Reverend Martyr within Eastern Orthodoxy.

1908–1942 · Contemporary

Maksymilian Binkiewicz was born in 1908 in Żarnowiec and served as a presbyter, cleric, and teacher in the Second Polish Republic. He died in 1942 at the Dachau concentration camp and is buried at Służew Cemetery. He is recognized as a blessed.

1867–1936 · Contemporary

Manuel Albert Ginés was a Latin Catholic priest born in Calanda, Spain, in 1867. He died in his birthplace in 1936 and is buried at the Templo del Pilar in Calanda. He is recognized as a blessed within the Catholic Church.

1869–1936 · Contemporary

Manuel Basulto Jiménez (May 17, 1869, in Adanero – August 12, 1936, in El Pozo del Tío Raimundo) was a Spanish bishop who was killed by the Republican faction during the Spanish Civil War, amidst religious persecutions, along with five other companions.

1906–1936 · Contemporary

Manuel Berenguer Clusella was a Spanish Catholic presbyter born in 1906 in Castellterçol. He died in 1936 in Montcada i Reixac, Barcelona, and has been declared Venerable by the Catholic Church.

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

Manuel Buil Lalueza, C.M.F. (Abizanda, August 31, 1913 – 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.

1877–1940 · Contemporary

Manuel González García (25 February 1877 – 4 January 1940) was a Spanish bishop of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the Bishop of Palencia from 1935 until his death.

1880–1936 · Contemporary

Manuel González-Serna Rodríguez was a Spanish Catholic priest born in Seville in 1880. He died in 1936 at the Iglesia de Santa María de la Encarnación from a gunshot wound. He is recognized as a blessed.

1913–1936 · Contemporary

Manuel Gutiérrez Martín, OMI (born January 1, 1913, in Fresno del Río; died July 24, 1936, in Pozuelo, Madrid), was a Spanish Oblate of the Immaculate Mary. He was a theology student at the Oblate house of studies in Pozuelo, Madrid, and had already received the subdiaconate.

1877–1924 · Contemporary

Manuel Gómez González (May 29, 1877 – May 21, 1924) was a Spanish missionary priest and a Catholic martyr who lived in Brazil. Son of farmers, González was ordained priest on May 24, 1902 in Tui, Galicia, Spain.

1875–1936 · Contemporary

Manuel Legua Marti was born in Alaquàs, Spain, in 1875. A member of the Catholic Church, he died in 1936. He has been recognized as a blessed.

1920–1971 · Contemporary

Blessed Manuel Lozano Garrido (9 August 1920 – 3 November 1971) was a Spanish Roman Catholic journalist and author. He was nicknamed "Lolo". On 12 June 2010 he was beatified. He remains as a patron of journalists.

1892–1936 · Contemporary

Emanuel Martin Sierra (born October 2, 1892, in Churriana de la Vega, Province of Granada; died July 26, 1936, in Motril) was a Spanish Catholic priest, ascetic, martyr, and blessed of the Catholic Church. After earning his baccalaureate, he entered the diocesan seminary.

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

Emanuele Martínez Jarauta, C.M.F. (Murchante, December 22, 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.

1869–1936 · Contemporary

Manuel Medina Olmos (August 9, 1869, in Lanteira, Granada – August 30, 1936, in Vícar, Almería) was a Spanish priest and Bishop of Guadix-Baza who was assassinated during the Spanish Civil War. Considered a martyr by the Catholic Church, he was beatified in 1993.

1898–1926 · Contemporary

Manuel Morales Cervantes was a Mexican layman who was killed during the Cristero War. A pro-Catholic activist during the anticlerical period under President Plutarco Elías Calles, he was captured by government forces, and was executed for refusing to renounce his position.

1887–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Saint Jerome

Manuel Sanz Domínguez (Sotodosos, December 31, 1887 – Paracuellos de Jarama, November 6, 1936) was a Spanish priest who restored the male branch of the Order of Saint Jerome, a martyr of the Spanish Civil War, and is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1912–1934 · Contemporary

Manuel Seco Gutiérrez (October 4, 1912, Celada Marlantes – October 9, 1934 Turón) known as San Aniceto Adolfo, was one of the Martyrs of Turón, De La Salle Brothers murdered in 1934 during the religious persecution of the Revolution of Asturias in Spain.

1881–1936 · Contemporary · Piarists

Manuel Segura López, also known as Manuel of the Virgin of the Pillar, Sch. P. (Almonacid de la Sierra, January 22, 1881 – Gabasa, July 28, 1936), was a Spanish Piarist priest of the Peralta de la Sal community.

1915–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Emanuele Torras Sais, C.M.F., born Manuel Torras Sais (Sant Martí Vell, February 12, 1915 – 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.

1902–1936 · Contemporary

Manuel Torró Garcia (born July 2, 1902, died September 21, 1936) was a Spanish martyr and a blessed of the Catholic Church. He came from a religious family and was married. He was also a member of Catholic Action. During the Spanish Civil War, he was murdered at the age of 34.

1863–1936 · Contemporary

Manuel Vázquez Alfalla was a Spanish Catholic priest born in Motril in 1863. He died in Motril in 1936 and has been beatified as a blessed.

1891–1936 · Contemporary · Sisters of Adoration, Handmaids of the Blessed Sacrament and of Charity

Manuela Arriola Uranga (Ondarroa, December 29, 1891 – Madrid, November 10, 1936), better known as Manuela of the Sacred Heart, was a Spanish religious sister and one of the twenty-three Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament murdered during the religious persecution that broke out duri…

1891–1974 · Contemporary · Order of Discalced Nuns of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

María de las Maravillas de Jesús, OCD (born María de las Maravillas Pidal Chico de Guzmán; 4 November 1891 - 11 December 1974) was a Spanish Discalced Carmelite.

1921–1945 · Contemporary

Marcel Callo (6 December 1921 – 19 March 1945) was a French Catholic member of the Young Christian Workers, a Catholic Action movement inspiring lay participation and solidarity with the poor.

1827–1911 · Contemporary

Marcelina Darowska (16 January 1827 – 5 January 1911) was a Polish religious sister who was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1996. She was inspired to co-found the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a congregation in Poland, Belarus and Ukraine.

1913–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Marcelino Ovejero Gómez (born September 13, 1913, in Becedas, died August 16, 1936, in Fuente el Fresno) was a Spanish Franciscan, seminarian, Christian martyr, and blessed of the Roman Catholic Church.

1910–1936 · Contemporary

Marcelino Sánchez Fernández was a Spanish Catholic born in 1910 and deceased in 1936. He is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1835–1906 · Contemporary

Marcelo Rafael José María de los Dolores Hilario Spínola y Maestre (14 January 1835 - 19 January 1906) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the Archbishop of Seville. He established the Handmaids of the Divine Heart.

1884–1942 · Contemporary

Marcin Oprządek was a Polish Catholic priest born in 1884 in Kościelec, Chrzanów. He died in 1942 at Schloss Hartheim and is recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church.

1894–1942 · Contemporary

Marcin Tomaka was a Catholic priest and a citizen of the Second Polish Republic, born in 1894 in Krasne. He died in 1942 at the Dachau concentration camp and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1888–1919 · Contemporary · Third Order of Saint Francis

Margalida Amengual Campaner, born on September 2, 1888, in Costitx on the Spanish island of Majorca, and who died at the age of thirty on January 30, 1919, was a Spanish laywoman renowned for her holiness. She was recognized as venerable by the Pope in 2013.

1900–1925 · Contemporary · Poor Clares

Margaret Anne Sinclair, (29 March 1900 – 24 November 1925), religious name Mary Francis of the Five Wounds, was a Scottish Catholic nun of the Colettine Poor Clares. She was declared venerable by Pope Paul VI on 6 February 1978.

1865–1918 · Contemporary

Born in 1865 in Kyiv, Saint Margaret of Menzelino was an Eastern Orthodox religious figure who died in Menzelinsk in 1918. She is recognized as a Reverend Martyr.

1884–1934 · Contemporary · Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy

Blessed María Pilar López de Maturana Ortiz de Zárate (25 July 1884 – 23 July 1934), also known by her religious name Margarita María, was a Spanish Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Mercedarian Missionaries of Bérriz.

1877–1915 · Contemporary

Mari Beyleryan (Armenian: Մառի Պեյլերյան; 23 March 1877 – 24 April 1915) was an Armenian feminist activist, writer, and public figure and a victim of the Armenian genocide. Mari graduated from the Esayan college of Constantinople, then studied at the studio of Bera.

1920–1954 · Contemporary

Venerable Maria Addolorata Luciani was a Catholic nun born in 1920. She died in 1954.

1848–1925 · Contemporary · Poor Daughters of Saint Joseph Calasanz

Maria Anna Donati (26 October 1848 - 18 March 1925) was an Italian Roman Catholic nun who had established the Calasanzian Sisters in Florence with the aid of Celestino Zini.

1881–1942 · Contemporary · School Sisters of Notre Dame

Maria Antonina Kratochwil (21 August 1881 – 7 October 1942) was beatified by Pope John Paul II as one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II. She tried to help the Jews survive during the Holocaust.

1878–1905 · Contemporary · Franciscan Missionaries of Mary

Maria Assunta Pallotta (20 August 1878 - 7 April 1905), born Assunta Maria Pallotta, was an Italian Roman Catholic nun who served as a member of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary and also as part of the missions to China in the aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion.

1884–1957 · Contemporary

María Beatriz del Rosario Arroyo y Pidal, religious name María Rosario of the Visitation, (Filipino: María Beatriz del Rosario Pidal Arroyo; February 17, 1884 – June 14, 1957) was a Filipino nun and the founder of the Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary of the Philippines (…

1848–1924 · Contemporary · Franciscans

María Bernarda Bütler (28 May 1848 – 19 May 1924), born Verena Bütler, was a Swiss religious sister. She founded the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Mary Help of Sinners and served in the missions in Ecuador and Colombia.

1888–1922 · Contemporary

Maria Bertilla Boscardin (6 October 1888 – 20 October 1922) was an Italian nun and nurse who displayed a pronounced devotion to duty in working with sick children and victims of the air raids of World War I. She was later canonised a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.

1924–1980 · Contemporary

Maria Bolognesi (21 October 1924 – 30 January 1980) was an Italian Catholic. Throughout her life she suffered from debilitating diseases and was reportedly subject to various demonic possessions and visions.

1864–1945 · Contemporary

Maria Bonardi was born in Cuneo in 1864 and died in Vercelli in 1945. A member of the Catholic Church and a citizen of the Kingdom of Italy, she is recognized as a Venerable.

1884–1949 · Contemporary · Carmelites

Maria Candida of the Eucharist, OCD (born Maria Barba; 16 January 1884 – 12 June 1949) was an Italian Discalced Carmelite. Barba desired to become a nun in her adolescence but her parents forbade this and she was forced to wait two decades to realize her dream; she entered the or…

1931–1957 · Contemporary · Ursulines of Piacenza

Maria Celina Kannanaikal, born on February 13, 1931, near Trichur in Kerala, India, and who died at the age of 26 on July 26, 1957, in Cannanore (Kannur), was an Indian nun and member of the Ursulines of Mary Immaculate, renowned for her holiness and mystical experiences.

1845–1900 · Contemporary · Sisters Servants of Our Lady of Sorrows of Nocera de' Pagani

Maria Consiglia Addatis, born on January 5, 1845, in Naples, Italy, and died on January 11, 1900, was an Italian religious sister, founder of the Handmaids of Our Lady of Sorrows of Nocera de' Pagani, and recognized as venerable by Pope Francis in 2016.

1884–1965 · 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.

1896–1963 · Contemporary · Capuchin Poor Clares

Maria Costanza Panas, born Agnese Pacifica Panas, (15 January 1896 - 28 May 1963), was an Italian Capuchin Poor Clare. Panas did her education in northern Italian cities before she worked as a teacher.