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1858–1931 · Contemporary

Anthony, also spelled Antony, is a masculine given name derived from the Antonii, a gens (Roman family name) to which Mark Antony (Marcus Antonius) belonged. According to Plutarch, the Antonii gens were Heracleidae, being descendants of Anton, a son of Heracles.

1888–1951 · Contemporary

Anton Durcovici (17 May 1888 – 10 December 1951) was a Romanian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and the Bishop of Iași from 1947 until his death. Durcovici was a victim of Romania's Communist regime, under which he was imprisoned; he died while in jail.

1850–1920 · Contemporary

Anton Mahnič, also spelled Antun Mahnić in Croatian orthography (14 September 1850 – 30 December 1920), was a Croatian-Slovenian prelate of the Catholic Church and a philosopher who established and led the Croatian Catholic Movement.

1852–1929 · Contemporary · Piarists

Anton Maria Schwartz (28 February 1852 – 15 September 1929), born Anton Schwartz, was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Congregation of the Christian Workers of Saint Joseph Calasanz.

1915–2003 · Contemporary

Anton Strle (21 January 1915 – 20 October 2003) was a Slovenian professor of dogmatic theology and a Catholic priest. He was born in the village of Osredek in the parish of Sveti Vid nad Cerknico. He was ordained priest in 1941 and received his D.D.

1900–1963 · Contemporary

The Archbishop Anton Vovk (19 May 1900 – 7 July 1963) was a Roman Catholic priest. he served as auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Ljubljana from 1946 to 1961, as well as the first Archbishop of Ljubljana.

1880–1943 · Contemporary

Antoni Beszta-Borowski (9 September 1880 – 15 July 1943) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest. He was dean of Bielsk Podlaski. He is one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II.

1852–1926 · Contemporary

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was a Catalan architect and designer, widely known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernisme. Gaudí's works have a sui generis style, with most located in Barcelona, including his main work, the Sagrada Família church.

1858–1941 · Contemporary

Antoni Julian Nowowiejski (11 February 1858 – 28 May 1941) was a Polish bishop of Płock (1908–1941), titular archbishop of Silyum, first secretary of Polish Episcopal Conference (1918–1919), honorary citizen of Płock and historian.

1890–1943 · Contemporary

Antoni Leszczewicz (Belarusian: Антоній Ляшчэвіч, romanized: Antonij Liaščevič; 30 September 1890 – 18 February 1943) was a Polish-Belarusian Marian Father and Roman Catholic priest.

1869–1942 · Contemporary

Antoni Rewera (6 January 1869 – 1 October 1942) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and martyr. One of the 108 Martyrs of World War II, Rewera served as a professor of the diocesan seminary in Sandomierz for 16 years and as dean of its cathedral chapter from 1931 until his death.

1882–1942 · Contemporary

Blessed Antoni Zawistowski (1882–1942) was a Polish priest. He died in a Nazi concentration camp. He is one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II as one of 108 Polish Martyrs of World War II.

1909–1945 · Contemporary

Antoni Świadek (1909–1945) was a Polish priest from Bydgoszcz. He died in the Dachau concentration camp and was beatified by the Catholic Church. He is one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II. He was born on March 27, 1909, in Pobiedziska, in Poznań.

1919–1935 · Contemporary

Antonia Mesina (21 June 1919 – 17 May 1935) was a 15 year old Italian Roman Catholic and part of Catholic Action. Mesina was murdered in mid-1935 after she attempted to fend off a would-be rapist and suffered 74 strikes with a stone before she died. She was beatified in 1987.

1930–1937 · Contemporary

Antonietta Meo (15 December 1930 – 3 July 1937), nicknamed "Nennolina", was an Italian girl who died of osteosarcoma. Currently, she is the youngest person the Catholic Church has considered canonizing as a confessor.

1912–1949 · Contemporary · Sisters of Mary of the Miraculous Medal

Antonija Premrov, sister Karmela (2 June 1912 – disappeared 14 January 1949, died some days after) was a Slovenian nurse, organist, and choirmistress. She was martyred by Communists because of her successful work with youth in her parish.

1915–1941 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Antonin Bajewski (17 January 1915 – 18 May 1941), born Jan Eugene Bajewski, was a Polish Franciscan friar. He has been declared a martyr by the Catholic Church following his death in Auschwitz Concentration Camp in 1941 and was beatified as one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II…

1851–1923 · Contemporary

Antonín Cyril Stojan (22 May 1851 – 29 September 1923) was a Czech Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Olomouc from 1921 until his death.

1852–1924 · Contemporary · Order of the Brothers Discalced of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Antonio Augusto Intreccialagli (18 February 1852 − 19 September 1924) - religious name Antonio di Gesù - was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate and professed member from the Discalced Carmelites who served as the Archbishop of Monreale from 1919 until his death.

1935–1993 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Antonio Bello (18 March 1935 – 20 April 1993) was an Italian Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Molfetta-Ruvo-Giovinazzo-Terlizzi from 1982 until his death from cancer in 1993.

1867–1915 · Contemporary

Aram Achekbashian (Armenian: Արամ Աչըքպաշյան, 1867 in Arapgir – 1915 in Constantinople) was an Armenian politician who became a member of Social-Democrat Hunchakian Party Central Committee in 1903. In 1886, Achekbashian entered the Faculty of Law at Constantinople University.

1889–1937 · Contemporary

Arcadius (Ancient Greek: Ἀρκάδιος Arkadios; c. 377 – 1 May 408) was Roman emperor from 383 to his death in 408. He was the eldest son of the Augustus Theodosius I (r. 379–395) and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla, and the brother of Honorius (r. 393–423).

1846–1912 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Arcangelo Tadini (12 October 1846 – 20 May 1912) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest. Tadini was ordained as a priest in 1870 and went on to found a religious congregation dedicated to the poor and ill while taking advantage of the Industrial Revolution to support women in work…

1892–1915 · Contemporary

Armen Dorian (Armenian: Արմէն Տօրեան; 28 January 1892 – 1915) was a renowned Armenian poet, teacher, and editor who lived in the Ottoman Empire. He studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. He wrote poetry in French and Armenian.

1870–1921 · Contemporary

Armenag Haigazian (Armenian: Արմենակ Հայկազեան; 1870–1921), was an Armenian theologian, educator, scientist, linguist and musician. He was born to Harutune Haigazian and Mary Tavonkian on September 22, 1870, in Hadjin, Cilicia, Ottoman Empire, now Turkey.

1882–1952 · Contemporary · Secular Franciscan Order

Armida Barelli (1 December 1882 – 15 August 1952) was an Italian Roman Catholic who served in the educational field during her life and was also a professed member of the Secular Franciscan Order.

1837–1909 · Contemporary · Divine Word Missionaries

Arnold Janssen SVD (5 November 1837 – 15 January 1909), was a German-Dutch Catholic priest and missionary who is venerated as a saint. He founded the Society of the Divine Word, a Catholic missionary religious congregation, also known as the Divine Word Missionaries, as well as t…

1849–1909 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Arsenio da Trigolo, OFM Cap. (born Giuseppe Antonio Migliavacca; 13 June 1849 – 10 December 1909), was an Italian Catholic priest and a professed member from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.

1840–1924 · Contemporary

Saint Arsenios the Cappadocian (Greek: Ὅσιος Ἀρσένιος ὁ Καππαδόκης; 1840 – November 10, 1924), born in Kephalochori, Cappadocia (Greek: Κεφαλοχώρι) was a Greek dean and the spiritual father of Paisios of Mount Athos. He had a brother named Vlasios.

1880–1951 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Artemide Zatti (12 October 1880 – 15 March 1951) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious of the Salesians of Don Bosco and a noted pharmacist who emigrated to Argentina in 1897.

1868–1940 · Contemporary · Third Order of Saint Dominic

María Ascensión Nicol y Goñi, O.P., (14 March 1868 – 24 February 1940) was a Spanish Roman Catholic religious sister of the Third Order of St. Dominic.

1871–1948 · Contemporary

Assunta Marchetti, SS (15 August 1871 – 1 July 1948) was an Italian Catholic who cofounded of the Missionary Sisters of Saint Charles Borromeo. She worked in Brazil from 1895 until her death. Her priest brother Giuseppe is titled as Venerable on the path to sainthood.

1913–1972 · Contemporary

Attilio Giordani A.S.C. (13 February 1913 – 18 December 1972) was an Italian Roman Catholic and member from the Association of Salesian Cooperators. Giordani studied in Milan where he encountered the Salesians of Don Bosco alongside his brother Camillo.

1881–1948 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

August Józef Hlond, SDB (5 July 1881 – 22 October 1948) was a Polish Salesian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Poznań and Gniezno from 1926 to 1946 and as Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw from 1946 until his death.

1871–1938 · Contemporary

Saint Augusta or St. Augusta, formerly named Ventura, is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States, directly south of the city of St. Cloud. The population was 3,497 at the 2020 census. St. Augusta is part of the Saint Cloud Metropolitan Statistical Area.

1880–1956 · Contemporary

Augustine John Ukken was a Syrian Catholic (Syro-Malabar Catholic) priest from the Indian state of Kerala in Thrissur and the founder of the Congregation of Sisters of Charity (CSC).

1876–1972 · Contemporary

Augusto Bertazzoni (10 January 1876 - 30 August 1972) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Potenza from 1930 until his retirement in 1966.

1880–1918 · Contemporary

Varvara Alexeyevna Yakovleva (Russian: Варвара Алексеевна Яковлева; c. 1880 – July 18, 1918), called Nun Barbara (Russian: Инокиня Варвара), was a Russian Orthodox nun in the convent of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna.

1871–1918 · Contemporary

Barsanuphius (Greek: Βαρσανούφιος, romanized: Barsanouphios; Arabic: برسانوف, romanized: Barsanūf; Italian: Barsonofio, Barsanofrio, Barsanorio; died after 543), also known as Barsanuphius of Palestine, Barsanuphius of Gaza or Barsanuphius the Great (in Eastern Orthodoxy), was a…

1841–1926 · Contemporary · Third Order of Saint Dominic

Bartolo Longo, TOSD (10 February 1841 – 5 October 1926) was an Italian lawyer and former Satanic priest who returned to the Catholic faith and became a Dominican tertiary, dedicating his life to the rosary and the Virgin Mary.

1914–1936 · Contemporary

Bartolomé Blanco Márquez (25 November 1914 – 2 October 1936) was a Spanish secretary of Catholic Action and a delegate to the Catholic Syndicates.

1904–1976 · Contemporary

Basil or Vasiľ Hopko (21 April 1904, Hrabské — 23 July 1976) was an eparch (bishop) of the Slovak Greek Catholic Church. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 14 September 2003 for his martyrdom under Communist occupation.

1886–1964 · Contemporary · Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

Bastiampillai Anthonipillai Thomas or "Father Thomas" (7 March 1886 – 26 January 1964) was a Roman Catholic priest of the congregation of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate and founder of the Rosarians Order.

1930–1993 · Contemporary

Baudouin was King of the Belgians from 17 July 1951 until his death in 1993. He was the last Belgian king to be sovereign of the Congo, before it became independent in 1960 and became the Democratic Republic of the Congo (known from 1971 to 1997 as Zaire).

1837–1905 · Contemporary

Bonifacia Rodríguez y Castro (6 June 1837 – 8 August 1905) was the co-foundress of the Religious Congregation of the Servants of St. Joseph, who developed the "Nazareth workshop" as both a new format for consecrated life and to help poor and unemployed women.

1936–1964 · Contemporary

Benedetta Bianchi Porro (8 August 1936 – 23 January 1964) was an Italian Roman Catholic from Romagna. In her teenage years, she contracted polio, which greatly impacted her health.

1946–1990 · Contemporary

Benedict Daswa (born Tshimangadzo Samuel Daswa; 16 June 1946 – 2 February 1990), was a South African school teacher and principal. He was given the name of "Samuel" by his parents when he started to attend school and assumed the name "Benedict" upon his conversion to Catholicism.…

1871–1932 · Contemporary

Beniamin (Armenian: Բենիամին) is a village in the Akhuryan Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia. The town was renamed in 1945 in honor of Beniamin Galstian, a World War II general and native of the town.

1928–1941 · Contemporary

Benigna Cardoso da Silva (15 October 1928 – 24 October 1941) was a Brazilian Catholic child. She was adopted following the deaths of her parents, and was noted for aiding in household chores and attending Mass on a regular basis.

1907–1981 · Contemporary

Maria da Conceição Santos, CIANSP (religious name: Benigna Victim of Jesus; 16 August 1907 — 16 October 1981), better known as Sister Benigna, was an Afro-Brazilian mother superior of the Congregation of Auxiliaries of Our Lady of Piety.