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1944–1996 · Contemporary · Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance

Michel Fleury (17 November 1923 in Paris – 18 January 2002 in Paris) was a French historian, archivist and archaeologist, specialising in the history and archaeology of Paris. He is buried in the cemetery of the church of Saint-Germain de Loisé in Mortagne-au-Perche.

1904–1942 · Contemporary

Mieczysław Bohatkiewicz was a Catholic priest, confessor, preacher, and parochus born in 1904 in Krykaly. A citizen of the Second Polish Republic, he died in 1942 in Hlybokaye. He is recognized as a blessed within the Catholic Church.

1902–1941 · Contemporary · Capuchin Poor Clares

Mieczysława Kowalska was a Polish religious sister of the Capuchin Poor Clares born in Warsaw in 1902. She died of tuberculosis in 1941 at the Soldau concentration camp. She is recognized as a saint in the Catholic Church.

1912–1976 · Contemporary

Miguel Afonso de Andrade Leite (29 September 1912 – 30 September 1976), better known as "Padre Miguel do Cajuru", was a Brazilian Roman Catholic priest.  He was the son of Francisco Afonso de Andrade Leite and Afonsina Batista de Carvalho.

1888–1971 · Contemporary

Miguel Ángel Builes Gómez (9 September 1888 - 29 September 1971) was a Colombian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos from 1924 until his death.

1854–1910 · Contemporary · Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools

Francisco Luis Febres-Cordero y Muñoz (7 November 1854 – 9 February 1910), known as (later Saint) Miguel Febres Cordero and Brother Miguel, was an Ecuadorian Roman Catholic religious brother.

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

Michele Masip González (Llardecans, June 8, 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.

1843–1915 · Contemporary

Miquel Maura i Muntaner (Palma, September 6, 1843 – September 9, 1915) was a Majorcan priest and founder of the Congregation of the Zelator Sisters of the Eucharistic Cult. He has been proclaimed venerable by the Catholic Church and is currently in the process of beatification.

1891–1927 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

José Ramón Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez, also known as Blessed Miguel Pro, SJ (January 13, 1891 – November 23, 1927) was a Mexican Jesuit priest executed under the presidency of Plutarco Elías Calles on the false charges of bombing and attempted assassination of former Mexican Presi…

1907–1936 · Contemporary · Conventual Franciscans

Miguel Remón Salvador, O.F.M.Conv. (Caudé, September 17, 1907 – Samalús, August 3, 1936), was a Spanish religious brother of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual.

1941–1991 · Contemporary

Miguel Tiu Imul (born September 5, 1941, in La Montaña, Quiché Department; died October 31, 1991, in Parraxtut, Quiché Department) was a Guatemalan martyr, a victim of the Guatemalan Civil War, and a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1920–1942 · Contemporary

Miha Turk was born in 1920 in Škrjanče pri Novem Mestu and died in 1942 in Novo Mesto. He is recognized as a Servant of God.

1926–1990 · Contemporary

Mijalče Kirilov Parnadžiev was a North Macedonian sculptor and bishop born in Štip in 1926. He died in Lesnovo in 1990 and is recognized as a saint.

1915 · Contemporary

Mikayel Gharagyozyan was arrested in April 1915 as part of a list of 58 prominent Armenian doctors compiled by Dr. Bahaeddin Shakir, one of the leaders of the Committee of Union and Progress. He was killed in 1915 near Tigranakert.

1935–1974 · Contemporary

Mikel Beltoja (April 17, 1935 – February 10, 1974) was an Albanian Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Shkodër who was murdered in odium fidei under the communist and atheist regime of Enver Hoxha. He is venerated as a blessed and martyr by the Catholic Church.

1873–1919 · Contemporary

Michael Bleive (born October 29, 1873, in Olustvere, Suure-Jaani, Viljandi County, Governorate of Livonia, present-day Estonia; died January 14, 1919, in Tartu), also spelled Michael Bleiwe, born Mihkel Bleive, also spelled Mihhail Bleive, and known in Russian as Mikhail Ivanovic…

1870–1931 · Contemporary

Mikhail Pavlovich Cheltsov (May 27, 1870, Kikino village, Ryazhsky Uyezd, Ryazan Governorate — January 7, 1931, Leningrad) was a protopresbyter of the Russian Orthodox Church and a theologian. He was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2005.

1877–1961 · Contemporary

Schemarchimandrite Mikhail (secular name Maksim Kuzmich Galushko; 1877, Polnaya — March 24, 1961, Kharkiv) was a schemarchimandrite of the Russian Orthodox Church, a venerable confessor, and a locally venerated saint of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

1890–1937 · Contemporary

Mikhail Ivanovich Gusev (Mikhail of Kulebaki; October 25, 1890, Diveyevo, Arzamas Uyezd, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate — November 20, 1937) was a clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church and an archpriest.

1938 · Contemporary

Mikhail Markov is a Kyrgyzstani chess International Master. He played in the Chess World Cup 2013, being defeated by Levon Aronian in the first round.

1864–1938 · Contemporary

Mikhail Novosyolov (Russian: Михаи́л Новосёлов) is a Soviet-Tajik serial killer and necrophile. He killed 22 people of both sexes aged between 6 and 50 years old - 16 in Russia, and six in Tajikistan. He was born in Sarapul. Novosyolov has been sentenced a total of three times.

1871–1933 · Contemporary

Mikhail Vladimirovich Viktorov (Russian: Михаил Владимирович Викторов; December 24, 1893 – August 1, 1938) was a Russian military leader and Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Naval Forces from August 1937 to January 1938.

1921–1942 · Contemporary

Milko Cankar was born in 1921 in Ljubljana and died in 1942 in the same city. He is recognized as a Servant of God.

1920–1947 · Contemporary

Miroslav Bulešić (13 May 1920 – 24 August 1947) was a Croatian Catholic priest. He studied in Rome before being recalled to his native Istria where he was ordained in 1943 during World War II prior to two parish postings where he became a vocal critic of communism.

1959–1992 · Contemporary

Miroslav Imotski, born Miroslav Lončar (Nebriževac, 1959 – near Imotski, July 5, 1992), was a Serbian Orthodox new martyr who suffered a martyr's death. Members of the Croatian Armed Forces abducted him while he was working in a field and took him in an unknown direction.

1848–1907 · Contemporary

Misha-Samuel (born Mikhail Vasilyevich Lazarev; 1848 – February 23 [March 8], 1907) was a holy fool of Pereslavl, venerated in Orthodoxy as Blessed Mikhail of Pereslavl, a locally canonized saint of the Yaroslavl Diocese.

1869–1919 · Contemporary

Mitrofan is a Slavic name derived from Greek Μητροφάνης : μήτηρ "mother + φαίνω, "appear, shine". Its English equivalent is Metrophanes. Derived names: Derived patronymics: Derived surnames: Mitrofanov/Mitrofanova, Russian; Mitrokhin/Mitrokhina, Russian; Mitrofanenko, Ukrainia…

1889–1938 · Contemporary

Mikhail Alexandrovich Berezin (June 13 [25], 1889, village of Maloye Karachkino, Kozmodemyansky Uyezd, Kazan Governorate — January 13, 1938) was a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church, canonized in 2002 as a member of the Synaxis of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.

1901–1936 · Contemporary · Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul

Modesta Moro Briz was a Spanish religious sister of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, born in 1901 in Santibáñez de Béjar. She died in 1936 in Madrid as one of the Spanish martyrs of the 20th century. She has been beatified as a blessed.

1847–1900 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

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.

1880–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Modest García Martí, also known as Modest of Albocácer (Spanish: Modesto García Martí; born January 18, 1880, in Albocácer, Castellón province; died August 30, 1936, near Albocácer), was a Spanish blessed of the Catholic Church, a martyr, priest, Capuchin friar, and victim of the…

1912–1936 · Contemporary · Conventual Franciscans

Modesto Vegas was a Spanish Franciscan friar who was born on February 24, 1912, in La Serna, Spain. During the Spanish Civil War, he was killed in 1936 in Lliçà d'Amunt, along with friars Alfonso Lopez, Dionisio Vicente, Pedro Rivera, Francisco Remón, and Miguel Remón.

1893–1950 · Contemporary · Missionaries of the Holy Spirit

Blessed Moisés Lira Serafín (16 September 1893 – 25 June 1950) was a Mexican priest who founded the Congregation of the Missionaries of Charity of Mary Immaculate. Moisés Lira Serafín was born in Tlatempa, Zacatlán, Mexico, on 16 September 1893.

1941–1959 · Contemporary

María Montserrat Grases García (10 July 1941 – 26 March 1959) was a Catalan Catholic laywoman who was a secular member of Opus Dei. Grases became part of Opus Dei on 24 December 1957 after she discerned whether or not her path would allow her to join their ranks.

1831–1913 · Contemporary · Carmelites

Eliswa Vakayil, religious name Eliswa of the Blessed Virgin Mary, (15 October 1831 – 18 July 1913) was a religious sister from Kerala. She was the founder of the first indigenous Carmelite community for women in India, the Third Order of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns (TOCD), which…

1893–1983 · Contemporary

Maria Josefa Alhama y Valera, religious name Maria Esperanza of Jesus, (30 September 1893 – 8 February 1983) was a Spanish religious sister. She was the founder of both the Handmaids of Merciful Love in 1930 and the Sons of Merciful Love in 1951.

1874–1959 · Contemporary · Little Sisters of the Poor of Maiquetía

Luisa Aveledo, in religion Sister Marcelina of Saint Joseph, born in Caracas, Venezuela, on June 18, 1874, and died in Barranquilla, Colombia, on November 16, 1959, was a Venezuelan religious sister.

1851–1926 · Contemporary · Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne Congregation of Saint Rose of Lima

Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, OP, also known as Mother Mary Alphonsa (May 20, 1851 – July 9, 1926), was an American Dominican religious sister, writer, social worker, and foundress of the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne.

1823–1906 · Contemporary · Order of the Brothers Discalced of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Veronica of the Passion, OCD (born Sophie Leeves; 1 October 1823 – 11 November 1906) was an Ottoman-born English Catholic nun who founded the Sisters of the Apostolic Carmel, a religious congregation for women based in India.

1930–2007 · Contemporary

Muhammad Yaqoob Sharrudi was born in 1930 and died in 2007. He served as an ulema, preacher, researcher, and mystic, and is recognized as a saint.

1841–1917 · Contemporary · Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools

Mutien-Marie Wiaux (also known as Mutien-Marie of Malonne; 20 March 1841 – 30 January 1917) was a Belgian member of the Brothers of Christian Schools, who spent his life as a teacher and is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church.

1876–1941 · Contemporary

Mykola Konrad (Ukrainian: Микола Конрад; 16 May 1876 – 26 June 1941) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and martyr. Konrad was born on 16 May 1876 in the village of Strusów, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (modern-day Strusiv, Ukraine).

1896–1951 · Contemporary

Mykola Tsehelskyi (Ukrainian: Мико́ла Цеге́льський; December 17, 1896 – May 25, 1951), sometimes rendered as Nicholas Tsehelskyi, was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, considered to be a martyr by the Catholic Church for his refusal to convert even under duress.

1890–1938 · Contemporary

Mykola Yefimov was born in 1890 in Verkhnii Saltiv and was a citizen of the Soviet Union. An Eastern Orthodox figure, he died in Kharkiv in 1938. He is recognized as a hieromartyr.

1905–1933 · Contemporary

Mária Margit Bogner was a nun born in 1905 in Melenci, Kingdom of Hungary. She died of tuberculosis in 1933 in Érd and has been declared Venerable.

1917–1936 · Contemporary · Congregation of the Mission

Narciso Pascual Pascual, born on August 11, 1917, in Sarreaus (Tioira, Maceda) and died in Guadalajara on December 6, 1936, was a Galician Latin Catholic religious, a martyr of the Spanish Civil War, and was beatified by Pope Francis on October 13, 2013.

1882–1936 · Contemporary

Narciso de Esténaga y Echevarría (Logroño, October 29, 1882 – Miguelturra, August 22, 1936) was a Spanish Catholic bishop. He was one of the thirteen bishops killed in the Republican zone during the Spanish Civil War, a victim of religious persecution.

1877–1942 · Contemporary

Narcyz Putz (born October 28, 1877, in Sieraków; died December 5, 1942, in Dachau) was a Polish Catholic priest, a blessed of the Roman Catholic Church, administrator and pastor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus parish in Bydgoszcz (1920–1925), pastor of St.

1879–1942 · Contemporary

Narcyz Turchan was a Polish monk and presbyter born in 1879 in Wieliczka. He died in 1942 at the Dachau concentration camp. He is recognized as a saint in the Catholic Church.

1866–1936 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Narcisse Basté Basté (1866–1936) was a Spanish Jesuit who was assassinated during the Spanish Civil War in Valencia, Spain, on October 15, 1936.