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1875–1936 · Contemporary · Congregation of the Mission

Ricardo Atanes Castro, born in Cualedro on August 5, 1875, and died in Gijón on August 14, 1936, was a Galician Latin Catholic priest and a martyr of the Spanish Civil War, beatified by Pope Francis on October 13, 2013.

1897–1930 · Contemporary · Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God

Riccardo Pampuri, OH (2 August 1897 – 1 May 1930) - born Erminio Filippo Pampuri was an Italian medical doctor and a veteran of World War I who was also a professed member of the Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God.

1900–1945 · Contemporary · Pallottines

Richard Henkes (26 May 1900 – 22 February 1945) was a German Roman Catholic priest of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate (Pallottines). Henkes served as a teacher but was best known for his preaching abilities in the pulpit where he made strong-worded condemnations of Nazism…

1848–1913 · Contemporary · Sisters of the Institute of Jesus, Mary and Joseph

Rita Lopes de Almeida (religious name Rita Amada de Jesus, 5 March 1848 – 6 January 1913), was a Portuguese religious sister and the founder of the Sisters of Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

1853–1936 · Contemporary · Sisters of Charity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Rita Josefa Pujalte Sánchez, in religion Rita of the Sorrowful Virgin (Aspe, February 18, 1853 – Canillejas, July 20, 1936), was a Spanish religious of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

1920–1945 · Contemporary · Cistercians

Robert Avsec was a Cistercian monk born in 1920 in Knežja Njiva. He died in 1945 in Kočevski Rog and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1886–1963 · Contemporary

Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman was a Luxembourg-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian democratic (Popular Republican Movement) political thinker and activist.

1931–1945 · Contemporary

Rolando Maria Rivi (7 January 1931 – 13 April 1945) was an Italian Roman Catholic seminarian. Rivi was noted for his studious and pious nature with an intense love for Jesus Christ, which was evident through frequent confession and the reception of the Eucharist.

1882–1943 · Contemporary

Romain Archutowski (1882–1943) was a Polish Catholic priest arrested and deported by the Nazis to the Majdanek extermination camp. He died there of typhus in 1943.

1914–1949 · Contemporary

Roman Volodymyrovych Lysko (Ukrainian: Роман Володимирович Лиско; 14 August 1914 – 14 October 1949) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and martyr. Lysko was born on 14 August 1914 in Horodok, Lviv Oblast. He studied theology and graduated from the Lviv Theological Academy.

1880–1942 · Contemporary

Roman Sitko (30 March 1880 – 12 October 1942) was a Polish Catholic priest. In 1941 he was arrested by the Nazis and murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. He is considered a martyr and was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 13 June 1999.

1921–1978 · Contemporary · Cistercians

Romano Bottegal (Lamon, 28 December 1921 – Beirut, 19 February 1978) was an Italian religious priest of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance). Bottegal joined the order in the 1940s and lived as a hermit in Lebanon.

1874–1964 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Rosa Elena Cornejo Pazmiño (11 December 1874 – 24 October 1964), also known by her religious name María Francisca of the Wounds, was an Ecuadorian religious sister in the Roman Catholic Church.

1826–1906 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Maria Rosa Flesch (born Margaretha Flesch, 24 February 1826 – 25 March 1906), was a German religious sister in the Roman Catholic Church. She founded the Franciscan Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Angels, whose first Mother Superior she was.

1871–1954 · Contemporary · Carmelite Sisters of Saint Joseph (Barcelona)

Rosa Ojeda i Creus (Vilanova i la Geltrú, August 30, 1871 – Barcelona, May 15, 1954), in religion Rose of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, was a Spanish nun, founder of the Carmelite Sisters of Saint Joseph, and recognized as venerable by the Catholic Church since 1998.

1951–1974 · Contemporary

Rosa Staltari was born in 1951 in Antonimina and served as a nun. She died in 1974 in Palermo and has been declared Venerable.

1878–1900 · Contemporary

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1878–1900 · Contemporary

1855–1900 · Contemporary

Rose Fan Hui was a Chinese Catholic teacher born in Hebei in 1855. She died in Hebei in 1900 and is recognized as a blessed Catholic saint.

1909–1936 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Juan Martin Donamaria Valencia (San Martin Unx, November 3, 1909 – Barbastro, August 28, 1936), known in religion as Brother Rosendo, was a Navarrese Benedictine friar.

1901–1944 · Contemporary

Rozalia Celakówna was born in 1901 in Jachówka and worked as a nurse. She died in 1944 in Kraków and is buried at the Rakowicki Cemetery. She holds the status of Venerable.

1885–1915 · Contemporary

Rupen Chilingiryan (Sevag) (Ռուբէն Յովհաննէսի Չիլինկիրեան (Սեւակ), February 28, 1886, Silivri, Ottoman Empire – August 26, 1915, Çankırı, Ottoman Empire) was an Armenian poet, prose-writer, and doctor.

1874–1915 · Contemporary

Rupen Zartarian or Ruben Zardaryan (Armenian: Ռուբեն Զարդարյան Western Armenian: Ռուբէն Զարդարեան; 1874 – 16 August 1915) was an Armenian writer, educator, and political activist. He was killed by Ottoman authorities during the Armenian genocide.

1890–1949 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Rudolf Komórek (11 October 1890 – 11 December 1949) was a Polish priest and a professed member of the Salesians of Don Bosco while also serving as part of the missions in Brazil.

1876–1945 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Rupert Mayer (23 January 1876 – 1 November 1945) was a German Jesuit priest and a leading figure of the Catholic resistance to Nazism in Munich. In 1987, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II. Mayer was born and grew up in Stuttgart, one of five siblings.

1928–1977 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Rutilio Grande García, SJ (5 July 1928 in El Paisnal – 12 March 1977 in Aguilares) was a Salvadoran Jesuit priest assassinated in 1977 by Salvadoran security forces.

1852–1900 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Rémy Isoré was a French Jesuit priest who was killed during Boxer Rebellion in China. He was declared a saint by Pope John Paul II in 2000. Isoré was born in Bambecque, France on 22 January 1852.

1876–1961 · Contemporary · Third Order of Saint Francis

Countess Róża Maria Czacka (also known under religious name Elżbieta; 22 October 1876 – 15 May 1961) was a Polish religious sister who founded the Franciscan Sisters Servants of the Cross.

1864–1936 · Contemporary · Carmelite Sisters of Charity

Rosa Pedret Rull of Our Lady of Good Counsel (born December 5, 1864, in Faset; died August 19, 1936, in El Saler) was a Spanish Carmelite Sister of Charity, martyr, and blessed of the Catholic Church.

1883–1927 · Contemporary

Sabás Reyes Salazar (3 December 1883 – 13 April 1927) was a Mexican Catholic vicar and one of many priests martyred during the Cristero War. Reyes was canonized by Pope John Paul II on 21 May 2000 as one the Martyrs of the Cristero War.

1875–1915 · Contemporary

Sahag Odabashian was a Christian minister and pedagogue born in 1875. He died in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide and is recognized as a saint.

1867–1915 · Contemporary

Sahak Gratlyan (1867, Sivas, Sivas Province – 1915) was an Armenian pharmacist and a member of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party. Born in 1867 in the city of Sivas, the center of Sivas Province, he received a pharmaceutical education and worked as a pharmacist.

1836–1918 · Contemporary

Shri Sai Baba of Shirdi (c. 1838 – 15 October 1918), also known as Shirdi Sai Baba, Shree Sainath was an Indian spiritual guru considered to be a saint, and revered by both Hindu and Muslim devotees during and after his lifetime.

1910–1946 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Saint Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception (19 August 1910 – 28 July 1946), born as Anna Muttathupadathu, was an Indian Catholic nun and educator.

1898–1937 · Contemporary

New Martyr Anna of Rybinsk (secular name Maria Alekseyevna Blagoveshchenskaya; January 30, 1898, Borisogleb village, Poshekhonsky Uyezd, Yaroslavl Governorate — March 11, 1937, Yaroslavl) was an Orthodox nun and a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church, canonized as a new martyr in…

1869–1960 · Contemporary

Saint Anthimos of Chios (Chios, 1869 – February 15, 1960), born Argyrios K. Vagianos, was a 20th-century Greek monk widely known for his monastic life and his work in caring for patients with Hansen's disease.

1873–1922 · Contemporary

Benjamin of Petrograd (Russian: Вениамин Петроградский, Veniamin Petrogradsky, 29 April [O.S. 17 April] 1873 – 13 August [O.S. 31 July] 1922), born Vasily Pavlovich Kazansky (Russian: Василий Павлович Казанский), was a hieromartyr under Soviet anti-religious persecution, a bishop…

1901–1959 · Contemporary

Saint George of Drama (Greek: Ὁ Ὅσιος Γεώργιος τῆς Δράμας; born 1 January 1901), born Athanasios Karslidis, was a Greek Orthodox monk of Caucasian origin. He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and associated with both Greek and Georgian Orthodox traditions.

1903–1991 · Contemporary

Saint Gerasimos the Mikragiannanitis, born Anastasios-Athanasios Graikas (Droviani, Northern Epirus, September 5, 1903 – Mount Athos, December 7, 1991), was an Orthodox Christian monk and a contemporary hymnographer.

1920–1991 · Contemporary

Iakovos Tsalikis (Greek: Ιάκωβος Ευβοίας, November 5, 1920–November 21, 1991), also known as Iakovos of Evia (and Saint Jacob/James Tsalikis) was an Ottoman-born Greek saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church. He was abbot of the Monastery of Saint David the Elder.

1871–1957 · Contemporary

Saint Jerome of Simonopetra was an Eastern Orthodox monk born in Reisdere in 1871. He died in 1957 and is recognized as a saint.

1868–1959 · Contemporary · Franciscans

María Natividad Venegas de la Torre (religious name María of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, 8 September 1868 – 30 July 1959) was a Mexican religious sister in the Roman Catholic Church.

1865–1942 · Contemporary

Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus, C.I.I.C. (born Amabile Lucia Visintainer; December 16, 1865 – July 9, 1942), was a Catholic immigrant from Austria-Hungary to Brazil who became the foundress of the Congregation of the Little Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, religious…

1862–1936 · Contemporary

Salvador Damián Enguix Garés was born in Alzira, Spain, in 1862. He died in 1936 and has been recognized as a blessed.

1862–1936 · Contemporary

Salvador Estrugo Solves was a Spanish presbyter of the Catholic Church who lived from 1862 to 1936. He has been beatified and holds the status of blessed.

1880–1936 · Contemporary

Salvador Ferrandis Seguí, born on May 25, 1880, and died on August 3, 1936, was a Spanish priest. He was a priest in Lucena, and along with Francisco Bandrés Sánchez, a Salesian priest in Barcelona, Alfonso López López, a priest in Samalús, and Miguel Remón Salvador, a layman in…

1880–1927 · Contemporary

Salvador Huerta Gutiérrez was born in 1880 in the Magdalena Municipality, Mexico. He died in 1927 and is recognized as a blessed.

1896–1936 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Salvador Mollar Ventura (1896–1936), born Jean-Baptiste Mollar Ventura, was a Spanish Franciscan friar who was murdered during the Spanish Civil War in Paterna, near Valencia, Spain, on October 27, 1936.

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

Salvatore Pigem Serra, C.M.F. (Vilobí d'Onyar, December 15, 1912 – 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.

1877–1936 · Contemporary · Oratory of Saint Philip Neri

Salvi Huix Miralpéix (in Spanish: Salvio Huix Miralpéix; 22 December 1877 – 5 August 1936) was a Catalan Roman Catholic cleric who served as Bishop of Lleida from 1935 to 1936.