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1920–1943 · Contemporary

Salvo Rosario Antonio D'Acquisto MOVM (15 October 1920 – 23 September 1943) was a member of the Italian Carabinieri during the Second World War. After Italy surrendered in September 1943 to the Allies, the Germans occupied most of the country.

1910–1942 · Contemporary

Janina Szymkowiak (10 July 1910 – 29 August 1942) - in religious Sancja - was a Polish Roman Catholic professed religious from the Daughters of the Sorrowful Mother of God.

1937 · Contemporary

Saint Sandaki Baba was a politician, Sufi, and writer born in the Swat District of the British Raj. He died in 1937 and is recognized as a saint.

1961–1984 · Contemporary

Sandra Maria Assunta Sabattini (19 August 1961 – 2 May 1984) was an Italian diarist, medical student, and member of the Pope John XXIII Community, who was beatified by the Catholic Church on 24 October 2021.

1968–1991 · Contemporary

Santa Scorese (6 February 1968 – 16 March 1991) was an Italian student and Catholic activist, who was murdered for resisting harassment. As her beatification process has been opened, she is considered a servant of God by the Catholic Church.

1903–1936 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order

James of Jesus, born Santiago Arriaga y Arrien (Arrieta, November 22, 1903 – Cuenca, September 24, 1936), was a Spanish priest of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity.

1909–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Santiago Mestre Iborra (Rafelbuñol, Valencia province, April 10, 1909 – Masamagrell, September 29, 1936) was a Spanish religious. He was murdered, along with his eight brothers, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, a victim of the terror unleashed in the Republican zone.

1881–1936 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Santiago Pardo López was a Spanish Catholic priest and Benedictine monk born in 1881 in Palacios de Benaver. He died in 1936 in Barbastro from a gunshot wound and is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1917–1968 · Contemporary · Sisters of the Sacred Heart (Ragusa)

Emanuela Giovanna Scribano, in religion Santina di Gesù Scribano, born on December 4, 1917, in Ragusa, and died on May 12, 1968, was an Italian religious sister renowned for her holiness. She was recognized as venerable by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007.

1855–1915 · Contemporary

Sargis Azoyan was an Ottoman Empire pediatrician born in Adana in 1855. He died in Aleppo in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide and is recognized as a saint.

1873–1915 · Contemporary

Sarkis Minassian (1873–1915), also known as Aram Ashod, was an Armenian journalist, writer, political activist, and educator. He became the chief editor of the newspaper Hairenik in Watertown, Massachusetts.

1929–1958 · Contemporary

Satoko Kitahara (北原 怜子, Kitahara Satoko; 22 August 1929 – 23 January 1958) – later known as Elisabeth Maria Kitahara – was a Japanese Roman Catholic.

1884–1941 · Contemporary

Sava Trlajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Сава Трлајић; 19 July 1884 – August 1941) was a bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church serving as Bishop of the Eparchy of Gornji Karlovac in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1938 until the beginning of World War II.

1862–1948 · Contemporary

Saint Savvas of Kalymnos (also known as Saint Savvas the New) is the patron saint of the Greek island of Kalymnos, where he lived during the last twenty years of his life as the priest and spiritual father of the nuns of the Convent of All Saints.

1873–1958 · Contemporary

Schema-Igumen John (Russian: Схиигумен Иоанн, Finnish: Skeemaigumeeni Johannes, born Ivan Alekseyevich Alekseyev, Russian: Иван Алексеевич Алексеев; 26 February 1873, village Gubka, Novotorzhsky Uyezd, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire – 5 June 1958, New Valamo, Heinävesi, Finland…

1897–1987 · Contemporary

Orsola Rivata, in religion Mother Scholastica, born July 12, 1897, in Guarene and died March 24, 1987, in Sanfrè, was an Italian Catholic nun, co-founder and first Superior General of the Pious Disciples of the Divine Master.

1903–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Sebastián Calvo Martínez, C.M.F. (Gumiel de Izán, January 20, 1903 – Barbastro, August 12, 1936), was a Spanish priest who was martyred in Barbastro during the Spanish Civil War and is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

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

Sebastiano Riera Coromina (Ribes de Freser, October 13, 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.

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

Secundino Ortega García, C.M.F. (Santa Cruz de la Salceda, May 20, 1912 – Barbastro, August 13, 1936), was a Spanish priest who was martyred in Barbastro during the Spanish Civil War and is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1891–1936 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order

Segundo de Santa Teresa, born Segundo García Cabezas (Los Barrios de Nistoso, March 24, 1891 – Andújar, July 31, 1936), was a Spanish priest of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity.

1896–1997 · Contemporary

Schema-nun Sephora (secular name Daria Nikolayevna Shnyakina, née Senyakina; March 19, 1896, Glukhovo village, now Gavrilovsky District, Tambov Governorate — May 13, 1997, Klykovo, Kaluga Oblast, Russia) was a nun of the Russian Orthodox Church and a starets.

1880–1937 · Contemporary

Serafin, secular name Mikhail Ostroumov (born 6 November 1880 in Moscow, died 8 December 1937 in Katyn forest) was a Russian Orthodox bishop and saint New Martyr.

1881–1937 · Contemporary

Serafim Samoylovich was born in 1881 in Myrhorod and served as an Eastern Orthodox priest and bishop. A citizen of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, he died in 1937 in the Kemerovo Oblast. He is venerated as a hieromartyr.

1881–1950 · Contemporary

Born in 1881 in the Russian Empire, Serafin served as an Eastern Orthodox priest and archbishop. He held the position of bishop until his death in 1950 in Sofia, where he is buried in the Russian Church. He is recognized as a thaumaturge.

1893–1947 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Serafin Koda, OFM (born April 25, 1893, in Janjeva, Kosovo; died May 11, 1947, in Lezhë) was a Roman Catholic Franciscan friar who was arrested and tortured for his faith in atheist Albania under the Enver Hoxha regime.

1913–1988 · Contemporary · Adorers of the Blood of Christ

Noeme or Noemy Cinque, in religion Serafina Cinque, born on January 31, 1913, in Urucurituba, Brazil, and died on October 21, 1988, in Manaus, was a Brazilian religious sister of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ.

1872–1936 · Contemporary

Serafina Emanuela Justa Fernández Ibero was a Spanish nun born in Pamplona in 1872. She died in 1936 and has been beatified as a blessed.

1899–1931 · Contemporary

A seraph is a celestial or heavenly being originating in Ancient Judaism. The term plays a role in subsequent Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Tradition places seraphim in the highest rank in Christian angelology and in the fifth rank of ten in the Jewish angelic hierarchy.

1856–1937 · Contemporary

Metropolitan Seraphim (Russian: Митрополи́т Серафи́м 9 June or 9 January 1856 – 11 December 1937), born Leonid Mikhailovich Chichagov (Russian: Леони́д Миха́йлович Чичаго́в, was a Metropolitan bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church who was executed by firing squad, and was canoniz…

1883–1937 · Contemporary

Seraphim Zvezdinsky was an Eastern Orthodox bishop and priest born in Moscow in 1883. A citizen of the Soviet Union, he died in Ishim in 1937. He is venerated as a hieromartyr.

1866–1949 · Contemporary

Seraphim, secular name Vasily Nikolayevich Muravyov (born April 1/13, 1866, in the village of Vakhromeyevo, Rybinsk Uyezd, Yaroslavl Governorate; died April 3, 1949, in Vyritsa), was a Russian Orthodox clergyman and monastic saint.

1873–1918 · Contemporary

Sergi Florinski was an Eastern Orthodox priest born in Suzdal in 1873. A citizen of the Russian Empire, he died in Rakvere in 1918. He is recognized as a hieromartyr.

1884–1936 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Sergio Cid Pazo was a Spanish Catholic priest and a member of the Salesians of Don Bosco. Born in 1884 and dying in 1936, he is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1870–1948 · Contemporary

Sergius (or Serge) and Bacchus (Greek: Σέργιος & Βάκχος; Classical Syriac: ܣܪܓܝܤ ܘܒܟܘܤ, romanized: Sargīs wa Bākūs; Arabic: سركيس و باخوس, romanized: Sarkīs wa Bākhūs, also called Arabic: سرجيس و باكوس, romanized: Sarjīs wa Bākūs) were fourth-century Syrian Christian soldiers rev…

1870–1937 · Contemporary

Sergius (or Serge) and Bacchus (Greek: Σέργιος & Βάκχος; Classical Syriac: ܣܪܓܝܤ ܘܒܟܘܤ, romanized: Sargīs wa Bākūs; Arabic: سركيس و باخوس, romanized: Sarkīs wa Bākhūs, also called Arabic: سرجيس و باكوس, romanized: Sarjīs wa Bākūs) were fourth-century Syrian Christian soldiers rev…

1871–1922 · Contemporary

Sergius, born Vasily Pavlovich Shein (December 30, 1870, in Kolpna, Tula Governorate – August 13, 1922, in Petrograd), was an archimandrite of the Russian Orthodox Church and a holy new martyr. From 1912 to 1917, he served as a deputy to the State Duma.

1892–1942 · Contemporary

Sergey (Sergius) Alexeyevich Mechev (September 30, 1892, Moscow — January 6, 1942, Yaroslavl) was a protopresbyter and a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was canonized as a hieromartyr in 2000. He was the son of Saint Alexius Mechev.

1863–1940 · Contemporary

Archimandrite Sevastijan (Sebastian, Serbian Cyrillic: Архимандрит Севастијан, secular name John Dabovich or Jovan Dabović; June 9, 1863 – November 30, 1940) was a Serbian-American monk and missionary who became the first Serbian Orthodox monk naturalized in North America.

1889–1941 · Contemporary

Severian Stefan Baranyk (Ukrainian: Северіян Бараник; 18 July 1889 - c. June 1941) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and martyr. Baranyk was born in Uhnów in Austrian Galicia (modern-day Uhniv, Ukraine).

1844–1909 · Contemporary

Shah Akbar Danapuri (1844–1914) also known as Shah Muhammad Akbar Abulolai Danapuri was an Indian Islamic scholar, preacher, writer, linguist and Sufi poet. He belonged to the Naqshbandi Abulolaiya order of Sufism.

1886–1915 · Contemporary

Shavarsh Krissian (22 July 1886 – 15 August 1915) was an athlete, writer, publicist, journalist, educator, and editor of Marmnamarz, the first sports magazine of the Ottoman Empire.

1845–1913 · Contemporary

Brahmachaitanya (also popularly known as Gondavalekar Maharaj) pronunciation (19 February 1845 – 22 December 1913) was an Indian Hindu saint and spiritual master. He was a devotee of the Hindu deity Rama, and signed his name as "Brahmachaitanya Ramdasi".

1898–1971 · Contemporary

Shtjefën Kurti (24 December 1898 – 20 October 1971) was an Albanian Roman Catholic priest killed during a period of communist persecution. Kurti served as a priest during a volatile period for his nation in which communist repression enjoined state atheism and led to strict rules…

1878–1915 · Contemporary

Adom Yarjanian (Armenian: Ատոմ Եարճանեան), better known by his pen name Siamanto (Սիամանթօ; 15 August 1878 – August 1915), was an influential Armenian writer, poet and national figure from the late 19th century and early 20th century.

1866–1938 · Contemporary

Silouan the Athonite (Russian: Силуан Афонский) also sometimes referred to as Silouan of Athos, Saint Silvanus the Athonite or Staretz Silouan (January 17, 1866 – September 24, 1938) was an Eastern Orthodox monk of Russian origin, born Simeon Ivanovich Antonov who was a poet and…

1911–1936 · Contemporary

Silvester Arnau was a Spanish Catholic priest born in Berguedà in 1911. He died in 1936 and is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1861–1920 · Contemporary

Silvester Olshevsky was an Eastern Orthodox archbishop born in 1860 in Kosivka, Ukraine, within the Russian Empire. He died in 1920 in Omsk and is venerated as a hieromartyr.

1854–1941 · Contemporary

Simeon Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Симеон Поповић; 19 December 1854 – 1 April 1941), sometimes romanized as Symeon Popovich, was a Serbian Orthodox hieromonk and the first abbot of the Dajbabe Monastery, which he founded.

1886–1900 · 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.

1848–1922 · Contemporary

Simon Gelchyan was an Ottoman Empire physician born in Tokat in 1848. He died in 1922 during the Armenian Genocide and is recognized as a saint.