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1841–1914 · Contemporary · Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God

Benedict Menni, OH (11 March 1841 – 24 April 1914), born Angelo Ercole Menni Figini, was an Italian Roman Catholic priest. Menni was a professed member of the Order of the Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God and he went on to establish a religious congregation of women kno…

1831–1911 · Contemporary · Passionists

Bernardo Maria di Gesù (7 November 1831 – 9 December 1911), born as Cesare Silvestrelli, was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Passionists.

1832–1929 · Contemporary

Bernarda Morin (born Venerance Morin Rouleau; 1832–1929) was a Canadian Catholic religious sister who founded the Congregation of the Sisters of Providence in Chile, an autonomous congregation of the Sisters of Providence (Montreal).

1922–2008 · Contemporary

Bernardin Gantin (8 May 1922 – 13 May 2008) was a Beninese Catholic prelate who held senior positions in the Roman Curia for twenty years and the highest position in the College of Cardinals for nine years.

1894–1947 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Bernardin Palaj (20 October 1894 — 8 December 1947) was an Albanian Franciscan friar, folklorist and poet. Born as Zef Palaj in Shkodër, to Gjon and Marta Dedaj, originally from the mountains of Shllak.

1878–1940 · Contemporary

Maria Jabłońska (13 June 1878 – 23 September 1940) - in religious Bernardyna - was a Polish Roman Catholic professed religious and the co-founder of the Sisters Servants of the Poor (1891) that she founded alongside Albert Chmielowski.

1875–1943 · Contemporary

Bernhard Lichtenberg was a German Catholic priest known for his outspoken opposition to the Nazi regime’s persecution of Jews and other marginalized groups during the Holocaust.

1901–1982 · Contemporary

Bhakti Hridaya Bon (Sanskrit: भक्ति हृदय वन, IAST: Bhakti Hṛdaya Vana), also known as Swami Bon (Baharpur, 23 March 1901 – Vrindavan, 7 July 1982), was a disciple of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati and a guru in the Gaudiya Math following the philosophy of bhakti, specifically that of…

1898–1968 · Contemporary

Bhakti Prajnan Keshava (IAST: Bhakti Prajñāna Keśava; 24 January 1898 – 6 October 1968), addressed by the honorific Mahārāja (Mahārāja), was a Gaudiya Vaishnava guru, disciple of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati and the founder-acharya of the religious organisation "Sri Gaudiya Vedanta…

1895–1988 · Contemporary

Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar (IAST: Bhakti-rakṣaka Śrīdhara; 10 October 1895 – 12 August 1988) was an Indian guru, writer, sannyasi and spiritual leader in the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, founder-president-acharya of the Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math.

1875–1959 · Contemporary

Bianca Piccolomini Clementini (1875 – 1959) was an Italian Roman Catholic nun and founder of the Company of Saint Angela Merici, the original name for the Ursuline order in Italy, in 1920. Pope Francis declared her venerable in 2016.

1863–1950 · Contemporary

Heȟáka Sápa, commonly known as Black Elk (baptized Nicholas; December 1, 1863 – August 19, 1950), was a wičháša wakȟáŋ ("medicine man, holy man") and heyoka of the Oglala Lakota people.

1883–1918 · Contemporary · Ursulines of Calvarienberg

Blandine Merten (religious name; born Maria Magdalena Merten; 10 July 1883 – 18 May 1918) was a German Ursulines. Merten worked as a teacher in a secular environment from 1902 to 1908.

1863–1940 · Contemporary · Carmelite nuns

Candelaria of Saint Joseph, O.Carm (born Susana Paz-Castillo Ramírez; 11 August 1863 – 31 January 1940) was a Venezuelan Catholic religious sister who founded the Carmelite Sisters of Venezuela, also known as the "Carmelites of Mother Candelaria".

1896–1941 · Contemporary

Bolesław Strzelecki (1896–1941) was a Polish and Roman Catholic priest. He was imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. He is one of the 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs. Bolesław Strzelecki was born on June 10 1886 in Poland.

1862–1946 · Contemporary

Bolesława Maria Lament (3 July 1862 – 29 January 1946) was a Polish religious sister and the founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Family.

1893–1981 · Contemporary

Boļeslavs Sloskāns (Belarusian: Баляслаў Слосканс, 1893-1981) was a Latvian Roman Catholic bishop and a survivor and memoirist of the Soviet Gulag. He was born 31 August 1893 near Stirniene.

1889–1940 · Contemporary

Bronisław Komorowski (25 May 1889 – 22 March 1940) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest, active in the interwar period in the predominantly German Free City of Danzig.

1915–1942 · Contemporary

Bronisław Kostkowski (March 11, 1915 – September 27, 1942) was a Polish and Roman Catholic seminarian. He was born in Stolp. He was imprisoned in the Nazi Sachsenhausen concentration camp and later died at the Nazi Dachau concentration camp.

1842–1912 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Bronisław Markiewicz, SDB (13 July 1842 – 29 January 1912) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Salesians of Don Bosco.

1917–1972 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Blessed Bruna Pellesi (11 November 1917 – 1 December 1972), known as Maria Rosa of Jesus, was an Italian nun who was a member of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Christ.

1866–1936 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Buenaventura García de Paredes (April 19, 1866 in Castañedo de Valdés – August 12, 1936) was a Dominican priest and Master of the Order of Preachers. Paredes was born and baptized on April 19, 1866 in Castañedo de Valdés, near Luarca (Asturias).

1903–1930 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Callistus Caravario (18 June 1903 ― 25 February 1930) was a Salesian priest serving in China, who along with Luigi Versiglia was martyred in China on 25 February 1930. Caravario was born in Cuorgnè, Italy on 18 June 1903.

1842–1913 · Contemporary · Poor Sisters of St. Joseph of Buenos Aires

Camila Rolón (religious name Camila of Saint Joseph, 18 July 1842 – 16 February 1913) was an Argentine religious sister and the founder of the Poor Sisters of Saint Joseph.

1845–1912 · Contemporary

Cándida María de Jesús (31 May 1845 – 9 August 1912), born in Andoain, as Juana Josefa Cipitria y Barriola, was a Spanish nun and the founder of the Daughters of Jesus.

1894–1944 · Contemporary

Carl Lampert (9 January 1894 – 13 November 1944) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest who served as the pro-vicar for the Diocese of Feldkirch in addition to being an outspoken critic of Nazism during World War II.

1936–1970 · Contemporary

Carla Ronci (11 April 1936 – 2 April 1970) was an Italian consecrated lay woman who was declared Venerable by Pope John Paul II on 7 July 1997. Born in Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Ronci spent most of her life in Torre Pedrera, one of the city's northern frazioni.

1902–1956 · Contemporary

Carlo Gnocchi (25 October 1902 – 28 February 1956) was an Italian priest, educator and writer. He is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1866–1932 · Contemporary

Blessed Carlo Liviero was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop who led the Diocese of Città di Castello. He was beatified in 2007 and his cause for sainthood continues. He established the Little Servants of the Sacred Heart.

1918–1963 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Carlos Manuel Cecilio Rodríguez Santiago, also known as "Blessed Charlie" (November 22, 1918 – July 13, 1963), was a Catholic catechist and liturgist who was beatified by Pope John Paul II on April 29, 2001.

1903–1977 · Contemporary

Carmen Elena Rendiles Martínez, SJC (11 August 1903 – 9 May 1977) María Carmen in religion and also known as Maria del Monte Carmelo Rendiles, was a Venezuelan Catholic religious sister who founded the congregation of the Servants of Jesus of Caracas.

1852–1923 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Carolina Santocanale (2 October 1852 - 27 January 1923) was an Italian Roman Catholic nun who assumed the name of "Maria of Jesus" and established the Capuchin Sisters of the Immaculata of Lourdes.

1896–1985 · Contemporary

Catherine de Hueck Doherty (née Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkina; August 15, 1896 – December 14, 1985) was a Russian-born Catholic activist who founded the Madonna House Apostolate in 1947.

1910–1928 · Contemporary · Servite Order

Cecilia Eusepi (17 February 1910 – 1 October 1928) was an Italian Roman Catholic and a professed member from the Secular Servites. Since an early age she had desired to become a nun, but did not manage to do due to a severe case of tuberculosis which confined her to her bed.

1861–1936 · Contemporary · Third Order of Saint Francis

Ceferino Giménez Malla (also known as El Pelé, "the Strong One", or "the Brave One"; 26 August 1861 – 9 August 1936) was a Spanish Romani Catholic catechist and activist.

1886–1905 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Ceferino Namuncurá (August 26, 1886 – May 11, 1905) was a religious student, the object of a Roman Catholic cultus of veneration in northern Patagonia and throughout Argentina.

1895–1980 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Celestina Bottego (20 December 1895 – 20 August 1980) was an Italian Roman Catholic nun born in the United States of America. Bottego established the Xaverian Missionary Sisters of Mary. Her command was for members to act as missionaries for the Roman Catholic church.

1833–1913 · Contemporary · Sisters of the Resurrection

Celine Chludzińska Borzęcka (29 October 1833 – 26 October 1913) was a Roman Catholic professed religious and the co-foundress - along with her daughter Jadwiga Borzęcka - of the Sisters of the Resurrection.

1887–1922 · Contemporary

Charles I and IV (German: Karl Franz Josef Ludwig Hubert Georg Otto Maria, Hungarian: Károly Ferenc József Lajos Hubert György Ottó Mária; 17 August 1887 – 1 April 1922) was Emperor of Austria (as Charles I), King of Hungary (as Charles IV), and the ruler of the other states of t…

1835–1907 · Contemporary · Barnabites

Karl Halfdan Schilling, CRSP (9 June 1835 – 2 January 1907) was a Norwegian Barnabite cleric who is venerated in the Catholic Church. Schilling was born in Christiania, Norway.

1858–1916 · Contemporary · Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance

Charles de Foucauld, born as Charles Eugène, vicomte de Foucauld de Pontbriand, (15 September 1858 – 1 December 1916), religious name Charles of Jesus, was a French monk, Catholic priest and hermit who lived among the Tuareg people in the Sahara in Algeria.

1971–1990 · Contemporary

Chiara Badano (October 29, 1971 – October 7, 1990) was an Italian woman who has been beatified by the Roman Catholic Church. At age nine she joined the Focolare Movement and received the nickname "Luce" ("light") by the founder Chiara Lubich.

1984–2012 · Contemporary

Chiara Corbella Petrillo (9 January 1984 – 13 June 2012) was an Italian Catholic public speaker and a mother known for her faith amidst her battle with cancer. Chiara met her future husband Enrico Petrillo in 2002 when both were on a pilgrimage to Medjugorje.

1920–2008 · Contemporary

Chiara Lubich (born Silvia Lubich; 22 January 1920 – 14 March 2008) was an Italian teacher and author who founded the Focolare Movement, which aims to bring unity among people and promote universal family.

1937–1996 · Contemporary · Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance

Charles-Marie Christian de Chergé, O.C.S.O (Colmar, 18 January 1937 – 21 May 1996), was a French Cistercian, one of the seven monks kidnapped from the Abbey of Our Lady of Atlas in Tibhirine, Algeria, and believed to have been later killed by Islamists in 1996.

1950–1996 · Contemporary · Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance

Christophe Lebreton OCSO (October 11, 1950 – May 21, 1996) was a French Trappist monk. He was one of seven Trappist monks from the Our Lady of the Atlas Abbey of Tibhirine near Médéa, Algeria who were kidnapped and killed during the Algerian Civil War.

1903–1972 · Contemporary

Rev. Archimandrite Chrysóstomos Papasarantópoulos (Greek: Χρυσόστομος Παπασαραντόπουλος, 1903–1972) was a pioneering missionary of the Eastern Orthodox Christianity in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Congo. Rev.

1867–1922 · Contemporary

Chrysostomos Kalafatis (Greek: Χρυσόστομος Καλαφάτης; 8 January 1867 – 9 September 1922), also known as Saint Chrysostomos of Smyrna, Chrysostomos of Smyrna and Metropolitan Chrysostom, was the Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Smyrna (İzmir) between 1910 and 1914, and again…

1833–1909 · Contemporary

Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás (17 June 1833 – 25 February 1909) was a Spanish cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as the Archbishop of Toledo in addition to being the Primate of Spain and the Patriarch of the West Indies.

1889–1964 · Contemporary · Q3909606

Claudia Russo (born 1983) is an Italian actress and beauty pageant titleholder who represented Italy in Miss World 2008 in South Africa. She has an academic degree in fashion design.