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1895–1943 · Contemporary

Eleonora Aniela Jóźwik, Sister Maria Daniela of Jesus and Mary Immaculate (born January 25, 1895, in Poizdów near Kock; died August 1, 1943, near Nowogródek), was a Polish religious sister of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth and a blessed of the Cath…

1839–1900 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Élie Facchini, also known as Élie of Cento, born on July 2, 1839, in Reno di Cento, Italy, and died on July 9, 1900, in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China, was an Italian Franciscan priest and missionary in China.

1941–1986 · Contemporary

Elisa Giambelluca, born on April 30, 1941, in Isnello, Italy, and died on July 5, 1986, in Rome, was an Italian mathematics teacher and high school principal. Having died of cancer, she is renowned for her holiness. She has been declared venerable by Pope Francis.

1904–1976 · Contemporary

Elisa Miceli (April 12, 1904 – April 19, 1976) was an Italian Catholic activist, deeply committed to the apostolate, known for founding the congregation of the Rural Catechist Sisters of the Sacred Heart.

1877–1937 · Contemporary

Elizaveta Viktorovna Kuranova (1877, Moscow — October 21, 1937, Butovo firing range) was a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church, canonized as a martyr in 2002 for universal church veneration.

1883–1936 · Contemporary

Elvira of the Nativity of Our Lady (Spanish: Elvira de la Natividad de Nuestra Señora), born Elvira Torrentallé Paraire on June 29, 1883, in Balsareny, and died on August 19, 1936, was a blessed of the Catholic Church, a Spanish martyr of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity, and a v…

1869–1936 · Contemporary

Elias Carbonell Molla (born November 20, 1869, in Cocentaina, Alicante; died October 2, 1936) was a Spanish blessed of the Catholic Church. He was born into a large family; his father was a physician.

1905–1950 · Contemporary · Sons of the Immaculate Conception

Emanuele Stablum, born on June 10, 1895, in Terzolas, Italy, and died on March 16, 1950, was an Italian Catholic religious and physician, and a member of the Sons of the Immaculate Conception.

1888–1969 · Contemporary · Stigmatines

Emilio Recchia, born on February 19, 1888, in Verona, Italy, and died in 1969, was an Italian religious figure who protected about a hundred Jews during the Second World War. He is recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem and as Venerable by the Catholic Church.

1888–1936 · Contemporary

Encarnación Gil Valls (Ontinyent, January 27, 1888 – L'Olleria, September 24, 1936) was a Catholic martyr killed during the Spanish Civil War.

1890–1936 · Contemporary · Piarists

Blessed Enrique Canadell (1890–1936) was a Spanish Piarist priest who died as a martyr in Castellfollit de la Roca, Catalonia, during the Spanish Civil War in 1936. He was beatified by John Paul II in 1995. He is buried in his village church, Saint Stephen's Church in Olot.

1930–1994 · Contemporary · Society of Mary

Henri Vergès (in Catalan: Enric Vergés), born on July 15, 1930, in Matemale (Pyrénées-Orientales) and murdered on May 8, 1994, in Algiers (Algeria), was a French Marist brother and teacher.

1913–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Enrique García Beltrán (Almassora, March 16, 1913 – Castellón, August 16, 1936) was a Capuchin friar from Castellón who died as a martyr at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.

1907–1936 · Contemporary

Enrique Juan Requena (Ayelo de Malferit, Valencia, March 2, 1907 – December 29, 1936) was a Spanish priest, venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church. He was a priest of the Archdiocese of Valencia.

1908–1936 · Contemporary

Enrique Morant Pellicer (born October 13, 1908, in Bellreguard, Valencia; died October 4, 1936, in Xaraco) was a blessed of the Catholic Church. He was born into a deeply religious family. He moved to Madrid to study architecture but later decided to enter the seminary.

1896–1936 · Contemporary

Enrique Vidaurreta Palma (October 10, 1896 – August 31, 1936) was a martyr of the religious persecution during the Spanish Civil War, born in Antequera, Spain. He was beatified in Rome on October 28, 2007, alongside 498 martyrs of the 20th century in Spain.

1863–1903 · Contemporary · Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady of Good Counsel

Thérèse Rodon i Asencio (Barcelona, February 26, 1863 – Madrid, December 28, 1903) was a Spanish nun and founder of the Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady of Good Counsel. Her potential beatification is under study by the Catholic Church, which recognizes her as a Servant of God.

1916–1936 · Contemporary · Passionists

Epifanio Sierra Conde was a brother of the Passionist Congregation who was killed by anticlerical forces during the Spanish Civil War. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on October 1, 1989.

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

Esteve Casadevall i Puig (Argelaguer, March 6, 1913 – Barbastro, August 13, 1936) was a Claretian religious. He is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church. He entered the Claretian college in Cervera and continued his studies in Alagón, Barbastro, and Vic.

1897–1934 · Contemporary

Euphrasius of the Child Jesus, born Barredo Fernández (February 8, 1897, in Cancienes – October 12, 1934, in Oviedo), was a Discalced Carmelite and a blessed of the Catholic Church. After taking his religious vows in 1916, he began studies in theology and philosophy.

1903–1943 · Contemporary

Eugénie Maskiewicz (in religion Sister Marie-Canisia), born on November 27, 1903, in Suwałki, Poland, and died on August 1, 1943, near Nowogródek (Poland, now Belarus), was a Polish nun who was executed by firing squad by the Gestapo along with her ten other martyr companions of…

1892–1937 · Contemporary

Eugenius, secular name Yevgeny Yakovlevich Kobranov (born January 9/21, 1892, in Blagoveshchensk; died November 20, 1937, near Shymkent), was a Russian Orthodox bishop, one of the leaders of the Iosiflyan movement, and a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.

1914–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Eusebio Maria Codina Millá, C.M.F. (Albesa, December 7, 1914 – 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.

1866–1936 · Contemporary

Eustaquio Nieto y Martín (Zamora, March 12, 1866 – Estriégana, July 27, 1936) was a Spanish Catholic bishop. He is one of the thirteen bishops killed in the Republican zone during the Spanish Civil War, a victim of religious persecution.

1876–1936 · Contemporary

Facunda Margenat (1876–1936) was a Spanish religious sister of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Girona. Assassinated in odium fidei during the religious persecution of the Spanish Civil War, she is venerated as a blessed and martyr by the Catholic Church.

1881–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Facundo Escanciano Tejerina, known in religion as Aurelio of Ocejo (February 4, 1881, Ocejo – August 17, 1936, Madrid), was a Spanish Roman Catholic friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin and a martyr. The Catholic Church venerates him as a blessed.

1890–1936 · Contemporary · Piarists

Faustino Oteiza Segura, or Faustino of Our Lady of Sorrows, Sch. P. (Ayegui, February 14, 1890 – Azanuy, August 9, 1936), was a Piarist priest of the Peralta de la Sal community, a martyr during the Spanish Civil War in 1936, and is venerated as a blessed in the Catholic Church.

1911–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Faustino Pérez García (Barindano, July 30, 1911 – Barbastro, August 15, 1936) was a Navarrese Claretian friar. Because he was murdered along with other members of his community while at the Barbastro seminary, he was beatified by John Paul II in 1992.

1915–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Federico Herrera Bermejo (born February 21, 1915, in Almagro, died August 16, 1936, in Fuente el Fresno) was a Spanish Franciscan, seminarian, Christian martyr, and blessed of the Roman Catholic Church.

1878–1939 · Contemporary

Felipe Ripoll Morata (born September 14, 1878, in Teruel; died February 7, 1939, near Girona) was a Spanish Catholic priest, Christian martyr, and blessed of the Roman Catholic Church. He came from a poor, religious family.

1868–1948 · Contemporary

Theodosius of the Caucasus (born Fyodor Fyodorovich Kashin; November 4 (16), 1868, or according to other sources May 3 (15), 1841, Perm Governorate, Russian Empire — August 8, 1948, Mineralnye Vody, Stavropol Krai, RSFSR, USSR) was a hieroschemamonk of the Russian Orthodox Church…

1905–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Ferdinand Saperas Aluja (born September 8, 1905, in Alió, died August 13, 1936, in Mas Claret) was a Spanish religious of the Claretians, a martyr, a victim of the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939, and a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1905–1936 · Contemporary

Fernando Garcia Sendra (born March 3, 1905, in Pego; died September 18, 1936) was a blessed of the Catholic Church. He served as an altar boy before entering the Franciscan College. After three years in Benissa, he returned home due to illness.

1886–1936 · Contemporary

Ferdinand González Añón (born February 17, 1886, in Turís; died August 27, 1936, in Picassent) was a Spanish priest and a blessed of the Catholic Church. He came from a religious family, the son of Fernando González Pons and Isabel Navarro Añón.

1880–1936 · Contemporary · Society of Mary

Fidel Fuidio Rodríguez (Yécora, April 24, 1880 – Carrión de Calatrava, October 17, 1936) was a Spanish archaeologist, teacher, and Marianist. He was executed by firing squad during the Civil War, a victim of the repression in the Republican zone.

1829–1911 · Contemporary

Philimon Isayevich Koridze (Georgian: ფილიმონ ქორიძე or Philimon Yaseyevich Koridze; pseudonym: Coriggio; 1829–1911) was a Georgian opera singer (bass). In December 2011, he was canonized by the Georgian Orthodox Church as a saint under the name Righteous Philimon the Singer.

1892–1946 · Contemporary

Filip Terčelj Grivški, known by the pseudonyms Čavenski and Pelikan, was a Slovene Catholic priest, poet, writer, editor, educator, Servant of God, and a victim of both the Italian Fascist and Yugoslav Communist regimes.

1924–1995 · Contemporary · Sisters of the Poor, Palazzolo Institute

Luigia Rosina Rondi, known in religion as Sister Floralba Rondi, was born on December 10, 1924, in Pedrengo, Italy, and died on April 25, 1995, in Mosango, Democratic Republic of the Congo. She was an Italian religious sister and nurse.

1861–1935 · Contemporary · Angelic Sisters of St. Paul

Flore Bracaval, in religion Mother Jeanne-Marie of the Eucharist, born May 3, 1861, in Mouscron, Belgium, and died January 26, 1935, in Arienzo, Campania, was a Belgian religious sister, restorer, and first superior general of the Congregation of the Angelic Sisters of Saint Paul…

1890–1936 · Contemporary

Florencia Caerols Martínez was a Catholic martyr killed during the Spanish Civil War. Single and very active in her parish, she worked as a catechist in the region.

1856–1936 · Contemporary · Piarists

Florentín Felipe Naya, born Francisco Felipe Naya and known in religion as Florentín de San Francisco de Borja (Alquézar, October 10, 1856 – Azanuy, August 9, 1936), was a Piarist religious of the Peralta de la Sal community.

1917–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Friar Marçal de Vilafranca, born Carles Canyes Santacana, was a Catalan Capuchin friar and student. Born in Vilafranca del Penedès in 1917 into a deeply religious family, he was one of nine children, all of whom entered religious life.

1916–1946 · Contemporary

Fran Miraka (born August 13, 1916, in Puka; died March 4, 1946, or October 1946 in Shkodër) was an Albanian Catholic who was shot by the communists for the sake of his faith. He is one of the Thirty-eight Martyrs of Albania.

1895–1943 · Contemporary

This is an article about a priest. For the director, producer, and politician of the same name, see Franci Kek. Franc Kek, Slovenian priest, born August 20, 1895, Studenec pri Trebnjem, died October 21, 1943, Padež forest, Birčna vas.

1901–1940 · Contemporary · Piarists

Francisco Sagrera y Riera (Breda, November 8, 1901 – Moyá, February 22, 1940) was a Piarist priest and educator in Moyá. He has been proclaimed a Servant of God by the Catholic Church and is currently in the process of beatification.

1889–1936 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order

Francesco di San Lorenzo, born Francisco Euba y Gorroño (Amorebieta, July 25, 1889 – Alcázar de San Juan, July 26, 1936), was a Spanish priest of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity.

1881–1936 · Contemporary

Francisca Aldea Araujo, in religion Francesca of the Heart of Jesus (Somolinos, December 17, 1881 – Canillejas, July 20, 1936), was a Spanish religious of the congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

1881–1936 · Contemporary · Carmelites

Francisca Ametzua Ibaibarriaga (Abadiño, March 9, 1881 – El Saler, Valencia, August 19, 1936) was a Carmelite nun. She was born at the Traña-Goti farmhouse in Abadiño. After completing her novitiate in Vitoria, she moved to Oliva to work as a cook at the local school.

1833–1903 · Contemporary · Hermanas Franciscanas de la Inmaculada

Francisca Pascual Doménech, born in Moncada, Spain, on October 13, 1833, and died on April 26, 1903, was a Spanish religious sister and founder of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, dedicated to the advancement of women, the elderly, the sick, and the disabled.

1880–1936 · Contemporary

Gabriela of St. John of the Cross (born July 18, 1880, in L’Espluga de Francolí, died July 31, 1936, in Barcelona) was a Spanish nun, Christian martyr, and blessed of the Catholic Church. Upon feeling a calling to religious life, she joined the Carmelite Missionaries.