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1907–1936 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Constantino Fernández Álvarez was a Spanish Catholic priest and member of the Dominican Order born in La Vecilla in 1907. He died in 1936 and has been recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1859–1902 · Contemporary · Third Order of Saint Francis

Contardo Ferrini (5 April 1859 – 17 October 1902) was a noted Italian jurist and legal scholar. He was also a fervent Roman Catholic, who lived a devout life of prayer and service to the poor. He has been beatified by the Catholic Church.

1897–1932 · Contemporary · Daughters of Our Lady of the Garden

María Angélica Pérez (religious name María Crescentia, 17 August 1897 – 20 May 1932) was an Argentine religious sister of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Garden. She also was known to ill people as "Sister sweetness". She was beatified on 17 November 2012 in Buenos Aires.

1903–1936 · Contemporary · Amigonian Friars

Crescence Garcia Pobo, born on April 15, 1903, in Celadas, Spain, and died on October 3, 1936, in Paracuellos de Jarama, near Madrid, was an Amigonian priest executed during the Spanish Civil War.

1885–1936 · Contemporary

Cristòfol Baqués i Almirall (Olesa de Bonesvalls, Alt Penedès, March 20, 1885, or 1884 – Barcelona, August 20, 1936) was a priest, blessed, and member of the Brotherhood of Diocesan Laborer Priests. He was ordained a priest on June 13, 1908.

1869–1927 · Contemporary

Cristóbal Magallanes Jara (anglicized as Christopher Magallanes; July 30, 1869 – May 25, 1927) was a Mexican Catholic priest and martyr who was killed without trial on the way to say Mass during the Cristero War. He had faced trumped-up charges of inciting rebellion.

1875–1936 · Contemporary

Cruz Laplana y Laguna (Plan, May 3, 1875 – Villar de Olalla, August 7, 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.

1903–1964 · Contemporary · Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance

Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi // , OCSO (September 1903 – 20 January 1964) was an Igbo Nigerian priest of the Catholic Church who worked in the Archdiocese of Onitsha and later became a Trappist monk at Mount Saint Bernard Monastery in England.

1881–1972 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Cyril Jean Zohrabian (Armenian: Հովհաննէս Զոհրաբիան Գուրէղ), born on June 25, 1881, in Erzurum (Ottoman Empire) and died on September 20, 1972, in Rome (Italy), was a Catholic priest, a member of the Armenian community of Turkey, who was declared venerable by Pope Francis on Janu…

1919–1942 · Contemporary

Czesław Jóźwiak (also known as Ceslaus; born September 7, 1919, in Łążyn near Bydgoszcz; died August 24, 1942, in Dresden) was a Polish resistance fighter associated with the Salesians of Don Bosco.

1912–1936 · Contemporary · Conventual Franciscans

Pedro Rivera was a French Franciscan friar who was born on September 3, 1912, in Valladolid, Spain. During the Spanish Civil War, he was killed in 1936 in Barcelona, along with friars Alfonso Lopez, Modesto Vegas, Dionisio Vicente, Francisco Remón, and Miguel Remón.

1933–1996 · Contemporary · Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance

Célestin Marie Georges Maxime Ringeard, born on July 29, 1933, in Touvois, Loire-Atlantique, and died in Algeria after late April 1996, was one of the seven monks of Tibhirine whose fate inspired the film Of Gods and Men by Xavier Beauvois, which won an award at the 2010 Cannes F…

1876–1936 · Contemporary · Holy Ghost Fathers

Daniel Jules Alexis Brottier, C.S.Sp. (7 September 1876 – 28 February 1936), was a French Roman Catholic priest in the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans).

1876–1924 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Daniele da Samarate, born Felice Rossini (June 15, 1876 – May 19, 1924), was an Italian Catholic priest of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin who served as a missionary in Brazil.

1962–1997 · Contemporary

Daniele Badiali (March 3, 1962 – March 18, 1997) was an Italian Catholic priest and missionary in Peru who was murdered by a regime death squad in odium fidei. The Catholic Church has opened the cause for his beatification.

1908–1945 · Contemporary

Danijel Halas was a Catholic priest born in 1908 in Črenšovci, a location within the former Austria–Hungary and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He died in 1945 in Hotiza and is buried in Velika Polana. He is currently recognized by the Catholic Church as a Servant of God.

1994–2012 · Contemporary

Darwin Ramos (December 17, 1994 – September 23, 2012) was a Filipino street child and waste picker. His cause for canonization was opened in August 2019 in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cubao in the Philippines. He is a Servant of God.

1908–1931 · Contemporary

Darío Acosta Zurita (14 December 1908 – 25 July 1931) was a Mexican Roman Catholic priest who ministered in Veracruz where he lived and was killed.

1880–1936 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Dariusz Hernández Morató, SJ (Spanish: Darío Hernández Morató; born October 25, 1880, in Buñol, died September 29, 1936, in Picadero de Paterna) was a Catholic priest, a Jesuit, and a martyr of the Spanish Civil War who was a victim of anti-Catholic persecution and is honored as…

1902–1918 · Contemporary

The Uganda Martyrs are a group of 22 Catholic and 23 Anglican converts to Christianity in the kingdom of Buganda, now part of Uganda, who were executed between 31 January 1885 and 27 January 1887. They were killed on orders of Mwanga II, the Kabaka (King) of Buganda.

1881–1915 · Contemporary

David Galván Bermúdez (29 January 1881 – 30 January 1915) was a Mexican Catholic priest who was killed during the Cristero War. He was canonized by Pope John Paul II on 21 May 2000 as one of 25 Martyrs of the Cristero War.

1889–1927 · Contemporary

David Uribe Velasco (Buenavista de Cuéllar, Guerrero, December 29, 1889 – San José Vista Hermosa, Morelos, April 12, 1927) was a Mexican priest and martyr of the Catholic Church.

1920–1959 · Contemporary

Dedë Malaj (born November 16, 1920, or according to other sources November 16, 1917, in Northern Albania; died May 11 or 12, 1959, on the shores of Lake Shkodra) was a Roman Catholic priest who was arrested, tortured, and shot for his faith in atheist Albania under the Enver Hoxh…

1920–1947 · Contemporary

Dedë Maçaj (born October 21 or February 5, 1920, in Mal i Jushit near Shkodër; died March 15 or March 28, 1947, in Përmet, Albania) was a Roman Catholic priest. He was executed by firing squad by the communist regime in Albania for his faith.

1901–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Augustinian Recollects

Deogracias Palacios, O.A.R. (born May 22, 1901, in Baños de Valdearados; died July 25, 1936, in Motril), was a blessed of the Catholic Church and a priest of the Order of Augustinian Recollects. At the age of 15, he entered the Augustinian order.

1896–1936 · Contemporary

Didacus Llorca Llopis (born July 2, 1896, in Oliva; died September 6, 1936) was a Spanish Catholic priest, Christian martyr, and blessed of the Catholic Church. He was baptized the day after his birth, on July 3, 1896.

1839–1919 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Giuseppe Oddi (6 June 1839 - 3 June 1919) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious - though not a priest - of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.

1880–1936 · Contemporary

Diego Ventaja Milán (Ohanes, June 22, 1880 – Vícar, August 30, 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.

1897–1929 · Contemporary

Dina Bélanger, RJM (30 April 1897 – 4 September 1929), also known as Marie of Saint Cecilia of Rome, was a Canadian member of the Religieuses de Jésus-Marie. Bélanger was a noted musician.

1868–1936 · Contemporary · Piarists

Dionisio Pamplona Polo, also known as Dionisio of Saint Barnabas (Calamocha, October 11, 1868 – Monzón, July 25, 1936), was a Spanish Piarist priest who was murdered during the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Considered a martyr, he is venerated as a blessed in the Catholic Church.

1871–1936 · Contemporary · Conventual Franciscans

Dionisio Vicente Ramos was a Spanish Franciscan friar who was born on October 9, 1871, in Teruel, Spain. During the Spanish Civil War, he was killed in 1936 in Granollers, along with friars Alfonso Lopez, Modesto Vegas, Pedro Rivera, Francisco Remón, and Miguel Remón.

1900–1936 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Domingo Alonso de Frutos (born May 12, 1900, in Navares de Ayuso; died August 16, 1936, in Fuente el Fresno) was a Spanish Franciscan, priest, theologian, Christian martyr, and blessed of the Roman Catholic Church.

1883–1936 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Domingo Caballé Bru was a Spanish Catholic priest and member of the Benedictine order who was born in 1883 in Vilalba dels Arcs. He died in 1936 in Barbastro from a gunshot wound. He is recognized as a blessed within the Catholic Church.

1872–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Blessed Domingo de Guzmán María de Alboraya was a Spanish Latin Catholic priest, writer, composer, and music educator born in 1872 in Alboraia. A member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, he died in Madrid in 1936.

1901–1927 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order

Domingo Iturrate Zubero (11 May 1901 – 7 April 1927), also known by his religious name Domingo of the Blessed Sacrament, was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Trinitarian Order.

1886–1942 · Contemporary

Dominik Jędrzejewski (4 August 1886 – 29 August 1942) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest killed at the Dachau concentration camp during World War II. He was beatified in Warsaw on 13 June 1999. Jędrzejewski was born in Kowal, Poland, and was the youngest of six children.

1886–1959 · Contemporary · Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer

Dominik Trčka (6 July 1886 – 23 March 1959), also known by his religious name Metod, was a Czech priest of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists).

1882–1961 · Contemporary

Donizetti Tavares de Lima (3 January 1882 – 16 June 1961) was a Brazilian Catholic priest. Tavares de Lima was ordained to the priesthood in 1908 and served as a parish priest in various churches across Brazil but was noted for his extensive work at the San Antonio church in Tam…

1867–1949 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Vicenta Chávez Orozco (6 February 1867 - 30 July 1949), also known by her religious name María Vicenta de Santa Dorotea, was a Mexican Roman Catholic nun and the founder of the Servants of the Holy Spirit and the Poor.

1897–1980 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Dorothy Day OblSB (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics.

1931–2005 · Contemporary · Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur

Dorothy Mae Stang, SNDdeN, (June 7, 1931 – February 12, 2005) was an American-born Brazilian Catholic Religious Sister and missionary. She was murdered in Anapu, Pará, in the Amazon Basin in 2005.

1907–1944 · Contemporary

Edelweiss Mary Quinn, (14 September 1907 – 12 May 1944) known as Edel Quinn was an Irish-born Roman Catholic lay-missionary and Envoy of the Legion of Mary to East Africa.

1851–1940 · Contemporary · Canons Regular of the Lateran

The Mortara case (Italian: caso Mortara) was an Italian cause célèbre that captured the attention of much of Europe and North America in the 1850s and 1860s.

1830–1903 · Contemporary · Third Order of Saint Francis

Edoardo Giuseppe Rosaz (15 February 1830 – 3 May 1903) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Susa from 1877 until his death and was the founder of the Franciscan Mission Sisters of Susa. He was appointed a bishop at the suggestion of John Bosco.

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

Eduardo Ripoll Diego, C.M.F. (Jàtiva, January 9, 1912 – Barbastro, August 15, 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.

1911–1943 · Contemporary

Eduard Müller (20 August 1911  – 10 November 1943) was a German Catholic priest and martyr. He was guillotined in a Hamburg prison by the Nazi authorities in November 1943, along with the three other Lübeck martyrs. Müller was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2011.

1890–1942 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Eduard Gottlieb Profittlich, SJ (11 September 1890 – 22 February 1942) was a German Catholic prelate who served as Apostolic Administrator of Estonia from 1931 until his death in a Soviet prison in 1942. He took Estonian citizenship in 1935 and was made an archbishop in 1936.

1920–1998 · Contemporary

Eduardo Francisco Pironio (3 December 1920 – 5 February 1998) was an Argentine Catholic prelate who served in numerous departments of the Roman Curia from 1975 to 1996. He was named a cardinal in 1976 and Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina-Poggio in 1995.

1880–1952 · Contemporary · Third Order of Saint Francis

Edvige Carboni (2 May 1880 – 17 February 1952) was an Italian Roman Catholic from Sardinia who relocated to Rome and became well known among the faithful and religious alike for her ecstasies and angelic visions.

1885–1942 · Contemporary

Edward Detkens (1885–1942) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest. He was imprisoned in the Nazi Sachsenhausen concentration camp and died at Dachau. He is one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II. He is buried at Powązki Cemetery.