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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.

1907–1936 · Contemporary

Carlos Díaz Gandía was a Spanish citizen born in 1907. He died in 1936 and has been recognized as a blessed.

1894–1936 · Contemporary

Carlos López Vidal was born in 1894 in Gandia, Spain. He died in 1936 and has been recognized as a blessed.

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.

1911–1936 · Contemporary · Piarists

Carlos Navarro Miquel, Sch.P. (born February 11, 1911, in Torrente de Cinca, died September 22, 1936, at the Monastery of Montserrat) was a Spanish priest of the Piarist Order and a victim of the anti-Catholic persecutions during the Spanish Civil War, murdered in hatred of the f…

1890–1936 · Contemporary

Carmelo Sastre Sastre was a Spanish presbyter of the Catholic Church born in 1890. He died in 1936 and is recognized as a blessed.

1888–1937 · Contemporary · Capuchin Sisters of the Holy Family

Carmen García Moyón was born in 1888 in Nantes and held citizenship in both France and Spain. A member of the Capuchin Sisters of the Holy Family, she died in 1937 in Torrent as one of the Spanish martyrs of the 20th century. She is recognized as a blessed within Catholicism.

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.

1869–1932 · Contemporary · Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate of Pietradefusi

Carolina Beltrami was a religious sister of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate of Pietradefusi and a citizen of the Kingdom of Italy. Born in Alessandria in 1869, she died in the same city in 1932. She is recognized as Venerable.

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.

1924–1940 · Contemporary

Cecilia Butsi (born December 16, 1924; died December 26, 1940) was a Thai martyr and a blessed of the Catholic Church. She was baptized in 1926 at the age of two. Between 1940 and 1944, Thailand was at war with French Indochina.

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.

1901–1936 · Contemporary

Cecilio López López was a Spanish religious figure born in 1901 in Fondón. He died in 1936 in Boadilla del Monte and has been beatified as a blessed.

1913–1936 · Contemporary

Cecilio Vega Domínguez, OMI (born September 8, 1913, in Villamor de Órbigo; died July 24, 1936, in Pozuelo, Madrid) was a Spanish Oblate of the Immaculate Mary. He made his first vows on August 15, 1931, and his perpetual vows in 1934.

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.

1913–1944 · Contemporary

Celestina Catarina Faron was a Polish Christian nun and teacher born in 1913 in Zabrze. A member of the Catholic Church, she died in 1944 at Auschwitz. She is recognized as a blessed Catholic saint.

1862–1936 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Celestino José Alonso Villar was a Spanish Latin Catholic priest and member of the Dominican Order. Born in 1862 in Margolles, he died in 1936 in La Tiera. He is recognized as a blessed.

1844–1908 · Contemporary · Sisters Servants of the Divine Heart

Celia Méndez y Delgado, in religion Maria Teresa of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, born in Fuentes de Andalucía, Spain, on February 11, 1844, and died in Seville on June 2, 1908, was a Spanish religious sister and co-founder of the teaching congregation of the Handmaids of the Divine…

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.

1863–1941 · Contemporary · Barnabites

Cesare Maria Barzaghi was a Barnabite teacher born in Como in 1863 and a citizen of the Kingdom of Italy. He died in Lodi in 1941 and is buried at San Francesco Church. He has been declared Venerable.

1873–1900 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Cesidio of Fossa (born Angelo Giacomantonio on August 30, 1873, in Fossa, Italy; died July 4, 1900, in Hengchow, Hunan province, China) was an Italian Reformed Franciscan missionary.

1924–1994 · Contemporary · White Fathers

Charles Deckers, born in Antwerp on December 26, 1924, and died on December 27, 1994, in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, was a Belgian White Father assassinated in a terrorist act carried out by the GIA.

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.

1958–1994 · Contemporary · White Fathers

Christian Chessel, born in Digne-les-Bains on October 27, 1958, and murdered in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, on December 27, 1994, was a French Catholic priest and White Father.

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.

1897–1945 · Contemporary

Ciril Lisjak was a farmer born in 1897 in Saksid. He died in 1945 in Velike Žablje and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1925–1942 · Contemporary

Ciril Mavsar was born in 1925 in Šentrupert and died in 1942 in the same location. He is recognized as a Servant of God.

1953–1975 · Contemporary

Claire de Castelbajac was born in 1953 in the 8th arrondissement of Paris and worked as a restorer. A French Catholic, she died in Toulouse in 1975. She is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1896–1936 · Contemporary · Carmelite Sisters of Charity

Clara Ezcurra Urrutia was a Spanish religious figure and member of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity who was born in Arrasate/Mondragón in 1896. She died in Paterna in 1936 and is recognized as a Venerable and blessed.

1902–1973 · Contemporary · Poor Clares

Juana de la Concepción Sánchez García, in religion Clara de la Concepción, born February 14, 1902, in Torre en Cameros, Spain, and died in 1973 in Soria, Castile and León, was a Spanish Catholic nun of the Order of Saint Clare.

1931–1995 · Contemporary · Sisters of the Poor, Palazzolo Institute

Alessandra Ghilardi, known in religion as Sister Clarangela Ghilardi, was born on April 21, 1931, in Trescore Balneario, Italy, and died on May 6, 1995, in Kikwit, Zaire.

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.

1900–1947 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Claudio Granzotto (23 August 1900 – 15 August 1947, born Riccardo Granzotto) was an Italian professed religious from the Order of Friars Minor and a noted sculptor.

1861–1930 · Contemporary

Clelia Merloni (10 March 1861 – 21 November 1930) was an Italian Roman Catholic nun and the founder of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

1878–1946 · Contemporary

Clemens Augustinus Emmanuel Joseph Pius Anthonius Hubertus Marie Graf von Galen (16 March 1878 – 22 March 1946), better known as Clemens August Graf von Galen, was a German count, Bishop of Münster, and cardinal of the Catholic Church.