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1897–1988 · Contemporary

Blessed Father Clement Vismara (September 6, 1897 – June 15, 1988) was an Italian priest and missionary. He is venerated by the Roman Catholic Church. He spent 65 of his 91 years in forests of Burma assisting Akhà and Ikò tribal peoples, particularly children and widows.

1872–1936 · Contemporary · Piarists

Clemente Martínez Cebrián, Sch. P. (Carazo, Burgos, November 23, 1872 – Madrid, August 1936) was a Piarist priest of the San Antón community, murdered on an unknown day in August 1936 during the Spanish Civil War.

1849–1911 · Contemporary

Clotilde Micheli (11 September 1849 - 24 March 1911) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious who established the order known as the Sisters of Angels; she assumed the religious name Maria Serafina of the Sacred Heart upon the order's foundation and her profession into i…

1858–1926 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Colomba Matylda Gabriel (3 May 1858 - 24 September 1926) - religious name Janina - was a Ukrainian Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Benedictine Sisters of Charity.

1858–1923 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Columba Marmion O.S.B, born Joseph Aloysius Marmion (1 April 1858 – 30 January 1923) was an Irish Benedictine monk and the third Abbot of Maredsous Abbey in Belgium.

1861–1937 · Contemporary

Concepción Cabrera de Armida (December 8, 1862 – March 3, 1937) was a Mexican Catholic mystic and writer. She is also referred to as María Concepción Cabrera Arias de Armida, sometimes as Conchita Cabrera de Armida or Conchita Cabrera Arias de Armida, and often simply as "Conchi…

1895–1936 · Contemporary

Concepción Rodríguez Fernández de Santa Magdalena (born December 13, 1895, in Eulalia; died November 24, 1936, in Paterna) was a Spanish Carmelite Sister of Charity, martyr, and blessed of the Catholic Church.

1903–1946 · Contemporary · Capuchin Poor Clares

Maria Consolata Betrone (6 April 1903 – 18 July 1946), baptised as Pierina Maria Betrone, commonly known as Consolata Betrone, was an Italian Catholic mystic and nun of the Franciscan Capuchin order.

1905–1975 · Contemporary

Constantin Sârbu (born January 10, 1905, in Cavadinești, Romania; died October 23, 1975, in Bucharest, Romania) was a Romanian Orthodox priest, canonized as a saint by the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church during its session on July 11–12, 2024, under the title Saint Pri…

1893–1957 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Constantine Vendrame, also known as the "Apostle of Shillong" was a Salesian missionary from Italy who worked for the welfare of Khasis, in North East, India.

1866–1936 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Constantino Carbonell Sempere (born April 12, 1866, in Alcoy, died August 23, 1936, in Tabernes de Valldigna) was a Jesuit priest, a martyr of the Spanish Civil War, and a victim of anti-Catholic persecution, beatified by the Catholic Church.

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.

1898–1936 · Contemporary

Consuelo Aguiar-Mella y Díaz was born in 1898 in Montevideo and held Spanish citizenship. She died in 1936 in Madrid and has been beatified.

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.

1894–1936 · Contemporary

Cosme Brun Ararà (Santa Coloma de Farners, November 12, 1894 – Boadilla del Monte, September 1, 1936), born Simón Isidro Joaquín Brun Ararà, was a Spanish Hospitaller religious. He is considered a blessed and martyr 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.

1863–1936 · Contemporary

Crescencia Valls Espí (Onteniente, 9 June 1863 – Canals, 26 September 1936) was a Spanish Catholic embroiderer who was murdered during the Spanish Civil War. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 11 March 2001.

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.

1915–1936 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Cristóbal Iturriaga-Echevarría Irazola was a Spanish Dominican friar born in Abadiño in 1915. He died in Sama in 1936 from a gunshot wound and is recognized as a blessed.

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.

1922–1973 · Contemporary

Cvetana Priol was born in 1922 in Maribor, where she also died in 1973 and is buried at the Maribor Cemetery. A citizen of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, she worked as a professor, choir director, pianist, and music educator.

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.

1863–1937 · Contemporary

Cyril (also Cyrillus or Cyryl) is a masculine given name. It is derived from the Greek name Κύριλλος (Kýrillos), meaning 'lordly, masterful', which in turn derives from Greek κυριος (kýrios) 'lord'.

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.

1901–1936 · Contemporary

Candida of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Angels (born Candida Cayuso González; 5 January 1901 – 24 November 1936) was a Spanish blessed of the Catholic Church and a nun of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity.

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…

1878–1937 · Contemporary

Damaskin (Macedonian: Дамаскин) is a chronicle of church-liturgical books. Later, the damaskins became church collections with teaching words and lives. They appeared at the end of the 16th century in the western Bulgarian lands and existed until the middle of the 19th century.

1873–1937 · Contemporary

Cosmas and Damian (c. 3rd century – c. 287 or c. 303 AD) were two Arab physicians and early Christian martyrs. They practised their profession in the seaport of Aegeae, then in the Roman province of Cilicia.

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).

1884–1915 · Contemporary

Daniel Varoujan (Armenian: Դանիէլ Վարուժան, 20 April 1884 – 26 August 1915) was an Armenian poet of the early 20th century. At the age of 31, when he was reaching international stature, he was deported and murdered by the Young Turk government, as part of the officially planned a…

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.

1890–1936 · Contemporary

Daniela de san Bernabé was a Spanish citizen born in 1890. She died in 1936 and has been beatified.

1947–1995 · Contemporary · Sisters of the Poor, Palazzolo Institute

Danielangela Sorti, in religion Sister Anna Maria, born on June 15, 1947, in Bergamo, Italy, and died on May 11, 1995, in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo, was an Italian nun and nurse.

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.

1926–2009 · Contemporary

Danijel Hekić was a Latin Catholic priest and confessor born in 1926 in Sveti Petar u Šumi. He died in 2009 in Saccolongo and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1879–1936 · Contemporary

Daria is an American teen animated sitcom created by Glenn Eichler and Susie Lewis Lynn. The series ran from March 3, 1997, to January 21, 2002, on MTV.

1873–1936 · Contemporary

Daria Campillo Paniagua de Santa Sofia was born in Vitoria-Gasteiz in 1873 and was a citizen of Spain. She died in 1936 in Paterna, Valencian Community. She has been recognized as blessed.

1870–1938 · Contemporary

Daria Zaitseva was born in 1870 in the Ryazan Governorate and was a follower of Eastern Orthodoxy in the Soviet Union. She died in 1938 at the Butovo firing range, where she is also buried. She is recognized as a Reverend Martyr.

1906–1942 · Contemporary

Darinka Čebulj was born in 1906 in Radovljica and worked as a teacher. She died in 1942 in Kočevski Rog and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1921–1942 · Contemporary

Darko Mavsar was born in 1921 in Šentrupert and died in the same location in 1942. He is recognized 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.

1907–1936 · Contemporary · Piarists

David Carlos de Vergara Marañón, also known as David of the Blessed Sacrament, Sch. P. (Asarta, Mendaza, December 29, 1907 – Gabasa, July 28, 1936), was a Spanish Piarist religious of the Peralta de la Sal community, a martyr during the Spanish Civil War in 1936, and is venerated…