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1890–1902 · Contemporary · Passionists

A philosopher who converted to Christianity and became its first great apologist, eventually martyred for refusing to sacrifice to idols.

1936–2006 · Contemporary

Alberto Baldovino Ramento (August 9, 1936, in Guimba, Nueva Ecija – October 3, 2006, in Tarlac City) was the ninth supreme bishop (Obispo Máximo) and a former chairperson of the Supreme Council of Bishops of the Philippine Independent Church or Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI…

1846–1939 · Contemporary

Duncan McMillan may refer to: Duncan McMillan (linguist) (1914–1993), British linguist Duncan McMillan (playwright) (born 1980), British playwright and director

1900–1945 · Contemporary

Ini Kopuria (died June 1945) was a Solomon Islands police officer who founded the Melanesian Brotherhood in 1925. He and the Bishop of Melanesia, John Manwaring Steward, formed a band of brothers (known in the Mota language as Ira Reta Tasiu) to take the gospel of Jesus to non-Ch…

1875–1921 · Contemporary

Diran Chrakian, also known by the pseudonym Indra (Armenian: Ինտրա, 1875, in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire – 1921), was an Armenian poet, writer, painter and teacher, and a victim of Armenian genocide.

1902–1936 · Contemporary

Juan Francisco Barahona Martín, religious name Alejandro of Sobradillo (January 10, 1902, Sobradillo – August 15, 1936, Madrid), was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest, a friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, and a martyr. The Catholic Church venerates him as a blessed.

1875–1949 · Contemporary

Laura Montoya, in full María Laura de Jesús Montoya Upegui (26 May 1874 – 21 October 1949), religious name Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena, was a Colombian Roman Catholic religious sister and the founder of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Virgin Mar…

1876–1926 · Contemporary

Mariam Thresia (born Thresia Chiramel Mankidiyan; 26 April 1876 – 8 June 1926) was an Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Congregation of the Holy Family. She was born in Puthenchira, a village in present day Kerala, India.

1856–1919 · Contemporary · Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools

Raphaël-Louis Rafiringa, FSC (born Firinga; 3 November 1856 – 19 May 1919) was a Catholic religious brother from Madagascar who served as a De La Salle Brother at a time in his nation when foreign missionaries were expelled.

1875–1915 · Contemporary

Sahag Odabashian was a Christian minister and pedagogue born in 1875. He died in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide and is recognized as a saint.

1886–1968 · Contemporary

Ángel Herrera Oria (19 November 1886 – 28 July 1968) was a Spanish journalist and Roman Catholic politician and later a cardinal. He established the Instituto Social León XIII (later renamed Fundación Pablo VI) to promote the social doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church and named…