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1743–1794 · Modern · Society of Saint-Sulpice

Charles-René Collas du Bignon was a Catholic priest and member of the Society of Saint-Sulpice born in 1743 in Laval. He died in 1794 in Rochefort and is recognized as a blessed within the Catholic Church.

1752–1794 · Modern · Society of Saint-Sulpice

Claude-Joseph Jouffret de Bonnefond was a Catholic priest and member of the Society of Saint-Sulpice, born in 1752 in Gannat. He died in 1794 among the Martyrs of Rochefort and is recognized as blessed.

1724–1792 · Modern · Society of Jesus

Claudius Cayx-Dumas (1724–1792) was a French Jesuit. He joined the Society of Jesus in 1757.

1722–1792 · Modern · Society of Jesus

Claudius Franciscus Gagnières des Granges (23 May 1722 – 2 September 1792) was a French Jesuit. Born in Chambéry, he was one of the 191 victims of the September Massacres. He was beatified by Pope Pius XI in 1926.

1761–1801 · Modern

Columba Kang Wan-suk was a Korean Christian laywoman and catechist martyr, born in 1761 in Naepo, Chungcheong, Korea, and died by beheading on July 2, 1801, in Seoul. Her martyrdom is recognized by the Catholic Church, and she is titled Venerable.

1743–1801 · Modern · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Diego José de Cádiz (1743–1801) was a Spanish Capuchin friar who was a noted and popular preacher throughout the region of Andalusia during the 18th century. He was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1894. José Francisco López-Caamaño y García Pérez was born in Cádiz in 1743.

1770–1828 · Modern

Domenico Lentini (20 November 1770 – 25 February 1828) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest. He was ordained in 1794 and was a life-long parish priest in his hometown of Potenza where he promoted Eucharistic devotion and worked alongside the poor of the area.

1802–1854 · Modern · Franciscans

Domenico Mazzarella (5 September 1802 – 4 July 1854) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest. He was also a professed member of the Franciscan Friars Minor of the Alcantarines and assumed the name of "Modestino of Jesus and Mary".

1792–1849 · Modern · Passionists

Dominic Barberi, C.P. (22 June 1792 – 27 August 1849) was an Italian theologian and Passionist priest who was prominent in spreading Catholicism in England. He contributed to the conversion of John Henry Newman. In 1963, he was beatified by Pope Paul VI.

1814–1871 · Modern

Edmund Bojanowski (14 November 1814 - 7 August 1871) was a Polish Roman Catholic and the founder of four separate religious congregations. He studied art and literature during his education in Breslau and Berlin before distinguishing himself during a cholera epidemic in which he…

1762–1844 · Modern

Edmund Ignatius Rice, F.P.M., C.F.C. (Irish: Éamonn Iognáid Rís; 1 June 1762 – 29 August 1844) was a Catholic missionary and educationalist who founded two institutes of religious brothers: the Congregation of Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers.

1774–1825 · Modern · Trinitarian Order

Elisabetta Canori Mora (21 November 1774 – 5 February 1825) was an Italian member of the Third Order of the Most Holy Trinity. Mora married an abrasive husband who remained unfaithful and abusive to her but at the time of her death secured his repentance, and he became a priest.

1788–1857 · Modern · Franciscans

Elisabetta Sanna (full name Elisabetta Sanna Porcu) (23 April 1788 – 17 February 1857) was an Italian Roman Catholic from Codrongianos Province of Sassari who was an active member of both the Secular Franciscan Order and the Union of the Catholic Apostolate.

1804–1860 · Modern · Franciscans

The Martyrs of Damascus were eleven Catholic saints martyred while praying inside a Franciscan-run parish in Damascus by Druze during the 1860 civil conflict in Mount Lebanon and Damascus.

1708–1737 · Modern

Emmanuel d'Abreu SJ was a Roman Catholic priest who joined the Jesuit order in 1724. He was deputed to Goa in 1733 and then in Macau in 1734. In March 1736, he was arrested in the kingdom of Tonkin (today's Vietnam).

1827–1860 · Modern

Engelbert Kolland was an Austrian Empire priest born in 1827 in Ramsau im Zillertal. He died in 1860 in Damascus and is recognized as a blessed within the Catholic Church.

1825–1871 · Modern

The Society of Helpers, formerly known as the Society of the Helpers of the Holy Souls, is a Roman Catholic religious congregation of women founded in Paris, France, in 1856, with the objective of assisting the souls in Purgatory through their service to the needy of the world.

1736–1794 · Modern · Order of Discalced Nuns of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Euphrasie de l’Immaculée Conception was a French Catholic nun of the Order of Discalced Nuns of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel. Born in Bourth in 1736, she died by decapitation in Paris in 1794. She is recognized as blessed by the Catholic Church.

1851 · Modern

Everald Hanse (died 31 July 1581) was an English priest and a martyr of the Roman Catholic Church. Everald Hanse was born in Northamptonshire and educated at Cambridge. A Protestant, he was soon presented to a good living as an Anglican clergyman.

1821–1893 · Modern · Servite Order

Ferdinando Maria Baccilieri (14 May 1821 - 13 July 1893) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Secular Servites. Baccilieri was also the founder of the Sisters Servants of Mary of Galeazza - a religious congregation designed for women.

1749–1794 · Modern

Florent Dumontet de Cardaillac was a French Catholic canon and vicar general born in 1749 in Saint-Méard. He died in 1794 in Port-des-Barques and is recognized as a blessed.

1825–1888 · Modern

Francesco Faà di Bruno (7 March 1825 – 25 March 1888) was an Italian priest and advocate of the poor, a leading mathematician of his era and a noted religious musician. In 1988 he was beatified by Pope John Paul II. He is the eponym of Faà di Bruno's formula.

1750–1800 · Modern

Francis Bae Gwan-gyeom (Korean: 배관겸 프란치스코; born c. 1740–1750 in Jinmok, Dangjin, in the then-province of Chungcheong, Korea; died January 7, 1800, in Cheongju, Korea) was a Korean martyr and a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1799 · Modern

Francis Bang (Korean: 방 프란치스코; born in Myeoncheon, Chungcheong Province, Korea; died January 21, 1799, in Hongju, Chungcheong Province) was a Korean martyr and a blessed of the Catholic Church. Francis Bang was born in Myeoncheon in the then-Korean province of Chungcheong.

1736–1794 · Modern

Francis Duchesne (born January 8, 1736, in Laval; died January 21, 1794, in the same city) was a French priest who was sentenced to death and guillotined during the French Revolution. He is venerated as a Blessed in the Roman Catholic Church.

1738–1801 · Modern

Francis Xavier Hong Gyo-man was born in Seoul in 1738 and was a member of the Catholic Church. He died by decapitation in Seoul in 1801 and is recognized as a blessed.

1819–1867 · Modern · Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer

Francis Xavier Seelos, C.Ss.R., (January 11, 1819 – October 4, 1867) was a German Redemptorist who worked as a missionary in the United States frontier. Towards the end of his life, he went to New Orleans to minister to victims of yellow fever.

1773–1800 · Modern

Francis Yi Bo-hyeon (Korean: 이보현 프란치스코; born 1773 in Hwangmosil, Deoksan, in the then-province of Chungcheong, Korea; died January 9, 1800, in Haemi, Korea) was a Korean martyr and a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1764–1801 · Modern

Francis Yun Ji-heon was a member of the Catholic Church born in 1764. He died in Jeonju in 1801 and is recognized as a blessed.

1781–1855 · Modern · Sisters of Charity of Mallorca

Francinaina Cirer Carbonell (1 June 1781 – 27 February 1855) was a Spanish Roman Catholic member of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul of Mallorca. She later assumed the religious name Francinaina of the Sorrowful Mother of God.

1811–1872 · Modern · Order of the Brothers Discalced of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Francisco Palau y Quer, OCD (Catalan: Francesc Palau i Quer; religious name Francisco of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, 29 December 1811 – 20 March 1872) was a Catalan Discalced Carmelite priest.

1726–1792 · Modern · Society of Jesus

Franciscus Lé Livec de Trésurin (1726–1792) was a French Jesuit who was one of the victims of the September Massacres. He was beatified by Pope Pius XI on 17 October 1926.

1727–1794 · Modern · Franciscans

François Migoret-Lamberdière (born August 28, 1727, in Lassay-les-Châteaux; died January 21, 1794, in Laval, Mayenne department) was a French priest who was sentenced to death and guillotined during the French Revolution. He is venerated as a Blessed in the Roman Catholic Church.

1759–1792 · Modern

François Joseph Pey, also known in German as Franz Josef Pey (Solliès-Pont, January 29, 1759 – Paris, September 2, 1792), was a French priest.

1736–1792 · Modern

Blessed François-Joseph de La Rochefoucauld-Bayers (Angoulême (Saint-Jean parish), February 28, 1736 – Paris, September 2, 1792) was an 18th-century French prelate and politician. As Bishop of Beauvais, he was elected as a deputy for the clergy to the Estates General of 1789.

1745–1794 · Modern

Françoise Mezière was born in 1745 in Mézangers and died in 1794 in Laval. She was executed by decapitation and is recognized as blessed.

1813–1853 · Modern

Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam was a French Catholic literary scholar, lawyer, journalist and equal rights advocate. He founded with fellow students the Conference of Charity, later known as the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul.

1814–1871 · Modern

The Massacre in the Rue Haxo (French: le massacre de la rue Haxo) was a massacre of priests and gendarmes by communards during the semaine sanglante ("bloody week") at the end of the Paris Commune in May 1871.

1745–1794 · Modern

Félicité Pricet (born around 1745 in Châtillon-sur-Sèvre – executed on 18 January 1794 in Avrillé) was one of the French Catholic martyrs of Angers, who were massacred during the War in the Vendée for supporting the anti-royalist rebels during the French Revolution.

1827–1889 · Modern

Gaetana Sterni (26 June 1827 – 26 November 1889) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Sisters of Divine Will.

1702–1744 · Modern · Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer

Gennaro Maria Sarnelli (12 September 1702 – 30 June 1744) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member from the Redemptorists. Sarnelli was one of Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori's earliest companions and a prolific writer on a range of religious topics.

1794 · Modern

Georges-Edme René was a Catholic priest and canon born in Vézelay. He died in 1794 in Rochefort and is recognized as a blessed.

1720–1788 · Modern

Giacomo Abbondo (27 August 1720 – 9 February 1788) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest who hailed from Vercelli. Abbondo served as a pastor and provost in his home town of Tronzano where he administered to the people while proclaiming the message of the Gospel and bringing the s…

1803–1888 · Modern

Giovanni Antonio Farina (11 January 1803 – 4 March 1888) was an Italian Catholic bishop known for his compassionate treatment of the poor and for his enlightened views of education; he was sometimes dubbed as the "Bishop of the Poor".

1826–1855 · Modern

Giovanni Battista Mazzucconi (1 March 1826 – 7 September 1855) was an Italian priest from the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions. He was killed in hatred of the faith in Papua New Guinea during his work there amongst the people.

1760–1816 · Modern · Franciscans

John of Triora (Chinese name: 蓝月旺; 1760 – 1816, Italian name: Giovanni da Triora) was an Italian missionary and martyr saint of 19th century China. He was born in 1760 in Molini di Triora. His parents were Antonio Maria Lantrua and Maria Pasqua Ferraironi.

1807–1872 · Modern

Giovannina Franchi (24 June 1807 – 23 February 1872) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Suore Infermiere dell'Addolorata.

1696–1755 · Modern · Redemptoristines

Giulia Crostarosa (31 October 1696 – 14 September 1755) was an Italian Roman Catholic nun who founded the Order of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptoristines), an order of contemplative nuns.

1818–1894 · Modern · Benedictines

Giuseppe Benedetto Dusmet (15 August 1818 – 4 April 1894) – born Giuseppe Dusmet – was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal who served as the Archbishop of Catania from 1867 until his death.

1841–1897 · Modern

Giuseppe Antonio Tovini (14 March 1841 – 16 January 1897) was an Italian banker and lawyer who became a member of the Secular Franciscan Order. He was one of the founder of Banca di Valle Camonica, Banca San Paolo di Brescia and Banco Ambrosiano. His nephew was Mosè Tovini.