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1784–1843 · Modern

Righteous Daniel of Achinsk (the Siberian), born Danila Kornilovich Deliye (December 12 (23), 1784, Novye Sanzhary, Poltava Governorate — April 15 (28), 1843, Yeniseysk), was an Orthodox ascetic and a locally venerated saint of the Russian Orthodox Church.

1700–1702 · Modern

Daniil Bogdanovich Bratkovsky (second half of the 17th century – November 15, 1702) was a nobleman, public figure, defender of Orthodoxy, and poet from Volhynia.

1808 · Modern

Saint Demetrius of Samarina was an Eastern Orthodox saint born in Samarina. He died in Ioannina in 1808.

1818–1841 · Modern

Demetrius of Sliven was born in 1818 in Sliven, a city within the Ottoman Empire, and worked as a domestic worker. He died in his birthplace in 1841. He is venerated as a New Martyr in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

1712–1752 · Modern

Devasahayam Pillai or Mar Lazarus Sahada (born Neelakanta Pillai and baptized as Lazarus; 23 April 1712 – 14 January 1752) was an Indian layman and martyr of the Catholic Church. He was canonized as a saint of the church by Pope Francis on 15 May 2022.

1810–1878 · Modern

Saint Demetrius of Kiev (Matrona Yegorova, 1810–1878) was the founder of the Presentation Monastery in Kiev. She was of Bulgarian origin, born in Silistra, and married a Russian officer named Yegorov.

1651–1709 · Modern

Demetrius of Rostov (Russian: Димитрий Ростовский, romanized: Dimitry Rostovsky, Ukrainian: Димитрій Ростовський, romanized: Dymytrii Rostovskyi, secular name Daniil Savvich Tuptalo, Russian: Даниил Саввич Туптало, or Tuptalenko, Russian: Тупталенко, according to some sources; 11…

1661–1729 · Modern

Doamna Marica Brâncoveanu (circa 1661 – 1729) was a princess consort of Wallachia by marriage to Constantin Brancoveanu (r. 1688–1714). Her father was Neagu, son of the Wallachian prince Antonie of Popești (r.1669-72) and Necșuța. She married Constantin Brancoveanu in 1674.

1775–1839 · Modern · Dominican Order

Dominic Tuoc (Vietnamese: Đa Minh Tước) (Trung Lao, 1775 – Nam Dinh, April 2, 1839) was a Vietnamese priest. Beatified in 1900, he was proclaimed a saint by Pope John Paul II in 1988.

1801–1839 · Modern · Third Order of Saint Dominic

Saint Dominic Bùi Văn Úy (born 1801 or 1812 in Tiên Môn, Thái Bình province, Vietnam; died December 19, 1839, in Cổ Mễ, Bắc Ninh province, Vietnam) was a catechist, a Dominican tertiary, a martyr, and a saint of the Catholic Church.

1817–1862 · Modern

Saint Dominic Huyện (Vietnamese: Đaminh Huyện) (born c. 1817 in Đông Thành, Thái Bình province, Vietnam; died June 5, 1862, in Nam Định) was a martyr and a saint of the Catholic Church. Dominic Huyện was born in Đông Thành, Thái Bình province.

1802–1862 · Modern

Saint Dominic Nguyên (Vietnamese: Đaminh Nguyên) (born c. 1802 in Ngọc Cục, Nam Định Province, Vietnam – died June 16, 1862, in Làng Cốc, Nam Định Province, Vietnam) was a martyr and a saint of the Catholic Church. Little is known about the life of Dominic Nguyên.

1818–1862 · Modern

Saint Dominic Nguyễn Đức Mạo (born c. 1818 in Ngọc Cục, Nam Định Province, Vietnam – died June 16, 1862, in Làng Cốc, Nam Định Province, Vietnam) was a Catholic saint and martyr.

1812–1862 · Modern

Vietnamese Martyrs (Vietnamese: Các Thánh Tử đạo Việt Nam), also known as the Martyrs of Tonkin and Cochinchina, collectively Martyrs of Annam or formerly Martyrs of Indochina, are saints of the Catholic Church who died between 1745 and 1862, and were canonized by Pope John Paul…

1780–1859 · Modern · Third Order of Saint Dominic

Saint Dominic Phạm Trọng Khảm (born c. 1780 in Quần Cống, Nam Định Province, Vietnam – died January 13, 1859, in Nam Định, Vietnam) was a Dominican tertiary, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church. Dominic Phạm Trọng Khảm was born into a wealthy family.

1842–1857 · Modern · Salesians of Don Bosco

Dominic Savio (Italian: Domenico Savio; 2 April 1842 – 9 March 1857) was a 19th-century Italian teenager who was a student of John Bosco and became a Catholic saint. He was studying to be a priest when he became ill and died at the age of 14, possibly from pleurisy.

1811–1862 · Modern

Dominique Toaï (1812–1862), born in a small village in Tonkin, was a Christian fisherman who was put to death for his Catholic faith. Considered a martyr by the Catholic Church, he was canonized on June 19, 1988, by Pope John Paul II.

1792–1840 · Modern · Dominican Order

Saint Dominic Trạch (Đoài) (born c. 1792 in Ngoại Vối, Nam Định Province, Vietnam – died September 18, 1840, in Bảy Mẫu, Vietnam) was a Dominican friar, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church. Dominic Trạch was born in 1792 or 1793 in Ngoại Vối, Nam Định Province.

1803–1839 · Modern

Saint Dominic Đinh Đạt (Vietnamese: Đaminh Đinh Đạt) (born c. 1803 in Phú Nhai, Nam Định Province, Vietnam – died July 18, 1839, in Nam Định, Vietnam) was a Catholic saint and martyr. Dominic Đinh Đạt was born in Phú Nhai around 1803 to Christian parents.

1835–1862 · Modern

Saint Dominic Ninh (Vietnamese: Đaminh Ninh) (born c. 1835 or 1841 in Trung Linh, Nam Định Province, Vietnam – died June 2, 1862, in An Triêm, Nam Định Province, Vietnam) was a martyr and a saint of the Catholic Church. Dominic Ninh was born in Trung Linh in Nam Định Province.

1794–1858 · Modern · Dominican Order

Dominik Hà Trọng Mậu was a Catholic priest and member of the Dominican Order born in 1794. He died by decapitation in Hưng Yên in 1858. He is recognized as a Catholic saint.

1772–1838 · Modern · Dominican Order

Dominic Nguyen Van Hanh (Vietnamese: Đaminh Nguyễn Văn Hạnh; Nghệ An, 1772 – Ba Tòa, August 1, 1838) was a Vietnamese Dominican priest. He is venerated as a martyr and saint by the Catholic Church. He desired to be a priest at an early age.

1786–1839 · Modern · Dominican Order

Saint Dominic Nguyễn Văn Xuyên (born c. 1786 in Hương Hiệp, Nam Định Province, Vietnam; died November 26, 1839, in Bảy Mẫu, Vietnam) was a Dominican friar, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church. Dominic Nguyễn Văn Xuyên was born to wealthy farmers.

1900–1872 · Modern

Domna Tomskaya was born in 1900 in the Poltava Governorate and died in 1872 in Tomsk. She is buried in Tomsk and is recognized as a saint.

1820 · Modern

Metropolitan Dositheus (Georgian: დოსითეოს, Dositeoz; in pre-revolutionary Russian sources: Metropolitan of Kutateli; secular name Datuna Nikolayevich/Nikolozovich Tsereteli; c.

1750–1802 · Modern

Dimitrios was born in the 18th century on Chios. He was martyred in 1802 in Constantinople by the Muslims. Canonized by the Orthodox Church, he is celebrated on January 29.

1729–1812 · Modern · Franciscans

Egidio Maria of Saint Joseph (16 November 1729 – 7 February 1812) - born Francesco Pontillo - was an Italian professed religious of the Order of Friars Minor.

1805–1832 · Modern

Helena of Diveyevo, born Elena Vasilyevna Manturova, was an Orthodox Christian monastic saint. She came from a noble family. At the age of seventeen, having previously been a person of little religious faith, she experienced a sudden conversion and made a private vow to the Mothe…

1820 · Modern

Saint Elena di Arzamas died in 1820. She is recognized as a saint.

1797–1839 · Modern

Elisabeth Chong Chong-hye was a Korean Christian laywoman born in 1797 in Majae (Neung-nae-ri), Gyeonggi Province, who died on December 29, 1839.

1796–1859 · Modern

Emmanuel Lê Van Phung is one of the 117 Vietnamese martyrs canonized by John Paul II in 1988. A father of nine, a zealous Catholic, and a catechist, he sheltered Christian missionaries at the height of the religious persecution under the reign of Emperor Tu Duc (1847–1883).

1756–1798 · Modern

Saint Emmanuel Nguyễn Văn Triệu (1756, Hue, Vietnam – September 17, 1798, Saigon, Vietnam) was a priest, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church. Emmanuel Nguyễn Văn Triệu was orphaned by his father at a young age and lived with his mother in Hue. In 1771, he joined the army.

1787–1852 · Modern

Émilie de Rodat (6 September 1787 – 19 September 1852), born Marie Guillemette (Wilhelmina) Emilie de Rodat, also known as Emily de Rodat, was a nun, virgin, mystic, and the founder of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Villefranche.

1797–1856 · Modern · Franciscans

Emily de Vialar or Émilie de Vialar (1797–1856) was a French nun who founded the missionary congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition. She is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church.

1840–1896 · Modern · Society of St. Teresa of Jesus

Enric d'Ossó i Cervelló (16 October 1840 - 27 January 1896) was a Spanish Catholic priest and the founder of the Society of Saint Teresa of Jesus.

1746–1822 · Modern

Metropolitan Euthymius (Shervashidze) (known in pre-revolutionary Russian sources as Metropolitan of Gelati; Georgian: მიტროპოლიტი ევფიმი (შერვაშიძე); 1746, Erketi — April 21 (May 3), 1822, Alexander-Svir Monastery) was a Georgian theologian, Metropolitan of Gelati (Gaenati) from…

1802–1861 · Modern

Étienne-Théodore Cuenot, born in Le Bélieu, France, near Morteau (Doubs), on February 8, 1802, and died in Bình Định in Eastern Cochinchina (present-day Vietnam) on November 14, 1861, was a missionary bishop, martyr, and Catholic saint whose feast day is November 14, and who is c…

1803–1886 · Modern

Saint Eudokia di Leušino was born in 1803 and died in 1886. She is recognized as a saint.

1758–1855 · Modern

Euphrosinia Kolyupanovskaya (1758–1855), was a Russian courtier, Fool of Christ, hermit and Orthodox saint. Originally a lady-in-waiting to Empress Catherine the Great, she left the court to become a hermit. She was canonized a saint in 1988.

1752–1821 · Modern

Greek cleric

1840–1889 · Modern · Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary

Damien De Veuster SSCC, popularly known as Father Damien or Saint Damien of Molokai (Dutch: Pater Damiaan or Heilige Damiaan van Molokai; born Jozef De Veuster; 3 January 1840 – 15 April 1889), was a Belgian Catholic priest in the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Ma…

1715–1787 · Modern · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Felix of Nicosia (Italian: Felice di Nicosia; November 5, 1715 – May 31, 1787) was a Capuchin friar, and is honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.

1777–1864 · Modern

Fyodor Kuzmich (Russian: Фёдор Кузьми́ч; c. 1776 – 1 February 1864), also known as the Righteous Theodore of Tomsk, Siberian, elder (Church Slavonic: Пра́ведный Фео́дор Кузьми́ч То́мский, Сиби́рский, ста́рец, romanized: Pravednyy Feodor Kuzmich Tomskiy, Sibirskiy, starets) was a…

1779–1858 · Modern

Filaret, born Fyodor Georgiyevich Amfiteatrov, known as Theodosius after taking the great schema (born April 17, 1779, in Vysokoye; died December 21, 1857, in Kyiv), was a Russian Orthodox bishop and a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church.

1650–1727 · Modern

Philotheus, born Rafał Leszczyński, monastic name in the Great Schema Theodore (born 1650 in Ukraine, died May 20/31, 1727, in Tyumen), was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, a missionary in Siberia, and an Orthodox saint.

1750–1833 · Modern

Filofteia Antonescu (born mid-18th century, Bucharest – died 1833, Pasărea Monastery) was a schema-nun at Pasărea Monastery and the mother of Saint Calinic of Cernica.

1702–1745 · Modern · Dominican Order

Francisco Gil de Frederich (1702–1745) was a Spanish Dominican friar, a missionary in Tonkin, and a martyr who died in Hanoi. He was beatified in 1906 and canonized in 1988 along with 116 other Vietnamese martyrs.

1743–1815 · Modern · Barnabites

Francis Xavier Mary Bianchi (December 2, 1743 – January 31, 1815), was an Italian Barnabite priest and noted scholar, who also gained a reputation for sanctity during his lifetime from both his commitment to his students and to the poor of Naples.

1805–1839 · Modern

Francis Choe Kyong-hwan (Korean: 최경환 프란치스코) was a Korean Christian layman, catechist, martyr, and Catholic saint. He was born in 1804 or 1805 in Taraekkol, in the Hongju district of Chungcheong Province, Korea, and died for his faith on September 12, 1839, in a prison in Seoul.

1713–1748 · Modern · Dominican Order

Francis Diaz (Spanish: Francisco Diaz del Rincon, Chinese name: 施方济; October 12, 1713 – October 28, 1748) was a Spanish missionary in China during the 18th century. He died in 1748 and was ultimately canonized. He was born on October 12, 1713, in Écija, Spain.