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1811–1884 · Modern

Franz Josef Rudigier (7 April 1811 – 29 November 1884) was an Austrian Roman Catholic prelate and served as the Bishop of Linz from his appointment in 1853 until his death.

1797–1868 · Modern

Irenaeus Frederic Baraga (June 29, 1797 – January 19, 1868; Slovene: Irenej Friderik Baraga) was a Slovenian Catholic missionary to the United States, grammarian and author of Christian poetry and hymns in Native American languages.

1799–1864 · Modern

Gabriel Taborin (1799–1864) was a French religious brother and founder of the Brothers of the Holy Family of Belley, France. Taborin was born in Belleydoux, France, on November 1, 1799.

1791–1860 · Modern

Gaetano Errico, MSSCC (19 October 1791 – 29 October 1860) was an Italian Catholic priest from Naples and the founder of the Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

1777–1853 · Modern

Gaspare Luigi Bertoni, CSS (9 October 1777 – 12 June 1853) was an Italian Catholic priest and the founder of the Congregation of the Sacred Stigmata, also known as the Stigmatines.

1760–1833 · Modern

Georg Michael Wittmann (22 (23?) January 1760, near Pleistein, Oberpfalz, Bavaria – 8 March 1833, at Ratisbon) was a German prelate of the Catholic Church.

1725–1803 · Modern · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Giuseppe Marco Antonio Luca Melacrinò, in religion Gesualdo of Reggio Calabria (October 18, 1725, Nasiti – January 28, 1803, Reggio di Calabria), was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.

1791–1855 · Modern · Congregation of the Mission

Ghébrē-Michael, CM (1791 - 30 July 1855) was a priest of the Ethiopian Catholic Church and postulant from the Congregation of the Mission. Born in 1791, he became a monk in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in 1813 and later met Giustino de Jacobis on a pilgrimage.

1649–1714 · Modern

Giovanni Alberto Badoer or Gianalberto Badoaro (12 May 1649 – 17 May 1714) was a Venetian Catholic cardinal who served as Patriarch of Venice and Bishop of Brescia. Giovanni Alberto Badoer was born in Venice on 12 May 1649 of a family of the patrician nobility.

1791–1844 · Modern

Giovanni Battista Quilici (26 April 1791 – 10 June 1844) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Daughters of the Crucified as well as several other religious institutions.

1698–1764 · Modern

Giovanni Battista de' Rossi was a Catholic presbyter born in Voltaggio in 1698. He died in Rome in 1764 and is recognized by the Church as the Venerable.

1741–1823 · Modern

Giuseppe Bartolomeo Menocchio was a Catholic priest and bishop born in 1741 in Carmagnola and a citizen of the Papal States. He served as a titular bishop and died in Rome in 1823. He is recognized as Venerable by the Catholic Church.

1809–1889 · Modern · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Guglielmo Massaia, OFM Cap. (born Lorenzo; 9 June 1809 - 6 August 1889) was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as a missionary and a Capuchin friar. Pope Francis named him Venerable on 1 December 2016.

1800–1882 · Modern

Heinrich Hahn was a German physician and politician born in Aachen in 1800. He served as a member of the Prussian House of Representatives before his death in Aachen in 1882, where he is buried in the Aachen East Cemetery. He is recognized as a Venerable.

1860–1892 · Modern · Missionaries of the Sacred Heart

Henri Baptiste Stanislas Verjus (born May 26, 1860, in Oleggio, Piedmont-Sardinia; died November 13, 1892, in the same town, then part of Italy) was a French missionary and Vicar Apostolic of New Pomerania (present-day New Britain, Papua) in 1889.

1813–1862 · Modern

Henriette Díaz DeLille, SSF (March 11, 1813 – November 17, 1862) was a Louisiana Creole of color and Catholic religious sister from New Orleans. She founded the Sisters of the Holy Family in 1836 and served as their first Mother Superior.

1663–1748 · Modern · Religious of the Virgin Mary

Ignacia del Espíritu Santo luco, also known as "Mother Ignacia" (February 1, 1663 – September 10, 1748) was a Filipino religious sister of the Catholic Church.

1708–1783 · Modern

Ignatius Capizzi was a Catholic presbyter, writer, and theologian born in 1708 in Bronte. He died in 1783 in Palermo and is recognized by the Catholic Church as the Venerable.

1799–1864 · Modern · Passionists

Ignatius of St Paul, C.P. (born George Spencer; 21 December 1799 – 1 October 1864) was an English Catholic priest and nobleman as a son of the 2nd Earl Spencer.

1635–1720 · Modern

Iov Anzersky was an Eastern Orthodox priest born in Moscow in 1635 and a citizen of the Tsardom of Russia. He died in 1720 at the Solovetsky Monastery. He is recognized as a saint under the title of the Venerable.

1836–1899 · Modern

Isabel de Larrañaga Ramírez, HCSCJ (19 November 1836 - 17 January 1899), religious name Isabel of the Heart of Jesus, born in Manila, was a Filipino religious sister.

1652–1714 · Modern · Carmelites

Jean Dominique Lucchesi (1652–1714) was born in Pescaglia on May 18, 1652. He entered the Carmelite Order in 1670, in a convent belonging to the Congregation of Mantua.

1790–1875 · Modern · Society of Mary

Jean-Claude Colin, SM (7 August 1790 – 15 November 1875) was a French priest who became the founder of the Society of Mary (Marists). Jean-Claude, born on 7 August 1790 at the hamlet of Barbery, in the Beaujolais region of central France, the son of Jacques Colin and his wife Ma…

1780–1860 · Modern

Jean-Marie Robert de La Mennais, FICP (or de Lamennais; 1780–1860) was a Breton Catholic priest and brother of the philosopher Felicité Robert de Lamennais, whom he influenced in their youth.

1810–1883 · Modern · Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer

Johann Baptist Stöger was born in 1810 in Enzersfeld and served as a lay brother in the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer. He died in 1883 in Eggenburg. He is recognized as a Venerable.

1807–1886 · Modern

Johann Evangelist Wagner, born on December 5, 1807, in Dattenhausen near Dillingen and died on October 10, 1886, in Dillingen, was a Bavarian Catholic priest, rector of the major seminary of Dillingen, and founder of the Regens-Wagner Foundation.

1811–1860 · Modern · Third Order of Saint Francis

Joseph Cafasso (Italian: Giuseppe Cafasso; 15 January 1811 – 23 June 1860) was an Italian Catholic priest who was a significant social reformer in Turin. He was one of the so-called "Social Saints" who emerged during that particular era.

1844–1895 · Modern

Giuseppe Marello (known as Joseph Marello in English; 26 December 1844 – 30 May 1895) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Acqui from 1889 until his death and was also the founder of the Oblates of Saint Joseph.

1785–1864 · Modern · Third Order of Saint Francis

Juliette Colbert Falletti de Barolo (26 June 1786 – 19 January 1864) - born as Juliette Victoire Colbert and known in Italy as Giulia Falletti di Barolo - was a French Roman Catholic philanthropist and the founder of both the Sisters of Saint Anne and the Daughters of Jesus the G…

1800–1860 · Modern · Congregation of the Mission

Giustino Sebastiano Pasquale de Jacobis, CM (9 October 1800 – 31 July 1860) was an Italian Catholic bishop and member of the Congregation of the Mission who served as Apostolic Vicar of Abyssinia and the Titular Bishop of Nilopolis.

1683–1758 · Modern · Carmelites

Jérôme Nunzio Matteo Terzo (1683–1758), in religion Jérôme of Jesus Mary Joseph, was an Italian hermit born in Noto, Sicily. After overseeing the hermitage of Santa Maria Scala del Paradiso (Our Lady of the Ladder to Paradise), he entered the Order of Carmel at the convent he had…

1841 · Modern

Cornelius of Krypets (secular name Luka Polyakov; 1841 – December 28, 1902 [January 10, 1903]) was a monk of the Russian Orthodox Church and a resident of the Krypets Monastery, where he spent his entire conscious life.

1797–1876 · Modern

Leo Dupont (24 January 1797 – 18 March 1876), also known as "the holy man of Tours" or "the apostle of the Holy Face", was a Roman Catholic layman who helped spread various devotions such as that of the Holy Face of Jesus and the nightly Eucharistic adoration.

1773–1834 · Modern

Leopoldina Naudet (31 May 1773 - 17 August 1834) was an Italian Roman Catholic of both French and Austrian origins. She was a religious sister of the Congregation of Dilette of Jesus and the foundress of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Verona.

1768–1841 · Modern

Hieroschemamonk Leonid (Nagolkin) of Optina, also Leo (or Lev) of Optina, was a venerable elder of Optina Monastery and a founder of Optina's eldership. The future St.

1803–1842 · Modern

Lliberada Ferrarons i Vives (Olot, April 19, 1803 – June 21, 1842) was a Catalan textile worker who experienced visions and mystical encounters during a long illness that kept her bedridden for thirteen years.

1793–1859 · Modern

Louis Querbes (21 August 1793 – 1 September 1859) was a Catholic priest in France who founded the Clerics of Saint Viator (CSV), a religious order which specializes in teaching.

1765–1835 · Modern

Louis-Marie Baudouin (2 August 1765 - 12 February 1835) was a French Roman Catholic priest who was the founder of the Sons of Mary Immaculate and the Ursulines of Jesus. Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed him as venerable on 20 December 2012.

1774–1835 · Modern

Magdalena di Canossa (1 March 1774 – 10 April 1835) was an Italian religious sister and the foundress of the two Canossian congregations. Magdalena was a leading advocate for the poor in her region after she witnessed first hand the plight of the poor following the spillover effe…

1792–1847 · Modern

Makarius Glukharev (born Mikhail Yakovlevich Glukharev; October 30 [November 10], 1792 – May 18 [May 30], 1847) was an archimandrite of the Russian Orthodox Church and the founder of its Altai Mission. In 2000, he was canonized for his role as the Apostle of the Altai.

1788–1860 · Modern

Macarius Ivanov (born Mikhail Nikolayevich Ivanov; November 20, 1788 – September 19, 1860) was a starets at Optina Monastery from 1834 to 1860.

1774–1853 · Modern · Congregation of the Schools of Charity

Marcantonio Cavanis (Venice, May 4, 1774 – Venice, October 10, 1853) was an Italian priest and educator who collaborated with his brother, Antonio Angelo, in the management of the Charity Schools. He is recognized as venerable by the Catholic Church.

1805–1871 · Modern · Sisters of Charity of Montreal

Marie-Anne-Marcelle Mallet (March 26, 1805 – April 9, 1871) was a Roman Catholic nun and founder of the Sisters of Charity of Quebec. Her surname also appears as Maillet or Maillé. Marie was born to Vital Mallet and Marguerite Sarrazin in Montreal, Lower Canada.

1700–1760 · Modern · Order of Discalced Nuns of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Mother Maria Antonia of Jesus, born October 6, 1700, in Cuntis, Spain, and died March 10, 1760, in Santiago de Compostela, was a Spanish Carmelite nun.

1812–1836 · Modern

Maria Cristina of Savoy (Maria Cristina Carlotta Giuseppa Gaetana Efisia; 14 November 1812 – 21 January 1836) was Queen of the Two Sicilies as the first wife of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies. She died as a result of childbirth.

1706–1745 · Modern · Franciscans

Elisabetta Maria Satellico (31 December 1706 – 8 November 1745) – in religious Maria Crocifissa – was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious from the Poor Clares who served as her convent's abbess. Her beatification was celebrated on 10 October 1993.

1815–1848 · Modern

Maria Domenica Lazzeri (1815–1848) also known as "la Meneghina" was an Italian mystic. She would become the most famous stigmatic of Tyrol. The cause for her beatification was started in 1995. Maria Domenica Lazzeri was born on 16 May 1815 in Capriana, Italy.

1813–1884 · Modern

Maria Gay Tibau (Llagostera, October 24, 1813 – Girona, March 18, 1884) was a religious sister from Girona and founder of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Girona.

1653–1705 · Modern · Third Order of Saint Francis

Maria Hueber (22 May 1653 – 31 July 1705) was a Tyrolean religious sister, a pioneer in educating girls in and foundress of a congregation of the Third Order of Saint Francis in Brixen.

1826–1886 · Modern · Franciscans

Maria Velotti (16 November 1826 - 3 September 1886), religious name Maria Luigia del Santissimo Sacramento, was an Italian religious sister. She was a member in the Third Order of Saint Francis and the founder of the Suore Francescane Adoratrici della Santa Croce.