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1729–1789 · Modern

Alexandra, born Agafia Semyonovna Melgunova (c. 1729, Ryazan – June 13, 1789, Diveyevo), was an Orthodox Christian nun and saint, and the founder of the Diveyevo Convent. She came from a noble family. Widowed at a young age, she was left to raise her young daughter alone.

1727–1803 · Modern · Franciscans

Pietro Giovannelli, in religion Aloysius of the Most Holy Crucifixion (November 7, 1727, Pietracatella – June 4, 1803, Naples), was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Order of Friars Minor. He is venerated as Venerable in the Catholic Church.

1655–1732 · Modern · Society of Jesus

Alonso Messia Bedoya (Pacaraos, Peru, January 10, 1655 – Lima, January 5, 1732) was a virtuous Jesuit. He was the son of General Francisco Messia y Ramón and Francisca Bedoya y Campusano.

1824–1894 · Modern

Anatol, secular name Aleksey Moiseyevich Zertsalov (born March 24, 1824, in Bobyli; died December 15, 1893, in Kozelsk), was an Orthodox Christian monk and one of the Optina Elders.

1842–1885 · Modern · Daughters of St. Anne

Marianna Orsi, in religion Anna del Salvatore, born on February 22, 1842, in Albareto, Italy, and died on June 7, 1885, in Palermo, Sicily, was an Italian religious sister of the congregation of the Daughters of Saint Anne.

1772–1858 · Modern · Congregation of the Schools of Charity

Antonio Angelo Cavanis (Venice, January 16, 1772 – Venice, March 12, 1858) was an Italian priest and educator, founder of the Congregation of the Schools of Charity. The Catholic Church has bestowed upon him the title of Venerable.

1830–1897 · Modern · Society of Priests of the Sacred Heart of Betharram

Auguste Etchécopar (Saint-Palais, May 30, 1830 – Bétharram, April 13, 1897) was a French priest and the second successor to Michel Garicoïts as Superior General of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Bétharram.

1860–1899 · Modern · Q21684184

Coloma Antònia Martí i Valls (Badalona, June 26, 1860 – June 4, 1899), who took the name Francesca of the Wounds of Jesus, was a Catalan religious sister and a member of the Poor Clares of Divine Providence of Badalona.

1721–1776 · Modern

Dositheus, secular name unknown (died most likely September 14/25 or September 15/26, 1777, in Kyiv), was a Russian Orthodox monk associated with the Kitaevo Hermitage in Kyiv.

1808–1880 · Modern · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Esteban de Adoáin (Adoáin, Navarre, October 11, 1808 – Sanlúcar de Barrameda, October 7, 1880) was a Capuchin friar and missionary in the Americas. He has been proclaimed venerable by the Catholic Church.

1841–1868 · Modern · Q11937346

Philomène Ferrer Galceran (Móra d'Ebre, April 3, 1841 – Valls, August 13, 1868) was a Spanish religious sister of the Order of Minims, the initiator of the first expiatory temple dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and is recognized as venerable by 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

1661–1734 · Modern · Lay Carmelites

Mariangela Virgili (September 8, 1661, Ronciglione – November 10, 1734, Ronciglione) was an Italian laywoman of the Third Order of Carmel and a mystic.

1798–1866 · Modern · Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary

Marie-Amélie Fristel, born in Saint-Malo on October 10, 1798, and died in Paramé on October 14, 1866, was a French religious sister. She dedicated her life to education, the poor, and particularly the elderly.

1810–1829 · Modern

Martha, born Maria Semyonovna Milyukova, was an Orthodox Christian monastic saint. She entered the Diveyevo Convent with her older sister at the age of 13. Despite her youth, her spiritual director, the future Saint Seraphim of Sarov, allowed her to become a novice.

1801–1840 · Modern

Marie Yi Seong-rye (in Korean: Yi Seong-rye Maria) was a Korean Christian laywoman and martyr, born in 1801 in Hongju, Chungcheong, Korea, and beheaded on January 31, 1840, at Danggogae, near Seoul.

1782–1862 · Modern

Moses, born Timofey Ivanovich Putilov (January 15, 1782, in Borisoglebsky; died June 16, 1862, in Kozelsk), was the superior and starets of the Optina Monastery and an Orthodox monastic saint.

1811–1889 · Modern

Paula Delpuig i Gelabert, known in religion as Paula of Saint Louis (Malgrat de Mar, Maresme, February 3, 1811 – Vic, Osona, February 23, 1889), was a sister of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity, or Vedrunas, and the second superior general of the congregation.

1793–1861 · Modern

Pierre-Bienvenu Noailles, born on October 27, 1793, in Bordeaux, France, and died on February 8, 1861, in the same city, was a Catholic priest and founder of the Congregation of the Holy Family of Bordeaux. His cause for beatification was introduced on June 23, 1944.

1838–1887 · Modern · Dominican Sisters of the Immaculate Conception (Krakow)

Marie Colombe Białecka (Jaśniszcze, August 23, 1838 – Wielowieś, March 18, 1887) was a Polish Catholic nun, founder of the Sisters of St. Dominic of Cracow, and recognized as venerable by the Catholic Church.

1700–1700 · Modern

Saint Demetrius the New, or Saint Demetrius of Basarabov, is an Orthodox saint of Bulgarian origin, the patron saint of Bucharest and Wallachia.

1792–1849 · Modern

Severino Fabriani (January 7, 1792, Spilamberto – August 27, 1849, Modena) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and founder of the Congregation of the Daughters of Providence for the Deaf. The Catholic Church venerates him as Venerable.

1689–1787 · Modern

Schemarchimandrite Synesius (Ivanov) (1689, Priluki — May 10 [21], 1787) was a schemarchimandrite of the Ascension Monastery in Irkutsk and a venerable saint of the Russian Church.

1826–1898 · Modern · Carmelite Sisters of Saint Joseph

Thérèse Toda y Juncosa (Teresa Toda i Juncosa, in religion Thérèse of Saint Joseph), born August 19, 1826, in Riudecanyes (Catalonia, Spain) and died July 30, 1898, in Barcelona, was a wife and mother.

1718–1791 · Modern

Theodore of Sanaksar (born Ivan Ignatievich Ushakov in 1718 in the village of Burnakovo, Rybinsk Uyezd, Yaroslavl Province; died February 19, 1791 (March 2 in the Gregorian calendar)) was a monk of the Russian Orthodox Church and the uncle of Admiral Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov.