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1783–1867 · Modern

Metropolitan Philaret (secular name Vasily Mikhaylovich Drozdov, Василий Михайлович Дроздов; 26 December 1782 – 1 December 1867) was Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna and the most influential figure in the Russian Orthodox Church for more than 40 years, from 1821 to 1867.

1774–1801 · Modern

Philip Hong Pil-ju was born in 1774 and was a member of the Catholic Church. He died by decapitation in 1801 and is recognized as a blessed.

1642–1704 · Modern · Society of Jesus

Johann Philipp Jeningen (5 January 1642 – 8 February 1704) was a German Roman Catholic priest from Eichstätt in Bavaria. He served as a popular missionary at the shrine of Our Lady of Schönenberg and attracted many pilgrims from across the globe.

1815–1853 · Modern

Saint Philip Phan Văn Minh (born c. 1815 in Cái Mơn, Vĩnh Long province, Vietnam; died July 3, 1853, in Đinh Khao, Vietnam) was a priest, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church. He was the youngest of 14 children born to Dominic Phan Văn Đức and Anna Tiêu.

1837–1866 · Modern

Pierre Aumaître was a French Catholic priest and missionary born in Charente in 1837. He died by decapitation in Seoul in 1866. He is recognized as a saint in the Catholic Church.

1803–1861 · Modern

Pierre Bonhomme (4 July 1803 – 9 September 1861) was a French Roman Catholic priest who exercised his pastoral mission in Cahors. He went on to establish the new religious congregation known as the Sisters of Our Lady of Calvary of Gramat.

1808–1838 · Modern

Pierre-Rose-Ursule Dumoulin-Borie (20 February 1808 – 24 November 1838) was a French Catholic missionary priest and a member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society. He is a Catholic saint, canonized in 1988 along with other Vietnamese Martyrs.

1737–1794 · Modern

Pierre Jarrige de La Morelie de Puyredo was born in 1737 in Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche and served as a Catholic priest and canon. He died in 1794 in Rochefort and is recognized as a blessed.

1803–1839 · Modern

Pierre Maubant (Vassy, September 20, 1803 – Saenamteo, Seoul, September 21, 1839) was a Catholic missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society who was among the first missionaries to enter the hermit kingdom of Korea.

1766–1853 · Modern

Pierre Toussaint was a formerly enslaved Haitian-American hairdresser and philanthropist, brought to New York City by his enslavers in 1787. He was declared Venerable by Pope John Paul II in 1996.

1670–1740 · Modern

Pierre Vigne (20 August 1670 – 8 July 1740) was a French Roman Catholic priest who established the Blessed Sacrament Sisters of Valence. Pope John Paul II beatified him in 2004. Pierre Vigne was born in 1670 as one of five children to Pierre Vigne and Frances Gautier.

1757–1793 · Modern · Premonstratensians

Pierre-Adrien Toulorge (4 May 1757 – 13 October 1793) was a French Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Premonstratensians and was killed during the French Revolution - he also remained in hiding for most of the revolution and celebrated secret Masses and administe…

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.

1818–1860 · Modern

Pierre-François Néron (1818–1860), born in Bornay (Jura) on September 21, 1818, admitted to the Paris Foreign Missions Society on August 1, 1846, ordained a priest on June 17, 1848, and martyred in Tonkin (Vietnam) on November 3, 1860, is the only martyr from the Jura.

1839–1866 · Modern

Pierre Henri Dorie (1839–1866) was a French missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society, who was martyred in Korea in 1866. His feast day is 7 March, and he is also venerated along with the rest of the 103 Korean Martyrs on 20 September.

1759–1792 · Modern

Pierre-Jacques-Marie Vitalis (born 1759 in Carpentras, died September 2, 1792, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés) was a French Catholic priest and blessed. After his ordination, he served as a parish priest from 1784 to 1785 and later became a vicar at Saint-Méry.

1752–1794 · Modern

Pierre-Joseph Le Groing de la Romagere was a French Catholic priest who served as a vicar general, deacon, and catechist. Born in Saint-Sauvier in 1752, he died in 1794 among the Martyrs of Rochefort. He is recognized as a blessed within the Catholic Church.

1744–1792 · Modern

Blessed Pierre-Louis de La Rochefoucauld-Bayers, born on October 12, 1744, at the Logis du Vivier (Saint-Cybard-d'Eyrat) and died on September 2, 1792, at the Carmes Prison (Paris), was an 18th-century French prelate and politician.

1759–1792 · Modern · Society of Saint-Sulpice

Pierre-Michel Guérin was a Catholic priest and member of the Society of Saint-Sulpice born in 1759 in Saint-Christophe. He died in 1792 at the Carmes Prison and is recognized as a blessed.

1745–1794 · Modern · Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools

Blessed Pierre-Sulpice-Christophe Faverge (in religion Brother Roger) was a French Catholic religious, born on July 25, 1745, in Orléans and died on September 12, 1794, on the prison ships of Rochefort.

1763–1839 · Modern

Pietro Trương Văn Thi (Ké-So, 1763 – Hanoi, December 21, 1839) was a Vietnamese priest. A Christian from birth, he became a priest and was charged after helping his fellow priest Andrew Dũng-Lạc, with whom he suffered martyrdom.

1790–1838 · Modern

Saint Peter Vu Dang Khoa (1790 – November 24, 1838) was a Vietnamese priest. He is one of the 117 Vietnamese Martyrs, a group of clergy and missionaries who died during religious persecutions in the Asian country between 1745 and 1862.

1810–1880 · Modern

Born in Vologda in 1810, the Venerable Pimen served as a deacon and presbyter within Eastern Orthodoxy. He died at the Ugresha Monastery in 1880.

1796–1838 · Modern · Dominican Order

Peter Nguyễn Văn Tự (Vietnamese: Phêrô Nguyễn Văn Tự) (born c. 1796 in Ninh Cường, Vietnam – died September 5, 1838, in Bắc Ninh, Vietnam) was a Dominican friar, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church.

1792–1878 · Modern · Franciscans

Pope Pius IX (Italian: Pio IX; born Giovanni Maria Battista Pietro Pellegrino Isidoro Mastai-Ferretti; 13 May 1792 – 7 February 1878) was head of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878.

1739–1814 · Modern

Pius Kim Jin-hu was a Catholic born in Joseon in 1739. He died in 1814 and is recognized as a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1742–1823 · Modern · Benedictines

Pope Pius VII (Italian: Pio VII; born Barnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti; 14 August 1742 – 20 August 1823) was head of the Catholic Church from 14 March 1800 to his death in August 1823.

1868–1889 · Modern · Passionists

Pius of Saint Aloysius (born Luigi Campidelli, 29 April 1868 – 2 November 1889) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed cleric from the Passionists.

1815–1877 · Modern

Placide Viel (26 September 1815 — 4 March 1877), born Eulalie-Victoire Jacqueline Viel, was a French Roman Catholic professed religious and mother general who was active in organizing relief during the Franco-Prussian War.

1807–1871 · Modern · Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary

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.

1710–1766 · Modern · Piarists

Pompilio Maria Pirrotti (29 September 1710 – 15 July 1766), born Domenico Michele Giovan Battista, was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Piarists.

1737–1787 · Modern · Order of Discalced Nuns of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Louise of France, OCD (Louise-Marie; 15 July 1737 – 23 December 1787) was a French princess and Discalced Carmelite, the youngest of the ten children of King Louis XV and Queen Maria Leszczyńska.

1764–1794 · Modern

Élisabeth of France (Élisabeth Philippine Marie Hélène; 3 May 1764 – 10 May 1794), also known as Madame Élisabeth, was a French princess. She was the youngest child of Louis, Dauphin of France, and Duchess Maria Josepha of Saxony, and she was a sister of King Louis XVI.

1799–1839 · Modern

Protasius Chŏng Kuk-bo was born in 1799 and died in 1839 in Seoul. A member of the Catholic Church, he died of disease and is recognized as a Catholic saint and blessed.

1780–1840 · Modern

Blessed Protasius Hong Jae-yeong was a member of the Catholic Church born in 1780 to his father, Lucas Hong Nak-min. He died by decapitation in 1840.

1790–1868 · Modern

Rafael Cordero y Molina (October 24, 1790 – July 5, 1868), known as Maestro Cordero, was a self-educated Afro–Puerto Rican who provided free schooling to the children of his city regardless of race or social standing.

1694–1741 · Modern · Conventual Franciscans

Melchor Chyliński (8 January 1694 – 2 December 1741) - in religious Rafał - was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and a professed member from the Order of Friars Minor Conventual.

1747–1794 · Modern

Raymond Petiniaud de Jourgnac was born in 1747 in Limoges and served as a Catholic priest, canon, and vicar general. He died in 1794 in Rochefort and is recognized as a blessed.

1742–1792 · Modern · Society of Jesus

Renatus Andrieux, SJ (1742–1792) was a French Jesuit. He was one of the victims of the September Massacres, beatified in 1926.

1764–1794 · Modern

René Lego was born in 1764 in La Flèche, France, and was a member of the Catholic Church. He died in 1794 in Angers. He is recognized as a blessed.

1766–1792 · Modern

René-Joseph Urvoy was a French Catholic priest born in Plouisy in 1766. He died in Paris in 1792 and is recognized as a blessed within the Catholic Church.

1720–1794 · Modern

René-Louis Ambroise (born March 1, 1720, 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.

1736–1792 · Modern · Society of Jesus

Robert Guérin du Rocher was born in Repas in 1736. He was the younger brother of Petrus and like his brother became a Jesuit priest. He did missionary work in the Middle east and eventually settled as a pastor in Salonika, before being expelled by the Ottomans.

1821–1888 · Modern

Robert Spiske was a Catholic theologian born in 1821 in Leśnica, Kingdom of Prussia. He died in 1888 in Wrocław and is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1784–1839 · Modern

Rose Kim, or Rose Kim No-sa, was a Korean Christian laywoman, martyr, and saint, born in 1784 in Seoul, Korea, and killed there on July 20, 1839.

1815–1876 · Modern

Rosa Francisca Dolors Molas Vallvé (24 March 1815 – 11 June 1876) was a Spanish Roman Catholic religious sister. Following her solemn religious profession she assumed the name of "Maria Rosa" and also established the religious congregation known as the Sisters of Our Lady of Cons…

1786–1856 · Modern · Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul

Rosalie Rendu, DC (born Jeanne-Marie Rendu; 9 September 1786 – 7 February 1856) was a French Catholic member of the Daughters of Charity who organized care for the poor in the Paris slums during the Industrial Revolution. She was beatified in the Catholic Church in 2003.

1745–1794 · Modern

Rosalie du Verdier de La Sorinière (in religion Sister Rosalie-Céleste), born on August 12, 1745, at the Château de la Sorinière near Chemillé in the province of Anjou, and died by guillotine in Angers on January 27, 1794, was a Benedictine nun of Our Lady of Calvary, a martyr in…

1769–1852 · Modern · Society of the Sacred Heart

Rose Philippine Duchesne, RSCJ , was a French religious sister and educator whom Pope John Paul II canonized in 1988. A native of France, she immigrated as a missionary to America, and is recognized for her care and education of Indigenous American survivors of the United States…

1656–1728 · Modern

Rose Venerini (9 February 1656 – 7 May 1728), also called Rosa Venerini, was an Italian Roman Catholic saint and virgin who founded the first public schools for girls and young women in Italy.