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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.

1789–1840 · Modern · Society of Mary

Marcellin Joseph Benedict Champagnat, FMS (20 May 1789 – 6 June 1840) was a French Catholic priest who founded the Marist Brothers, a religious congregation of brothers devoted to Mary and dedicated to education.

1810–1871 · 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.

1788–1856 · Modern

Margherita Occhiena Bosco (1 April 1788 – 25 November 1856) was the mother of John Bosco and worked with the poor and the less fortunate. Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed her to be venerable in 2006.

1815–1879 · Modern · Third Order of Saint Francis

Marguerite Bays, OFS (8 September 1815 – 27 June 1879) was a Swiss seamstress and mystic. She lived a simple life as a member of the Secular Franciscan Order and adapted the tenets of the order's charism into her own life and social apostolate, especially after she was healed of…

1620–1700 · Modern

Marguerite Bourgeoys, CND , was a French religious sister and founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal in the colony of New France, now part of Québec, Canada. Born in Troyes, she became part of a sodality, ministering to the poor from outside the convent.

1701–1771 · Modern

Marguerite d'Youville, SGM was a French Canadian widow who founded the Sisters of Charity of Montreal, commonly known as the "Grey Nuns". She was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1990, becoming the first native-born Canadian to be declared a saint.

1806–1855 · Modern · Benedictines

Maria Adeodata Pisani, OSB (29 December 1806 – 25 February 1855) was a Maltese Catholic Benedictine nun at St Peter's monastery in Mdina, Malta. Pope John Paul II beatified Pisani on 9 May 2001.

1809–1890 · Modern · Sisters of Saint Ann

Marie Anne Blondin, SSA (18 April 1809 – 2 January 1890) was a Canadian Catholic teacher who founded the Sisters of Saint Anne in 1850 and dedicated herself to educating the rural population of the Province of Canada. She was beatified in 2001 by Pope John Paul II.

1829–1891 · Modern

Maria Anna Sala (21 April 1829 – 24 November 1891) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious who was a member of the Sisters of Saint Marcellina. She served throughout her life as an educator across the northern Italian cities and carried out her work in the name of God.

1843–1899 · Modern · Franciscans

Maria Clara of the Child Jesus (15 June 1843 – 1 December 1899) — born Libânia do Carmo Galvão Mexia de Moura Telles de Albuquerque was a Portuguese religious sister in the Roman Catholic Church who established the Franciscan Hospitaller Sisters of the Immaculate Conception in Li…

1682–1744 · Modern · Franciscans

Maria Crescentia Höss (Höß), TOR (1682–1744) was a religious sister of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis. In 1900, she was beatified by Pope Leo XIII, and she was canonized in 2001 by Pope John Paul II.

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.

1813–1855 · Modern

Maria Crocifissa Di Rosa (6 November 1813 – 15 December 1855) - born as Paola Francesca Di Rosa - was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Ancelle della carità (1839).

1805–1866 · Modern · Adorers of the Blood of Christ

Maria Matilda De Mattias (February 4, 1805 – August 20, 1866) was an Italian woman who founded the religious congregation of the Sisters Adorers of the Blood of Christ. She is a saint in the Catholic Church, having been canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2003.

1789–1868 · Modern · Sisters Ministers of the Infirm of Saint Camillus de Lellis

Maria Domenica Brun Barbantini (17 January 1789 - 22 May 1868) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Camillian Sisters Ministers of the Sick.

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.

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.

1820–1898 · Modern

Mary Catherine Kasper, A.D.J.C. (German: Maria Katharina Kasper) (born Katharina Kasper; 26 May 1820 – 2 February 1898) was a German Catholic Religious Sister and the foundress of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ.

1782–1824 · Modern

Maria Luisa of Spain was a Spanish infanta, daughter of King Charles IV and Maria Luisa of Parma. In 1795, she married her first cousin Louis of Bourbon-Parma, heir apparent to the Duchy of Parma.

1687–1737 · Modern · Capuchin Poor Clares

Maria Maddalena Martinengo (5 October 1687 – 27 July 1737), born Margherita Martinengo, was an Italian Roman Catholic professed nun of the order of the Capuchin Poor Clare nuns.

1770–1824 · Modern · Third Order of Saint Francis

Caterina Sordini (16 April 1770 – 29 November 1824) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious that established the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, in latin Adoratrices Perpetuae Sanctissimi Sacramenti, devoted to the Eucharist.

1837–1881 · Modern · Daughters of Mary Help of Christians

Maria Domenica Mazzarello, FMA (9 May 1837 – 14 May 1881) was an Italian Catholic nun who co-founded the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco. She was born in Mornese, in what is now the province of Alessandria, northern Italy, to a peasant family who worked in a vineyard.

1817–1872 · Modern

Maria Luise Merkert (21 September 1817 in Neisse, Prussia - 14 November 1872 in Neisse) was a German Roman Catholic professed religious and the co-foundress of the Sisters of Saint Elizabeth.

1809–1865 · Modern · Sisters of Adoration, Handmaids of the Blessed Sacrament and of Charity

Micaela Desmaisières López de Dicastillo (1 January 1809 – 24 August 1865) - in religion María Micaela of the Blessed Sacrament - was a Spanish Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Handmaids of the Blessed Sacrament.

1807–1890 · Modern

Maria Repetto (1 November 1807 – 5 January 1890) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious from the Sisters of Our Lady of Refuge in Mount Calvary.

1825–1889 · Modern · Carmelites

Maria Scrilli, religious name Maria Teresa of Jesus, (15 May 1825 – 14 November 1889) was an Italian religious sister who established the Sisters of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Scrilli became a noted educator and opened several schools.

1782–1876 · Modern

Jeanne Haze (27 February 1782 – 7 January 1876), also known by her religious name Marie-Thérèse of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, was a Belgian Roman Catholic professed religious and the foundress of the Daughters of the Cross.

1825–1888 · Modern · Third Order of Saint Francis

Anna Maria Katherina Scherer (31 October 1825 – 16 June 1888) was a Swiss religious sister and the co-founder of the Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross. She founded that congregation alongside the Capuchin priest Theodosius Florentini.

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.

1846–1878 · Modern · Order of Discalced Nuns of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Mariam Baouardy, OCD (Arabic: مريم بواردي, or Mary of Jesus Crucified, 5 January 1846 – 26 August 1878), was a Palestinian Discalced Carmelite nun of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.

1707–1788 · Modern

Mariano Arciero (26 February 1707 – 16 February 1788) was an Italian priest of the Roman Catholic Church. As a priest in Naples he exercised his functions as both a pastor and theologian, and was later known as the "Apostle of Calabria" due to his tireless apostolate and efforts…

1778–1866 · Modern · Franciscans

Mariano da Roccacasale (13 January 1778 – 31 May 1866) - born Domenico di Nicolantonio - was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious from the Order of Friars Minor.

1794 · Modern

Marie Clotilde of France (Marie Adélaïde Clotilde Xavière; 23 September 1759 – 7 March 1802), known as Clotilde in Italy, was Queen of Sardinia by marriage to Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia. She was a younger sister of Louis XVI of France.

1759–1802 · Modern

Marie Clotilde of France (Marie Adélaïde Clotilde Xavière; 23 September 1759 – 7 March 1802), known as Clotilde in Italy, was Queen of Sardinia by marriage to Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia. She was a younger sister of Louis XVI of France.

1684–1759 · Modern

Marie Louise Trichet, also known as Marie-Louise de Jésus (1684–1759), was a French Catholic figure who, with Louis de Montfort, founded the Congregation of religious women called Daughters of Wisdom and since the age of seventeen devoted her life to caring for the poor and the s…

1653–1744 · Modern · Dominican Order

Marie Poussepin (14 October 1653 – 24 January 1744) was a French Dominican who founded the congregation of the Dominican Sisters of Charity of the Presentation.

1811–1849 · Modern · Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary

Marie-Rose Durocher, SNJM (6 October 1811 – 6 October 1849) was a Canadian Catholic religious sister who founded the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. She was beatified in 1982.

1841–1884 · Modern

Marie Deluil-Martiny (28 May 1841 – 27 February 1884), known in religion as Marie of Jesus, was a French Catholic religious sister and the founder of the Daughters of the Heart of Jesus. She was murdered by the convent's gardener in 1884.

1661–1717 · Modern · Order of Discalced Nuns of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Marianna Fontanella, OCD (7 January 1661 – 16 December 1717), also known as Maria degli Angeli or Mary of the Angels, was an Italian Catholic member of the Discalced Carmelites.

1813–1887 · Modern · Third Order of Saint Francis

Maria Caterina Troiani (19 January 1813 – 6 May 1887) was an Italian Roman Catholic charitable worker who assumed the name of "Maria Caterina of Saint Rose" when she became a nun. Troiani established the Franciscan Missionaries of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

1878–1897 · Modern · Poor Clares

Jeanne-Germaine Castang (24 May 1878 – 30 May 1897) – in religious Marie-Céline of the Presentation – was a French Roman Catholic nun from the Poor Clares.

1817–1898 · Modern · Religious of the Assumption

Marie-Eugénie de Jésus (born Anne-Eugénie Milleret de Brou; 25 August 1817 – 10 March 1898) is a French saint and the foundress of the Religious of the Assumption.

1765–1794 · Modern · Order of Discalced Nuns of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

The Martyrs of Compiègne were the 16 members of the Carmel of Compiègne, France: 11 Discalced Carmelite nuns, three lay sisters, and two externs (or tertiaries).

1806–1885 · Modern

Marie-Josephte Fitzbach (October 16, 1806 – September 1, 1885) was the founder of the Good Shepherd Sisters of Québec. The daughter of Charles Fitzbach, a native of Luxembourg, and Geneviève Nadeau, she was born in St-Vallier de Bellechasse, Lower Canada.

1756–1846 · Modern · Third Order of Saint Francis

Marie-Madeleine Postel (28 November 1756 – 16 July 1846), born Julie Françoise-Catherine Postel, was a French Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Sisters of Christian Schools.

1781–1858 · Modern

Marie-Madeleine d'Houët (1781–1858) also known as Viscountess de Bonnault d'Houët, was a French widow and single mother who, later in her life, was inspired by zeal for God and guided by Ignatian spirituality to found a religious institute of Religious Sisters known as the Faithf…

1818–1866 · Modern

Marie-Nicolas-Antoine Daveluy (16 March 1818 – 30 March 1866) was a French missionary and saint. His feast day is March 30, and he is also venerated along with the rest of the 103 Korean martyrs on September 20. Antoine Daveluy was born 16 March 1818 in Amiens, France.

1794–1864 · Modern

Marie-Rosalie Cadron-Jetté, SM (January 27, 1794 – April 5, 1864), religious name Marie of the Nativity, was a Canadian widow and midwife who undertook the charitable care of unwed and struggling mothers between 1840 and 1864.