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1563–1631 · Reformation · Franciscans

Juan de Prado, OFM (c. 1563 – 24 May 1631) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and a professed member from the Order of Friars Minor. He served as part of the missions in Muslim Morocco at the request of Pope Urban VIII and brought much solace to the small Christian population th…

1606–1683 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Julien Maunoir (1 October 1606 – 28 January 1683) (also Julian; Breton: Juluan Maner), was a French-born Jesuit priest known as the "Apostle of Brittany". He was beatified in 1951 by Pope Pius XII and is commemorated by the Catholic Church on 29 January and 2 July.

1343–1500 · Reformation

Julian of Norwich (c. 1343 – after 1416), also known as Juliana of Norwich, the Lady Julian, Dame Julian or Mother Julian, was a medieval English Catholic anchoress.

1551 · Reformation

Julijana Malgranello was a nun born in Koper who died in 1551. She is recognized as a blessed.

1553–1606 · Reformation · Conventual Franciscans

Julian of Saint Augustine, born Julián Martinet Gutiérrez (c. 1550 – April 8, 1606), was a Spanish Franciscan friar of the Order of Friars Minor Observant, beatified by Pope Leo XII in 1825.

1568–1633 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Julião Nakaura was born in 1568 in Hizen Province, Japan, to his father, Nakaura Sumiyoshi. A member of the Society of Jesus, he served as a Catholic presbyter and bishop. He died in Nagasaki in 1633 and is recognized as a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1580–1622 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Joseph of Saint Hyacinth Negro Maroto (born March 11, 1580, in Villarejo de Salvanés, Spain; died September 10, 1622, on Nishizaka Hill in Nagasaki) was a Spanish Dominican, missionary, martyr, and blessed of the Catholic Church.

1555–1605 · Reformation

Kumagai Motonao was a military commander born in 1555. He died in 1605 and is recognized as a blessed.

1440–1505 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Blessed Ladislas of Gielniów (c. 1440 – 4 May 1505) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Order of Friars Minor. He was an observant of the Rule of Saint Francis of Assisi and served his order in various capacities that included both a doorkeeper and as…

1582 · Reformation

Lawrence Richardson of Great Crosby, Lancashire, was an English martyr. Born Lawrence Johnson, he was the son of Richard Johnson, of Great Crosby, Lancashire, and a Fellow of Brasenose College.

1593–1631 · Reformation

Liborius Wagner (5 December 1593 – 9 December 1631) was a German Roman Catholic priest. He administered throughout his pastoral mission in Würzburg and was killed "in odium fidei" (in hatred of the faith).

1476–1535 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor

Laurent of Villamagna, born Lorenzo da Villamagna (May 12, 1476, in Villamagna, Abruzzo, and died June 6, 1535, near Ortona, Italy), was an Italian Franciscan priest declared blessed by the Catholic Church.

1462–1503 · Reformation · Poor Clares

Louise of Savoy (28 December 1461 – 24 July 1503) was a member of the French royal family, who gave up a life of privilege and comfort to become a Poor Clare nun. She was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church in 1839.

1594–1633 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Luke of the Holy Spirit Alonso Gorda (born October 18, 1594, in Carracedo de Vidriales, Zamora Province, Spain; died October 19, 1633, on Nishizaka Hill in Nagasaki, Japan) was a saint of the Catholic Church, a Spanish Dominican, a missionary in the Far East, and a martyr.

1476–1544 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Lucy Brocadelli, also known as Lucy of Narni or Lucy of Narnia (13 December 1476 – 15 November 1544), was a Dominican tertiary who was a mystic and a stigmatic. She has been venerated by the Roman Catholic Church since 1710.

1474–1533 · Reformation · Third Order of Saint Francis

Ludovica Albertoni (1473 – 31 January 1533) was an Italian Roman Catholic noblewoman from the Renaissance period and a professed member of the Third Order of Saint Francis.

1596–1627 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Ludwik Exarch was a Catholic priest of the Dominican Order born in Barcelona, Crown of Aragon, in 1596. He died in Ōmura-shi in 1627 and is recognized as a blessed within the Catholic Church.

1574–1622 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Luis Flores was born in Antwerp in 1574 and served as a missionary in the Dominican Order. He died in 1622 and is recognized as a blessed within the Catholic Church.

1574–1624 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor

Luis Sotelo, OFM, in English known also as Louis Sotelo, (September 6, 1574 – August 25, 1624) was a Franciscan friar from Spain who died as a martyr in Japan, in 1624, and was beatified by Pope Pius IX in 1867.

1566–1614 · Reformation

Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza (formerly known as Doña Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza; January 2, 1566 – January 2, 1614) is best known for her mystical religious poetry as well as her fight to spread Catholicism throughout England, by preaching against Anglicanism.

1522–1569 · Reformation · Trinitarian Order

Marc Criado, or Marcos Criado (1522–1569), was a Spanish Trinitarian friar who was martyred by Moriscos during the Rebellion of the Alpujarras. He was beatified on July 24, 1899, by Pope Leo XIII. His feast day is celebrated annually on September 25.

1515–1584 · Reformation

Margaret Ball (1515–1584) was a prominent member of 16th-century Irish society, who, despite being the widow of a Lord Mayor of Dublin, was arrested for her adherence to the Catholic faith and died of deprivation in the dungeons of Dublin Castle.

1473–1541 · Reformation

Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury (14 August 1473 – 27 May 1541), was the only surviving daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence (a brother of Kings Edward IV and Richard III), and his wife Isabel Neville.

1463–1521 · Reformation · Poor Clares

Margaret of Lorraine, Duchess of Alençon (1463 at the castle of Vaudémont, Lorraine – 2 November 1521 in Argentan, Normandy) was a French noblewoman and a nun of the order of Poor Clares (Ordre des Clarisses). She was beatified in 1921.

1590–1660 · Reformation · Order of Discalced Nuns of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament, OCD (6 March 1590, in Paris – 24 May 1660, in Paris), was a French Discalced Carmelite nun. She was the second daughter of Marie of the Incarnation, who introduced the Reform of the Carmelite Order into France.

1592–1665 · Reformation · Capuchin Poor Clares

Maria Angela Astorch (née Maria Ines Jerónima Astorch; 1 September 1592 – 2 December 1665) was a Spanish nun and mystic. Born in Barcelona, she founded the Capuchin Poor Clares of Zaragoza and Murcia. She died in Murcia and was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 23 May 1982.

1620 · Reformation

Blessed Maria Gengoro was the spouse of Thomas Gengoro. She died by crucifixion in Kokura in 1620.

1562–1617 · Reformation

Maria Vittoria De Fornari Strata (1562 – 15 December 1617) was an Italian Roman Catholic nun and the foundress of the Order of the Annunciation – or Blue Nuns.

1565–1624 · Reformation · Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy

Mariana Navarro de Guevara, in full Mariana Navarro de Guevara Romero (17 January 1565 – 17 April 1624) was a Spanish Roman Catholic nun who became a member of the Mercedarian Tertiaries. Upon admittance she took the religious name Mariana of Jesus.

1566–1618 · Reformation · Order of Discalced Nuns of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Marie of the Incarnation, OCD, also known as Madame Acarie (1 February 1566–18 April 1618), was the foundress of the Discalced Carmel in France and later became an extern sister of the order.

1570–1601 · Reformation · Benedictines

Mark Barkworth, OSB (alias Mark Lambert; c. 1572 – 1601) was a Catholic priest, oblate of the Order of St Benedict, and martyr. Born around 1572 at Searby, Lincolnshire, he studied for a time at Oxford, though no record remains of his stay there.

1631–1699 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Mark of Aviano (Italian: Marco d'Aviano), born Carlo Domenico Cristofori (November 17, 1631 – August 13, 1699) was an Italian Capuchin friar. In 2003, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II.

1632–1668 · Reformation

Mary Catherine of St. Augustine, OSA (French: Marie-Catherine de Saint-Augustin) (3 May 1632 – 8 May 1668) was a French canoness regular who was instrumental in the development of the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec in the colony of New France.

1560–1640 · Reformation · Order of Discalced Nuns of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

María López de Rivas Martínez, OCD (18 August 1560 – 13 September 1640), in religion María of Jesus, was a Spanish Discalced Carmelite. She was beatified on 14 November 1976. María López de Rivas Martinez was born in Spain on 18 August 1560 into a life of wealth.

1580–1607 · Reformation

Mathew Flathers (Matthew; alias Major) (c. 1580 – 21 March c. 1607) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987. Born at Weston, West Riding of Yorkshire, Flathers was educated at Douai, graduating on 5 June 1605.

1585 · Reformation

Muiris Mac Ionrachtaigh, anglicised as Maurice MacKenraghty (died 30 April 1585), was an Irish Roman Catholic priest who was put to death, officially for high treason, but in reality as part of the religious persecution of the Catholic Church in Ireland by Queen Elizabeth I and h…

1599–1632 · Reformation

Melchior of Saint Augustine, born Melchor Sánchez Pérez (Granada 1599 – Nagasaki, December 11, 1632), was a Spanish missionary of the Order of Augustinian Recollects. A martyr in Japan, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1989.

1583–1628 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

1598–1637 · Reformation · Dominican Order

The 16 Martyrs of Japan (日本の殉教者, Nihon no junkyōsha) were Christians who were persecuted for their faith in Japan, mostly during the 17th century.

1445–1522 · Reformation · Camaldolese

Michele Pini (born 23 August 1986 in Italy) is an Italian footballer. In 2015, at the age of 28, Pini retired from football, leaving Lumezzane to work at a factory because the latter earned more money.

1579–1624 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Miguel de Carvalho SJ, also known as Michael Carvalho, (1579 – 25 August 1624) was a Roman Catholic missionary from Portugal. He was beatified in July 1867 by Pope Pius IX. Miguel was born in Braga, in 1579, to a noble and wealthy family.

1550–1590 · Reformation

Miles Gerard (born about 1550 at Wigan; executed at Rochester 13 (30?) April, 1590) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.

1620–1684 · Reformation · Franciscans

Miguel Baptista Gran Peris, OFM (24 November 1620 - 11 September 1684 ), known as Blessed Bonaventura Gran or Fra Bonaventura of Barcelona, was a Catalonian Franciscan friar. He was beatified by Pope Pius X in 1906.

1650–1626 · Reformation

The Martyrs of Japan (Japanese: 日本の殉教者, Hepburn: Nihon no junkyōsha) were Christian missionaries and followers who were persecuted and executed, mostly during the Tokugawa shogunate period in the 17th century.

1591 · Reformation

Blessed Montford Scott (b. in Hawstead, Suffolk, England; executed at Fleet Street, London, on 1 July 1591) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987 as one of the Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales.

1550–1588 · Reformation

Nicholas Garlick (c. 1555 – 24 July 1588) was an English Catholic priest, martyred in Derby in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. He was born around 1555, near Dinting in Glossop, within the county of Derby.

1590 · Reformation

Nicholas Horner (died 3 March 1590) was an English Roman Catholic layman, hanged, drawn and quartered because he had "relieved and assisted" Christopher Bales, a seminary priest. A tailor by trade, he was charged with making a jerkin for a priest.

1534–1572 · Reformation · Franciscans

Nicholas Pieck, O.F.M., "Nicolaas" or "Claes Pieck" in Dutch, was a Franciscan friar who was one of a group of Catholic clergy and lay brothers, the Martyrs of Gorkum, who were executed for refusal to renounce their faith in 1572.

1596–1679 · Reformation

Nicholas Postgate (1596 or 1597 – 7 August 1679) was an English Catholic priest who was executed for treason during the anti-Catholic persecution in England.

1550–1586 · Reformation

Nicholas Woodfen born Nicholas Wheeler (1550 - 21 January 1586), also known as Nicholas Devereux, was an English Roman Catholic priest who was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, London on 21 January 1586.