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1642–1678 · Reformation

Nicolas Roland (8 December 1642 - 27 April 1678) was a French priest, canon and educator. He was a friend, contemporary and spiritual director of John Baptist de La Salle.

1638–1686 · Reformation

Niels Steensen (Danish: Niels Steensen; Latinized to Nicolas Steno or Nicolaus Stenonius; 1 January 1638 – 25 November 1686 [NS: 11 January 1638 – 5 December 1686]) was a Danish scientist, a pioneer in both anatomy and geology who became a Catholic bishop in his later years.

1520–1583 · Reformation · Franciscans

Nicolás Factor (29 June 1520 – 23 December 1583) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and a professed member from the Order of Friars Minor as well as a painter of the Renaissance period.

1563–1618 · Reformation

Nicolò Rusca (20 April 1563 – 24 July 1618) was an Italian priest who served in the Diocese of Como. Rusca was arrested under false pretenses and was killed through the use of torture in 1618. He was recognized by the Roman Catholic Church as a martyr and was beatified in 2013.

1493–1565 · Reformation · Third Order of Saint Dominic

Osanna of Cattaro (Serbian: Озана Которска, romanized: Ozana Kotorska; 25 November 1493 – 27 April 1565) was a Catholic visionary and anchoress from Cattaro. She was a convert from Orthodoxy of Serbian descent from Montenegro.

1449–1505 · Reformation · Third Order of Saint Dominic

Osanna of Mantua (also "Hosanna") (17 January 1449 – 18 June 1505) was an Italian Dominican tertiary who gained notice as a stigmatic and mystic. Osanna was the daughter of the nobles Niccolò Andreasi, whose family had originated in Hungary, and of Agnese Gonzaga.

1520–1602 · Reformation

Blessed Osios Serafeim Domvous was a Greek Orthodox monk born in 1520 within the Ottoman Empire. He died in 1602 and is buried at the Osios Serafeim Domvos monastery.

1463–1515 · Reformation · Third Order of Saint Francis

Paola Gambara Costa (3 March 1463 - 24 January 1515) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed member of the Third Order of Saint Francis. She was born to nobles and married in 1475 to the nobleman Lodovico Antonio Costa - and had one child - who soon acquired a mistress and chasti…

1581 · Reformation

The Wexford Martyrs were Matthew Lambert, Robert Meyler, Edward Cheevers and Patrick Cavanagh. In 1581, they were convicted of high treason for aiding in the escape of James Eustace, 3rd Viscount Baltinglass; for similarly conveying a Jesuit and other Catholic priests and laymen…

1550–1579 · Reformation · Franciscans

Patrick O'Hely (Irish: Pádraig Ó hÉilí) (born between 1543 and 1546, died 31 August 1579) was an Irish Franciscan priest from Creevelea Abbey, near Dromahair, County Leitrim, and illegal and underground Bishop of Mayo, who was tortured and executed as part of the Elizabethan era…

1612 · Reformation

Patrick O'Loughran (in Irish: Pádraig Ó Lochráin) (died 1 February 1612) was a priest of the archdiocese of Armagh and an Irish Catholic Martyr. O'Loughran was born in Donaghmore, County Tyrone to an Erenagh family.

1480–1572 · Reformation · Franciscans

Pieter van der Moere, also known as Brother Pedro de Gante or Pedro de Mura (c. 1480 – 1572) was a Franciscan missionary in sixteenth century Mexico. Born in Geraardsbergen in present-day Belgium, he was of Flemish descent.

1617 · Reformation

Peter of the Assumption, OFM (Spanish: Pedro de la Asunción; born in Cuerva, died May 22, 1617, in Kōri) was a blessed of the Catholic Church, a martyr, and a Spanish priest of the Franciscan Order.

1501–1598 · Reformation

Peter Snow (c. 1564 – 15 June 1598) was an English Catholic priest who was executed by the state, along with Ralph Grimston, in 1598. They were beatified as martyrs in 1987. Their feast is 15 June.

1591–1624 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Pedro Vásquez, O.P, also known as Peter Vásquez, (1591 – 25 August 1624) was a Spanish Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and missionary who died a martyr in Japan. He was beatified in July 1867 by Pope Pius IX.

1603–1651 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Peter Wright (1603 – 19 May 1651) was an English Jesuit priest and martyr who has been beatified by the Roman Catholic Church. Peter Wright was born in Slipton, Northamptonshire, one of twelve children. Peter was still young when his father died.

1600–1638 · Reformation

Pierre Bertholet, also known by his religious name Dionysius of the Nativity (Honfleur, December 12, 1600 – Aceh, November 1638), was a French-Portuguese navigator and Discalced Carmelite. He is venerated as a martyr by the Roman Catholic Church.

1594–1646 · Reformation · Benedictines

Philip Powell (sometimes spelled Philip Powel) (2 February 1594 – 30 June 1646) was a lawyer who became a Benedictine monk and priest, serving as a missionary in England during the period of recusancy. He was martyred at Tyburn.

1553–1583 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Blessed Peter Berno, born around 1552 in Ascona, in the canton of Ticino (Switzerland), and died (assassinated) on July 25, 1583, in Cuncolim (Goa), was a Swiss Jesuit priest and missionary in India.

1570–1647 · Reformation · Piarists

Pietro Casani (8 September 1570 – 17 October 1647) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Piarists. He became an assistant and a close personal friend of Giuseppe Calasanz.

1561–1622 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Pietro Paolo Navarro was a Catholic priest and member of the Society of Jesus born in 1560 in Laino Borgo. He died in 1622 in Shimabara by burning and is recognized as a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1501–1606 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Ralph Ashley, SJ (died 7 April 1606) was an English Jesuit lay brother who became involved with the aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.

1598–1644 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Ralph Corbie, SJ (Corby, Corbington, at times Corrington; 25 March 1598 – 7 September 1644) was an Irish Jesuit. A victim of the anti-Catholic persecutions following the Reformation, he was beatified in 1929. Corbie was born near Dublin.

1588 · Reformation

Ralph Crockett (b. at Barton, near Farndon, Cheshire 1522; executed at Chichester, 1 October 1588) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.

1591 · Reformation

Ralph Milner (? at Slackstead, Hampshire, England, early in the sixteenth century – executed 7 July 1591 at Winchester) was an English martyr of the Roman Catholic Church. Along with Roger Dicconson (also spelled Dickenson), a Catholic priest, they were martyred at Winchester.

1598–1638 · Reformation · Order of the Brothers Discalced of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Redemptus of the Cross, OCD (also Redemptorus of the Cross; 15 March 1598 – 27 November 1638) was a Portuguese Carmelite lay brother. He was put to death, along with other members of a group sent to Aceh by Portuguese authorities.

1552–1613 · Reformation

Regina Protmann (1552 – 18 January 1613) was a Roman Catholic religious sister. She founded the Sisters of Saint Catherine and was a pioneer in the establishment of hospitals as well as schools for girls.

1508–1537 · Reformation · Carthusian Order

Richard Beere (or Bere) (born before 1493; died 20 January 1524) was an English Benedictine abbot of Glastonbury, known as a builder for his abbey, as a diplomat and scholar, and a friend of Erasmus.

1540 · Reformation

Richard Fetherston (Fetherstone, Featherstone) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He was Archdeacon of Brecon, Chaplain to Catharine of Aragon, and Latin tutor to her daughter, Mary Tudor. He was executed on 30 July 1540 and beatified by Pope Leo XIII on 29 December 1886.

1628 · Reformation

Richard Herst (Hurst) (died 29 August 1628) was an English Roman Catholic recusant layman. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929. Herst is thought to have been born at Broughton, near Preston, Lancashire, England, where he was a well-to-do yeoman, farming his own land.

1600–1586 · Reformation

Richard Langley (died 1 December 1586) was an English Roman Catholic layman, condemned for sheltering Catholic priests. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929. Langley was probably born at Grimthorpe in Yorkshire.

1550–1588 · Reformation

Richard Leigh (c. 1557 – 1588) was an English Roman Catholic martyr born in Cambridge, the scion of Cheshire gentry, squires of the West Hall, High Legh since the 11th century.

1588 · Reformation

Richard Martin (died 1588) was an English martyr. A layman, Martin was charged with being a "receiver and maintainer of priests" for having bought supper for Robert Morton, a priest.

1586 · Reformation

Richard Sergeant (executed at Tyburn, 20 April 1586) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987. He was probably a younger son of Thomas Sergeant of Stone, Gloucestershire, by Katherine, daughter of John Tyre of Hardwick.

1550–1588 · Reformation

Richard Simpson (or Sympson) (c. 1553 – 24 July 1588) was an English priest, martyred in the reign of Elizabeth I. He was born in Well, in Yorkshire.

1583 · Reformation

Richard Thirkeld (died 29 May 1583) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886. Thirkeld was born at Coniscliffe, Durham, England.

1460–1539 · Reformation

Richard Whiting O.S.B (1461 – 15 November 1539) was an English monk and the last Abbot of Glastonbury. Whiting presided over Glastonbury Abbey at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries (1536–1541) under King Henry VIII of England.

1560–1589 · Reformation

George Nichols (c. 1550 – 19 October 1589) was an English Catholic martyr. Born at Oxford in 1550, George Nichols entered Brasenose College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, in 1564 or 1565 where he received his B.A. degree in 1571.

1550–1586 · Reformation

Robert Anderton (c. 1560 – 25 April 1586) was an English or Manx Catholic priest and martyr under the Elizabethan era religious persecution. Along with his companion, William Marsden, he was beatified by Pope Pius XI in 1929.

1586 · Reformation

Robert Bickerdike (died 1586) was an English Roman Catholic layman, executed on a treason charge. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987. He was born at Low Hall, Farnham, near Knaresborough, and lived at York, where he was an apprentice.

1540 · Reformation

Blessed Robert Bird was a citizen of the Kingdom of England. He died at Tyburn in 1540 by hanging.

1589 · Reformation

Robert Dalby (died 1589) was an English Catholic priest and martyr. Robert Dalby (sometimes called Drury), came from Hemingbrough in the West Riding of Yorkshire (now North Yorkshire) lived at first as a Protestant minister.

1550–1586 · Reformation

Robert Dibdale (or Debdale) (ca. 1556 – 8 October 1586) was an English Catholic priest and martyr. Dibdale was born the son of John Dibdale of Shottery, a village in the county of Warwickshire, within the parish of Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare's wif…

1567–1607 · Reformation

Robert Drury (1567–1607) was an English Roman Catholic priest, executed for treason. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987. He was born of a Buckinghamshire family, presumably the younger son of Robert Drury of Hedgerley and Chalfont St. Peter.

1575–1604 · Reformation

Robert Grissold (died 1604) was an attendant of John Sugar, the Roman Catholic priest co-martyred at Warwick in 1604. His name is also given as Greswold or Griswold. Grissold belonged to an ancient yeomanry family of Rowington.

1482–1582 · Reformation

Robert Johnson, a Shropshire native, was a Catholic priest and martyr during the reign of Elizabeth I. Robert Johnson had grown up in one of the four parishes of Claverley, Hales, Owen or Worfield in what was then the Anglican Diocese of Worcester.

1550–1588 · Reformation

Robert Ludlam (c. 1551 – 24 July 1588) was an English priest, martyred in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. He was born around 1551, in Derbyshire. His father was a yeoman.

1550–1600 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Robert Nutter (c. 1550 – 26 July 1600) was an English Catholic priest, Dominican friar and martyr. He was beatified in 1987. Throughout the religious upheavals following the English Reformation, the vast majority of English Catholics, many of whom lived in Lancashire, remained s…

1587 · Reformation

Robert Sutton (c. 1543-1545; Burton-on-Trent – 27 July 1587; Stafford) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.

1591 · Reformation

Robert Thorpe (died 15 May 1591) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987. Thorpe was born in Yorkshire.