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1526–1581 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Louis Bertrand, OP (Spanish: Luis Beltrán or Luis Bertrán; Valencian: Lluís Bertran; 1 January 1526 – 9 October 1581) was a Spanish Dominican friar who preached in South America during the 16th century, and is known as the "Apostle to the Americas".

1591–1660 · Reformation · Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul

Louise de Marillac D.C., also known as Louise Le Gras, (August 12, 1591 – March 15, 1660) was the co-founder, with Vincent de Paul, of the Daughters of Charity. She is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church and the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.

1502–1556 · Reformation

Luarsab I (Georgian: ლუარსაბ I) (c. 1502–1509 – c. 1556–1558), of the Bagrationi dynasty, was a king (mepe) of the Georgian Kingdom of Kartli from 1527 to 1556 or from 1534 to 1558.

1592–1622 · Reformation

Luarsab II the Holy Martyr (Georgian: ლუარსაბ II; 1592 – 21 June (O.S.), 1 July (N.S.), 1622) was a Georgian monarch who reigned as king (mepe) of Kartli (eastern Georgia) from 1606 to 1615. He was a member of the Bagrationi dynasty.

1586–1597 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor

The 26 Martyrs of Japan (Japanese: 日本二十六聖人, Hepburn: Nihon Nijūroku Seijin) were a group of Catholics who were executed by crucifixion on 5 February 1597, in Nagasaki, Japan. Their martyrdom is especially significant in the history of the Catholic Church in Japan.

1540–1582 · Reformation

Luke Kirby (also Kirbie c. 1549 – 30 May 1582) was an English Catholic priest and martyr from the North of England, executed during the reign of Elizabeth I. He is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Kirby was born in Richmond, North Yorkshire.

1575–1619 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Leonardo Kimura, SJ (also known as レオナルド 木村 or レ゜オナルド; 1575 – 18 November 1619) was a Japanese Catholic evangelist and teacher. Killed as a victim of anti-Catholic persecution in Japan, he was beatified by Pope Pius IX in 1867.

1605–1678 · Reformation

Macaire de Kanev was an Eastern Orthodox priest and metropolitan born in 1605 in Ovruch. He died in 1678 in Kaniv, where he is also buried. He is recognized as a saint within Eastern Orthodoxy.

1550 · Reformation

Saint Macaire le Romain was born in Rome and served as an Eastern Orthodox hegumen. He died in 1550.

1507 · Reformation

1482–1564 · Reformation

Macarius (Russian: Мака́рий, romanized: Makary; 1482 – 12 January 1563) was Metropolitan of Moscow and all Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, from 1542 to 1563.

1566–1607 · Reformation · Carmelite nuns

Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, OCarm (Italian: Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi; born Caterina Lucrezia de' Pazzi; 2 April 1566 – 25 May 1607), was an Italian Carmelite nun and mystic. She has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church.

1611–1634 · Reformation · Augustinians

Magdalene of Nagasaki (長崎のマグダレナ, Nagasaki no Magudarena) (1611-October 15, 1634) was a Japanese Christian who served as a translator and catechist for the Augustine Recollect missionaries. She became a tertiary of the Order of Augustinian Recollects.

1574 · Reformation

Makarije Sokolović (Serbian Cyrillic: Макарије Соколовић; died 1574) was the Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch from 1557 to 1571. He was the first head of the restored Serbian Patriarchate of Peć, after its lapse in 1463 that resulted from the Ottoman conquest of Serbia.

1555–1586 · Reformation

Margaret Clitherow (née Middleton, c. 1556 – 25 March 1586) was an English Catholic recusant known as The Pearl of York. She was pressed to death for refusing to enter a plea to the charge of harbouring Catholic priests. She was canonised in 1970 by Pope Paul VI.

1550–1588 · Reformation

Margaret Ward (c. 1550–30 August 1588), called the "pearl of Tyburn", was an English saint and martyr who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I for assisting a priest to escape from prison. She was canonised in 1970, as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.

1618–1645 · Reformation · Third Order of Saint Francis

Mariana of Jesus de Paredes (Spanish: Mariana or María Ana de Jesús de Paredes; October 31, 1618 – May 26, 1645) is a Catholic saint and was the first person to be canonized from what is now Ecuador.

1599–1672 · Reformation · Ursulines

Marie of the Incarnation OSU (née Marie Guyart; 28 October 1599 – 30 April 1672) was a French Ursuline nun from Quebec City. As part of a group of nuns sent to New France (modern-day Quebec, Canada) to establish the Ursuline Order, Marie was crucial in the spread of Catholicism i…

1501–1634 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Marina of Omura (Japanese: 大村のマリナ, romanized: Ōmura no Marina; died 11 November 1634) was a Japanese Dominican tertiary who sheltered Roman Catholic missionaries. She is one of the 16 Martyrs of Japan.

1589–1619 · Reformation · Benedictines

Marko Stjepan Krizin (c. 1588 – 7 September 1619), or Marko Križevčanin (Hungarian: Kőrösi Márk, lit. 'Mark of Križevci') was a Croatian Roman Catholic priest, professor of theology and missionary, who was active in the 17th century.

1600–1600 · Reformation

Saint Markos Markoulis was born in 1600 in Kleisoura, Ottoman Empire. He died in 1600 in Argos Orestiko.

1566–1597 · Reformation · Ordo Fratrum Minorum de Regularis Observantia

Martín de la Ascensión Aguirre, born in Ibarrangelu, Gipuzkoa, in the present-day Spanish Basque Country in 1566 or 1567 and died in Nagasaki, Japan, on February 5, 1597, was a 16th-century Spanish Franciscan friar and Catholic missionary who died a martyr in Japan.

1645 · Reformation

Mateus Moreira (d. 3 October 1645) was a Portuguese martyr, from Colonial Brazil, of the Catholic Church. He was beatified on March 5, 2000 and canonized on October 15, 2017, along with the other Martyrs of Natal.

1500–1500 · Reformation

Saint Matrona of Chios (Greek: Οσία Ματρώνα η Χιοπολίτις), was born during the 15th century in the village of Volissos on the island of Chios, Greece. This is the same village in which St. Markella was martyred in 1462.

1597 · Reformation · Franciscans

Saint Matthias of Miyako (also of Meako; died February 5, 1597, in Nagasaki, Japan) was a Japanese Franciscan tertiary, saint, and martyr. He was crucified with Saint Peter Baptist and his companions in Nagasaki.

1584–1619 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Melchior Grodziecki (c. 1582 – 7 September 1619) was a Silesian Jesuit priest. He is considered a martyr and saint by the Catholic Church. He was canonized in 1995 and is liturgically commemorated on 19 January.

1555–1597 · Reformation · Franciscans

The 26 Martyrs of Japan (Japanese: 日本二十六聖人, Hepburn: Nihon Nijūroku Seijin) were a group of Catholics who were executed by crucifixion on 5 February 1597, in Nagasaki, Japan. Their martyrdom is especially significant in the history of the Catholic Church in Japan.

1591–1625 · Reformation · Trinitarian Order

Michael de Sanctis (Catalan: Miquel dels Sants) (29 September 1591 – 10 April 1625), sometimes called Michael of the Saints, was a Discalced Trinitarian born in Vic, a city of Catalonia, Spain.

1572 · Reformation

Saint Michel de Bourla died in 1572 in Turkey. He was a saint who died by decapitation.

1544 · Reformation

Saint Michel des Agrapha was a baker born in the Metropolis of Karpenisi. He died in Thessaloniki in 1544 and is recognized as a saint.

1592–1690 · Reformation

Mönch Mälkeʾa Krestos was a monk and abbot who lived from 1592 to 1690. He is recognized as a saint.

1482–1521 · Reformation

Neagoe Basarab was the Voivode (Prince) of Wallachia between 1512 and 1521. Born into the boyar family of the Craiovești (his reign marks the climax of the family's political influence) as the son of Pârvu Craiovescu or Basarab Țepeluș cel Tânăr, Neagoe Basarab, who replaced Vlad…

1500 · Reformation

Nectaire de Karyes was a monk who died in 1500. He is recognized as a saint.

1406–1500 · Reformation

Saint Nectarius was born in Bitola in 1406 and died in 1500. He is recognized as a saint.

1587–1667 · Reformation

Nektary Telyashin was born in 1586 in Ostashkov and served as an Eastern Orthodox priest, hegumen, and archbishop. He died in 1667 in Moscow and is recognized as a prelate.

1450–1508 · Reformation

Nephon II of Constantinople (Nifon II (Greek: Νήφων; Albanian: Nifoni; died 11 August 1508), born Nicholas (Νικόλαος), was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople three times: from 1486 to 1488, from 1497 to 1498 and for a short time in 1502.

1592–1637 · Reformation

Nicholas Ferrar (22 February 1592 – 4 December 1637) was an English scholar, courtier and businessman, who was ordained a deacon in the Church of England.

1550–1606 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Nicholas Owen, S.J., (c. 1562 – 1/2 March 1606) was an English Jesuit lay brother who was the principal builder of priest holes during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and James I of England.

1500–1555 · Reformation

Nicholas Ridley (c. 1500 – 16 October 1555) was an English Bishop of London (the only bishop called "Bishop of London and Westminster"). Ridley was one of the Oxford Martyrs burned at the stake during the Marian Persecutions, for his teachings and his support of Lady Jane Grey.

1501–1576 · Reformation

Nicholas Salos of Pskov (Russian: Николай Салос) was a Russian self-styled prophet ("Fool-for-Christ") in opposition of Tsar Ivan IV's oprichnina. In 1570, Ivan IV retaliated by raiding Pskov.

1576 · Reformation

Saint Nicholas of Pskov was a fool for Christ. He lived for thirty-five years as a beggar on the streets of Pskov. Summer and winter, he was naked or nearly naked and feigned madness to attract the contempt of men. He fell asleep in peace in 1576.

1700–1696 · Reformation

Saint Noultzos was born in Kastoria in 1700 and died in the same city in 1696. He was a citizen of the Ottoman Empire.

1613–1649 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Noël Chabanel (February 2, 1613 – December 8, 1649) was a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, and one of the Canadian Martyrs. Chabenal was born February 2, 1613 in the village of Saugues, France, the youngest of four children.

1629–1681 · Reformation

Oliver Plunkett (or Oliver Plunket; Irish: Oilibhéar Pluincéid; 1 November 1625 – 1 July 1681) was the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland and the last victim of the Popish Plot.

1502 · Reformation

Paisius Yaroslavov (Russian: Паисий Ярославов; died 1501) was the most famous monk of the Kamenny Monastery, located by Lake Kubenskoye in Vologda Oblast, Russia. Historians do not know much about Paisiy Yaroslavov.

1450–1504 · Reformation

Paisius of Uglich (died 1504 in Uglich) was an Orthodox Christian monk and saint. His uncle was the later Orthodox saint Macarius of Kalyazin.

1540–1592 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor

Paschal Baylón (24 May 1540 – 17 May 1592) was a Spanish Catholic religious brother in the Order of Friars Minor. He served as a shepherd alongside his father in his childhood and adolescence, but desired to enter the religious life.

1448–1567 · Reformation

Joachim (1448?-1567) served as Greek Patriarch of Alexandria between 1486 and 1567. In 1556, Joachim sent a letter to the Russian Czar Ivan IV, asking the Orthodox monarch to provide some material assistance for the Saint Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula, which had s…

1525–1607 · Reformation

Job (Russian: Иов, romanized: Iov; died 19 June 1607) was Metropolitan of Moscow and all Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, from 1587 to 1589, and the first Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' from 1589 to 1605.

1550–1657 · Reformation

Parthenius III of Constantinople (Greek: Παρθένιος; died 24 March 1657) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in 1656–1657. In 1657 he was charged with treason by the Ottoman Sultan and hanged, after refusing to abjure his own Christian faith.