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1515–1604 · Reformation

Sidi Abdellah ben Ahmed Khalid ben Hassoun (1515 in Fez – 1604 in Salé) is, alongside Sidi Ben Acher al-Andaloussi, Sidi Ahmed Hajji, and Sidi Ahmed Turki, one of the principal saints of Salé. He is the patron saint of the city.

1505–1622 · Reformation · Franciscans

Apollinaire Franco, or Apollinaire of Japan, was a Franciscan priest born in Aguilar de Campoo in Old Castile (Spain) around 1570. He was burned alive in Omura, Japan, in 1622 for failing to comply with the 1614 order issued by the shoguns for Catholic missionaries to leave the c…

1620–1682 · Reformation

Benito Latras y Loriz, better known as "Cosán" (Cos Sant or holy body), was an abbot of the Monastery of Santa María de Alaón and a deputy of the Cortes of Aragon.

1600–1597 · Reformation · Franciscans

The Martyrs of Nagasaki were 26 Franciscan and Jesuit missionaries as well as Japanese converts to Christianity, aged between 12 and 64, who were executed in 1597 by order of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. They are venerated as martyrs and saints in the Catholic and Anglican churches.

1500 · Reformation

Christina of Hamm (15th century; died 15th or 16th century) was a mystic and a blessed of the Roman Catholic Church. Information regarding Christina’s life is limited to a brief account by Werner Rolevinck in his 1470s universal history, Fasciculus temporum.

1643–1693 · Reformation

Cornelius of Pereslavl, born Konon, was a saintly monk of the Russian Orthodox Church. He came from a merchant family in Ryazan. In his youth, he ran away from home to become a spiritual disciple of Elder Paul, a monk at the Lukyanov Hermitage near Pereslavl-Zalessky.

1597 · Reformation · Franciscans

Cosmas Takeya was a katana blacksmith from Owari. He was baptized by Jesuit missionaries and became a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis.

1514–1527 · Reformation

Cristóbal Acxotecatl (died 1527) is a Mexican saint. He is known as one of the Child Martyrs of Tlaxcala. He was one of the first Christian martyrs in the Americas.

1549–1629 · Reformation

Dorothea of Kashin (Russian: Дорофея Кашинская, Dorofeya Kashinskaya) was a Russian nun born in 1549 who died on September 24, 1629 (October 4 in the Gregorian calendar) in Kashin. She lived as a recluse and nun in Moscow, Russia.

1597 · Reformation · Franciscans

Francis Kichi (died February 5, 1597) was a Japanese Christian during the Azuchi-Momoyama period. He was executed in Nagasaki under Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s ban on Christianity and is one of the Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan who were canonized as saints.

1578–1597 · Reformation · Franciscans

Gabriel de Duisco (executed February 5, 1597, on the hills of Nagasaki) was a Japanese Catholic layman, converted by Gonsalo Garcia, who became a catechist and a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis.

1489–1554 · Reformation

Gerasim of Boldino (secular name Grigory; 1489, Pereslavl-Zalessky — May 1, 1554, Trinity Boldino Monastery) was a monk of the Russian Church and the founder of the Boldino Monastery near Dorogobuzh and the Trinity Monastery in Zhizdra.

1450–1504 · Reformation

Agnes of Aislingen (born 15th century in Aislingen, died probably January 21, 1504, in Rebdorf, Germany) was a saint of the Catholic Church and a hermit. She was a recluse at an Augustinian monastery near Rebdorf.

1530 · Reformation · Poor Clares

Isabella Maria della Passione, also known as Isabella of Sicily or Saint Isabella the Poor Clare (died 1530), was an Italian religious sister. She is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church, which commemorates her on June 4.

1551–1597 · Reformation · Franciscans

Joachim Sakakibara (also Sakachibara or Saccachibara; born 1556 in Osaka, Japan – died executed February 5, 1597, in Tateyama, Nagasaki, Japan) was a Japanese physician, catechist, and Franciscan tertiary who was martyred for his faith in Nagasaki.

1597 · Reformation · Franciscans

John Kinuya was a member of the Third Order of St. Francis who died as a martyr in Japan in 1597. When persecution against Catholics intensified, he and 25 companions—8 priests and religious and 17 laypeople—were arrested, insulted, and severely tortured.

1649–1679 · Reformation

John Lloyd (Brecknockshire, 1630 – Cardiff, July 22, 1679) was a Welsh priest. Martyred under Charles II, he is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church and is remembered as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.

1578–1597 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Saint John Soan de Goto (Yohane Gotō), born in 1578 on one of the Goto Islands (Japan) and executed on February 5, 1597, in Nagasaki (Japan), was a Japanese Jesuit seminarian. Along with 25 other Christians, he was crucified in hatred of the Christian faith.

1500–1600 · Reformation

Lakshmipriya was a Gaudiya Vaishnava saint who lived in Bengal during the late 15th and early 16th centuries. She was the first wife of the Vaishnava saint and religious reformer Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who is revered in the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition as the combined avatar of Kri…

1515 · Reformation

Lawrence of Kaluga (died August 10, 1515) was a fool for Christ and a locally venerated saint of the Russian Orthodox Church. Tradition attributes the protection of Kaluga from a Crimean Tatar attack in 1512 to his intercession. The St.

1597 · Reformation

Leo Karasumaru, also known as Carasumaro, Carasumo, or Carasuma (Japanese: レオ烏丸, Reo Karasuma; c. 1559 – Nagasaki, February 5, 1597), was a Japanese catechist. He was crucified in Nagasaki alongside twenty-five other Catholics, both laypeople and religious.

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.

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.

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.

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.

1597 · Reformation · Franciscans

Paul Ibaraki was a Japanese Catholic martyr. Coming from a samurai family in Owari, he and his family lived near an Order of Friars Minor monastery. He lived in poverty but frequently helped those who were poorer than himself. He was also a preacher.

1578–1597 · Reformation · Franciscans

Paul Suzuki (born 1563 in Owari Province, present-day Aichi Prefecture; died executed February 5, 1597, on the hills of Nagasaki) was a Japanese Catholic layman, a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis, and a catechist employed by Franciscan missionaries who fell victim to a…

1542–1597 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor

Peter Baptist Blásquez (Pedro Bautista Blásquez in Spanish), born in San Esteban del Valle, Spain, on June 24, 1542, and died (executed) in Nagasaki, Japan, on February 5, 1597, was a 16th-century Spanish Discalced Franciscan missionary who died for the Christian faith in Japan.

1645–1679 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Philip Evans, born in 1645 in Monmouth, Gwent, Wales (Great Britain), and executed on July 22, 1679, in Cardiff, Wales, was a Welsh Jesuit priest. He was executed for treason, alongside John Lloyd, for exercising his priesthood.

1585–1622 · Reformation · Récollets

Blessed Lambert Trouvez (in religion: Richard of Saint Anne, of the Order of Friars Minor Recollects), born in 1585 in Beignée (Ham-sur-Heure), then in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège (Belgium), and died (burned alive) on September 10, 1622, in Nagasaki (Japan), was a Franciscan Re…

1510–1590 · Reformation

Saint Timothy of Euripus (born Tasos Kalamiotis, 1510) is an Orthodox saint and Bishop of Euripus in Chalcis. His feast day is celebrated on August 16, and in 1993, a church dedicated to Saint Timothy was built in his honor on the island of Kea, which is also commemorated on July…

1630–1696 · Reformation

Saint Theodosius, Bishop of Chernigov, born into the Polonitsky-Uglitsky family around 1630 and died in 1696, was an Orthodox archbishop of the Eparchy of Chernigov who was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1896.

1588–1602 · Reformation

Basil of Mangazeya (c. 1588, Yaroslavl — c. 1602, Mangazeya) was a Siberian protomartyr and a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church. His feast days (according to the Julian calendar) are March 23, May 10, July 6, May 23 (Synaxis of Rostov and Yaroslavl Saints), and June 10 (Synaxi…

1550–1610 · Reformation

Ioasaf of Borovsk (died July 5, 1610) was a Russian clergyman and archimandrite of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius (1605–1610). He was the inspiration behind the sixteen-month defense of the Trinity Lavra against Polish-Lithuanian invaders. He died during the siege of the St.