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1563–1595 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

The Venerable François Abraham de Georgiis, born in 1563 in Aleppo, Syria, and killed by throat-slitting on April 30, 1595, in Massawa, Eritrea, was a Lebanese Maronite Jesuit priest. Sent to join the Jesuit mission in Ethiopia, he suffered martyrdom there in April 1595.

1551–1602 · Reformation

Alessandro Luzzago (October 1551, Brescia - 7 May 1602, Milan) was an Italian nobleman and organizer of Catholic charities. He is venerated in the Catholic Church, having been declared Venerable in 1899 by Pope Leo XIII.

1530–1597 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Alonzo de Bárcena (also called de Barzana) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary and linguist. A beatification process for him was opened in 2016. De Bárcena was a native of Baeza in Andalusia, southern Spain, born in 1528; he died at Cuzco, Peru on 15 January 1598.

1555–1624 · Reformation · Order of Discalced Nuns of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Ana de Pedruja Rebolledo, who took the name Ana de San Agustín (Valladolid, 1555–Villanueva de la Jara, 1624), was a Spanish Discalced Carmelite nun, mystic, and founder, declared venerable by Pope Pius VI.

1567–1621 · Reformation · Society of Saint Ursula of Anne de Xainctonge

Anne de Xainctonge (21 November 1567 – 8 June 1621) was a French religious sister who founded of the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin. She was declared venerable by the Roman Catholic Church in 1991.

1478–1556 · Reformation

Anthony of Siya (Russian: Антоний Сийский, romanized: Antony Siysky; 1478–1556) was a Russian Orthodox monk who was proclaimed a saint after his death.

1532–1590 · Reformation

Magdalena of Austria (German: Magdalena von Österreich; 14 August 1532 – 10 September 1590) was a co-founder and first abbess of the Ladies' Convent of Hall (Haller Damenstift), born an archduchess of Austria from the House of Habsburg as the daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman E…

1550 · Reformation

Arseniy Komelskiy was a monk born in Moscow. He died in 1550 and is recognized as a Venerable figure within the Russian Orthodox Church.

1575–1609 · Reformation

Bartolomé Ximénez (Iniesta, Cuenca, Spain, 1575 – Ayora, Valencia, Spain, 1609), also known as Venerable Bartolomé Ximénez, was a Spanish Discalced Franciscan friar. He founded the Ancient Brotherhood of Mary Most Holy of the Conception of Puebla del Salvador.

1564–1625 · Reformation

Venerable Bernard Bardon de Brun was a lawyer and priest from the Kingdom of France. Born in 1564, he died in Limoges in 1625.

1605–1667 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Bernardo da Corleone (born Filippo Latini, 6 February 1605 – 12 January 1667) was a Sicilian Capuchin friar. He was a cobbler like his father until the latter died and he became a violent-tempered soldier who was quick to challenge to a duel those who offended him or the causes…

1530–1616 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Bernardino Realino (1 December 1530 – 2 July 1616) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Jesuits. His entire career was devoted to the areas of Naples and Lecce.

1545–1621 · Reformation · Carmelite nuns

Ana de Jesús, known in English as Anne of Jesus (25 November 1545 – 4 March 1621), was a Spanish Discalced Carmelite nun and writer. She was the founder of the Carmelite reform and a close companion of Teresa of Ávila, and served to establish new monasteries of the Order througho…

1647–1654 · Reformation

Bogolep of Chorny Yar (Russian: Боголеп Черноярский; secular name: Boris Yakovlevich Ushakov; Russian: Бори́с Яковлевич Ушаков; May 2, 1647 – August 1, 1654) was a Russian Orthodox child schema-monk, a locally venerated saint of the Russian Orthodox Church, with the title of Vene…

1614–1691 · Reformation · Carmelites

Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, OCD (born Nicolas Herman; c. 1614 – 12 February 1691) was a French Catholic religious brother who served at a Discalced Carmelite monastery, what is now Saint-Joseph-des-Carmes in Paris.

1644–1694 · Reformation

Bénigne Joly, born in 1644 and died in 1694, was a French Catholic priest and religious writer from Dijon. This native of Dijon, sometimes called the "father of the poor" or the "Burgundian Saint Vincent de Paul," was a diocesan priest of the Diocese of Langres, which included th…

1538–1607 · Reformation · Oratory of Saint Philip Neri

Cesare Baronio, C.O. (as an author also known as Caesar Baronius; 30 August 1538 – 30 June 1607) was an Italian Oratorian, cardinal and historian of the Catholic Church.

1544–1594 · Reformation · Order of Discalced Nuns of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Catalina de Balmaseda y San Martín, religious name Catalina de Cristo, (1544-1594) was a Carmelite nun and associate of Teresa of Ávila. She was born into a noble family in Madrigal de las Altas Torres, being the third of four siblings, She was the daughter of Cristóbal de Balma…

1519–1577 · Reformation

Venerable Caterina de Cardona was born in 1519 to Ramón de Cardona in Barcelona, Naples, and held citizenship in the Crown of Aragon. A monk, she died in 1577 in Casas de Benítez and is buried in Villanueva de la Jara.

1620–1689 · Reformation

Catherine de Francheville, born September 21, 1620, at the Château de Truscat in Sarzeau and died March 3, 1689, in Vannes, was a 17th-century Breton religious woman who, after completing the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola herself, founded the first retreat house…

1455–1537 · Reformation

Venerable Corneille de la Komela was an Eastern Orthodox monk born in Rostov Veliky in 1457. He lived until 1537.

1594–1697 · Reformation

Dalmat of Iset (Dalmat of Perm, born Dmitry Ivanovich Mokrinsky; 1594, Beryozovo — June 25 (July 5), 1697, Dalmatovsky Dormition Monastery) was the founder of the Dalmatovsky Dormition Monastery.

1570–1633 · Reformation

Dionysius of Radonezh (secular name David Fyodorovich Zobninovsky, also Zobninov, Zobninsky, Zobnikovsky; c. 1570, Rzhev – c. May 15, 1633, Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius) was an archimandrite of the Trinity Lavra of St.

1656 · Reformation

The Venerable Eleazar di Anzersk was an Eastern Orthodox monk born in Kozelsk. He died in 1656 at the Solovetsky Monastery.

1472–1520 · Reformation

Elena Duglioli (1472 – 23 September 1520) was an Italian Roman Catholic aristocrat from Bologna noted for her devotion to Christian life and social teachings. Duglioli wanted to become a nun for the Poor Clares but instead married in order to please her parents.

1548 · Reformation

Helena, born Diewoczkina (died November 18, 1547, in Moscow), was a Russian Orthodox nun, a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church, and the first abbess of the Novodevichy Convent in Moscow.

1583–1657 · Reformation · Piarists

Francesco Borromini , byname of Francesco Castelli (Italian: [kaˈstɛlli]; 25 September 1599 – 2 August 1667), was an Italian architect born in the modern Swiss canton of Ticino who, with his contemporaries Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the em…

1546–1620 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor

Francesco Gonzaga O.F.M. Obs. (died 2 March 1620) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Mantua (1593–1620), Apostolic Nuncio to France (1596–1599), Bishop of Pavia (1593), and Bishop of Cefalù (1587–1593).

1550–1586 · Reformation

Francis Ingleby (c. 1551 – 3 June 1586) was a Roman Catholic martyr executed in York, England during the reign of Elizabeth I. Born about 1551, he was the fourth son of Sir William Ingleby and Anne Malory of Ripley Castle, North Yorkshire.

1629–1698 · Reformation · Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God

Francisco Camacho was born in 1629 in Jerez de la Frontera and served as both a soldier and a lay brother in the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God. He died in 1698 in Lima and is recognized as Venerable.

1574–1604 · Reformation · Order of the Brothers Discalced of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Francisco Sánchez Pascual, born in 1544 in Villapalacios and died on December 26, 1604, was a Spanish philanthropist and promoter of devotion to the Child Jesus who became a Discalced Carmelite under the name Francis of the Child Jesus.

1585–1647 · Reformation · Carmelites

Friar Francisco de la Cruz (Mora, December 28, 1585 – San Clemente, July 6, 1647) was a Castilian Carmelite friar, a lay brother of the Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel (O. Carm.). Upon his death, he was declared a Venerable Servant of God.

1604–1680 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Gabriel Macià, also known as Gabriel of Canet (Canet de Mar, Maresme, November 30, 1604 – Barcelona, 1680), was a Capuchin friar. He has been proclaimed venerable by the Catholic Church. He served as novice master and provincial definitor of the order.

1600–1565 · Reformation

Gennady Kostromskoy and Lyubimogradsky was an Eastern Orthodox iconographer born in Mogilev in 1600 and died in 1565. A citizen of the Tsardom of Russia, he is recognized as a Venerable saint and is buried in the Yaroslavl Oblast.

1595–1670 · Reformation

George II Rizqallah Beseb'ely (or Jirjis al-Basba'li, Beseb'ely, Arabic: جرجس الثاني رزق الله البسبعلي, Latin: Georgius Sebelensis, born in 1595 in Beseb'el, Lebanon – died on April 12, 1670, Keserwan District, Lebanon), was the 56th Maronite Patriarch of Antioch from 1657 to his…

1588–1618 · Reformation · Piarists

Venerable Glicerio Landriani was a Piarist regular cleric born in Milan in 1588, a citizen of the Duchy of Milan. During his life, he served as an abbot and a rector. He died in Rome in 1618.

1625–1697 · Reformation

Gregorio Giovanni Gaspare Barbarigo (16 September 1625 – 18 June 1697) was an Italian cardinal and is venerated as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Bishop of Bergamo and later as the Bishop of Padua.

1566–1624 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Honoré de Paris was a Catholic priest of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, born in Paris in 1566 to Jean Bochart de Champigny. A citizen of the Kingdom of France, he died in Chaumont in 1624. He holds the status of Venerable within the Catholic Church.

1477–1523 · Reformation

Ignace of Vologda was an aristocrat born in 1477 to Andrey Bolshoy and Helen of Mezetsk in the Duchy of Uglich. He was an Eastern Orthodox figure who died in Vologda in 1523. He is recognized as a Venerable.

1625–1696 · Reformation · Discalced Augustinians Nuns

Inés de Benigánim, religious name Josefa María of Saint Agnes, (9 February 1625 – 21 January 1696) - born as Josefa Teresa Albiñana Gomar - was a Spanish nun of the Discalced Augustinians.

1612 · Reformation

Joseph of Zaonikiev (secular name Ilarion Amvrosimov; c. 1530 – September 21, 1612) was a monk of the Russian Orthodox Church and the founder of the Zaonikiev Hermitage.

1547–1616 · Reformation

Irenarch or Irenarchus the recluse of Rostov is honoured in the Russian Orthodox Church. Irenarchus was a mystic and visionary. After his death many physical, psychological, and spiritual healings were attributed to the touching of his relics.

1628 · Reformation

Irinarkh of Solovki was an Eastern Orthodox monk who died in 1628. He is recognized as a Venerable.

1645–1690 · Reformation · Benedictines

Isabella Tomasi, known as Sister Maria Crocifissa della Concezione (Agrigento, May 29, 1645 – Palma di Montechiaro, October 16, 1699), was an Italian noblewoman and religious sister, considered venerable by the Catholic Church.

1550–1620 · Reformation

Ivan Vyshenskyi (Ukrainian: Іван Вишенський; born ca. 1550 in Sudova Vyshnia – after 1620, Mount Athos, Greece) was a Ukrainian Orthodox monk and religious philosopher. He is considered to be an important polemicist of the time. Not much is known about the life of Vyshenskyi.

1606–1673 · Reformation

Jeanne Mance was a French nurse and settler of New France. She arrived in New France two years after the Ursuline nuns came to Quebec. Among the founders of Montreal in 1642, she established its first hospital, the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, in 1645.

1550–1621 · Reformation

Job of Maniava, born Ivan Knyahynytskyi (Ukrainian: Княгиницький Йов; 1550, Tysmenytsya, present-day Ukraine - 30 December 1621) and named as a monk Ezekiel, was a Ukrainian Orthodox saint and an Orthodox clerical activist.

1551–1651 · Reformation

Job of Pochayev (Ukrainian: Йов Почаївський; c. 1551 – 28 October 1651), to the world Ivan Zalizo (Ukrainian: Іван Залізо), in Great Schema John (Ukrainian: Іоан) was an Eastern Orthodox monk and saint.

1560–1587 · Reformation

John Hambley (died 1587) was an English Catholic and martyr, who died during the reign of Elizabeth I. John Hambley was a native of the parish of St. Mabyn, near Bodmin, Cornwall. Hambley was converted to Catholicism by reading one of Robert Persons' books in 1582.

1565–1594 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

John Ingram (1565 – 26 July 1594) was an English Jesuit and martyr from Stoke Edith, Herefordshire, who was executed in Gateshead on 26 July 1594, during the reign of Elizabeth I.