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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.

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.

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…

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…

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.

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…

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.

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

1572–1636 · Reformation · Carmelites

John of St. Samson (1571–1636), also known as Jean du Moulin or Jean de Saint-Samson, was a French Carmelite friar and mystic of the Catholic Church. He is known as the soul of the Touraine Reform of the Carmelite Order, which stressed prayer, silence and solitude.

1561–1613 · Reformation · Trinitarian Order

Juan García López-Rico (10 July 1561 – 14 February 1613), known as John Baptist of the Conception, was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest from the Trinitarian Order who would establish a branch of his order which he named the Order of Discalced Trinitarians.

1552–1615 · Reformation

Justo Takayama Ukon (ジュスト高山右近), born Takayama Hikogorō (高山彦五郎) and also known as Dom Justo Takayama (c. 1552/1553 - 5 February 1615) was a Japanese Catholic daimyō and samurai during the Sengoku period that saw rampant anti-Catholic sentiment.

1505–1588 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Louis of Granada, in some sources Luis of Granada, (1504 – 31 December 1588), was a Dominican friar who was noted as theologian, writer and preacher. His beatification process has been long open with the Holy See, with his current status being venerable.

1554–1624 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Luis de la Puente SJ (also D'Aponte, de Ponte, Dupont) (11 November 1554 – 16 February 1624) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian and ascetic writer. He was one of the most esteemed ascetical writer of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

1443–1503 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Maddalena Panattieri, OP (1443 – 13 October 1503) was an Italian Sister of Penance of Saint Dominic. Panattieri was a stigmatic and received visions during her life with one in particular being the French invasion of the Italian peninsula.

1649 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Manuel Solórzano (1905 – 12 March 1977) was a Salvadoran Catholic who was an active participant in his local parish and was close with its priest, Rutilio Grande García.

1463–1542 · Reformation · Third Order of Saint Francis

Maria Llorença Requenses Llong (Italian: Maria Lorenza Longo; 1463 – 21 December 1539) was a Spanish nun and the founder of the order of the Capuchin Poor Clares.

1623–1677 · Reformation · Lay Carmelites

Maria Petyt, also Petijt or Petiyt (1 January 1623 – 1 November 1677), was known as a "great mystic". Her writings have been cited as "unequaled in volume and mystical content within the historical context of the Flemish-speaking 17th century." Maria Petyt was born in Hazebrouck…

1623–1695 · Reformation · Carmelites

Mother Mariana of the Purification (November 5, 1623 in Lisbon – December 8, 1695 in Beja) was a nun of the Carmelite Order of the Ancient Observance who, having been born in Lisbon, Portugal, and lived and professed her religious vows at the Carmelite Convent of Our Lady of Hope…

1554–1633 · Reformation

Marina de Escobar Montaña (8 February 1554 – 9 June 1633) was a Spanish Catholic mystic of the Counter-Reformation era. Restricted in her activity due to poor health, she devoted herself to prayer and contemplation under the guidance of her Jesuit confessors and spiritual advisor…

1587–1649 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Martin Stredonius SJ (Latin: Martinus Stredonius, Czech: Martin Středa, also Martin Středovský, Polish: Marcin Strzoda; born November 11, 1587, in Gleiwitz, Duchy of Opole; died August 26, 1649, in Brno, Margraviate of Moravia) was one of the leading Jesuits of the Bohemian Provi…

1585–1645 · Reformation · Sisters of Loreto

Mary Ward, IBVM CJ (23 January 1585 – 30 January 1645) was an English Catholic religious sister whose activities led to the founding of the Congregation of Jesus and the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, better known as the Sisters of Loreto.

1602–1665 · Reformation · Order of the Immaculate Conception

Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, OIC, also known as the Abbess of Ágreda (Spanish: María de Jesús de Ágreda; born María Coronel y de Arana; 2 April 1602 – 24 May 1665), was an abbess and spiritual writer.

1552–1610 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Matteo Ricci SJ was an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China missions. He created the Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, a 1602 map of the world written in Chinese characters.

1480–1543 · Reformation · Augustinian nuns

Mattia Ciccarelli (24 February 1481 – 18 January 1543), in religious Cristina, was an Italian nun from the Order of Saint Augustine noted for her ecstasies and the reception of the stigmata.

1577–1652 · Reformation

Dom Michel Le Nobletz (Breton: Mikel an Nobletz) (1577–1652) was a vigorous Counter-Reformation missionary active in the west of Brittany, who was responsible for a revival of popular Catholic culture.

1621–1686 · Reformation · Order of the Minims

Nicholas Barré, O.M. (21 October 1621 – 31 May 1686), was a French Minim friar and Catholic priest, who founded the Sisters of the Infant Jesus. He has been beatified by the Roman Catholic Church.

1621–1699 · Reformation · Order of the Brothers Discalced of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Serafina of God, OCarm, (Italian: Serafina di Dio), also known as Seraphine of Capri, (24 October 1621 – 17 March 1699) an Italian Carmelite who was the founder of seven Carmelite convents of the ancient observance in Southern Italy.

1508–1537 · Reformation · Franciscans

Thomas Belchiam (1508–1537) was an English Franciscan who died in Newgate Prison in the reign of Henry VIII. He is a Catholic martyr, declared venerable by Pope Leo XIII. The year of death is in question: the Victoria County History for Kent puts the events in 1534.

1588 · Reformation

William Way (alias May, alias Flower) (died 1588) was an English Catholic priest and martyr executed under Elizabeth I after the Protestant Reformation. He is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church. William Way was born in the Diocese of Exeter about c. 1560.