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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.

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.

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.

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.

1522–1569 · Reformation · Trinitarian Order

Marc Criado, or Marcos Criado (1522–1569), was a Spanish Trinitarian friar who was martyred by Moriscos during the Rebellion of the Alpujarras. He was beatified on July 24, 1899, by Pope Leo XIII. His feast day is celebrated annually on September 25.

1515–1584 · Reformation

Margaret Ball (1515–1584) was a prominent member of 16th-century Irish society, who, despite being the widow of a Lord Mayor of Dublin, was arrested for her adherence to the Catholic faith and died of deprivation in the dungeons of Dublin Castle.

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.

1473–1541 · Reformation

Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury (14 August 1473 – 27 May 1541), was the only surviving daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence (a brother of Kings Edward IV and Richard III), and his wife Isabel Neville.

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.

1463–1521 · Reformation · Poor Clares

Margaret of Lorraine, Duchess of Alençon (1463 at the castle of Vaudémont, Lorraine – 2 November 1521 in Argentan, Normandy) was a French noblewoman and a nun of the order of Poor Clares (Ordre des Clarisses). She was beatified in 1921.

1590–1660 · Reformation · Order of Discalced Nuns of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament, OCD (6 March 1590, in Paris – 24 May 1660, in Paris), was a French Discalced Carmelite nun. She was the second daughter of Marie of the Incarnation, who introduced the Reform of the Carmelite Order into France.

1530–1575 · Reformation

Margarida de Chaves (Ponta Delgada, 1530 – Ponta Delgada, September 8, 1575) was a matron from the city of Ponta Delgada, in the Azores, who was declared a Venerable of the Roman Catholic Church due to her virtue and the miracles attributed to her intercession.

1594–1633 · Reformation · Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul

Marguerite Naseau (July 1594 – February 1633) was a French nun and the first member of Daughters of Charity. Marguerite Naseau was born in a peasant family in July 1594 in Suresnes. She did not have formal education.

1619–1648 · Reformation · Order of the Brothers Discalced of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

The Venerable Marguerite Parigot, known in religion as Marguerite of the Blessed Sacrament, was a French Carmelite born in 1619 in Beaune, where she also died in 1648. A promoter of devotion to the Child Jesus, her mysticism aligns her with the French School of spirituality.

1592–1665 · Reformation · Capuchin Poor Clares

Maria Angela Astorch (née Maria Ines Jerónima Astorch; 1 September 1592 – 2 December 1665) was a Spanish nun and mystic. Born in Barcelona, she founded the Capuchin Poor Clares of Zaragoza and Murcia. She died in Murcia and was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 23 May 1982.

1514–1577 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Maria Bagnesi, TOSD (15 August 1514 – 28 May 1577) was an Italian Catholic professed member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. Bagnesi remained confined to her bed for most of her life after falling ill upon receiving news that her father arranged a marriage for her – she escap…

1620 · Reformation

Blessed Maria Gengoro was the spouse of Thomas Gengoro. She died by crucifixion in Kokura in 1620.

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…

1562–1617 · Reformation

Maria Vittoria De Fornari Strata (1562 – 15 December 1617) was an Italian Roman Catholic nun and the foundress of the Order of the Annunciation – or Blue Nuns.

1565–1624 · Reformation · Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy

Mariana Navarro de Guevara, in full Mariana Navarro de Guevara Romero (17 January 1565 – 17 April 1624) was a Spanish Roman Catholic nun who became a member of the Mercedarian Tertiaries. Upon admittance she took the religious name Mariana of Jesus.

1563–1635 · Reformation · Order of the Immaculate Conception

Mariana Francisca de Jesús Torres y Berriochoa OIC, (1563, Biscay – 16 January 1635, Quito), was an abbess of the Conceptionist Monastery of Quito from 1594 to 1635. Mariana was born in 1563 in Biscaya, Spain.

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.

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…

1605–1663 · Reformation

Mother Maria Eletta of Jesus, born Caterina Tramazzoli (Terni, January 28, 1605 – Prague, January 11, 1663), was an Italian religious, a Carmelite Servant of God, and the founder of the Discalced Carmelite monasteries in Vienna, Graz, and the Discalced Carmelite monastery of Hrad…

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…

1566–1618 · Reformation · Order of Discalced Nuns of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Marie of the Incarnation, OCD, also known as Madame Acarie (1 February 1566–18 April 1618), was the foundress of the Discalced Carmel in France and later became an extern sister of the order.

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…

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.

1570–1601 · Reformation · Benedictines

Mark Barkworth, OSB (alias Mark Lambert; c. 1572 – 1601) was a Catholic priest, oblate of the Order of St Benedict, and martyr. Born around 1572 at Searby, Lincolnshire, he studied for a time at Oxford, though no record remains of his stay there.

1631–1699 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Mark of Aviano (Italian: Marco d'Aviano), born Carlo Domenico Cristofori (November 17, 1631 – August 13, 1699) was an Italian Capuchin friar. In 2003, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II.

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.

1700–1640 · Reformation

Martha de San Bernardo, P.C.C., was a 17th-century Colettine Poor Clare who was first Filipino woman to become a Roman Catholic nun; she served on Macao. The cause for her canonization has been submitted.

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…

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.

1632–1668 · Reformation

Mary Catherine of St. Augustine, OSA (French: Marie-Catherine de Saint-Augustin) (3 May 1632 – 8 May 1668) was a French canoness regular who was instrumental in the development of the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec in the colony of New France.

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.

1560–1640 · Reformation · Order of Discalced Nuns of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

María López de Rivas Martínez, OCD (18 August 1560 – 13 September 1640), in religion María of Jesus, was a Spanish Discalced Carmelite. She was beatified on 14 November 1976. María López de Rivas Martinez was born in Spain on 18 August 1560 into a life of wealth.

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.

1580–1607 · Reformation

Mathew Flathers (Matthew; alias Major) (c. 1580 – 21 March c. 1607) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987. Born at Weston, West Riding of Yorkshire, Flathers was educated at Douai, graduating on 5 June 1605.

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.

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.

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.

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.