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1610–1671 · Reformation

Basil of Ostrog , also known as Vasilije, was a Serbian Orthodox bishop of Zahumlje who is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

1539–1564 · Reformation

Beato Francisco Álvares was born in 1539 and died in 1564. He is recognized as a blessed.

1560–1625 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Marco Passionei (13 September 1560 – 30 April 1625) - in religion Benedetto da Urbino - was an Italian Roman Catholic and a professed member from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.

1526–1589 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor

Benedict the Moor OFM (Italian: Benedetto il Moro; 1526 – 4 April 1589), also known as Benedict of Palermo, Benedict the Black, or Benedict the African, was a Afro-Sicilian Franciscan friar. He was born to enslaved Africans in San Fratello, Sicily and freed at birth.

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.

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…

1604–1694 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Bernard of Offida (7 November 1604 – 22 August 1694) - born Domenico Peroni - was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin from the Marche area.

1575–1603 · Reformation · Benedictines

Bernard of Wąbrzeźno was a Catholic priest and a Benedictine monk from the Benedictine Abbey in Lubiń, Poland. He has been named as a candidate for beatification several times, beginning in the 1730s and most recently in 2009.

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.

1502 · Reformation

Bernardo Arnaut do Rivo was a Portuguese friar who died in 1502. He is recognized as a blessed.

1466–1544 · Reformation

Bhai Bala (Punjabi: ਭਾਈ ਬਾਲਾ, romanized: Bhāī Bālā; 1466–1544) is believed by some to have been a companion of Guru Nanak. Born in Talwandi into a Sandhu Jat family, Bala is also said to have been a close associate of Bhai Mardana.

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…

1589 · Reformation

John of Moscow also known as Blessed John the Fool for Christ was a 16th-century Russian saint. He was born on the outskirts of Vologda in Russia. He was considered a wonderworker in Moscow and spent his youth as a labourer in a local saltworks and as a water-carrier.

1541–1588 · Reformation

Thomas Holford (sometimes called Thomas Acton) (1541–1588) was an English Protestant schoolteacher who became a Catholic priest during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

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…

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.

1610–1679 · Reformation · Ursulines of Piacenza

Brigida Morello Zancano (17 June 1610 – 3 September 1679), born Brigida Morello, was an Italian Roman Catholic widow and later a nun of the Ursuline Sisters of Mary Immaculate that she herself had established in her widowhood.

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.

1571–1624 · Reformation

Caius of Korea (1571 in Korea – 15 November 1624 in Nagasaki, Japan) is the 128th of the 205 Catholic Martyrs of Japan beatified by Pope Pius IX on 7 July 1867, after he had canonized the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan five years before on 8 June 1862.

1458–1524 · Reformation · Poor Clares

Camilla Battista da Varano OSCl, (9 April 1458 – 31 May 1524), from Camerino, Italy, was an Italian princess and a Poor Clare nun and abbess. She is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.

1571–1622 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Camillus Costanzo SJ (Bovalino Superiore, 1571 – Hirado, Japan 15 September 1622) was an Italian soldier, law student and Jesuit missionary in Japan. When he was burned alive in 1622, he became a Roman Catholic martyr.

1558 · Reformation · Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy

Saint Carmelo di Savoia was a soldier and Catholic priest who belonged to the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy. He died in Barcelona in 1558.

1607–1638 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Cassien of Nantes, OFM Cap. (born Gonzalve Vaz Lopez-Netto; 1607 – 1638) was a French Capuchin missionary priest in Africa during the 17th century.

1531–1574 · Reformation · Augustinians

Catherine of Palma (1531–1574, born Caterina Tomàs i Gallard) was a Spanish canon and mystic from Mallorca. She is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and her feast day is commonly celebrated on 5 April although in her home town of Valldemossa she is remembered on t…

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…

1648–1695 · Reformation

Catalina de Balboa Ugarte, in religion Catalina de San Mateo de la Concepción (Santa María de Guía de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, April 30, 1648 – Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, May 26, 1695), was a Canarian Poor Clare nun.

1466–1529 · Reformation · Franciscans

Caterina Aliprandi was a Catholic religious of the Franciscan order born in Asti in 1466. She lived and died in Asti in 1529 and is recognized as a saint.

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.

1489–1529 · Reformation

Catharina Brugora was born in 1489 and died in 1529. She is recognized as a blessed.

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…

1447–1510 · Reformation · Third Order of Saint Francis

Catherine of Genoa (born Caterina Fieschi Adorno; 1447 – 15 September 1510) was an Italian Catholic saint and mystic, known for her work among the sick and the poor and remembered because of various writings describing both these actions and her mystical experiences.

1487–1574 · Reformation · Third Order of Saint Dominic

Catherine of Racconigi (1486 – 1547, Racconigi) was an Italian member of the Third Order of St. Dominic, who is recognized for being a mystic and a stigmatic.

1522–1590 · Reformation · Nuns of the Order of Preachers

Catherine de' Ricci, OP (Italian: Caterina de' Ricci) (23 April 1522 – 2 February 1590), was an Italian Catholic nun in the Third Order of St. Dominic. She is believed to have had miraculous visions and corporeal encounters with Jesus Christ.

1531 · Reformation · Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Penance

Cecilia Attendoli di Cotignola was a Christian nun of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Penance. She died in 1531 in Mortara and is recognized as blessed.

1606–1649 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Charles Garnier, SJ was a Jesuit missionary working in New France. He was killed by Iroquois in a Petun (Tobacco Nation) village on December 7, 1649. The son of a secretary to King Henri III of France, Garnier was born in Paris in 1606.

1640–1679 · Reformation · Franciscans

Charles Mahoney (or Mahony; alias Charles Meehan; c. 1640 – 12 August 1679) was an Irish Franciscan friar. He is considered a martyr by the Roman Catholic Church, one of the Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1987.

1564–1622 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Charles Spinola (1564 – 10 September 1622), also known as Carlo Spinola, was a Jesuit missionary from Genoa, Italy, martyred in Japan as a missionary. Charles (or Carlo) Spinola was born in January 1564 in Genoa, Italy, the son of Ottavio Spinola, Count of Tassarolo.

1613–1670 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Charles of Sezze (19 October 1613 – 6 January 1670) - born Giancarlo Marchioni - was an Italian professed religious from the Order of Friars Minor.

1626–1689 · Reformation

Christina (Swedish: Kristina; 18 December [O.S. 8 December] 1626 – 19 April 1689), a member of the House of Vasa, was Queen of Sweden from 1632 until her abdication in 1654. Her conversion to Catholicism and refusal to marry led her to relinquish her throne and move to Rome.

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.

1560–1590 · Reformation

Christopher Bales, also spelt Christopher Bayles, alias Christopher Evers (c.1564–1590), was an English Catholic priest and martyr. He was beatified in 1929. Christopher was born at Coniscliffe near Darlington, County Durham, England, about 1564.

1562–1588 · Reformation

Christopher Buxton was born in 1562 in Derbyshire and worked as a politician. A member of the Catholic Church, he was executed in 1588 in Canterbury by being hanged, drawn, quartered, and decapitated. He is recognized as a blessed.

1598 · Reformation

Christopher Robinson (died 19 August 1598) was an English Catholic priest and martyr, beatified in 1987. Robinson was born at Woodside, near Westward, Cumberland between 1565 and 1570.

1501–1600 · Reformation

Christopher Wharton (before 1546 – 28 March 1600) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987. Wharton was born at Middleton, Yorkshire, before 1546.

1622 · Reformation

Cipriano di Suzdal was born in Suzdal and died in the Vladimir Oblast in 1622. He is recognized as a saint.

1641–1682 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Claude La Colombière SJ, sometimes named "De La Colombière", was a French Jesuit priest best known as the confessor of Margaret Mary Alacoque. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.

1467–1501 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Columba of Rieti was an Italian religious sister of the Third Order of St. Dominic who was noted as a mystic. She was renowned for her spiritual counsel, devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, and fantastic miracles were attributed to her.