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1578–1623 · Reformation · Ordo Fratrum Minorum de Regularis Observantia

Francis Galvez (born August 15, 1578, in Utiel, Spain; died executed December 4, 1623, in Edo, Japan) was a Franciscan friar (Order of Friars Minor) and catechist who was martyred for his faith in Japan alongside other Christian missionaries.

1568–1626 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Francisco Pacheco (1565–1626) was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary and martyr executed in Japan during the religious persecutions against Catholics.

1552–1608 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Francisco da Costa Pinto, born in 1552 in Angra, in the Azores, Portugal, and died (assassinated) on January 11, 1608, in the province of Ibiapaba in present-day Brazil (then a Portuguese possession), was a Portuguese Jesuit priest.

1540–1570 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Francisco Pérez Godoy, SJ (born c. 1540 in Torrijos, died July 15, 1570, in the Atlantic Ocean near Las Palmas) was a Spanish Jesuit novice, a blessed of the Catholic Church, and a victim of Huguenot persecution of Catholics.

1545–1597 · Reformation · Conventual Franciscans

Francisco of Saint Michael was a Spanish Franciscan and Conventual Franciscan born in La Parrilla in 1545. He died by crucifixion in Nagasaki in 1597. He is recognized as a saint in the Catholic Church.

1626–1684 · Reformation

François Pallu, MEP (1626–1684) was a French bishop. He was a founding member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society and became a missionary in Asia.

1610–1649 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Gabriel Lalemant SJ was a French Jesuit missionary in New France beginning in 1646. Caught up in warfare between the Huron and nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, he was killed in St. Ignace by Mohawk warriors and is one of the eight Canadian Martyrs.

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.

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.

1530–1604 · Reformation · Order of the Minims

Gaspar de Bono i Montsó, O.M., (5 January 1530 – 14 July 1604) was a Valencian friar of the Order of Minims and Catholic priest. He is venerated as blessed by the Catholic Church.

1562–1591 · Reformation

George Beesley (or Bisley) (born c. 1562 at The Hill in Goosnargh parish, Lancashire, England; died 2 July 1591) was an English Roman Catholic diocesan priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987 as one of the Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales.

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…

1556–1584 · Reformation

George Haydock (born 1556; executed at Tyburn, 12 February 1584) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987. He is not to be confused with his relative, also a priest, George Leo Haydock (1774–1849).

1550–1610 · Reformation

George Napper (or Napier; c. 1550 – 9 November 1610) was an English Catholic priest murdered during the Reformation. He is recognized as a Catholic martyr, having been beatified in 1929 by Pope Pius XI.

1550–1589 · Reformation

George Nichols (c. 1550 – 19 October 1589) was an English Catholic martyr. Born at Oxford in 1550, George Nichols entered Brasenose College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, in 1564 or 1565 where he received his B.A. degree in 1571.

1486–1537 · Reformation · Somaschi Fathers

Gerolamo Emiliani, CRS (Italian: Gerolamo Emiliani also Jerome Aemilian, Hiëronymus Emiliani) (1486 – 8 February 1537) was an Italian humanitarian, founder of the Somaschi Fathers, and is considered a saint by the Catholic Church.

1438–1508 · Reformation · Carmelites

Giacomino de' Canepacci, known as da Crevacuore (Piasca, 1438 – Vercelli, March 3, 1508), was an Italian religious, a lay brother of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel. He was beatified by equipollence by Pope Gregory XVI in 1845.

1598–1634 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Giordano di San Stefano Ansalone, OP (1598 – 17 November 1634) was an Italian Dominican missionary in Asia. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1981 and canonized in 1987 by Pope John Paul II. Ansalone was born at Santo Stefano Quisquina in Sicily.

1451–1505 · Reformation · Servite Order

Giovannangelo Porro (1451 - 23 October 1505) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and hermit who hailed from the Milanese region and was a professed member of the Servites. Porro was born to nobles and became a priest after the death of his father.

1426–1511 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Blessed Giovanni Liccio (c.1430 - 14 November 1511) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Order of Preachers. Liccio was a noted miracle worker and a pious preacher who was also known for his simple and ascetic manner of living.

1544 · Reformation

Saint Giovanni Maria Scolarici was a Catholic Church presbyter born in Piraino. He died in Piraino in 1544.

1490–1562 · Reformation · Theatines

Francesco Marinoni (25 December 1490 – 13 December 1562) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest who was a member of the Theatines. He assumed the name Giovanni upon his admittance into the order.

1567–1623 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Jerome de Angelis (Italian: Girolamo degli Angeli, 1567 – 4 December 1623) was an Italian Jesuit missionary to Japan. He was beatified in 1867. He was born Girolamo degli Angeli at Castro-Giovanni, Sicily.

1427–1501 · Reformation

Giuliana Puricelli (1427 - 15 August 1501) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious from the Order of Saint Augustine. Puricelli left her home after her father wanted to have her married and so fled to a hermitage where she placed herself under the spiritual direction of…

1512–1572 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor

Godfried Coart {Godfried van Melveren} (Melveren, 1512 - Den Briel, July 9, 1572) was a Franciscan friar and one of the martyrs of Gorkum. He is honored as the first canonized saint of Belgium.

1556–1597 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor

Gonsalo Garcia, O.F.M. (Portuguese: Gonçalo Garcia; 1556 – 5 February 1597) was a lay brother of the Franciscans from Portuguese Bombay and Bassein in early modern India.

1538 · Reformation · Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy

Blessed Gonzalo de Ubeda was a Catholic priest and a member of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy. He served as both a diocesan bishop and an auxiliary bishop within the Catholic Church until his death in 1525.

1438–1508 · Reformation · Augustinians

Gracià de Kotor was born in 1438 in Muo and served as a Catholic priest within the Augustinian order. He died in 1508 in Murano, Venice. He is recognized as a blessed within the Catholic Church.

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.

1589–1637 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Guillaume Courtet, O.P. (1589–1637) was a French Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and missionary. One of the first Frenchman to have visited Japan, he died as a martyr by beheading in Nagasaki at the hands of the Tokugawa Shogunate on Michaelmas Day 1637 after three days continu…

1599–1643 · Reformation · Franciscans

Henry Heath (1599–1643), religious name Paul of St. Magdalene, was an English priest of the Order of Friars Minor and a Roman Catholic martyr. Heath was born in 1599 and baptised at St. John's, Peterborough, 16 December 1599. His father was John Heath.

1595–1645 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Henry Morse (1595 – 1 February 1645) was one of the Catholic Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Henry Morse was born a Protestant in 1595 at his grandmother's house at Brome in the English county of Suffolk, the son of Robert Morse, a minor landowner of Tivetshall St Mary, Norf…

1558–1595 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Henry Walpole, SJ (1558 – 7 April 1595) was an English Jesuit martyr, executed at York for refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy. Walpole was born at Docking, Norfolk, in 1558, the eldest son of Christopher Walpole, by Margery, heiress of Richard Beckham of Narford.

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.

1563–1600 · Reformation

Akechi Tama (明智たま, Akechi Tama), usually referred to as Hosokawa Gracia (細川ガラシャ, Hosokawa Garasha), (1563 – 25 August 1600) was a member of the aristocratic Akechi family from the Sengoku period.

1539 · Reformation · Benedictines

Hugh Faringdon, O.S.B. (died 14 November 1539), earlier known as Hugh Cook, later as Hugh Cook alias Faringdon and Hugh Cook of Faringdon, was an English Benedictine monk who presided as the last Abbot of Reading Abbey in the town of Reading in Berkshire, England.

1585 · Reformation

Hugh Taylor (died 25 November 1585) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987. Born at Durham, Taylor arrived at Reims on 2 May 1582 and was ordained a priest. He was sent on the English mission on 27 March 1585.

1582–1637 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor

Humilis of Bisignano (Italian: Umile da Bisignano) (1582 – 26 November 1637) was a Franciscan friar who was widely known in his day as a mystic and wonderworker. He has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church.

1611–1689 · Reformation · Servite Order

Pope Innocent XI (Latin: Innocentius XI; Italian: Innocenzo XI; 16 May 1611 – 12 August 1689), born Benedetto Odescalchi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 21 September 1676 until his death on 12 August 1689.

1589–1655 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Giuseppe Marcinò (24 October 1589 – 16 November 1655), religious name Innocenzo of Caltagirone, was an Italian priest and a member of the Capuchins. He was well known for his frequent and often sensational predications and miracles attributed to him since 1623.

1526–1570 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Inácio de Azevedo, SJ (1526–1570) was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary. He is one of the Forty Martyrs of Brazil, beatified by Pope Pius IX in 1854. He was born Dom Inácio de Azevedo de Ataíde Abreu e Malafaia in the city of Porto, probably in the first quarter of the year 1526.

1587–1622 · Reformation

Agnes Takeya (イネス竹屋; 1580–1622) was a Korean-Japanese Roman Catholic martyr. Takeya was born in Korea in 1580. During the 1592–1598 Japanese invasions of Korea, she was kidnapped, enslaved, and taken to Japan. There, she was converted to Christianity.

1565–1619 · Reformation

Ippolito Galantini (14 October 1565 – 20 March 1619) was an Italian Roman Catholic and the founder of the Congregation of Christian Doctrine. Galantini became a noted educator in Florence and Pope Leo XI dubbed Galantini as the "Apostle of Florence" due to his activism in educati…

1607–1646 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Isaac Jogues SJ (10 January 1607 – 18 October 1646) was a French missionary and martyr who traveled and worked among the Iroquois, Huron, and other Native populations in North America.

1451–1504 · Reformation

Isabella I (Spanish: Isabel I; also known as Isabella the Catholic Spanish: Isabel la Católica; 22 April 1451 – 26 November 1504) was Queen of Castile and León from 1474 until her death in 1504.

1541–1572 · Reformation

Jakob Lacoupe (*ca. 1542, Oudenaarde; +09. July 1572, Gorinchem), also known in English as James Lacoupe, was a Norbertine priest who died as a martyr as one of the Martyrs of Gorkum and a Roman-Catholic Saint. We don't know a lot about his early life.

1533–1597 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

James Kisai, SJ, also known as Diego Kisai (ディエゴ喜斎) or Jacobo Kisai, was a Japanese Jesuit lay brother and saint, one of the 26 Martyrs of Japan. Out of the 26, Kisai, Paul Miki, and John Soan de Goto were the only Jesuits to be executed in Nagasaki on February 5, 1597.

1582 · Reformation

James Thompson, also known as James Hudson, was a Catholic priest and martyr of York, hanged during the reign of Elizabeth I. A native of Yorkshire, Thompson arrived at the college at Reims 19 September 1580, and in May of the next year, by virtue of a dispensation, was admitted…

1577–1619 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Jan Martínez Cid was a Spanish Catholic priest and member of the Dominican Order born in 1577 in Manzanal de los Infantes. He died in Japan in 1619 and is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1601–1680 · Reformation · Congregation of Jesus and Mary

John Eudes, CIM (French: Jean Eudes; 14 November 1601 – 19 August 1680) was a French Catholic priest and the founder of both the Order of Our Lady of Charity in 1641 and Congregation of Jesus and Mary, also known as the Eudists, in 1643.