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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.

1560 · Reformation

Elisabeth Tubback was a nun who died in 1560. She is recognized as a blessed.

1530 · Reformation · Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Penance

Elisabetta da Mortara was a Christian nun of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Penance. She died in 1530 in Mortara and is recognized as blessed.

1600–1643 · Reformation

Eudemus I Diasamidze (Georgian: ევდემოზ I დიასამიძე, Evdemoz I Diasamidze; died 1642) was a Georgian churchman serving as Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia from 1632 until his death in 1642.

1559–1591 · Reformation

Eustace White (1559 - 1591) was a Catholic priest. Due to his service, he was put on trial in December 1591 and subsequently hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn on 10 December 1591, along with another priest and three laymen.

1515–1587 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Felix of Cantalice, OFMCap (Italian: Felice da Cantalice; 18 May 1515 – 18 May 1587) was an Italian Capuchin friar of the 16th century. Canonized by Pope Clement XI in 1712, he was the first Capuchin friar to be named a saint.

1632–1675 · Reformation

Feodosia Prokopiyevna Morozova (Russian: Феодосия Прокопьевна Морозова; née Sokovnina (Соковнина); 21 May 1632 – 1 December 1675) was a Russian noblewoman and one of the best-known partisans of the Old Believer movement.[E 1][R 1] She was perceived as a martyr after she was arre…

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).

1633 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Saint Francesco Shoyemon was a Japanese presbyter and a member of the Dominican Order. He died in Nagasaki in 1633 and is recognized as a saint.

1564–1603 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor

Francesco Zirano, OFM Conv. (1565 – 25 January 1603) was a Roman Catholic priest from Sardinia and a professed member of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual. He is recognized as a martyr in the Catholic Church. Born and raised in Sardinia, he became an ordained priest in 1586.

1510–1572 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Francis Borgia, SJ (Valencian: Francesc de Borja; Spanish: Francisco de Borja; 28 October 1510 – 30 September 1572) was a Spanish Jesuit priest. The great-grandson of both Pope Alexander VI and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, he was Duke of Gandía and a grandee of Spain.

1563–1608 · Reformation · Clerics Regular Minor

Francis Caracciolo (October 13, 1563 – June 4, 1608), born Ascanio dei Caracciolo Pisquizi, was an Italian Catholic priest who co-founded the Order of the Clerics Regular Minor with John Augustine Adorno and Fabrizio Caracciolo.

1607–1648 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Francis Fernández (or Ferdinand) de Capillas (15 August 1607 – 15 January 1648) was a Spanish Dominican friar who went as a missionary to Asia. He died in China as a martyr. He was canonized by Pope John Paul II on 1 October 2000, as one of the 120 Martyrs of China.

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.

1567–1622 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Francis Morales Sedeño was a Spanish Catholic priest, missionary, and Dominican monk born in Madrid in 1567. He died in Japan in 1622 and is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1600–1602 · Reformation

Francis Page was a Catholic priest born in Antwerp in 1600. He died at Tyburn in 1602 and is recognized as a blessed.

1549–1610 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor

Francis Solanus, born as Francisco Solano y Jiménez, 10 March 1549 – 14 July 1610) was a Spanish Franciscan friar and missionary in South America. He is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.

1550–1621 · Reformation

Francis Taylor (Irish: Proinnsias Táiliúr; Beannaithe, Swords, c. 1550 – Dublin, 29 January 1621) was a Mayor of Dublin, Ireland, who was incarcerated because of his Catholicism. He has been declared a martyr for his faith and beatified by the Catholic Church.

1597 · Reformation · Franciscans

Francis Kichi (died February 5, 1597) was a Japanese Christian during the Azuchi-Momoyama period. He was executed in Nagasaki under Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s ban on Christianity and is one of the Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan who were canonized as saints.

1548–1597 · Reformation · Franciscans

1416–1507 · Reformation · Order of the Minims

Francis of Paola, O.M. (also known as Francis the Fire Handler; 27 March 1416 – 2 April 1507), was a Roman Catholic friar from the town of Paola in Calabria who founded the Order of Minims.

1551–1583 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Francisco Aranha (died Cuculim, July 25, 1583) was a Jesuit religious born in the Diocese of Braga. He was martyred in Cuculim, India, on July 25, 1583, while engaged in missionary work, and was beatified by the Catholic Church.

1570–1597 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor

Francisco Blanco, OFM was a Spanish Catholic Franciscan missionary and martyr, one of the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan (日本二十六聖人 Nihon Nijūroku Seijin). He is revered as a saint by the Catholic Church, particularly in Japan.

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.

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.

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.

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.

1597–1632 · Reformation

Francis of Jesus Terrero de Ortega Pérez, OESA (Spanish: Francisco Terrero de Ortega Pérez; born 1597 in Villamediana, died September 3, 1632, in Nagasaki) was a Spanish priest of the Order of Saint Augustine, a martyr, and a blessed of the Catholic Church who was a victim of ant…

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.

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.

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.

1567–1632 · Reformation

Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene, born Gabriel Tarazona Rodríguez (October 1567 in Sonseca – September 3, 1632, in Nagasaki), was a Spanish Franciscan friar, a martyr, and a blessed of the Catholic Church who was a victim of anti-Catholic persecution in Japan.

1684–1690 · Reformation

Gabriel of Białystok (Russian: Гавриил Белостокский, romanized: Gavriil Belostoksky; Polish: Gabriel Białostocki), also known as Gabriel of Zabłudów (Polish: Gabriel Zabłudowski; alternatively Gavrila or Gavriil; April 2 [O.S.

1513–1628 · Reformation

Gaspar Dragonetti was a Roman Catholic cleric, grammarian, school teacher, and educator born in Lentini in 1513 and died in Rome in 1628. A citizen of the Kingdom of Sicily and the Papal States, he is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1556–1609 · Reformation

Gaspar Nishi Genka was born in 1556 and lived as a citizen of the Tokugawa shogunate. He died in 1609 and is recognized as a blessed.

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.

1595–1659 · Reformation

Gavrilo I Rajić (died 1659) was Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch between 1648 and 1655. He was murdered by Turks and therefore celebrated by the Eastern Orthodox Church as a hieromartyr. His feast day is celebrated on December 13.

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.

1410–1505 · Reformation

Gennadius (Gennady, Russian: Геннадий; died 4 December 1505) was Archbishop of Novgorod the Great and Pskov from 1484 to 1504. He was most instrumental in fighting the Heresy of the Judaizers and is famous for compiling the first complete codex of the Bible in Slavic in 1499, kn…

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…

1554–1596 · Reformation

George Errington was an English Roman Catholic layman who is honoured as a martyr by the Catholic Church. George Errington was born around 1553 in the Hirst area of what is now Ashington, Northumberland.