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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.

1505–1568 · Reformation

Archbishop Herman (Russian: Герман), born Grigory Fyodorovich Sadyrev-Polev (Russian: Григорий Фёдорович Садырев-Полев; died 6 November 1567), was the archbishop of Kazan from 1564 to 1567. He was also a candidate for the position of metropolitan of Moscow.

1530–1612 · Reformation

Hermogenes, or Germogen (Russian: Гермоге́н) (secular name Yermolay) (before 1530 – 17 February 1612) was the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia from 1606. It was he who inspired the popular uprising that put an end to the Time of Troubles.

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.

1585–1640 · Reformation · Franciscans

Hyacintha Mariscotti, T.O.R., or Hyacintha of Mariscotti (Italian: Giacinta Marescotti), was an Italian religious sister of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis.

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.

1625–1696 · Reformation · Discalced Augustinians Nuns

Inés de Benigánim, religious name Josefa María of Saint Agnes, (9 February 1625 – 21 January 1696) - born as Josefa Teresa Albiñana Gomar - was a Spanish nun of the Discalced Augustinians.

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…

1547–1616 · Reformation

Irenarch or Irenarchus the recluse of Rostov is honoured in the Russian Orthodox Church. Irenarchus was a mystic and visionary. After his death many physical, psychological, and spiritual healings were attributed to the touching of his relics.

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.

1519–1559 · Reformation

Isabella Jagiellon (Hungarian: Izabella királyné; Polish: Izabela Jagiellonka; Lithuanian: Izabelė Jogailaitė; 18 January 1519 – 15 September 1559) was a princess of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and later also the Queen consort of Hungary.

1569 · Reformation

Uliana Paletskaya (died 1569), was a Princess of Russia by marriage to Yuri of Uglich. She was the daughter of Dmitry Paletsky. She married Yuri in 1547. They had a son. She was forced to become a nun when she was widowed, by her brother-in-law the czar.

1550–1620 · Reformation

Ivan Vyshenskyi (Ukrainian: Іван Вишенський; born ca. 1550 in Sudova Vyshnia – after 1620, Mount Athos, Greece) was a Ukrainian Orthodox monk and religious philosopher. He is considered to be an important polemicist of the time. Not much is known about the life of Vyshenskyi.

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.

1501–1601 · Reformation

James Duckett (died 19 April 1602) was an English Catholic layman and martyr, executed at Tyburn for printing Catholic devotionals. James Duckett was born at Gilfortrigs in the parish of Skelsmergh in Westmorland at an unknown date.

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…

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.

1593–1649 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Jean de Brébeuf SJ (25 March 1593 – 16 March 1649) was a French Jesuit missionary who travelled to New France (Canada) in 1625. There he worked primarily with the Huron for the rest of his life, except for a few years in France from 1629 to 1633.

1620–1646 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Jean de Lalande, SJ was a French Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons and one of the eight North American Martyrs. He was killed at the Mohawk village of Ossernenon after being captured by warriors. Jean de Lalande was a native of Dieppe, Normandy.

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.

1556–1640 · Reformation

Jeanne de Lestonnac, ODN (December 27, 1556 – February 2, 1640), also known as Joan of Lestonnac, was a French Catholic nun who founded the Sisters of the Company of Mary, Our Lady in 1607.

1556–1625 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Jeremiah of Wallachia (born 29 June 1556 - 26 February 1625) was a Romanian-born Capuchin lay brother who spent his entire adult life serving as an infirmarian of the Order in Italy.

1401–1546 · Reformation

Jeremias I of Constantinople (Greek: Ἰερεμίας; died 13 January 1546) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople two times, from 1522 to 1524 and from 1525 to 1546. Jeremias was a native of Zitsa in Epirus, and was raised without instruction.

1555–1630 · Reformation · Poor Clares

Jerónima de la Asunción, O.S.C. (Spanish: Jerónima de la Asunción García Yánez y De La Fuente; 9 May 1555 – 22 October 1630) was a Spanish Catholic nun and abbess who founded the Real Monasterio de Santa Clara (Royal Monastery of Saint Clare) in Intramuros, Manila, Philippines.

1576–1633 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Joam Mattheus Adami, (Italian: Giovanni Matteo Adami) (17 May 1576 – 22 September 1633) was a Jesuit missionary born in Mazara del Vallo (Sicilian: Mazzara), in the south-west of Sicily.

1464–1505 · Reformation · Third Order of Saint Francis

Joan of France (French: Jeanne de France, Jeanne de Valois; 23 April 1464 – 4 February 1505), sometimes called Joan the Lame (French: Jeanne la boiteuse), was briefly Queen of France as wife of King Louis XII, in between the death of her brother, King Charles VIII, and the annulm…

1560–1631 · Reformation

Job Boretsky (Ukrainian: Йов, secular name Ivan Matfeyevich Boretsky, Polish: Iwan Borecki, died 2 March 1631) was the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Eastern Orthodox Church from 1620 to 1631.

1550–1621 · Reformation

Job of Maniava, born Ivan Knyahynytskyi (Ukrainian: Княгиницький Йов; 1550, Tysmenytsya, present-day Ukraine - 30 December 1621) and named as a monk Ezekiel, was a Ukrainian Orthodox saint and an Orthodox clerical activist.

1551–1651 · Reformation

Job of Pochayev (Ukrainian: Йов Почаївський; c. 1551 – 28 October 1651), to the world Ivan Zalizo (Ukrainian: Іван Залізо), in Great Schema John (Ukrainian: Іоан) was an Eastern Orthodox monk and saint.

1606–1670 · Reformation · Benedictines

Giovanna Maria Bonomo (15 August 1606 – 1 March 1670) was a Catholic nun who was a professed member of the Benedictines. She was ridiculed for her dedication and her experiences as some believed them to be heretical or a need for attention.

1543–1586 · Reformation

John Adams (ca. 1543 – 8 October 1586) was an English Catholic priest and martyr. He was born at Winterborne St Martin in Dorset at an unknown date (ca. 1543?) and became a Protestant minister.

1577–1612 · Reformation

John Almond (alias Lathom or Molyneux, c. 1577 – 5 December 1612) was an English Catholic priest. He was ordained in 1598 and suffered martyrdom in 1612. Canonised in 1970, John Almond is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.

1599–1621 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

John Berchmans, SJ (Dutch: Jan Berchmans [jɑm ˈbɛr(ə)xmɑns]; 13 March 1599 – 13 August 1621) was a Belgian Jesuit scholastic and is revered as a saint in the Catholic Church.

1549–1583 · Reformation

John Bodey (1549 – 2 November 1583) was an English Catholic academic jurist and lay theologian. He was martyred in 1583, and beatified in 1929. John Bodey was born in Wells, Somerset, in 1549. His father was a wealthy merchant.

1544–1594 · Reformation

John Boste (c. 1544 – 24 July 1594) is a saint in the Catholic Church, and one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. John Boste was born in Dufton, Westmorland around 1544, the son of Nicholas Boste, landowner of Dufton and Penrith and Janet Hutton, of Hutton Hall, Penrith.…

1510–1555 · Reformation

John Bradford (1510–1555) was an English Reformer, prebendary of St. Paul's, and martyr. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London for alleged crimes against Queen Mary I. He was burned at the stake on 1 July 1555.

1594 · Reformation

John Carey (died 4 July 1594) was martyred at Dorchester, Dorset, England, for adherence to the Roman Catholic faith. His feast day is 4 July.

1557–1594 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

John Cornelius (Irish: Seán Conchobhar Ó Mathghamhna; 1557 – 4 July 1594) also called Mohun, was an Irish Catholic priest and Jesuit born in Cornwall. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.

1603–1644 · Reformation

John Duckett (1613 – 7 September 1644) was an English Catholic priest and martyr. John Duckett was born at Underwinder, in the parish of Sedbergh, in Yorkshire, in 1613, the son of James and Francis Duckett.

1570 · Reformation

John Felton (fl. before 1566 - died 8 August 1570) was an English Catholic martyr, executed during the reign of Elizabeth I. Felton was arrested for fixing a copy of Pope Pius V's bull Regnans in Excelsis excommunicating Queen Elizabeth, to the gates of the Bishop of London's pal…

1628–1679 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

John Fenwick, real surname Caldwell (1628 – 20 June 1679) was an English Jesuit, executed at the time of the fabricated Popish Plot. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929 by Pope Pius XI.

1548–1584 · Reformation

John Finch (b. about 1548; executed 20 April 1584) was an English Roman Catholic farmer. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929. John Finch was born about 1548. He was a yeoman of Eccleston, Lancashire, from a Catholic family, but brought up an Anglican.