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1582–1617 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Blessed John Baptist Machado de Távora (Portuguese: João Baptista Machado de Távora), born around 1581 in Angra, in the Azores (Portugal), and died (executed) on May 22, 1617, in Kōri (Nagasaki), Japan, was a Portuguese Jesuit priest and missionary to Japan.

1527 · Reformation

Saint Juan was born in San Esteban Tizatlan and practiced Christianity. He died in Cuauhtinchán in 1527 and is recognized as a saint.

1561–1613 · Reformation · Trinitarian Order

Juan García López-Rico (10 July 1561 – 14 February 1613), known as John Baptist of the Conception, was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest from the Trinitarian Order who would establish a branch of his order which he named the Order of Discalced Trinitarians.

1546–1600 · Reformation · Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God

Juan Grande Román, OH (6 March 1546 – 3 June 1600) was a Spanish Catholic member of the Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God. He adopted the name of "John the Sinner" and died of the plague after tending to victims in 1600.

1600–1659 · Reformation

Juan de Palafox y Mendoza (26 June 1600 – 1 October 1659) was a Spanish politician, administrator, and Catholic clergyman in 17th century Spain and a viceroy of Mexico. Palafox was the Bishop of Puebla (1640−1655), and the interim Archbishop of Mexico (1640−1642).

1563–1631 · Reformation · Franciscans

Juan de Prado, OFM (c. 1563 – 24 May 1631) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and a professed member from the Order of Friars Minor. He served as part of the missions in Muslim Morocco at the request of Pope Urban VIII and brought much solace to the small Christian population th…

1532–1611 · Reformation

Juan de Ribera (Seville, Spain, 20 March 1532 – Valencia, 6 January 1611) was an influential figure in 16th and 17th century Spain. Ribera held appointments as Archbishop and Viceroy of Valencia, Latin Patriarchate of Antioch, Commander in Chief, president of the Audiencia, and C…

1596–1628 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Juan de Castillo (14 September 1596 – 17 November 1628) was a Jesuit priest and missionary, and a martyr-saint of the Catholic Church. A Spaniard, he was one of the first to labor at the Jesuit reductions in Paraguay.

1606–1683 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Julien Maunoir (1 October 1606 – 28 January 1683) (also Julian; Breton: Juluan Maner), was a French-born Jesuit priest known as the "Apostle of Brittany". He was beatified in 1951 by Pope Pius XII and is commemorated by the Catholic Church on 29 January and 2 July.

1343–1500 · Reformation

Julian of Norwich (c. 1343 – after 1416), also known as Juliana of Norwich, the Lady Julian, Dame Julian or Mother Julian, was a medieval English Catholic anchoress.

1530–1604 · Reformation

Juliana of Lazarevo (or Juliana of Murom) (1530 – 10 January 1604) is a saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She was born in Moscow, to Justin and Stefanida Nedyurev, and married Giorgi Osorgin, owner of the village of Lazarevo, near Murom.

1551 · Reformation

Julijana Malgranello was a nun born in Koper who died in 1551. She is recognized as a blessed.

1553–1606 · Reformation · Conventual Franciscans

Julian of Saint Augustine, born Julián Martinet Gutiérrez (c. 1550 – April 8, 1606), was a Spanish Franciscan friar of the Order of Friars Minor Observant, beatified by Pope Leo XII in 1825.

1568–1633 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Julião Nakaura was born in 1568 in Hizen Province, Japan, to his father, Nakaura Sumiyoshi. A member of the Society of Jesus, he served as a Catholic presbyter and bishop. He died in Nagasaki in 1633 and is recognized as a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1552–1615 · Reformation

Justo Takayama Ukon (ジュスト高山右近), born Takayama Hikogorō (高山彦五郎) and also known as Dom Justo Takayama (c. 1552/1553 - 5 February 1615) was a Japanese Catholic daimyō and samurai during the Sengoku period that saw rampant anti-Catholic sentiment.

1580–1622 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Joseph of Saint Hyacinth Negro Maroto (born March 11, 1580, in Villarejo de Salvanés, Spain; died September 10, 1622, on Nishizaka Hill in Nagasaki) was a Spanish Dominican, missionary, martyr, and blessed of the Catholic Church.

1440–1518 · Reformation

Kabir (fl. 15th century): 14–15  was a well-known Indian devotional mystic poet and saint. His writings influenced Hinduism's Bhakti movement, and his verses are found in Sikhism's scripture Guru Granth Sahib, the Satguru Granth Sahib of Saint Garib Das, and Kabir Sagar of Dharam…

1574–1653 · Reformation

Sayyid Kastir Gul (1573–1653) was an Islamic jurist and Sufi saint who is revered among Afghans and Pakistanis. He was the leader of the Kakakhel tribe.

1500 · Reformation

Venerable Karp Myodushskiy was an Eastern Orthodox saint born in 1500 in the Tsardom of Russia. He died in the Kovrovsky Uyezd.

1656–1680 · Reformation

Kateri Tekakwitha , given the name Tekakwitha (Tekaouïta, baptized as Catherine ("Kateri" in Mohawk), known as Lily of the Mohawks (1656 – April 17, 1680) and Protectress of Canada, also as Geneviève of New France/ Geneviève of Canada, was a Mohawk/Algonquin young woman when she…

1560–1624 · Reformation

Ketevan the Martyr (Georgian: ქეთევან წამებული, romanized: ketevan ts'amebuli) (c. 1560 – September 13, 1624) was a queen consort of Kakheti, a kingdom in eastern Georgia. She was regent of Kakheti during the minority of her son Teimuraz I of Kakheti from 1605 to 1614.

1555–1605 · Reformation

Kumagai Motonao was a military commander born in 1555. He died in 1605 and is recognized as a blessed.

1440–1505 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Blessed Ladislas of Gielniów (c. 1440 – 4 May 1505) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Order of Friars Minor. He was an observant of the Rule of Saint Francis of Assisi and served his order in various capacities that included both a doorkeeper and as…

1500–1600 · Reformation

Lakshmipriya was a Gaudiya Vaishnava saint who lived in Bengal during the late 15th and early 16th centuries. She was the first wife of the Vaishnava saint and religious reformer Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who is revered in the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition as the combined avatar of Kri…

1515 · Reformation

Lawrence of Kaluga (died August 10, 1515) was a fool for Christ and a locally venerated saint of the Russian Orthodox Church. Tradition attributes the protection of Kaluga from a Crimean Tatar attack in 1512 to his intercession. The St.

1582 · Reformation

Lawrence Richardson of Great Crosby, Lancashire, was an English martyr. Born Lawrence Johnson, he was the son of Richard Johnson, of Great Crosby, Lancashire, and a Fellow of Brasenose College.

1597 · Reformation

Leo Karasumaru, also known as Carasumaro, Carasumo, or Carasuma (Japanese: レオ烏丸, Reo Karasuma; c. 1559 – Nagasaki, February 5, 1597), was a Japanese catechist. He was crucified in Nagasaki alongside twenty-five other Catholics, both laypeople and religious.

1520–1605 · Reformation

Venerable Leontius the Myroblyte was born in 1520 and died in 1605.

1593–1631 · Reformation

Liborius Wagner (5 December 1593 – 9 December 1631) was a German Roman Catholic priest. He administered throughout his pastoral mission in Würzburg and was killed "in odium fidei" (in hatred of the faith).

1540 · Reformation

Venerable Longin of Koryazhemsky was an Eastern Orthodox monk and Christian minister in the Tsardom of Russia. He died in 1540 at the Koryazhemsky Nikolayevsky Monastery and is recognized as a saint.

1476–1535 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor

Laurent of Villamagna, born Lorenzo da Villamagna (May 12, 1476, in Villamagna, Abruzzo, and died June 6, 1535, near Ortona, Italy), was an Italian Franciscan priest declared blessed by the Catholic Church.

1526–1581 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Louis Bertrand, OP (Spanish: Luis Beltrán or Luis Bertrán; Valencian: Lluís Bertran; 1 January 1526 – 9 October 1581) was a Spanish Dominican friar who preached in South America during the 16th century, and is known as the "Apostle to the Americas".

1591–1660 · Reformation · Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul

Louise de Marillac D.C., also known as Louise Le Gras, (August 12, 1591 – March 15, 1660) was the co-founder, with Vincent de Paul, of the Daughters of Charity. She is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church and the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.

1462–1503 · Reformation · Poor Clares

Louise of Savoy (28 December 1461 – 24 July 1503) was a member of the French royal family, who gave up a life of privilege and comfort to become a Poor Clare nun. She was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church in 1839.

1502–1556 · Reformation

Luarsab I (Georgian: ლუარსაბ I) (c. 1502–1509 – c. 1556–1558), of the Bagrationi dynasty, was a king (mepe) of the Georgian Kingdom of Kartli from 1527 to 1556 or from 1534 to 1558.

1592–1622 · Reformation

Luarsab II the Holy Martyr (Georgian: ლუარსაბ II; 1592 – 21 June (O.S.), 1 July (N.S.), 1622) was a Georgian monarch who reigned as king (mepe) of Kartli (eastern Georgia) from 1606 to 1615. He was a member of the Bagrationi dynasty.

1594–1633 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Luke of the Holy Spirit Alonso Gorda (born October 18, 1594, in Carracedo de Vidriales, Zamora Province, Spain; died October 19, 1633, on Nishizaka Hill in Nagasaki, Japan) was a saint of the Catholic Church, a Spanish Dominican, a missionary in the Far East, and a martyr.

1476–1544 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Lucy Brocadelli, also known as Lucy of Narni or Lucy of Narnia (13 December 1476 – 15 November 1544), was a Dominican tertiary who was a mystic and a stigmatic. She has been venerated by the Roman Catholic Church since 1710.

1474–1533 · Reformation · Third Order of Saint Francis

Ludovica Albertoni (1473 – 31 January 1533) was an Italian Roman Catholic noblewoman from the Renaissance period and a professed member of the Third Order of Saint Francis.

1596–1627 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Ludwik Exarch was a Catholic priest of the Dominican Order born in Barcelona, Crown of Aragon, in 1596. He died in Ōmura-shi in 1627 and is recognized as a blessed within the Catholic Church.

1500–1549 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Luis Cáncer de Barbastro or Luis de Cáncer (1500 – 26 June 1549) was a Spanish Dominican priest and pioneer missionary to the New World. He undertook a non-violent approach to converting the American Indians to Christianity, and had significant success in this regard in the Carib…

1574–1622 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Luis Flores was born in Antwerp in 1574 and served as a missionary in the Dominican Order. He died in 1622 and is recognized as a blessed within the Catholic Church.

1586–1597 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor

The 26 Martyrs of Japan (Japanese: 日本二十六聖人, Hepburn: Nihon Nijūroku Seijin) were a group of Catholics who were executed by crucifixion on 5 February 1597, in Nagasaki, Japan. Their martyrdom is especially significant in the history of the Catholic Church in Japan.

1574–1624 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor

Luis Sotelo, OFM, in English known also as Louis Sotelo, (September 6, 1574 – August 25, 1624) was a Franciscan friar from Spain who died as a martyr in Japan, in 1624, and was beatified by Pope Pius IX in 1867.

1505–1588 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Louis of Granada, in some sources Luis of Granada, (1504 – 31 December 1588), was a Dominican friar who was noted as theologian, writer and preacher. His beatification process has been long open with the Holy See, with his current status being venerable.

1554–1624 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Luis de la Puente SJ (also D'Aponte, de Ponte, Dupont) (11 November 1554 – 16 February 1624) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian and ascetic writer. He was one of the most esteemed ascetical writer of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

1566–1614 · Reformation

Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza (formerly known as Doña Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza; January 2, 1566 – January 2, 1614) is best known for her mystical religious poetry as well as her fight to spread Catholicism throughout England, by preaching against Anglicanism.

1540–1582 · Reformation

Luke Kirby (also Kirbie c. 1549 – 30 May 1582) was an English Catholic priest and martyr from the North of England, executed during the reign of Elizabeth I. He is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Kirby was born in Richmond, North Yorkshire.

1575–1619 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Leonardo Kimura, SJ (also known as レオナルド 木村 or レ゜オナルド; 1575 – 18 November 1619) was a Japanese Catholic evangelist and teacher. Killed as a victim of anti-Catholic persecution in Japan, he was beatified by Pope Pius IX in 1867.

1605–1678 · Reformation

Macaire de Kanev was an Eastern Orthodox priest and metropolitan born in 1605 in Ovruch. He died in 1678 in Kaniv, where he is also buried. He is recognized as a saint within Eastern Orthodoxy.