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1826–1855 · Modern

Giovanni Battista Mazzucconi (1 March 1826 – 7 September 1855) was an Italian priest from the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions. He was killed in hatred of the faith in Papua New Guinea during his work there amongst the people.

1012 · Medieval · Benedictines

The Blessed John Morosini, O.S.B., († 1012) was a Venetian abbot, who founded the noted Monastery of St. George in that city. Morosoni was born in Venice and was a member of the illustrious Morosini family, who played a significant role in the city's history.

1327–1372 · Medieval · Franciscans

Giovanni Saziari, also known as John Saziari or Joannes Saziari (1327 - 21 April 1371) was an Italian Roman Catholic farmer from the Province of Pesaro and Urbino. He was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order.

1903–1967 · Contemporary · Congregazione di San Giuseppe

Giovanni Schiavo, CSI (8 July 1903 – 27 January 1967) was an Italian Catholic priest in the Congregation of Saint Joseph, also known as the Murialdines. Schiavo entered the Murialdines during World War I in 1917, and was admitted by Eugenio Reffo.

1386–1446 · Medieval

Giovanni Tavelli (Tossignano, 1386 – Ferrara, July 24, 1446) was an Italian Catholic bishop, venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church. He is remembered in the history of the Order of the Gesuati for writing its constitutions, initiating the process that transformed the Gesua…

1200–1270 · Medieval · Franciscans

Giovanni da Penna (1193 - 3 April 1271) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Order of Friars Minor. He became a Franciscan in 1213 after hearing Fra Filippo - one of the disciples of Francis of Assisi - preach.

1760–1816 · Modern · Franciscans

John of Triora (Chinese name: 蓝月旺; 1760 – 1816, Italian name: Giovanni da Triora) was an Italian missionary and martyr saint of 19th century China. He was born in 1760 in Molini di Triora. His parents were Antonio Maria Lantrua and Maria Pasqua Ferraironi.

1807–1872 · Modern

Giovannina Franchi (24 June 1807 – 23 February 1872) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Suore Infermiere dell'Addolorata.

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.

985–1065 · Medieval · Benedictines

Gisela of Hungary (or Gisele, Gizella and of Bavaria; c. 985 – 7 May 1065) was the first queen consort of Hungary by marriage to Stephen I of Hungary, and the sister of Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor. She has been beatified by the Catholic Church.

1696–1755 · Modern · Redemptoristines

Giulia Crostarosa (31 October 1696 – 14 September 1755) was an Italian Roman Catholic nun who founded the Order of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptoristines), an order of contemplative nuns.

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…

1201–1343 · Medieval · Franciscans

Julian of Bale (early 14th century – c. 1350), was a Franciscan friar, who was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1910. The decree with which the church beatified him on February 23, 1910 provides only scant information about Julian.

1851–1926 · Contemporary

Giuseppe Allamano, IMC (21 January 1851 – 16 February 1926) was an Italian Catholic priest who established the Consolata Missionaries (IMC) for males and another for females, the Consolata Missionary Sisters.

1818–1894 · Modern · Benedictines

Giuseppe Benedetto Dusmet (15 August 1818 – 4 April 1894) – born Giuseppe Dusmet – was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal who served as the Archbishop of Catania from 1867 until his death.

1905–1945 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Giuseppe Girotti, OP (19 July 1905 – 1 April 1945) was an Italian Dominican priest who was a biblical scholar and a professor of theology. During World War II, he worked to aid Jewish people amid the Nazi Holocaust.

1896–1948 · Contemporary

Giuseppe Giaccardo (13 June 1896 - 24 January 1948) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Society of Saint Paul that Giacomo Alberione established.

1845–1918 · Contemporary

Giuseppe Toniolo (7 March 1845 – 7 October 1918) was an Italian Catholic economist, sociologist, and pioneer of Christian democracy. A leading political and social economist, Toniolo condemned both socialism and laissez-faire capitalism, advocating instead for an economic system…

1841–1897 · Modern

Giuseppe Antonio Tovini (14 March 1841 – 16 January 1897) was an Italian banker and lawyer who became a member of the Secular Franciscan Order. He was one of the founder of Banca di Valle Camonica, Banca San Paolo di Brescia and Banco Ambrosiano. His nephew was Mosè Tovini.

1843–1906 · Contemporary · Lay Carmelites

Giuseppina Gabriela Bonino (5 September 1843 – 8 February 1906), also known by her religious name Giuseppina Gabriella of Jesus, was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Suore della Sacra Famiglia di Savigliano.

1863–1924 · Contemporary · Congregation of the Mission

Giuseppina Nicoli, DC (18 November 1863 – 31 December 1924) was an Italian Catholic member of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul who served as a catechist in Sardinia. She held several positions of leadership in Turin and elsewhere.

1915–1950 · Contemporary

Giuseppina Suriano (18 February 1915 - 19 May 1950) was an Italian Roman Catholic member of the Catholic Action. Suriano was born to simple farmers near Palermo and became a noticeable and integral figure in Catholic Action during her life while also working alongside the Young C…

1907–1946 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Gjon Shllaku was a Catholic philosopher and member of the Order of Friars Minor born in Shkodër in 1907. He died in Shkodër in 1946 and is recognized as a blessed.

1656–1707 · Modern

Gomidas Keumurdjian (Armenian: Կոմիտաս Քէօմիւրճեան; 1656 – 5 November 1707), known as Cosma de Carbognano, was a married priest of the Armenian Apostolic Church and later a convert to the Armenian Catholic Church.

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.

1883–1936 · Contemporary

Gonzalo Viñes Masip (born January 19, 1883, in Xàtiva, died December 10, 1936) was a blessed of the Catholic Church. He completed secondary school and subsequently entered the seminary in Valencia. In 1906, at the age of 23, he was ordained a priest.

1187–1259 · Medieval · Dominican Order

Gundisalvus of Amarante, OP (Portuguese: Gonçalo de Amarante; 1187 – 10 January 1259) was a Portuguese Catholic priest in the Order of Preachers. He joined the order as a hermit after his return from a long pilgrimage that took him to both Rome and Jerusalem.

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.

1880–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Gregorio Chirivás Lacambra, C.M.F. (Siétamo, April 24, 1880 – Barbastro, August 12, 1936), was a Spanish religious who was martyred in Barbastro during the Spanish Civil War and is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1912–1936 · Contemporary

Gregorio Escobar García, OMI (born September 12, 1912, in Estella; died November 28, 1936, in Paracuellos de Jarama) was a Spanish Oblate of the Immaculate Mary. He made his first vows in the Oblate congregation on August 15, 1930.

1210–1276 · Medieval · Cistercians

Pope Gregory X (Latin: Gregorius X; born Teobaldo Visconti; c. 1210 – 10 January 1276) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1 September 1271 to his death and was a member of the Third Order of St. Francis.

1300–1358 · Medieval · Augustinians

Blessed Gregory of Rimini, O.E.S.A. (Latin Beatus Gregorius de Arimino or Ariminiensis) (c. 1300 – November 1358), was one of the great scholastic philosophers and theologians of the Middle Ages.

1883–1902 · Contemporary · Passionists

Grimoaldo of the Purification (4 May 1883 – 18 November 1902) – born Ferdinando Santamaria – was an Italian Roman Catholic clerical student from the Passionists.

1911–1943 · Contemporary · Divine Word Missionaries

Grzegorz (Gregory) Bolesław Frąckowiak (July 18, 1911 – May 5, 1943) was a Society of the Divine Word (SVD) martyr. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 13 June 1999 as one of the 108 Polish Martyrs of World War II.

1916–1975 · Contemporary

Guadalupe Ortiz de Landázuri Fernández de Heredia (12 December 1916 – 16 July 1975) was a Spanish Catholic professor and a member of Opus Dei. She was one of the first women to join Opus Dei, after meeting the founder Josemaría Escrivá in 1944.

1180–1244 · Medieval · Dominican Order

Guala de Roniis (1180 - 3 September 1244) was an Italian catholic priest and a professed member of the Order of Preachers as one of Dominic of Osma's earliest disciples.

1065–1120 · Medieval · Carthusian Order

William of Fenoglio (Borgoratto, 1065 – Casotto, 1120) was an Italian religious figure and monk of the Carthusian Order. A monk at the Charterhouse of Casotto, his cult as a blessed was confirmed by Pope Pius IX in 1860.

1187–1247 · Medieval · Franciscans

Guido da Cortona was a Catholic presbyter and member of the Franciscan order who was born in Cortona in 1187. He lived and died in Cortona in 1247. He is recognized as a blessed within the Catholic Church.

1709–1794 · Modern

Guillaume Repin (26 August 1709 – 2 January 1794) was a French priest and martyr. He was beatified on 19 February 1984 by Pope John Paul II. Repin was born in Thouarcé, Maine-et-Loire, France on 26 August 1709.

1733–1792 · Modern · Society of Jesus

Guillaume-Antoine Delfaud (1733–1792) was a French Jesuit.

1908–1936 · Contemporary

Guillermo Plaza Hernández (born June 25, 1908, in Yuncos; died August 9, 1936, in Argés) was a blessed priest, a victim of anti-Catholic persecution during the Spanish Civil War.

1869–1936 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Gumersindo Soto Barros was a Spanish Catholic priest and a member of the Dominican Order. Born in 1869, he died in Calanda in 1936. He is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1019–1075 · Medieval

Gundekar (1019–1075), (also Gundechar, Gundakar, Gunzo) was bishop of Eichstätt from 1057 to 1075. He is known for his historical work Vitae Pontificum Eystettensium on his predecessors. He is a Catholic blessed and his feast day is August 2.

1160–1209 · Medieval

Guy of Montpellier (1160–1208) was the founder of the Order of the Holy Spirit and the Confraternity of the Holy Spirit around 1180, established to care for abandoned children, the poor, and the sick. The order was officially recognized by Pope Innocent III on April 23, 1198.

1902–1973 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Hanna Helena Chrzanowska (7 October 1902 – 29 April 1973), sometimes anglicized as Hannah Helen Chrzanowska, was a Polish Roman Catholic who served as a nurse and was also a Benedictine oblate.

1000–1023 · Medieval

Hartwig (Latin: Hartwicus; died 5 December 1023) was the archbishop of Salzburg from 991 until his death. He was a younger son of the Bavarian count palatine Hartwig of the Aribonid family.

1207–1231 · Medieval · Franciscans

Helen Enselmini (Italian: Elena Enselmini), also known as the Blessed Helen of Arcella (1208–1242), was an Italian Franciscan nun who has been beatified by the Catholic Church. Enselmini was born in Padua, from an impoverished noble family of the region.

973–1045 · Medieval

Hemma of Gurk (German: Hemma von Gurk; c. 980 – 29 June 1045), also called Emma of Gurk (Slovene: Ema Krška), was a noblewoman, Fürstin (princess) and founder of several churches and monasteries in the Duchy of Carinthia.

1852–1903 · Contemporary · Divine Word Missionaries

Hendrina Stenmanns, SSpS (Josefa in religion; 28 May 1852 - 20 May 1903) was a German Catholic religious sister who co-founded the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit, which she founded alongside Arnold Janssen and Helena Stollenwerk.

1823–1871 · Modern

The Massacre in the Rue Haxo (French: le massacre de la rue Haxo) was a massacre of priests and gendarmes by communards during the semaine sanglante ("bloody week") at the end of the Paris Commune in May 1871.