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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…

1280–1339 · Medieval · Cistercians

Giovanni da Caramola was a French Cistercian monk born in Toulouse in 1280. He died in Chiaromonte in 1339 and is recognized as a blessed within the Catholic Church.

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.

1100–1086 · Medieval

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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…

1925–1946 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Gjelosh Lulashi was born in 1925 and served as military personnel. A member of the Society of Jesus, he died in Shkodër in 1946. He is recognized as a blessed.

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.

1110–1182 · Medieval · Cistercians

Gonario II (also spelled Gonnario and Gunnari; died between 1180 and 1190) was the giudice of the Sardinian kingdom of Logudoro from the death of his father in 1128 until his own abdication in 1154. He was a son of Constantine I and Marcusa de Gunale.

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.

1360–1422 · Medieval · Augustinians

Gundisalvus of Lagos, O.E.S.A. (Portuguese: Gonçalo de Lagos; c. 1360 – 15 October 1422) was a Portuguese Catholic priest and Augustinian friar.

1438–1508 · Reformation

Grazia of Cattaro (Mulla, October 27, 1438 – Murano, November 9, 1508) was an Italian religious of the Order of Saint Augustine. His cult as a blessed was confirmed by Pope Leo XIII in 1889.

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.

1259 · Medieval · Franciscans

Saint Walter was a Franciscan friar sent on a mission to Portugal in the early 13th century by Saint Francis of Assisi. Every year on the first weekend of August, the city of Guimarães dedicates its city festival, known as the Gualterian Festivals, to him.

1070–1157 · Medieval · Benedictines

Guerric of Igny (c. 1070/80-1157) was a Cistercian abbot. Little is known about his early life. He may have been educated at Tournai's cathedral school, perhaps under Benedictine monk, Odo of Cambrai.

1309–1404 · Medieval

Guglielmo Buccheri, known as Guglielmo Cuffitedda, and also as Guglielmo da Noto, Guglielmo the Hermit, or Guglielmo of Scicli (Noto, 1309 – Scicli, April 4, 1404), was an Italian religious figure who lived as a hermit and is considered a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1377 · Medieval

Guglielmo Zucchi was a Catholic priest born in Alessandria. He died in Alessandria in 1377 and is recognized as a blessed.

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.

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Guilherme de Loarte was a citizen of Spain. He holds the status of blessed.

1146 · Medieval

Blessed Guilielmus Peregrinus (d. April 20, c. 1146), also known as Wilhelm the Pilgrim, was a German pilgrim from Bogen, Bavaria. He is said to have healed Albert I, Count of Bogen but predicted his own imminent death.