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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.

1920–1945 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Gérard-Martin Cendrier, born on June 16, 1920, in Paris and died on January 25, 1945, was a Catholic religious figure who was persecuted, deported, and died in a concentration camp during the Second World War.

1100–1200 · Medieval

Haberilia (died c. 1100 in Bregenz-Mehrerau; occasionally also referred to as Haberilla, Habril(l)a, or by the additions Haberilia of Mehrerau or Haberilia of Bregenz) was a recluse who lived in or near Mehrerau Abbey, close to Bregenz, during the 11th or 12th century and was ven…

1659 · Reformation

Blessed Habnit of Waldburg was a herder who died in 1659.

1101–1200 · Medieval · Premonstratensians

Hadewych, O.Praem., (c. 1150 – 14 April, c. 1200) a.k.a. Hadewig or Hedwig, was abbess of the Premonstratensian monastery of Meer, (now part of Meerbusch) in modern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Hadewych was the daughter of Count Lothair of Meer and Hildegund.

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.

1587–1623 · Reformation

Hara Tanenobu was born in 1587 at Usui Castle to his father, Hara Taneyoshi, and was a citizen of the Tokugawa shogunate. He died in 1623 at Takanawa by execution through burning. He is recognized as a blessed figure.

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.

1120–1185 · Medieval

According to legend, Blessed Henry of Ebrantshausen (born c. 1120 in Regensburg; died c. 1185 near Ebrantshausen) was one of the Counts of Riedenburg who, after many years of pilgrimage, lived in quiet seclusion near Ebrantshausen, subsisting on the charitable gifts of the people…

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.

800–876 · Medieval

Emma of Altdorf, also known as Hemma (c. 803 – 31 January 876), a member of the Elder House of Welf, was Queen consort of East Francia by marriage to King Louis the German, from 843 until her death. Her father was Welf I (d.

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.

1745–1794 · Modern · Order of Discalced Nuns of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Born in Paris in 1745, Henriette de Jésus was a Catholic nun of the Order of Discalced Nuns of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel. She died by decapitation in Paris in 1794 and is buried at Picpus Cemetery. She is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1599–1643 · Reformation · Franciscans

Henry Heath (1599–1643), religious name Paul of St. Magdalene, was an English priest of the Order of Friars Minor and a Roman Catholic martyr. Heath was born in 1599 and baptised at St. John's, Peterborough, 16 December 1599. His father was John Heath.

1295–1366 · Medieval · Dominican Order

Henry Suso, OP (also called Amandus, a name adopted in his writings, and Heinrich Seuse or Heinrich von Berg in German; 21 March 1295 – 25 January 1366) was a German Dominican friar and the most popular vernacular writer of the fourteenth century (when considering the number of s…

1367–1439 · Medieval · Franciscans

Henry de Beaume, O.F.M. (Latin: Henricus de Balma), (c. 1367 – 23 February 1439), also known as Hugh Balme, was a Franciscan friar, priest and theologian.

1300–1345 · Medieval

Henry of Asti (Enrico d'Asti, also seen as Enrico Comentina; died 17 January 1345) was the titular Latin Catholic patriarch of Constantinople from 1339 and bishop of Negroponte in Frankish Greece.

1210–1271 · Medieval

Enrico da Susa, latinised as Henricus de Segusio and anglicized as Henry of Segusio and often referred to by the religious name Hostiensis, (c.

1250–1315 · Medieval

Henry of Treviso (German: Heinrich von Bozen; Italian: Arrigo [Enrico] da Bolzano) (died 1315), also known as Henry of Bolzano or Blessed Rigo, was a lay pilgrim and holy man, a German from Bolzano (Bozen), who established himself in Treviso after the death of his wife and son.

1904–1941 · Contemporary

Henryk Hlebowicz (1 July 1904 – 9 November 1941) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest. Born in Grodno, he served as a parish priest and lecturer at Vilnius University between 1930 and 1935.

1908–1942 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Henryk Krzysztofik was a friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin born in 1908 in Zachorzów, Second Polish Republic. A member of the Catholic Church, he died in 1942 at the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps. He is recognized as a blessed.

1889–1936 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Enrique Sáiz Aparicio (born December 1, 1889, in Ubierna, Burgos; died October 2, 1936, in Madrid) was a Spanish priest, a Salesian of Don Bosco (SDB), a Christian martyr, and a blessed of the Roman Catholic Church.

1040–1074 · Medieval · Benedictines

Herman I of Baden (c. 1040 – April 25, 1074 in Cluny) was the titular Margrave of Verona and the agnatic ancestor of the Margraves of Baden. Herman was born in Freiburg im Breisgau as the eldest son of Berthold I of Zähringen.

1912–1943 · Contemporary

Hermann Lange (16 April 1912 – 10 November 1943) was a Roman Catholic priest and martyr of the Nazi period in Germany. He was guillotined in a Hamburg prison by the Nazi authorities in November 1943, along with the three other Lübeck martyrs.

1013–1054 · Medieval · Benedictines

Blessed Hermann of Reichenau or Herman the Cripple (18 July 1013 – 24 September 1054), also known by other names, was an 11th-century Benedictine monk and scholar. He composed works on history, music theory, mathematics, and astronomy, as well as many hymns.

1879–1936 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order

Ermenegildo dell'Assunta, born Hermenegildo Iza y Aregita (Mendata, April 13, 1879 – Alcázar de San Juan, July 26, 1936), was a Spanish priest of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity.

1887–1936 · Contemporary

Herminia Martínez Amigó was a Catholic martyr who was killed during the Spanish Civil War. Due to her public displays of religious devotion, she was murdered alongside her husband and was beatified by Pope John Paul II on March 11, 2001.

1877–1936 · Contemporary

Blessed Herminio Motos Torrecillas (born in María, Almería, December 9, 1877; died in María, Almería, October 13, 1936) was the archpriest and parish priest of María (1912–1936). He was killed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War as a victim of religious persecution.

1133 · Medieval · Benedictines

Hesson or Esson (died 1133) was a blessed Benedictine monk of Hirschau Abbey in Bavaria, Germany, under Saint William. In 1085, he was sent as the first abbot of Beinwil, in the Diocese of Basel. His feast day is December 27.

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Hiconius, also found as Iconius, is the second bishop of Maurienne, mentioned towards the end of the 6th century and at the very beginning of the following century. He is locally considered a blessed.

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

Hilario María Llorente Martín was a Spanish Catholic seminarian and a member of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. He died in 1936 in Barbastro from a gunshot wound. He is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1907–1945 · Contemporary · Carmelites

Hilary Paweł Januszewski, O.Carm (June 11, 1907, in Krajenki – March 25, 1945, in Dachau concentration camp), was a Polish priest, Carmelite friar of the Ancient Observance and Catholic priest.

1883–1933 · Contemporary

Hildegard Lea Burjan (née Hildegard Freund; 30 January 1883 – 11 June 1933) was an Austrian politician and convert from Judaism to the Roman Catholic Church. She founded the Sisterhood of Caritas Socialis.

758–783 · Medieval

Hildegard (c. 757/758 – 30 April 783) was a Frankish queen and the wife of Charlemagne from c. 771 until her death. Hildegard was a noblewoman of Frankish and Alemannian heritage.

1115–1183 · Medieval · Premonstratensians

Hildegund (c. 1130–1183) was a Praemonstratensian abbess. Born to nobility, her father was Count Herman of Lidtberg and her mother Countess Hedwig. She was married to Count Lothair of Meer (now Meerbusch), in the modern region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

1829–1916 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Honorat Koźmiński (16 October 1829 – 16 December 1916), born Florentyn Wacław Jan Stefan Koźmiński, was a Polish priest and professed member from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin who went on to establish sixteen religious congregations.

1908–1936 · Contemporary

Honorato Zorraquino Herrero was born in 1908 in Bañón, Spain. He died in 1936 in Valencia and is recognized as a blessed.

1170–1217 · Medieval · Premonstratensians

Hroznata of Ovenec, also known as Croznato (born c. 1160 in Teplá in the Duchy of Bohemia and died July 14, 1217, in Alt-Kinsberg), was a Czech Premonstratensian canon whose cult as a blessed was recognized by Pope Leo XIII on September 16, 1897.

1883–1950 · Contemporary

Hryhoriy Lakota, also known as Gregor Lakota (Ukrainian: Григорій Лакота, Polish: Grzegorz Łakota; 31 January 1883 – 12 November 1950), was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic auxiliary bishop who suffered religious persecution and was martyred by the Soviet Union.

1867–1947 · Contemporary

Hryhoriy Khomyshyn (also Hryhorij Khomyshyn, Ukrainian: Григорій Лукич Хомишин, Polish: Grzegorz Chomyszyn) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop and hieromartyr. Khomyshyn was born on 25 March 1867 in the village of Hadynkivtsi, eastern Galicia, in what is now Ternopil Oblast.

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.

1093–1164 · Medieval · Premonstratensians

Hugues de Fosses (*ca. 1093, Fosses-la-Ville; +10.02.1164, Prémontré) was a Norbertine Abbot and successor of Saint Norbert as the Abbot of Prémontré Abbey, the mother house of the Premonstratensians. The Order and the Catholic Church venerate him as a Blessed.