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1911–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Atanasio Vidaurreta Labra (Adiós, May 2, 1911 – Barbastro, August 18, 1936) was a Spanish religious, martyred in Barbastro during the Spanish Civil War and venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1793–1840 · Modern

Augustin Pak Chong-won was a Korean Christian layman and catechist, born in 1793 in Seoul, Korea, and died on January 31, 1840, at Dangkogae near Seoul.

1716–1794 · Modern

Augustin-Emmanuel Philippot (born June 11, 1716, in Paris; died January 21, 1794, in Laval, Mayenne department) was a French priest who was sentenced to death and guillotined during the French Revolution. He is venerated as a Blessed in the Roman Catholic Church.

1320–1380 · Medieval · Carmelites

Avertanus of Lucca (Limoges, 1320 – Lucca, 1380) was a French religious and pilgrim, and a member of the Carmelite Order. He is considered a blessed in the Catholic Church, and his feast day is celebrated on February 25.

1563–1626 · Reformation

Baltasar de Torres, SJ (born December 14, 1563, in Granada; died June 20, 1626, in Nagasaki) was a Jesuit missionary, priest, blessed of the Catholic Church, and martyr. A victim of anti-Catholic persecution in Japan, he was murdered in odium fidei (out of hatred for the faith).

1783–1801 · Modern

Barbara Sim A-gi was a Korean Christian laywoman and martyr, born in 1783 in Gwangju, Gyeonggi, Korea, and died in early April 1801 near Seoul. Her martyrdom is recognized by the Catholic Church, and she is titled Venerable.

1452–1495 · Medieval · Carmelites

Bartolomeu Fanti was an Italian Carmelite friar who belonged to the Mantuan Congregation. For 35 years, he served as spiritual director and rector of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in his hometown.

1000 · Medieval

Blessed Batho of Freising was an 11th-century missionary in the territory of the Diocese of Freising. His missionary work was centered in what is now Carinthia. According to a legend modeled after the New Testament, he fed converted pagans in Innichen with bread.

1410–1481 · Medieval · Dominican Order

Costanzo da Fabriano, also known as Costanzo Servoli (Fabriano, ... – Ascoli Piceno, February 24, 1481), was an Italian priest of the Order of Preachers. His cult as a blessed was confirmed by Pope Pius VII in 1821.

1101–1216 · Medieval · Cistercians

Béatrice of Lens (Beatrix) is a blessed, born in Lens, formerly in the County of Hainaut. On October 29, 1216, using the dowry received from her parents, she founded the Cistercian abbey of Épinlieu, near Mons, in present-day Belgium, and entered the abbey herself.

1300–1275 · Medieval · Premonstratensians

Beatrix of Engelport (died after 1275 at the convent of Maria Engelport, near Treis-Karden) was a German choir nun of the Premonstratensian Order who may have been the first prioress of that convent. She is considered a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1324–1399 · Medieval · Poor Clares

Beatrix of Mecklenburg, also known as Beate, Beata, or Beate of Ribnitz (1324–1399), was a princess of Mecklenburg and the first princely abbess of the Poor Clares monastery in Ribnitz from 1349 to 1395. In the Roman Catholic Church, she is venerated as a blessed.

1260 · Medieval · Poor Clares

Benedict of Assisi (Benedetta di Assisi), also referred to as Benoîte d'Assisi in some texts, was an Italian nun born in Assisi in the 13th century. Her family was one of the most powerful in Assisi.

1040–1107 · Medieval

Benedetto Ricasoli (c. 1040, Montegrossi – 20 January 1107, Coltibuono) was an Italian religious figure and a monk of the Vallombrosan Order. He was beatified by equipollence by Pope Pius X in 1907.

1906–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Benigno Prieto del Pozo (born November 25, 1906, in Salce; died August 16, 1936, in Fuente el Fresno) was a Spanish Franciscan, priest, Christian martyr, and blessed of the Roman Catholic Church.

1188–1232 · Medieval · Franciscans

Bentivoglio de Bonis (San Severino Marche, 1188 – San Severino Marche, 1232) was an Italian priest of the Order of Friars Minor; his cult as a blessed was confirmed by Pope Pius IX in 1852.

1728–1792 · Modern

Bernard-François de Cucsac (born 1728 in Toulouse, died September 2, 1792, in Paris) was a Catholic priest, a member of a Catholic society of apostolic life, and a martyr beatified by the Catholic Church, who was a victim of anti-Catholic persecution during the French Revolution.

1867–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Bernard of Lugar Nuevo de Fenollet, born José Bleda Grau (July 23, 1867, in Lugar Nuevo de Fenollet – September 4, 1936, in Genovés), was a Spanish Blessed of the Catholic Church, a martyr, a Capuchin friar, and a victim of the anti-Catholic persecutions during the Spanish Civil…

1182 · Medieval · Benedictines

Bernard the Penitent, also known as Bernard of Sithiu, was a 12th-century Benedictine monk and great traveler, born in the Diocese of Maguelone and died on April 19, 1182, at Saint-Bertin Abbey in Saint-Omer. He was declared a Catholic blessed and is celebrated on April 19.

1925–1940 · Contemporary

Bibiana Khampai (November 4, 1925 – December 26, 1940) was a Thai blessed of the Catholic Church. Between 1940 and 1944, Thailand was at war with French Indochina.

1930–1995 · Contemporary · Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles

Denise Leclercq (or Leclerc), in religion Sister Bibiane, was a French nun, blessed and martyr, born in 1930 in Gazeran and killed on September 3, 1995, in Algiers. She was beatified on December 8, 2018.

1864–1936 · Contemporary · Sisters of Adoration, Handmaids of the Blessed Sacrament and of Charity

Juana Francisca Pérez de Labeaga García (Desojo, January 29, 1864 – Madrid, November 10, 1936), better known as Blasa de María, was a Spanish religious sister and member of the Handmaids of the Blessed Sacrament and of Charity, who was killed during the religious persecution of t…

1047–1120 · Medieval · Knights Hospitaller

Brother Gerard, or Gerard the Hospitaller, born around 1047 into a family from the Amalfi region of Italy and died on September 3, 1120, was the founder of a congregation, the Hospitallers of Saint John, which would later become the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem.

1332–1389 · Medieval · Order of St. Augustine

Bonaventura Badoaro de Peraga, the Cardinal of Padua, was an Italian cardinal born in Padua, Veneto, Italy, who died on July 10, 1381 (or 1389), in Rome. He was a member of the Order of Saint Augustine and the first cardinal from that order.

1930–1996 · Contemporary · Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance

Christian Charles Joseph Lemarchand (in religion Father Bruno), born on March 1, 1930, in Saint-Maixent-l'École (Deux-Sèvres) and died (assassinated) after April 20, 1996, in Algeria, was a French Trappist monk of the Abbey of Notre-Dame de l'Atlas in Tibhirine who, along with si…

1887–1936 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order

Bonaventura of Saint Catherine (Spanish: Buenaventura de Santa Catalina), born Buenaventura Gavicaechevarría Guerricabeitia (Ajangiz, July 14, 1887 – Alcázar de San Juan, July 26, 1936), was a Spanish priest of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity.

1933–1994 · Contemporary · Sisters Augustines Missionaries

Caridad Álvarez Martín was a Spanish religious sister, born in Santa Cruz de la Salceda, Burgos, Spain, on May 9, 1933. A member of the Augustinian Missionaries, she was murdered on October 23, 1994, alongside Sister Esther Paniagua Alonso.

1417 · Medieval

Carlo di Bandino (County of Monte Granelli, Romagna Toscana, c. 1330 – Venice, September 15, 1417) was a Tuscan nobleman who led a religious life and founded the Congregation of the Hermits of Saint Jerome of Fiesole. He is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1911–1936 · Contemporary · Piarists

Carlos Navarro Miquel, Sch.P. (born February 11, 1911, in Torrente de Cinca, died September 22, 1936, at the Monastery of Montserrat) was a Spanish priest of the Piarist Order and a victim of the anti-Catholic persecutions during the Spanish Civil War, murdered in hatred of the f…

1758–1794 · Modern

Catherine du Verdier de La Sorinière, born on July 30, 1758, at the Château de la Sorinière in the province of Anjou, died on February 10, 1794, after being executed by firing squad at Avrillé by soldiers of General Turreau's infernal columns.

1300 · Medieval · Cistercians

Blessed Catherine of Parc-aux-Dames (13th century, born in Leuven, modern-day Belgium) was a Catholic blessed, nun, mystic, and virgin. She was of Jewish origin and was originally named Rachel.

1924–1940 · Contemporary

Cecilia Butsi (born December 16, 1924; died December 26, 1940) was a Thai martyr and a blessed of the Catholic Church. She was baptized in 1926 at the age of two. Between 1940 and 1944, Thailand was at war with French Indochina.

1913–1936 · Contemporary

Cecilio Vega Domínguez, OMI (born September 8, 1913, in Villamor de Órbigo; died July 24, 1936, in Pozuelo, Madrid) was a Spanish Oblate of the Immaculate Mary. He made his first vows on August 15, 1931, and his perpetual vows in 1934.

1924–1994 · Contemporary · White Fathers

Charles Deckers, born in Antwerp on December 26, 1924, and died on December 27, 1994, in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, was a Belgian White Father assassinated in a terrorist act carried out by the GIA.

1763–1794 · Modern

Charles-Antoine-Nicolas Ancel (Rouen, October 11, 1763 – Rochefort, July 29, 1794) was a French priest and one of the Martyrs of the Hulks of Rochefort, beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1995.

1958–1994 · Contemporary · White Fathers

Christian Chessel, born in Digne-les-Bains on October 27, 1958, and murdered in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, on December 27, 1994, was a French Catholic priest and White Father.

1269 · Medieval

Christina of Retters is a blessed of the Premonstratensian Order (born in 1269, died circa 1291 in Retters; feast day: November 29). According to Jacques Torsy, Christina was born into a noble family from the region around Wiesbaden.

1269–1292 · Medieval

Christina of Hane (born c. 1269 in the Worms region; died c. 1292 in Bolanden, Hane Monastery) was a medieval experiential mystic who practiced severe self-harm. Although older literature refers to her as Christina of Retters, she never lived in Retters.

1150–1176 · Medieval · Benedictines

Clémence of Hohenberg or Clémence of Öhren (died 1176) was a nun and a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. She was beatified and is commemorated on March 21. She was the daughter of Count Adolphe of Hohenberg and the widow of the Count of Spanheim.

1761–1801 · Modern

Columba Kang Wan-suk was a Korean Christian laywoman and catechist martyr, born in 1761 in Naepo, Chungcheong, Korea, and died by beheading on July 2, 1801, in Seoul. Her martyrdom is recognized by the Catholic Church, and she is titled Venerable.

1895–1936 · Contemporary

Concepción Rodríguez Fernández de Santa Magdalena (born December 13, 1895, in Eulalia; died November 24, 1936, in Paterna) was a Spanish Carmelite Sister of Charity, martyr, and blessed of the Catholic Church.

1866–1936 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Constantino Carbonell Sempere (born April 12, 1866, in Alcoy, died August 23, 1936, in Tabernes de Valldigna) was a Jesuit priest, a martyr of the Spanish Civil War, and a victim of anti-Catholic persecution, beatified by the Catholic Church.

1619 · Reformation

Cosmas Takeya Sozaburō, born in Korea and executed on November 18, 1619, in Nagasaki, Japan, was a Japanese Catholic layman of Korean descent, a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis, and a victim of the anti-Catholic persecution in Japan.

1894–1936 · Contemporary

Cosme Brun Ararà (Santa Coloma de Farners, November 12, 1894 – Boadilla del Monte, September 1, 1936), born Simón Isidro Joaquín Brun Ararà, was a Spanish Hospitaller religious. He is considered a blessed and martyr by the Catholic Church.

1903–1936 · Contemporary · Amigonian Friars

Crescence Garcia Pobo, born on April 15, 1903, in Celadas, Spain, and died on October 3, 1936, in Paracuellos de Jarama, near Madrid, was an Amigonian priest executed during the Spanish Civil War.

1885–1936 · Contemporary

Cristòfol Baqués i Almirall (Olesa de Bonesvalls, Alt Penedès, March 20, 1885, or 1884 – Barcelona, August 20, 1936) was a priest, blessed, and member of the Brotherhood of Diocesan Laborer Priests. He was ordained a priest on June 13, 1908.

1875–1936 · Contemporary

Cruz Laplana y Laguna (Plan, May 3, 1875 – Villar de Olalla, August 7, 1936) was a Spanish Catholic bishop. He was one of the thirteen bishops killed in the Republican zone during the Spanish Civil War, a victim of religious persecution.

1901–1936 · Contemporary

Candida of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Angels (born Candida Cayuso González; 5 January 1901 – 24 November 1936) was a Spanish blessed of the Catholic Church and a nun of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity.

1912–1936 · Contemporary · Conventual Franciscans

Pedro Rivera was a French Franciscan friar who was born on September 3, 1912, in Valladolid, Spain. During the Spanish Civil War, he was killed in 1936 in Barcelona, along with friars Alfonso Lopez, Modesto Vegas, Dionisio Vicente, Francisco Remón, and Miguel Remón.

1933–1996 · Contemporary · Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance

Célestin Marie Georges Maxime Ringeard, born on July 29, 1933, in Touvois, Loire-Atlantique, and died in Algeria after late April 1996, was one of the seven monks of Tibhirine whose fate inspired the film Of Gods and Men by Xavier Beauvois, which won an award at the 2010 Cannes F…