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1568–1616 · Reformation

John Thulis (also spelt Thules, Thewlis) (c. 1568 – 18 March 1616) was an English Roman Catholic priest. Beatified in 1987, he is one of the Douai Martyrs. Thulis was born at Up Holland, Lancashire, probably about 1568.

1801 · Modern

John Won Gyeong-do was a member of the Catholic Church who died in 1801. He was executed by decapitation and is recognized as a blessed.

1794–1868 · Modern

John Yi Jeong-sik was born in 1794 and died in 1868. A member of the Catholic Church, he is recognized as a blessed.

1200–1290 · Medieval

Blessed John dal Bastone or Bl. John of the Staff, born Giovanni Bonello Botegoni (24 March 1200 – 24 March 1290), is a Blessed of the Roman Catholic Church. John was born in Paterno, Fabriano, Italy.

1165–1217 · Medieval · Benedictines

Jean de Montmirail (or Monte-Mirabili), Baron de Montmirail, O.S.B. Cist. (1165 – 29 September 1217), was a French nobleman who became a Cistercian monk. He is venerated as a beatus in the Catholic Church.

1500–1572 · Reformation · Dominican Order

John of Cologne (Joannes van Hoornaar), was a friar and priest of the Dominican Order, born in the Electorate of Cologne, part of modern Germany. He later became a parish priest of Hoornaar, in the Spanish Netherlands.

1259–1322 · Medieval · Franciscans

John of Fermo, more often called John of La Verna, from his time spent on that mountain (1259 – 10 August 1322) was an Italian Franciscan friar, who was a noted ascetic and preacher. John was born at Fermo in the March of Ancona.

1208–1289 · Medieval · Franciscans

Giovanni Buralli (5 March 1208 – 19 March 1289), known as John of Parma, was an Italian Franciscan friar, who served as one of the first Ministers General of the Order of Friars Minor (1247–1257). He was also a noted theologian of the period.

1293–1381 · Medieval · Canons Regular of Saint Augustine

John of Ruusbroec or Jan van Ruusbroec , sometimes modernized Ruysbroeck, was an Augustinian canon and one of the most important of the medieval mystics of the Low Countries.

1205–1283 · Medieval · Dominican Order

John of Vercelli (Giovanni da Vercelli) (c. 1205 – 30 November 1283) was the sixth Master General of the Dominican Order (1264-1283). John was born in 1205 to the Garbella family in Mosso Santa Maria in the Province of Biella, in the Piedmont region of Italy.

1190–1237 · Medieval · Dominican Order

Jordan of Saxony, OP (referred to in Latin as Jordanis, also known as de Alamania; c. 1190 – 1237), was a German Catholic priest and one of the first leaders of the Dominican Order. His feast day is February 13.

1884–1952 · Contemporary

Robert-Matthew Chichkov (9 February 1884 – 11 November 1952) was a Bulgarian priest, rector and teacher, executed by firing squad by the ruling communist government. He is venerated as blessed by the Catholic Church.

1876–1947 · Contemporary · Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat

Josaphat Joseph Kotsylovsky OSBM (Ukrainian: Йосафат Йосиф Коциловський; 3 March 1876 – 17 November 1947) was a bishop and martyr of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He was the bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Przemyśl–Warsaw from 1917 to 1947.

1861–1936 · Contemporary

Józef Rada, O.A.R. (born November 17, 1861, in Zaragoza; died July 25, 1936, in Motril) was a blessed of the Catholic Church and a priest of the Order of Augustinian Recollects. At the age of 16, he entered the Augustinian novitiate in Monteagudo.

1906–1946 · Contemporary

Josef Marxen (born August 2, 1906, in Worringen near Cologne; died November 16, 1946, near Tirana) was a German Roman Catholic priest. In 1936, he was sent as a missionary to Albania, where he was shot in 1946. He is one of the Forty Martyrs of Albania.

1910–1945 · Contemporary

Josef Mayr-Nusser (27 December 1910 – 24 February 1945) was an Italian Roman Catholic who served as the President of the Saint Vincent de Paul Conference of the Bolzano division as well as a member of Catholic Action.

1905–1942 · Contemporary

Josef Quinke (born October 18, 1905, in Fretter; died December 16, 1942, in Sachsenhausen concentration camp) was a German master baker and a victim of National Socialism. He died in Sachsenhausen concentration camp and was later declared a martyr of the 20th century.

1881–1936 · Contemporary

Josefa María Barrera Izaguirre, known as María del Carmen, was born in Ferrol on March 23, 1881, and died a martyr in Madrid on November 18, 1936. She was a Galician Catholic religious sister and a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1854–1936 · Contemporary

Josefa María Ruano García (Berja, July 9, 1854 – Buñol, September 8, 1936), better known by her religious name Josefa of Saint John of God, was a Spanish Catholic nun of the Little Sisters of the Abandoned Aged. She was killed during the Spanish Civil War in the 20th century.

1880–1936 · Contemporary

Josefina Moscardó Montalvá was a Catholic martyr who was killed during the Spanish Civil War. A single laywoman, she was martyred for publicly expressing her faith and participating in parochial activities. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II on March 11, 2001.

1916–1936 · Contemporary

Josep Casas Ros (Ordal, Alt Penedès, August 19, 1916 – Moja, Alt Penedès, September 29, 1936) was a Catalan seminarian murdered during the religious persecution at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. He was born in Ordal on August 19, 1916.

1877–1936 · Contemporary

Josep Joan Perot i Juanmartí was a Catholic priest born in Toulouse in 1877 and a citizen of Spain. He died in La Pobla de Segur in 1936 and is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1811–1871 · Modern · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Josep Tous Soler (31 March 1811 - 27 February 1871) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin - a branch of the Franciscan Order.

1909–1969 · Contemporary · Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

Joseph Boissel, born on December 20, 1909, near Pontmain, in the hamlet of La Tiolais in the commune of Le Loroux in the Archdiocese of Rennes, Brittany, and murdered on July 5, 1969, near Hat Lêt, Laos, was a French and Breton Catholic missionary considered a blessed and martyr…

1739–1794 · Modern · Society of Saint-Sulpice

Joseph Juge de Saint-Martin was a Catholic priest and member of the Society of Saint-Sulpice who was born in Limoges in 1739. He died in Rochefort in 1794 and is recognized as a blessed.

1816 · Modern

Joseph Ko Seong-un was a member of the Catholic Church who died by decapitation in Daegu in 1816. He is recognized as a blessed.

1569–1592 · Reformation

Joseph Lambton (1569–1592) was an English Catholic priest. He is honoured as a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987. Member of a prominent Durham family, Joseph Lambton was the second son of Thomas Lambton of Malton-in-Rydale, Yorkshire, and Katharine, daughter of Robert Birkhead…

1894–1944 · Contemporary

Joseph Müller (19 August 1894 – 11 September 1944) was a German Catholic priest and critic of the Nazi regime. He was tried by the People's Court and executed at Brandenburg-Görden Prison.

1720–1794 · Modern

Joseph Pellé (born January 20, 1720, in Laval; died January 21, 1794, in the same city) 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.

1918–1954 · Contemporary

Joseph Thao Tiên (born December 5, 1918, in Houaphanh Province, Laos (Indochina); died June 2, 1954) was a Laotian Catholic priest assassinated in odium fidei during the persecution of Catholics by communist authorities.

1742–1792 · Modern

Joseph-Marie Gros (23 May 1742, Lyon - 3 September 1792, Paris) was a French secular cleric and clergy deputy to the Estates-General of 1789. After being ordained he received his theology doctorate and taught at the College of Navarre from 10 May 1785.

1747–1794 · Modern · Franciscans

Joséphine Leroux (23 January 1747 – 23 October 1794), born Anne-Josepha Leroux, was a French Poor Clare, executed during the French Revolution. She was born in Cambrai, France.

1879–1936 · Contemporary · Order of St. Augustine

José Agustín Fariña Castro, O.S.A. (born Alfredo Fernando; Valladolid, March 20, 1879 – Paracuellos de Jarama, November 30, 1936), was a Spanish Augustinian friar, writer, editor, preacher, and martyr.

1869–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Aurelius Ample Alcaide, also known as Aurelius of Vinalesa, born José Ample Alcaide (February 3, 1896, in Vinalesa – August 28, 1936, in Foyos), was a Spanish Capuchin priest, Catholic blessed, martyr, and victim of the anti-Catholic persecutions during the Spanish Civil War.

1878–1936 · Contemporary · Benedictines

José Antón Gómez was a Spanish Catholic priest, Benedictine monk, author, and prior born in Hacinas in 1878. He died in Madrid in 1936 and is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1893–1936 · Contemporary

José Aparicio Sanz (March 12, 1893, Enguera, Valencia, Spain – December 29, 1936, Picadero de Paterna, Spain) was a Spanish priest, archpriest of Enguera, and a victim and one of the Spanish Martyrs of the 20th century during the religious persecution against the Catholic Church…

1913–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

José Brengaret Pujol, C.M.F. (Sant Jordi Desvalls, January 18, 1913 – Barbastro, August 13, 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.

1872–1936 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

José Calasanz Marqués, SDB—sometimes spelled Marquéz or Margués—(November 23, 1872, in Azanuy; July 29, 1936, in Valencia) was a Spanish religious priest. On July 17, 1936, a military coup against the Second Spanish Republic began, marking the start of the Spanish Civil War.

1903–1936 · Contemporary

José Canet Giner was a Spanish Catholic presbyter born in 1903. He died in Gandia in 1936 and has been beatified by the Catholic Church.

1885–1936 · Contemporary

José Cecilio Rodríguez González was born in 1885 in La Molina de Ubierna and died in 1936 in Tahal. He is recognized as a blessed.

1903–1936 · Contemporary

José Fenollosa Alcayna was a Spanish Catholic presbyter born in 1903 in Rafelbunyol. He died in 1936 in Sagunto and has been beatified by the Catholic Church.

1879–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Joachim Ferrer Adell, OFMCap., also known as Joachim of Albocácer (born Joaquín José Ferrer Adell on April 23, 1879, in Albocácer, Castellón; died August 30, 1936, in Villafamés, Archdiocese of Valencia), was a Spanish Blessed of the Catholic Church, a martyr, a friar of the Orde…

1904–1936 · Contemporary · Piarists

José Ferrer Esteve, SchP (born February 17, 1904, in Algemesí; died December 9, 1936, in Llombai) was a Spanish priest of the Piarist Order, a victim of the anti-Catholic persecution during the Spanish Civil War, murdered in hatred of the faith (odium fidei).

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

Giuseppe Figuero Beltrán, C.M.F., born José Figuero Beltrán (Gumiel de Mercado, August 14, 1911 – Barbastro, August 15, 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.

1881–1936 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

José Gafo Muñiz (Campomanes, Asturias, 1881 – Madrid, October 4, 1936) was a Spanish Dominican priest, politician, and trade unionist. He is a Christian martyr of the Roman Catholic Church, having been beatified by Pope Benedict XVI on October 28, 2007, after being killed for his…

1896–1936 · Contemporary

José García Mas was a Spanish Catholic born in 1896 and died in 1936. He is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1874–1936 · Contemporary

José González Huguet was a Spanish presbyter born in Valencia in 1874. He died in 1936 and is recognized as a blessed within the Catholic Church.

1913–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

José Amorós Hernández, C.M.F. (La Pobla Llarga, January 14, 1913 – Barbastro, August 15, 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 · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

José María Badía Mateu, C.M.F. (Puigpelat, September 30, 1912 – Barbastro, August 15, 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 · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

José María Blasco Juan, C.M.F. (Xàtiva, January 2, 1912 – Barbastro, August 15, 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.