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1304–1346 · Medieval · Dominican Order

Venturino of Bergamo (9 April 1304 – 28 March 1346) was an Italian Dominican preacher. His cause for beatification is only within preliminary stages. He was born at Bergamo, and received the habit of the Order of Friars Preachers at the convent of St.

1935–1958 · Contemporary · Third Order of Saint Francis

Veronica Antal (7 December 1935 – 24 August 1958) was a Romanian Roman Catholic professed member from the Secular Franciscan Order and member of the Militia Immaculatae.

1445–1497 · Medieval · Augustinians

Veronica of Milan (c. 1445 – 13 January 1497) was an Italian nun in the Augustinian Order. She was reputed to have received frequent visions of the Virgin Mary, and her local cultus was confirmed by Pope Leo X in 1517.

1889–1937 · Contemporary

Vicente Vilar David (28 June 1889 - 14 February 1937) was a Spanish engineer from Spain at the time of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s during a period of intense anti-clerical sentiment.

1848–1894 · Modern

Victoire Rasoamanarivo (1848 – 21 August 1894) was a Catholic woman from Madagascar who devoted her life to the poor and the sick. She looked after their needs and spent her free time in prayer.

1027–1087 · Medieval · Benedictines

Pope Victor III (c. 1026 – 16 September 1087), born Dauferio Epifani Del Zotto, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 24 May 1086 to his death. He was the successor of Pope Gregory VII.

1903–1936 · Contemporary

Victoria Díez Bustos de Molina (11 November 1903 - 12 August 1936) was a Spanish Roman Catholic and a member from the Teresian Association. Díez worked as a teacher and became well-loved among her students for her deep faith and her passion as well as her commitment to the educat…

1802–1855 · Modern

Vincenza Maria Poloni, ISM, born as Luigia Poloni, (26 January 1802 – 11 November 1855), was an Italian Catholic religious sister who cofounded the Sisters of Mercy of Verona, which she established with Charles Steeb.

1885–1949 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Vinçenc Prennushi (born Nikoll Prendushi, 4 September 1885 – 19 March 1949) was an Albanian Roman Catholic professed member from the Order of Friars Minor and he served as the Archbishop of Durrës from 1940 until his death.

1873–1954 · Contemporary

Vladimir Ghika (or Ghica) (25 December 1873 – 16 May 1954) was a Romanian diplomat and essayist who, after his conversion from Romanian Orthodoxy became a priest of the Catholic Church.

1227–1307 · Medieval · Franciscans

Walter of Bruges (Gualterus Brugensis OFM, Gualterus de Brugge, Gauthier de Bruges OM, Gualterus de Brugis, Gualterus de Brüge, Walter von Brügge) was a Franciscan theologian, who flourished at the University of Paris 1267–1269.

755–807 · Medieval

Widukind, also known as Wittekind and Wittikund, was a leader of the Saxons and the chief opponent of the Frankish king Charlemagne during the Saxon Wars from 777 to 785.

1597 · Reformation

William Andleby (Anlaby) (executed at York, 4 July 1597) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929. William Andleby was born in Etton, Yorkshire, into a gentry family. At 25 he went to the Netherlands to take part in the Dutch war.

1610–1679 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

William Barrow (alias Waring, alias Harcourt) (1609 – 30 June 1679) was an English Jesuit, executed as a result of the fictitious so-called Popish Plot, that between 1678 and 1681 gripped the Kingdoms of England and Scotland in anti-Catholic hysteria.

1549–1584 · Reformation

William Carter (c. 1548 – 11 January 1584) was a Roman Catholic English printer and martyr. William Carter was born in London in 1548, the son of John Carter, a draper, and Agnes, his wife.

1593 · Reformation

William Davies (died 27 July 1593) was a recusant Welsh Roman Catholic missionary who worked as an underground schoolmaster in the Creuddyn Peninsula of North Wales.

1588 · Reformation

William Dean or Deane (died 28 August 1588) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is one of the Catholic martyrs, beatified in 1929. Son of Thomas B. of Grassington West Riding of Yorkshire William Dean attended schools in Leeds and Clitheroe.

1507–1535 · Reformation · Carthusian Order

William Exmew, O.Cart (died 19 June 1535, Tyburn) was an English Catholic priest and Carthusian hermit. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn and is honoured as a martyr by the Catholic Church.

1555–1582 · Reformation

William Filby (born c. 1557/1560 - 30 May 1582) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He was beatified in 1886. Filby was born in Oxfordshire, England between 1557 and 1560. Educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, he was admitted to the seminary at Reims on 12 October 1579.

1558–1595 · Reformation

William Freeman (c. 1558 – 13 August 1595) was an English Roman Catholic priest during the Reformation. He was convicted of treason and hanged, drawn and quartered at Warwick. He is one of 136 Catholic martyrs who were beatified by Pius XI in 1929.

1548–1596 · Reformation

William Gibson (1548 – 29 November 1596) was a layman from Ripon in Yorkshire, England, a member of a noble Scottish family, who was executed at York for professing the Roman Catholic faith. He is honoured as a martyr by the Catholic Church.

1566–1594 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

William Harrington (c. 1566 – 18 February 1594) was an English Jesuit priest. He is a Roman Catholic martyr, and was beatified in 1929. His father had entertained Edmund Campion at the ancestral home, Mount St. John, early in 1581.

1558–1583 · Reformation

William Hart (born at Wells, 1558; executed at York, 15 March 1583) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1886. Elected Trappes Scholar at Lincoln College, Oxford, 25 May 1571, he supplicated B.A., 18 June 1574.

1557–1588 · Reformation

William Hartley (born at Wyn, in Derbyshire, England, of a yeoman family about 1557; executed 5 October 1588) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929. At eighteen he matriculated at St John's College, Oxford, where he became a chaplain.

1614–1680 · Reformation

William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford, FRS (30 November 1614 – 29 December 1680) was the youngest son of Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, and his wife, the former Alethea Talbot.

1636–1679 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

William Ireland (1636 – 24 January 1679) was an English Jesuit and martyr from Lincolnshire. He was falsely accused of conspiring to murder King Charles II during the Popish Plot hysteria, and was executed on 24 January 1679.

1761–1850 · Modern

Guillaume-Joseph Chaminade, SM (also known as William Joseph Chaminade; Périgueux, 8 April 1761 – Bordeaux, 22 January 1850) was a French Catholic priest who survived persecution during the French Revolution and later founded the Society of Mary, usually called the Marianists, in…

1572–1596 · Reformation

William Knight (1572 – 29 November 1596) was an English layman put to death for his Catholic faith at York, England. With him also suffered George Errington of Herst, Northumberland; William Gibson of Ripon; and Henry Abbot of Howden, Yorkshire.

1582 · Reformation

William Lacy (Lacey) (died 1582) was an English Catholic priest and martyr. He and fellow priest Richard Kirkman were executed at York on 22 August 1582. William was born at Houghton (or Tosside, West Riding).

1592 · Reformation

William Patenson (born in Yorkshire or Durham; executed at Tyburn, 22 January 1591–2) was an English Roman Catholic priest and martyr. He was beatified in 1929. He is commemorated on 22 January.

1591 · Reformation

William Pike (died 22 December 1591) was an English Roman Catholic martyr who was beatified in 1987. Several sources state that William was born in Dorset.

1572–1603 · Reformation

William Richardson (1572–1603) was a 16th-century Roman Catholic English martyr. Richardson was born in the village of Wales, West Riding of Yorkshire. He studied for the Roman Catholic priesthood at seminaries in Valladolid and then Seville, both in Spain.

1569–1618 · Reformation

William Southerne (executed at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 30 April 1618) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.

1589 · Reformation

William Spenser (died 24 September 1589) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987. Spenser was born at Ghisburn, Yorkshire.

1609–1654 · Reformation · Augustinians

William Tirry (Irish: Liam Tuiridh) OSA (1609 – 12 May 1654) was an Irish Roman Catholic priest of the Order of Saint Augustine following the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.

1560–1641 · Reformation

William Ward (real name Webster) (about 1560 at Thornby in Westmoreland – 26 July 1641 at Tyburn) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.

1075–1148 · Medieval · Cistercians

William of Saint-Thierry, O. Cist was a twelfth-century Benedictine, theologian and mystic from Liège who became abbot of Saint-Thierry in France, and later joined the Cistercian Order.

1020–1091 · Medieval · Benedictines

Wolfhelm of Brauweiler (died 1091) was the Benedictine abbot of Brauweiler Abbey, near Cologne, Germany. He was attacked by Manegold of Lautenbach, in his Liber Contra Wolfelmum.

1904–1974 · Contemporary

Władysław Bukowiński (also known as Ladislao Bukowinski; 22 December 1904 – 3 December 1974), was a Polish Roman Catholic priest who served in the diocese of Karaganda in Kazakhstan.

1907–1964 · Contemporary

Władysław Findysz (13 December 1907 - 21 August 1964) was a Polish priest of the Roman Catholic Church. He was imprisoned under the Communist regime in 1963 until not too long before his death on the charges of sending religious newsletters to his parishioners.

1235–1298 · Medieval · Poor Clares

Yolanda of Poland or Yolanda of Hungary, also Blessed Yolanda (Jolanta in Polish; Jolán in Hungarian; also known as Helen; 1235 – 11 June 1298) was the daughter of King Béla IV of Hungary and Maria Laskarina.

1231–1283 · Medieval · Dominican Order

Mother Yolanda (or Yolande, Iolanda) of Vianden, O.P., (1231–1283) was the youngest daughter of Count Henry I of Vianden and Margaret, Marchioness of Namur. She joined the Dominican monastery in Marienthal, Luxembourg, against the wishes of her parents when she was very young.

1916–1955 · Contemporary · Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross

Cecília Schelingová (24 December 1916 – 31 July 1955), also known as Zdenka Schelingová, was a Slovak Roman Catholic religious sister of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Holy Cross and a victim of communist persecution in the former Czechoslovakia.

1813–1896 · Modern

Zefirino Agostini (24 September 1813 - 6 April 1896) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest that served in his hometown of Verona to perform his pastoral duties.

1584–1650 · Reformation

Zofia Czeska-Maciejowska (1584 – 1 April 1650) was a Polish religious sister and the founder of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Czeska was widowed prior to her call into the religious life. Her beatification was celebrated on 9 June 2013.

1903–1941 · Contemporary · Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer

Zynoviy Kovalyk (Ukrainian: Зиновій Ковалик – sometimes spelled Zenon or Zenobius; 18 August 1903 – 1941) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Redemptorist priest and martyr.

1350–1420 · Medieval · Dominican Order

Álvaro of Córdoba, OP (c.1350–c.1430) was a Spanish Dominican friar venerated in the Catholic Church. Born in Zamora, he entered the Order of Preachers in 1368 and preached throughout Spain and Italy.

1894–1936 · Contemporary

Ángela Ginard Martí (3 April 1894 – 26 August 1936), religious name Maria de los Ángeles, was a Spanish religious sister of the Congration of the Hermanas Celadoras del Culto Eucarístico.

1800–1851 · Modern · Sisters of Providence

Émilie Tavernier Gamelin SP (19 February 1800 – 23 September 1851) was a Canadian Catholic social worker and religious sister best known as the founder of the Sisters of Providence of Montreal. In 2001, she was beatified by Pope John Paul II.

1818–1878 · Modern

Émilie d'Oultremont (11 October 1818 – 22 February 1878) – in religion Marie of Jesus – was a Belgian Roman Catholic widow and later religious sister who founded the Sisters of Mary Reparatrix.