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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.

1921–1961 · Contemporary · Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

Vincent L'Hénoret, known as Visant Enored in his native Breton, was born on March 12, 1921, in Pont-l'Abbé and was assassinated on May 11, 1961, in Ban Na Thoum, Laos.

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.

1776–1801 · Modern

Viviane Mun Yeong-in was a Korean Christian laywoman and martyr, born in 1776 in Seoul, Korea, and beheaded there on July 2, 1801. Her martyrdom is recognized by the Catholic Church, and she is titled Venerable. She was subsequently beatified by Pope Francis on August 16, 2014.

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.

1902–1936 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Víctor Chumillas Fernández (Olmeda del Rey, Cuenca, Spain, July 28, 1902 – Fuente el Fresno, Ciudad Real, Spain, August 16, 1936) was a Spanish Franciscan friar, martyr, and blessed 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.

1936–1976 · Contemporary

Wenceslao Pedernera (1936–1976) was a vineyard worker in Mendoza, Argentina, an organizer for the Catholic rural movement, and a collaborator of Bishop Enrique Angelelli. He was assassinated during the military dictatorship.

1564–1588 · Reformation · Premonstratensians

Wilhelm Eiselin was a German Catholic priest, canon, and member of the Premonstratensian order. Born in Mindelheim in 1564, he died in Rot an der Rot in 1588. He is recognized as a blessed within the Catholic Church.

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.

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.

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…

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.

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.

1894–1936 · Contemporary

Vincent Queralt Lloret (born November 16 or 17, 1894, in Barcelona; died November 30, 1936, in Valencia) was a Spanish priest of the Congregation of the Mission, a martyr, a victim of the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939, and a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1903–1942 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Wojciech Nierychlewski, CSMA (also known as Adalbert Nierychlewski), born on April 20, 1903, in Dąbrowice and died on February 7, 1942, in Auschwitz, was a Polish priest beatified in 1999. He is commemorated on February 7 according to the Roman Martyrology.

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.

1898–1945 · Contemporary

Władysław Goral, born on May 1, 1898, in Stoczek and died in February 1945 in Oranienburg, was a Polish Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Lublin, and titular bishop of Meloë in Isauria from 1938 to 1945.

1938–1944 · Contemporary

Władysław Ulma was born in 1938 in Markowa, Poland, to parents Józef and Wiktoria Ulma. A member of the Latin Church, he died in 1944 in Markowa from a gunshot wound. He has been beatified as a blessed.

1914–1936 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Xavier Bordas i Piferrer was a Spanish Catholic religious figure and a member of the Salesians of Don Bosco, born in 1914 in Sant Pol de Mar to Marià Bordas i Flaquer. He died in 1936 in Barcelona from a gunshot wound and has been beatified by the Catholic Church.

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.

1958–1991 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Zbigniew Strzałkowski (July 3, 1958 – August 9, 1991) was a Polish priest and missionary of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual who was martyred in hatred of the faith (in odium fidei) in Peru. He is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

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.

1895–1936 · Contemporary

Zósimo Izquierdo Gil (born December 17, 1895, in Teruel; died July 30, 1936) was a Spanish Christian martyr and a blessed of the Catholic Church. Zósimo Gil was born on December 17, 1895, into a very religious family. He entered the seminary and was ordained a priest in 1920.

1651–1711 · Modern · Order of Friars Minor

Bonaventure of Potenza, born Carlo Antonio Gerardo Lavanga on January 4, 1651, in Potenza (Basilicata) and died on October 26, 1711, in Ravello (Campania), was an Italian Conventual Franciscan, considered blessed by the Roman Catholic Church.

1444–1504 · Reformation · Franciscans

Blessed Timoteo da Monticchio was a Catholic presbyter and member of the Franciscan order. Born in 1444 in Monticchio, he died in 1504 in Ocre.

1883–1936 · Contemporary

Ángel Francisco Bocos Hernández was a Spanish missionary born in 1883. A member of the Catholic Church, he died in 1936 and has been beatified as a blessed.

1877–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Ángel Hernández-Ranera de Diego (born October 1, 1877, in Pastrana; died August 16, 1936, in Fuente el Fresno) was a Spanish Franciscan, priest, missionary, Christian martyr, and blessed of the Roman Catholic Church.