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1800–1882 · Modern · Sisters of Saint Dorothy of Cemmo

Annunciata Astoria Cocchetti (9 May 1800 – 23 March 1882) was an Italian religious sister and the founder of the Suore di Santa Dorotea di Cemmo, a congregation dedicated to the educational needs of the poor in Brescia and the surrounding cities.

1902–1936 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Anselmo Palau Sin was a Spanish Catholic priest and member of the Benedictine order. Born in 1902 in Torres del Obispo, he died in 1936 in Barbastro. He is recognized as a blessed within the Catholic Church.

1881–1939 · Contemporary · Order of St. Augustine

Anselmo Polanco Fontecha (Buenavista de Valdavia, April 16, 1881 – Pont de Molins, February 7, 1939) was a Spanish Catholic bishop. Attacked by rebels after the outbreak of the Civil War, he was taken prisoner by the Republican army in January 1938 following the capture of Teruel…

1875–1936 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Antero Mateo García (March 4, 1875, Valdevimbre – August 8, 1936, Sant Andreu de Palomar) was a Spanish Roman Catholic layman, a Dominican tertiary, and a martyr of the Spanish Civil War. The Catholic Church venerates him as a blessed.

1665–1717 · Modern · Society of Jesus

Anthony Baldinucci, S.J. (June 19, 1665 – November 7, 1717), was an Italian Jesuit priest and missionary, best known for his unusual methods of conducting missions. Baldinucci was born in Florence, the son of the art historian and biographer Filippo Baldinucci.

1800–1802 · Modern

Anthony Hong Ik-man was born in 1800 and was a member of the Catholic Church. He died by decapitation in Seoul in 1802. He is recognized as a blessed.

1822–1867 · Modern

Anthony Jeong Chan-mun was born in 1822 and was a member of the Catholic Church. He died in Jinju in 1867 and is recognized as a blessed.

1590 · Reformation

Anthony Middleton (died 1590) was an English Roman Catholic priest and martyr from Yorkshire. He trained at Douai College, and returned to England in 1586.

1425–1460 · Medieval · Dominican Order

Anthony Neyrot, OP (Italian: Antonio Neirotti; Piedmontese: Antòni Neyrot; 1425 – 10 April 1460) was an Italian Dominican priest, apostate, reconvert, and martyr. A Dominican friar, Neyrot was captured by Tunisian corsairs while on his way from Sicily to Naples.

1571–1593 · Reformation

Anthony Page (1563 – April 1593) was an English Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987. Page was born at Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex, in 1563. He was of gentle birth and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 23 November 1581.

1628–1679 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Anthony Turner (1628–20 June 1679) was an English Jesuit priest and martyr. He was a victim of the Popish Plot, and was falsely convicted and executed for conspiracy to murder Charles II. He was beatified in 1929 by Pope Pius XI and his feast day is 20 June.

1801 · Modern

Anthony Yi Hyeon was a member of the Catholic Church who died in Seoul in 1801. He was executed by decapitation and is recognized as a blessed.

1729–1794 · Modern

Antoine Banassat was a French Catholic priest and politician born in 1729 in Guéret. He served as a deputy to the Estates-General and the National Constituent Assembly of 1789 before dying in 1794 in Hiers-Brouage, Rochefort, due to deportation.

1906–1945 · Contemporary

Antoine Charmet, born on December 26, 1906, in Saint-Martin-la-Plaine and died on April 2, 1945, in Buchenwald, was a French Catholic priest and a victim of Nazism.

1826–1879 · Modern · Third Order of Saint Francis

Antoine Chevrier, TOSF (16 April 1825 – 2 October 1879) was a French Catholic priest and a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis. He founded the Institute of the Prado with its two branches: the Sisters of Prado and the Institute of the Priests of Prado.

1871–1936 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Antolin Pablos Villanueva was a Spanish Catholic priest and Benedictine monk born in 1871 in Lerma. He died in 1936 in San Fernando de Henares and has been beatified by the Catholic Church.

1912–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Antolín Calvo y Calvo, C.M.F. (Gumiel de Mercado, September 2, 1912 – 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.

1888–1951 · Contemporary

Anton Durcovici (17 May 1888 – 10 December 1951) was a Romanian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and the Bishop of Iași from 1947 until his death. Durcovici was a victim of Romania's Communist regime, under which he was imprisoned; he died while in jail.

1852–1929 · Contemporary · Piarists

Anton Maria Schwartz (28 February 1852 – 15 September 1929), born Anton Schwartz, was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Congregation of the Christian Workers of Saint Joseph Calasanz.

1921–1948 · Contemporary

Anton Muzaj (born March 19, 1921, in Vërnakolla, in present-day Kosovo; died spring 1948 in Shkodër; Croatian: Anton Muzić) was a Roman Catholic priest who was arrested and tortured for his faith in atheist Albania under the Enver Hoxha regime.

1902–1946 · Contemporary

Anton Zogaj (born 1902, or according to other sources 1905 or July 26, 1908, in Kthella, Mirdita; died 1946, or according to another source 1948, in Durrës) was an Albanian Roman Catholic priest who was shot for his faith under the communist regime.

1890–1943 · Contemporary

Antoni Leszczewicz (Belarusian: Антоній Ляшчэвіч, romanized: Antonij Liaščevič; 30 September 1890 – 18 February 1943) was a Polish-Belarusian Marian Father and Roman Catholic priest.

1885–1936 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Antonio María Martín Hernández, S.D.B. (born July 18, 1885, in La Calzada de Béjar; died December 10, 1936, in Picadero de Paterna, Salamanca province) was a Spanish Salesian priest, a martyr of the Spanish Civil War, and a victim of anti-Catholic persecution who is honored as a…

1941–1944 · Contemporary

Antoni Ulma was born in 1941 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 is recognized as a blessed.

1909–1945 · Contemporary

Antoni Świadek (1909–1945) was a Polish priest from Bydgoszcz. He died in the Dachau concentration camp and was beatified by the Catholic Church. He is one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II. He was born on March 27, 1909, in Pobiedziska, in Poznań.

1919–1935 · Contemporary

Antonia Mesina (21 June 1919 – 17 May 1935) was a 15 year old Italian Roman Catholic and part of Catholic Action. Mesina was murdered in mid-1935 after she attempted to fend off a would-be rapist and suffered 74 strikes with a stone before she died. She was beatified in 1987.

1908–1936 · Contemporary

Antonio Arribas Hortigüela (born April 29, 1908, in Cardeñadijo; died September 29, 1936, in Serinyà) was a Spanish religious of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, a martyr for the faith, and a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1912–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Antonio Dalmau Rosich, C.M.F. (Miralcamp, October 4, 1912 – 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.

1585–1626 · Reformation

Antonio Franco (26 September 1585 – 2 September 1626) was an Italian Catholic priest and prelate of Santa Lucia del Mela. Franco was beatified in 2013 when a miracle was discovered to have been performed through his intercession.

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

Antonio Lasa was a Catholic priest and a member of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, born in 1913 in Loizu. He died in 1936 at the Fernán Caballero train station from a gunshot wound. He is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1682–1752 · Modern · Franciscans

Antonio Lucci (2 August 1682 – 25 July 1752), born Angelo Nicola Lucci, was an Italian Catholic professed member from the Order of Friars Minor Conventual (the "Franciscans") and served as the Bishop of Bovino from 1729 until his death.

1325–1374 · Medieval · Dominican Order

Antonio Pavoni, OP (c. 1325 - 9 April 1374) was an Italian Catholic priest and member from the Order of Preachers. He served as an inquisitor-general for Pope Urban V in combatting Waldensians in the Lombard region, but the Waldensians succeeded in killing him in an ambush as he…

1797–1855 · Modern

Antonio Francesco Davide Ambrogio Rosmini-Serbati, IC was an Italian Catholic priest and philosopher. He founded the Rosminians, officially the Institute of Charity, and pioneered the concept of social justice and Italian Liberal Catholicism.

1892–1936 · Contemporary

Antonio Silvestre Moya (born October 26, 1892, in Olleria; died August 8, 1936, in El Salter) was a Spanish Catholic priest and a blessed of the Catholic Church. He was born on October 26, 1892, and was baptized the same day.

1902–1936 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Antonio Suarez Riu was a Spanish Catholic priest and a member of the Benedictine order. Born in 1902 in Torres del Obispo, he died in 1936 in Barbastro. He is recognized as a blessed within the Catholic Church.

1902–1936 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order

Antonio de Jesús y María, born Juan Antonio Salútregui y Uribarren (Guernica, February 5, 1902 – Alcázar de San Juan, July 26, 1936), was a Spanish priest of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity.

1739–1792 · Modern · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Apollinaire Morel, born on June 12, 1739, in Prez-vers-Noréaz and died on September 2, 1792, in Paris, was a Swiss Capuchin. He was a martyr of the French Revolution and is recognized as blessed by the Catholic Church.

1460–1513 · Reformation

Arcangelo Canetoli (1460 - 16 April 1513) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a canon regular of Santa Maria di Reno. Canetoli escaped the massacre of his parents and brothers who were killed in Bologna during a political feud and embraced the religious life not long after w…

1460–1494 · Medieval · Carmelites

Archangela Girlani, O.Carm (born Eleanor (or Elanor) Girlani; 1460 – 25 January 1494), was an Italian Carmelite nun known for her miracles, mystical visions, austerity, religious ecstasies and levitation. She was prioress of two convents, in Parma and in Mantua.

1751–1792 · Modern

Armand de Foucauld de Pontbriand (24 November 1751 – 2 September 1792) was a French Catholic prelate who served as vicar general of the Archdiocese of Arles and was one of the 191 Catholic Martyrs of September 1792, killed in the September Massacres during the French Revolution.

1882–1952 · Contemporary · Secular Franciscan Order

Armida Barelli (1 December 1882 – 15 August 1952) was an Italian Roman Catholic who served in the educational field during her life and was also a professed member of the Secular Franciscan Order.

750–821 · Medieval

Arno, Arn or Aquila (c. 750–821) was bishop of Salzburg, and afterwards its first archbishop. He preserved his voluminous correspondence from the scholar Alcuin of York. Arno was likely born in the mid-740s to a noble family in southeast Bavaria.

1838–1890 · Modern · Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools

Julian-Nicolas Rèche (2 September 1838 – 23 October 1890) was a French Roman Catholic religious of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools; he assumed the religious name of "Arnould" upon his profession in the congregation and became a noted educator.

950–1059 · Medieval · Benedictines

Aron was an 11th-century Polish Bishop of Krakow, then Archbishop and the first Abbot of the Benedictine house in Tyniec. His name is known from the 13th century chronicle “Sede Vacante with krakowski” which lists the names of the first nine Bishops but which does not provide ye…

1849–1909 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Arsenio da Trigolo, OFM Cap. (born Giuseppe Antonio Migliavacca; 13 June 1849 – 10 December 1909), was an Italian Catholic priest and a professed member from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.

1880–1951 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Artemide Zatti (12 October 1880 – 15 March 1951) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious of the Salesians of Don Bosco and a noted pharmacist who emigrated to Argentina in 1897.

1590–1643 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor

Arthur "Francis" Bell, OFM (13 January 1590 – 11 December 1643) was an English Franciscan friar. He was found guilty of being a Catholic priest by a court sitting under the auspices of Parliament during the English Civil War. He was executed at Tyburn in London.

1868–1940 · Contemporary · Third Order of Saint Dominic

María Ascensión Nicol y Goñi, O.P., (14 March 1868 – 24 February 1940) was a Spanish Roman Catholic religious sister of the Third Order of St. Dominic.

1871–1948 · Contemporary

Assunta Marchetti, SS (15 August 1871 – 1 July 1948) was an Italian Catholic who cofounded of the Missionary Sisters of Saint Charles Borromeo. She worked in Brazil from 1895 until her death. Her priest brother Giuseppe is titled as Venerable on the path to sainthood.

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.