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1550–1588 · Reformation

Robert Ludlam (c. 1551 – 24 July 1588) was an English priest, martyred in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. He was born around 1551, in Derbyshire. His father was a yeoman.

1550–1600 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Robert Nutter (c. 1550 – 26 July 1600) was an English Catholic priest, Dominican friar and martyr. He was beatified in 1987. Throughout the religious upheavals following the English Reformation, the vast majority of English Catholics, many of whom lived in Lancashire, remained s…

1821–1888 · Modern

Robert Spiske was a Catholic theologian born in 1821 in Leśnica, Kingdom of Prussia. He died in 1888 in Wrocław and is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1587 · Reformation

Robert Sutton (c. 1543-1545; Burton-on-Trent – 27 July 1587; Stafford) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.

1591 · Reformation

Robert Thorpe (died 15 May 1591) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987. Thorpe was born in Yorkshire.

1558–1588 · Reformation

The Oaten Hill martyrs were English Catholics executed for high treason at Oaten Hill near Canterbury during the reign of Elizabeth I on October 1, 1588. All four were beatified by Pope Pius XI on December 15, 1929. The group consists of three priests and one layman.

1055–1122 · Medieval · Benedictines

Historia Hierosolymitana is a chronicle of the First Crusade written between c. 1107–1120 by Robert the Monk (Robertus Monachus), a French prior. Robert has been identified with a prior of Senuc and former abbot of Saint-Remi, who lived c.

1272–1341 · Medieval · Benedictines

Robert of Salle, born Santuccio (Salle, 1273 – Morrone del Sannio, July 18, 1341), was an Italian abbot, a disciple of the hermit Peter of Morrone, who became Pope Celestine V, and procurator general of the Celestines of the Order of Saint Benedict.

1550–1583 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Rodolfo Acquaviva, SJ (2 October 1550 – 25 July 1583) was an Italian Jesuit missionary and priest in India who served the court of Akbar the Great from 1580 to 1583. He was killed in 1583 and beatified in 1893.

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Rodulfus van Camaldoli was a member of the Camaldolese order. He is recognized as a blessed.

1568–1610 · Reformation

Roger Cadwallador (1568 – 27 August 1610) was a Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987. Roger Cadwallador was born to a Welsh family at Stretton Sugwas, near Hereford.

1570–1601 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Roger Filcock, SJ (alias Arthur Naylor) (died 27 February 1601, London) was an English Jesuit priest. He was beatified as a Catholic martyr by Pope John Paul II on 22 November 1987.

1285–1367 · Medieval

Roger le Fort (Rogerius) or de Beaufort, known as des Ternes, born around 1277 in the village of Les Ternes (now in the commune of Pionnat in the department of Creuse) and died on August 5, 1367, in Bourges, was a 14th-century French prelate.

1931–1945 · Contemporary

Rolando Maria Rivi (7 January 1931 – 13 April 1945) was an Italian Roman Catholic seminarian. Rivi was noted for his studious and pious nature with an intense love for Jesus Christ, which was evident through frequent confession and the reception of the Eucharist.

1882–1943 · Contemporary

Romain Archutowski (1882–1943) was a Polish Catholic priest arrested and deported by the Nazis to the Majdanek extermination camp. He died there of typhus in 1943.

1380 · Medieval

Romeo (died c. 1380) was a lay brother of the Carmelite Order at the monastery of Limoges. He traveled to the Holy Land with the priest Avertan, from the same monastery. They then went together to Rome to perform another pilgrimage.

1826–1906 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Maria Rosa Flesch (born Margaretha Flesch, 24 February 1826 – 25 March 1906), was a German religious sister in the Roman Catholic Church. She founded the Franciscan Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Angels, whose first Mother Superior she was.

1786–1856 · Modern · Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul

Rosalie Rendu, DC (born Jeanne-Marie Rendu; 9 September 1786 – 7 February 1856) was a French Catholic member of the Daughters of Charity who organized care for the poor in the Paris slums during the Industrial Revolution. She was beatified in the Catholic Church in 2003.

1745–1794 · Modern

Rosalie du Verdier de La Sorinière (in religion Sister Rosalie-Céleste), born on August 12, 1745, at the Château de la Sorinière near Chemillé in the province of Anjou, and died by guillotine in Angers on January 27, 1794, was a Benedictine nun of Our Lady of Calvary, a martyr in…

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Rosamund of Blaru (12th century) was a Norman noblewoman, Lady of Vernon, mother of Saint Adjutor, and a blessed of the Catholic Church. Blessed Rosamund lived in 12th-century Normandy and hailed from Blaru. She was the wife of John, Lord of Vernon.

1741–1794 · Modern · Order of Discalced Nuns of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Rose-Chrétien de la Neuville, OCD (1741 - 17 July 1794) was a French Discalced Carmelite nun killed during the French Revolution. She was beatified as one of the Martyrs of Compiègne in 1906. She married young but was widowed.

1909–1936 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Juan Martin Donamaria Valencia (San Martin Unx, November 3, 1909 – Barbastro, August 28, 1936), known in religion as Brother Rosendo, was a Navarrese Benedictine friar.

1000–1051 · Medieval

Rotho von Büren (c. 1000; - 7 November 1051, Paderborn) was from 1036 to 1051 Bishop of Paderborn. He was from a noble family, of the Counts of Werl, Westphalia.

1177 · Medieval

Rouaud de Vannes served as a Catholic bishop of Vannes and as an abbot. He died in 1177 and is recognized as a blessed.

1890–1949 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Rudolf Komórek (11 October 1890 – 11 December 1949) was a Polish priest and a professed member of the Salesians of Don Bosco while also serving as part of the missions in Brazil.

1100–1125 · Medieval

Rusten (also Rustenus or Rustanus; died September 19, 1125, in St. Blasien) was abbot of St. Blasien Abbey in the southern Black Forest from 1108 to 1125. Rusten can be considered the founder of the Berau convent for women (c. 1115).

1928–1977 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Rutilio Grande García, SJ (5 July 1928 in El Paisnal – 12 March 1977 in Aguilares) was a Salvadoran Jesuit priest assassinated in 1977 by Salvadoran security forces.

1876–1961 · Contemporary · Third Order of Saint Francis

Countess Róża Maria Czacka (also known under religious name Elżbieta; 22 October 1876 – 15 May 1961) was a Polish religious sister who founded the Franciscan Sisters Servants of the Cross.

1864–1936 · Contemporary · Carmelite Sisters of Charity

Rosa Pedret Rull of Our Lady of Good Counsel (born December 5, 1864, in Faset; died August 19, 1936, in El Saler) was a Spanish Carmelite Sister of Charity, martyr, and blessed of the Catholic Church.

1767–1795 · Modern

Saba Ji Hwang (Korean: 지 황 사바; born 1767 in Seoul, Korea; died June 28, 1795, in the same city) was a Korean martyr and a blessed of the Catholic Church. Ji Hwang was born in 1767 into the family of a royal musician.

1569–1608 · Reformation

Saisho Atsutomo was born in 1569 and lived within the Tokugawa shogunate. He died in 1608 and is recognized as a blessed.

1211–1268 · Medieval · Franciscans

Salome of Poland (1211/2 – 1268), also known as Salome of Cracow or Blessed Salome (Polish: Błogosławiona Salomea), was a Polish princess and from 1215 to 1219 the Queen of Galicia by virtue of being the wife of King Coloman of Galicia.

1862–1936 · Contemporary

Salvador Damián Enguix Garés was born in Alzira, Spain, in 1862. He died in 1936 and has been recognized as a blessed.

1862–1936 · Contemporary

Salvador Estrugo Solves was a Spanish presbyter of the Catholic Church who lived from 1862 to 1936. He has been beatified and holds the status of blessed.

1880–1936 · Contemporary

Salvador Ferrandis Seguí, born on May 25, 1880, and died on August 3, 1936, was a Spanish priest. He was a priest in Lucena, and along with Francisco Bandrés Sánchez, a Salesian priest in Barcelona, Alfonso López López, a priest in Samalús, and Miguel Remón Salvador, a layman in…

1880–1927 · Contemporary

Salvador Huerta Gutiérrez was born in 1880 in the Magdalena Municipality, Mexico. He died in 1927 and is recognized as a blessed.

1896–1936 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Salvador Mollar Ventura (1896–1936), born Jean-Baptiste Mollar Ventura, was a Spanish Franciscan friar who was murdered during the Spanish Civil War in Paterna, near Valencia, Spain, on October 27, 1936.

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

Salvatore Pigem Serra, C.M.F. (Vilobí d'Onyar, December 15, 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.

1853–1895 · Modern · Franciscans

Salvatore Lilli was a Franciscan priest and a martyr killed by the Muslim Turks under Abdul Hamid on 22 November 1895. He was born on 19 June 1853 in Cappadocia, Abruzzo, Italy to Vincenzo and Annunziata Lilli.

1877–1936 · Contemporary · Oratory of Saint Philip Neri

Salvi Huix Miralpéix (in Spanish: Salvio Huix Miralpéix; 22 December 1877 – 5 August 1936) was a Catalan Roman Catholic cleric who served as Bishop of Lleida from 1935 to 1936.

1808–1860 · Modern · Franciscans

The Martyrs of Damascus were eleven Catholic saints martyred while praying inside a Franciscan-run parish in Damascus by Druze during the 1860 civil conflict in Mount Lebanon and Damascus.

1018–1067 · Medieval

Sancha of León (c. 1018 – 8 November 1067) was infanta and queen of León. She was married to Ferdinand I, the Count of Castile who later became King of León after having killed Sancha's brother in battle. She and her husband commissioned the Crucifix of Ferdinand and Sancha.

1285–1345 · Medieval · Poor Clares

Sancia of Majorca (c. 1281 – 28 July 1345), also known as Sancha, was Queen of Naples from 1309 until 1343 as the wife of Robert the Wise. She served as regent of Naples during the minority of her stepgrandaughter, Joanna I of Naples, from 1343 until 1344.

1180–1229 · Medieval · Cistercians

Sancha of Portugal , was a Portuguese infanta, second daughter of King Sancho I of Portugal and Dulce of Aragon. She was born 1180 and was the feudal Lady of Alenquer.

1910–1942 · Contemporary

Janina Szymkowiak (10 July 1910 – 29 August 1942) - in religious Sancja - was a Polish Roman Catholic professed religious from the Daughters of the Sorrowful Mother of God.

1961–1984 · Contemporary

Sandra Maria Assunta Sabattini (19 August 1961 – 2 May 1984) was an Italian diarist, medical student, and member of the Pope John XXIII Community, who was beatified by the Catholic Church on 24 October 2021.

1903–1936 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order

James of Jesus, born Santiago Arriaga y Arrien (Arrieta, November 22, 1903 – Cuenca, September 24, 1936), was a Spanish priest of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity.

1909–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Santiago Mestre Iborra (Rafelbuñol, Valencia province, April 10, 1909 – Masamagrell, September 29, 1936) was a Spanish religious. He was murdered, along with his eight brothers, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, a victim of the terror unleashed in the Republican zone.

1881–1936 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Santiago Pardo López was a Spanish Catholic priest and Benedictine monk born in 1881 in Palacios de Benaver. He died in 1936 in Barbastro from a gunshot wound and is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1314 · Medieval

Blessed Santiago de Túnez was a figure within the Catholic Church. He died in 1314.