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1135–1182 · Medieval

Bogumilus, in Polish Bogumił Piotr, (also known as Bogimilus and Theophilus) was Archbishop of Gniezno and a hermit. Bogumilus and his twin brother, Boguphalus, were born into a noble family in about 1135 at Dobrów, Poland. They studied in Paris, France.

1896–1941 · Contemporary

Bolesław Strzelecki (1896–1941) was a Polish and Roman Catholic priest. He was imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. He is one of the 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs. Bolesław Strzelecki was born on June 10 1886 in Poland.

1862–1946 · Contemporary

Bolesława Maria Lament (3 July 1862 – 29 January 1946) was a Polish religious sister and the founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Family.

1410–1491 · Medieval · Servite Order

Bonaventura Tornielli (1411 - 31 March 1491) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed friar from the Servite Order. Tornielli was born into a noble household and was a noted preacher in which he visited numerous Italian cities such as Florence and Perugia - Pope Sixtu…

1270 · Medieval · Carthusian Order

Boniface of Savoy (c. 1207 – 18 July 1270) was a medieval Bishop of Belley in Savoy and Archbishop of Canterbury in England. He was the son of Thomas, Count of Savoy and owed his initial ecclesiastical posts to his father.

1200–1243 · Medieval · Benedictines

Boniface of Valperga (French: Boniface Ier de Valperga, Italian: Bonifacio di Valperga) (died 25 April 1243), venerated as a blessed in the Catholic Church, was a thirteenth-century Bishop of Aosta.

900–970 · Medieval · Benedictines

Boso of Merseburg (died 1 November 970) was the first Bishop of Merseburg in Saxony-Anhalt, and "Apostle of the Wends." Boso, a native of Bavaria, was a Benedictine monk of Saint Emmeram's in Regensburg, from where he was summoned to the court of Otto I, who, considering the con…

1610–1679 · Reformation · Ursulines of Piacenza

Brigida Morello Zancano (17 June 1610 – 3 September 1679), born Brigida Morello, was an Italian Roman Catholic widow and later a nun of the Ursuline Sisters of Mary Immaculate that she herself had established in her widowhood.

1203–1259 · Medieval · Premonstratensians

Blessed Bronislava (Polish: Bronisława; c. 1204–1259) was a Polish nun of the Premonstratensian Order. She is beatified in the Roman Catholic Church.

1889–1940 · Contemporary

Bronisław Komorowski (25 May 1889 – 22 March 1940) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest, active in the interwar period in the predominantly German Free City of Danzig.

1915–1942 · Contemporary

Bronisław Kostkowski (March 11, 1915 – September 27, 1942) was a Polish and Roman Catholic seminarian. He was born in Stolp. He was imprisoned in the Nazi Sachsenhausen concentration camp and later died at the Nazi Dachau concentration camp.

1842–1912 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Bronisław Markiewicz, SDB (13 July 1842 – 29 January 1912) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Salesians of Don Bosco.

1917–1972 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Blessed Bruna Pellesi (11 November 1917 – 1 December 1972), known as Maria Rosa of Jesus, was an Italian nun who was a member of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Christ.

1866–1936 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Buenaventura García de Paredes (April 19, 1866 in Castañedo de Valdés – August 12, 1936) was a Dominican priest and Master of the Order of Preachers. Paredes was born and baptized on April 19, 1866 in Castañedo de Valdés, near Luarca (Asturias).

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Burchard (died 20 August 1031) was the archbishop of Vienne from 1001 until his death. He was also the count of the Viennois from 1023, the first bishop of Vienne to hold secular power in the county simultaneously. Burchard belonged to the Anselmid lineage.

1180–1241 · Medieval · Dominican Order

Buzád II Hahót, O.P., also Buzád the Great or Buzád the Elder (Hungarian: Hahót nembeli (II.) Buzád, Latin: Magnus Buzad; c. 1180 – April 1241), was a Hungarian nobleman and soldier, who was the first known Ban of Severin.

1571–1624 · Reformation

Caius of Korea (1571 in Korea – 15 November 1624 in Nagasaki, Japan) is the 128th of the 205 Catholic Martyrs of Japan beatified by Pope Pius IX on 7 July 1867, after he had canonized the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan five years before on 8 June 1862.

1065–1124 · Medieval · Benedictines

Pope Callixtus II or Callistus II (c. 1065 – 13 December 1124), born Guy of Burgundy, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from February 1119 to his death in 1124.

1201–1293 · Medieval · Dominican Order

Blessed Carino Pietro of Balsamo (died 1293), sometimes called Saint Acerinus, was the murderer of Saint Peter of Verona ("Peter Martyr") who later repented his actions and became a Dominican lay brother. He is venerated as a beatus by the Catholic Church.

1894–1944 · Contemporary

Carl Lampert (9 January 1894 – 13 November 1944) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest who served as the pro-vicar for the Diocese of Feldkirch in addition to being an outspoken critic of Nazism during World War II.

1902–1956 · Contemporary

Carlo Gnocchi (25 October 1902 – 28 February 1956) was an Italian priest, educator and writer. He is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1866–1932 · Contemporary

Blessed Carlo Liviero was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop who led the Diocese of Città di Castello. He was beatified in 2007 and his cause for sainthood continues. He established the Little Servants of the Sacred Heart.

1918–1963 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Carlos Manuel Cecilio Rodríguez Santiago, also known as "Blessed Charlie" (November 22, 1918 – July 13, 1963), was a Catholic catechist and liturgist who was beatified by Pope John Paul II on April 29, 2001.

1903–1977 · Contemporary

Carmen Elena Rendiles Martínez, SJC (11 August 1903 – 9 May 1977) María Carmen in religion and also known as Maria del Monte Carmelo Rendiles, was a Venezuelan Catholic religious sister who founded the congregation of the Servants of Jesus of Caracas.

1607–1638 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Cassien of Nantes, OFM Cap. (born Gonzalve Vaz Lopez-Netto; 1607 – 1638) was a French Capuchin missionary priest in Africa during the 17th century.

1801–1857 · Modern

Caterina Cittadini (28 September 1801 – 5 May 1857) was an Italian Roman Catholic religious from Bergamo who established the Ursuline Sisters of Saint Jerome Emiliani.

1754–1836 · Modern · Third Order of Saint Dominic

Catherine Jarrige (4 October 1754 – 4 July 1836) – known as Catinon Menette in her local dialect – was a French Roman Catholic and Dominican tertiary who was beatified in 1996.

1437–1478 · Medieval

Caterina Moriggi (1437 - 6 April 1478) was an Italian Roman Catholic who became a professed religious and adhered to the teachings and traditions of Augustine of Hippo.

1425–1478 · Medieval · Third Order of Saint Francis

Catherine of Bosnia was Queen of Bosnia as the wife of King Thomas, the penultimate Bosnian sovereign. She was born into the powerful House of Kosača, staunch supporters of the Bosnian Church.

1487–1574 · Reformation · Third Order of Saint Dominic

Catherine of Racconigi (1486 – 1547, Racconigi) was an Italian member of the Third Order of St. Dominic, who is recognized for being a mystic and a stigmatic.

1203–1290 · Medieval · Dominican Order

Cecilia Cesarini (1203-1290), also Caecilia, was a Dominican nun. Cecilia, described as "a high-spirited young Roman", was born into the Cesarini family, a well-established family of the minor nobility. The reason she entered into a religious life is unknown.

1910–1928 · Contemporary · Servite Order

Cecilia Eusepi (17 February 1910 – 1 October 1928) was an Italian Roman Catholic and a professed member from the Secular Servites. Since an early age she had desired to become a nun, but did not manage to do due to a severe case of tuberculosis which confined her to her bed.

1861–1936 · Contemporary · Third Order of Saint Francis

Ceferino Giménez Malla (also known as El Pelé, "the Strong One", or "the Brave One"; 26 August 1861 – 9 August 1936) was a Spanish Romani Catholic catechist and activist.

1886–1905 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Ceferino Namuncurá (August 26, 1886 – May 11, 1905) was a religious student, the object of a Roman Catholic cultus of veneration in northern Patagonia and throughout Argentina.

1833–1913 · Contemporary · Sisters of the Resurrection

Celine Chludzińska Borzęcka (29 October 1833 – 26 October 1913) was a Roman Catholic professed religious and the co-foundress - along with her daughter Jadwiga Borzęcka - of the Sisters of the Resurrection.

1184–1242 · Medieval · Dominican Order

Ceslaus, O.P., (Polish: Czesław) (c. 1184 – c. 1242) was born in Kamień Śląski in Silesia, Poland, of the noble family of Odrowąż, and was a relative, possibly the brother, of Hyacinth of Poland.

748–814 · Medieval

Charlemagne was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire from 800.

1640–1679 · Reformation · Franciscans

Charles Mahoney (or Mahony; alias Charles Meehan; c. 1640 – 12 August 1679) was an Irish Franciscan friar. He is considered a martyr by the Roman Catholic Church, one of the Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1987.

1564–1622 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Charles Spinola (1564 – 10 September 1622), also known as Carlo Spinola, was a Jesuit missionary from Genoa, Italy, martyred in Japan as a missionary. Charles (or Carlo) Spinola was born in January 1564 in Genoa, Italy, the son of Ottavio Spinola, Count of Tassarolo.

1773–1856 · Modern

Charles Steeb (18 December 1773 – 15 December 1856) was a German Catholic priest who cofounded the Sisters of Mercy of Verona. Pope Paul VI beatified him in 1975 after the recognition of a miracle attributed to his intercession.

1319–1364 · Medieval

Charles of Blois-Châtillon (1319 – 29 September 1364), nicknamed "the Saint", was the legalist Duke of Brittany from 1341 until his death, via his marriage to Joan, Duchess of Brittany and Countess of Penthièvre, holding the title against the claims of John of Montfort.

1971–1990 · Contemporary

Chiara Badano (October 29, 1971 – October 7, 1990) was an Italian woman who has been beatified by the Roman Catholic Church. At age nine she joined the Focolare Movement and received the nickname "Luce" ("light") by the founder Chiara Lubich.

1937–1996 · Contemporary · Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance

Charles-Marie Christian de Chergé, O.C.S.O (Colmar, 18 January 1937 – 21 May 1996), was a French Cistercian, one of the seven monks kidnapped from the Abbey of Our Lady of Atlas in Tibhirine, Algeria, and believed to have been later killed by Islamists in 1996.

1242–1312 · Medieval

Christina of Stommeln (24 July 1242 – 6 November 1312), also known as Christina Bruso and Christina Bruzo, was a Roman Catholic mystic, ecstatic, and stigmatic.

1950–1996 · Contemporary · Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance

Christophe Lebreton OCSO (October 11, 1950 – May 21, 1996) was a French Trappist monk. He was one of seven Trappist monks from the Our Lady of the Atlas Abbey of Tibhirine near Médéa, Algeria who were kidnapped and killed during the Algerian Civil War.

1560–1590 · Reformation

Christopher Bales, also spelt Christopher Bayles, alias Christopher Evers (c.1564–1590), was an English Catholic priest and martyr. He was beatified in 1929. Christopher was born at Coniscliffe near Darlington, County Durham, England, about 1564.

1598 · Reformation

Christopher Robinson (died 19 August 1598) was an English Catholic priest and martyr, beatified in 1987. Robinson was born at Woodside, near Westward, Cumberland between 1565 and 1570.

1501–1600 · Reformation

Christopher Wharton (before 1546 – 28 March 1600) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987. Wharton was born at Middleton, Yorkshire, before 1546.

1833–1909 · Contemporary

Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás (17 June 1833 – 25 February 1909) was a Spanish cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as the Archbishop of Toledo in addition to being the Primate of Spain and the Patriarch of the West Indies.

1282–1346 · Medieval · Franciscans

Clare of Rimini (c. 1260 – 10 February c. 1326) was an Italian holy woman who was beatified. She was born to a wealthy family and married at a young age. She was sent into exile when her husband died, witnessed the political execution of her father and brother, and remarried.