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1799 · Modern

Francis Bang (Korean: 방 프란치스코; born in Myeoncheon, Chungcheong Province, Korea; died January 21, 1799, in Hongju, Chungcheong Province) was a Korean martyr and a blessed of the Catholic Church. Francis Bang was born in Myeoncheon in the then-Korean province of Chungcheong.

1736–1794 · Modern

Francis Duchesne (born January 8, 1736, in Laval; died January 21, 1794, in the same city) was a French priest who was sentenced to death and guillotined during the French Revolution. He is venerated as a Blessed in the Roman Catholic Church.

1773–1800 · Modern

Francis Yi Bo-hyeon (Korean: 이보현 프란치스코; born 1773 in Hwangmosil, Deoksan, in the then-province of Chungcheong, Korea; died January 9, 1800, in Haemi, Korea) was a Korean martyr and a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1889–1936 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order

Francesco di San Lorenzo, born Francisco Euba y Gorroño (Amorebieta, July 25, 1889 – Alcázar de San Juan, July 26, 1936), was a Spanish priest of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity.

1881–1936 · Contemporary

Francisca Aldea Araujo, in religion Francesca of the Heart of Jesus (Somolinos, December 17, 1881 – Canillejas, July 20, 1936), was a Spanish religious of the congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

1881–1936 · Contemporary · Carmelites

Francisca Ametzua Ibaibarriaga (Abadiño, March 9, 1881 – El Saler, Valencia, August 19, 1936) was a Carmelite nun. She was born at the Traña-Goti farmhouse in Abadiño. After completing her novitiate in Vitoria, she moved to Oliva to work as a cook at the local school.

1880–1936 · Contemporary

Gabriela of St. John of the Cross (born July 18, 1880, in L’Espluga de Francolí, died July 31, 1936, in Barcelona) was a Spanish nun, Christian martyr, and blessed of the Catholic Church. Upon feeling a calling to religious life, she joined the Carmelite Missionaries.

1551–1583 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Francisco Aranha (died Cuculim, July 25, 1583) was a Jesuit religious born in the Diocese of Braga. He was martyred in Cuculim, India, on July 25, 1583, while engaged in missionary work, and was beatified by the Catholic Church.

1881–1936 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Francisco Calvo Burillo (Híjar, November 21, 1881 – Híjar, August 2, 1936) was a Spanish priest, martyred during the Spanish Civil War and venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1901–1936 · Contemporary · Piarists

Francisco Carceller Galindo, SchP (born October 3, 1901, in Forcall; died October 2, 1936, in Castellón de la Plana) was a Spanish priest of the Piarist Fathers.

1911–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Francisco Castán Meseguer, C.M.F. (Fonz, February 1, 1911 – Barbastro, August 15, 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.

1578–1623 · Reformation · Ordo Fratrum Minorum de Regularis Observantia

Francis Galvez (born August 15, 1578, in Utiel, Spain; died executed December 4, 1623, in Edo, Japan) was a Franciscan friar (Order of Friars Minor) and catechist who was martyred for his faith in Japan alongside other Christian missionaries.

1876–1936 · Contemporary

Francisco Ibáñez Ibáñez (born September 22, 1876, died August 19, 1936) was a Spanish blessed of the Catholic Church. He was ordained a priest in 1900 and was killed during the Spanish Civil War.

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

Francesc Roura Farró (Cornellà del Terri, January 13, 1913 – Barbastro, August 15, 1936) was a Spanish religious, martyred in Barbastro during the Spanish Civil War and venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1910–1936 · Contemporary

Francisco Polvorinos Gómez, OMI (born January 29, 1910, in Calaveras de Arriba; died July 24, 1936, in Pozuelo, Madrid) was a Spanish Oblate of the Immaculate Mary.

1540–1570 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Francisco Pérez Godoy, SJ (born c. 1540 in Torrijos, died July 15, 1570, in the Atlantic Ocean near Las Palmas) was a Spanish Jesuit novice, a blessed of the Catholic Church, and a victim of Huguenot persecution of Catholics.

1890–1936 · Contemporary · Conventual Franciscans

Francisco Remón was a Spanish Franciscan friar who was born on September 22, 1890, in Teruel, Spain. During the Spanish Civil War, he was killed in 1936 in Granollers, along with friars Alfonso Lopez, Modesto Vegas, Dionisio Vicente, Pedro Rivera, and Miguel Remón.

1920–1942 · Contemporary

Franciszek Kęsy (Berlin, November 13, 1920 – Dresden, August 24, 1942), cited in Hispanic sources as Francisco Kesy, was a Polish Catholic layman, an aspirant to the Salesian minor seminary in Ląd, and a martyr of the Second World War.

1597–1632 · Reformation

Francis of Jesus Terrero de Ortega Pérez, OESA (Spanish: Francisco Terrero de Ortega Pérez; born 1597 in Villamediana, died September 3, 1632, in Nagasaki) was a Spanish priest of the Order of Saint Augustine, a martyr, and a blessed of the Catholic Church who was a victim of ant…

1727–1794 · Modern · Franciscans

François Migoret-Lamberdière (born August 28, 1727, in Lassay-les-Châteaux; died January 21, 1794, in Laval, Mayenne department) was a French priest who was sentenced to death and guillotined during the French Revolution. He is venerated as a Blessed in the Roman Catholic Church.

1759–1792 · Modern

François Joseph Pey, also known in German as Franz Josef Pey (Solliès-Pont, January 29, 1759 – Paris, September 2, 1792), was a French priest.

1870–1909 · Contemporary · Society of Mary

François-Benjamin May, known as Benjamin May (born July 21, 1870, in Bagnes, in the Swiss canton of Valais; died July 27, 1909, in Barcelona), was a Marist Brother. He died during the Tragic Week, having been shot to death.

1736–1792 · Modern

Blessed François-Joseph de La Rochefoucauld-Bayers (Angoulême (Saint-Jean parish), February 28, 1736 – Paris, September 2, 1792) was an 18th-century French prelate and politician. As Bishop of Beauvais, he was elected as a deputy for the clergy to the Estates General of 1789.

1567–1632 · Reformation

Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene, born Gabriel Tarazona Rodríguez (October 1567 in Sonseca – September 3, 1632, in Nagasaki), was a Spanish Franciscan friar, a martyr, and a blessed of the Catholic Church who was a victim of anti-Catholic persecution in Japan.

1864–1936 · Contemporary

Genaro Fueyo Castañón (born January 23, 1864, in Linares; died October 20, 1936, in Madrid) was a Spanish priest, a victim of the Spanish Civil War, and a blessed of the Catholic Church. He was born on January 23, 1864, in southern Spain.

679–715 · Medieval

Gerlind of Alsace (c. 679 – c. 715) was a daughter of Eudo of Aquitaine and Adela of Austrasia and a Duchess of Alsace. She is a blessed of the Catholic Church, and her feast day is December 3.

1895–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Germán Garrigues Hernández, also known as Germán of Carcaixent (born Germán (Jorge María) Garrigues Hernández on February 12, 1895, in Carcaixent, Valencian Community; died August 9, 1936, in Carcaixent), was a Spanish Catholic blessed, martyr, priest, and Capuchin friar, who was…

1913–1936 · Contemporary

Germán Gozalbo Andreu (born August 30, 1913, died September 22, 1936) was a Spanish Catholic priest and a blessed of the Catholic Church. He was ordained a priest just a few weeks before his death.

1100–1200 · Medieval · Cistercians

Gezelinus of Schlebusch (born in the Duchy of Burgundy; died 12th century, presumably in Schlebuschrath, now a district of Leverkusen-Alkenrath) was, according to legend, a lay brother (conversus) at the Cistercian monastery in Altenberg.

1438–1508 · Reformation · Carmelites

Giacomino de' Canepacci, known as da Crevacuore (Piasca, 1438 – Vercelli, March 3, 1508), was an Italian religious, a lay brother of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel. He was beatified by equipollence by Pope Gregory XVI in 1845.

1899–1946 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Giovanni Fausti, born on October 19, 1899, in Marcheno, in the province of Brescia (Italy), and died by firing squad on March 4, 1946, in Shkodër, Albania, was an Italian Catholic priest of the Society of Jesus and a missionary in Albania who was killed in odium fidei during the…

1386–1446 · Medieval

Giovanni Tavelli (Tossignano, 1386 – Ferrara, July 24, 1446) was an Italian Catholic bishop, venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church. He is remembered in the history of the Order of the Gesuati for writing its constitutions, initiating the process that transformed the Gesua…

1883–1936 · Contemporary

Gonzalo Viñes Masip (born January 19, 1883, in Xàtiva, died December 10, 1936) was a blessed of the Catholic Church. He completed secondary school and subsequently entered the seminary in Valencia. In 1906, at the age of 23, he was ordained a priest.

1438–1508 · Reformation

Grazia of Cattaro (Mulla, October 27, 1438 – Murano, November 9, 1508) was an Italian religious of the Order of Saint Augustine. His cult as a blessed was confirmed by Pope Leo XIII in 1889.

1880–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Gregorio Chirivás Lacambra, C.M.F. (Siétamo, April 24, 1880 – Barbastro, August 12, 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.

1912–1936 · Contemporary

Gregorio Escobar García, OMI (born September 12, 1912, in Estella; died November 28, 1936, in Paracuellos de Jarama) was a Spanish Oblate of the Immaculate Mary. He made his first vows in the Oblate congregation on August 15, 1930.

1259 · Medieval · Franciscans

Saint Walter was a Franciscan friar sent on a mission to Portugal in the early 13th century by Saint Francis of Assisi. Every year on the first weekend of August, the city of Guimarães dedicates its city festival, known as the Gualterian Festivals, to him.

1309–1404 · Medieval

Guglielmo Buccheri, known as Guglielmo Cuffitedda, and also as Guglielmo da Noto, Guglielmo the Hermit, or Guglielmo of Scicli (Noto, 1309 – Scicli, April 4, 1404), was an Italian religious figure who lived as a hermit and is considered a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1065–1120 · Medieval · Carthusian Order

William of Fenoglio (Borgoratto, 1065 – Casotto, 1120) was an Italian religious figure and monk of the Carthusian Order. A monk at the Charterhouse of Casotto, his cult as a blessed was confirmed by Pope Pius IX in 1860.

1908–1936 · Contemporary

Guillermo Plaza Hernández (born June 25, 1908, in Yuncos; died August 9, 1936, in Argés) was a blessed priest, a victim of anti-Catholic persecution during the Spanish Civil War.

1160–1209 · Medieval

Guy of Montpellier (1160–1208) was the founder of the Order of the Holy Spirit and the Confraternity of the Holy Spirit around 1180, established to care for abandoned children, the poor, and the sick. The order was officially recognized by Pope Innocent III on April 23, 1198.

1920–1945 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Gérard-Martin Cendrier, born on June 16, 1920, in Paris and died on January 25, 1945, was a Catholic religious figure who was persecuted, deported, and died in a concentration camp during the Second World War.

1100–1200 · Medieval

Haberilia (died c. 1100 in Bregenz-Mehrerau; occasionally also referred to as Haberilla, Habril(l)a, or by the additions Haberilia of Mehrerau or Haberilia of Bregenz) was a recluse who lived in or near Mehrerau Abbey, close to Bregenz, during the 11th or 12th century and was ven…

1120–1185 · Medieval

According to legend, Blessed Henry of Ebrantshausen (born c. 1120 in Regensburg; died c. 1185 near Ebrantshausen) was one of the Counts of Riedenburg who, after many years of pilgrimage, lived in quiet seclusion near Ebrantshausen, subsisting on the charitable gifts of the people…

1889–1936 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Enrique Sáiz Aparicio (born December 1, 1889, in Ubierna, Burgos; died October 2, 1936, in Madrid) was a Spanish priest, a Salesian of Don Bosco (SDB), a Christian martyr, and a blessed of the Roman Catholic Church.

1879–1936 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order

Ermenegildo dell'Assunta, born Hermenegildo Iza y Aregita (Mendata, April 13, 1879 – Alcázar de San Juan, July 26, 1936), was a Spanish priest of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity.

1887–1936 · Contemporary

Herminia Martínez Amigó was a Catholic martyr who was killed during the Spanish Civil War. Due to her public displays of religious devotion, she was murdered alongside her husband and was beatified by Pope John Paul II on March 11, 2001.

1877–1936 · Contemporary

Blessed Herminio Motos Torrecillas (born in María, Almería, December 9, 1877; died in María, Almería, October 13, 1936) was the archpriest and parish priest of María (1912–1936). He was killed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War as a victim of religious persecution.

1133 · Medieval · Benedictines

Hesson or Esson (died 1133) was a blessed Benedictine monk of Hirschau Abbey in Bavaria, Germany, under Saint William. In 1085, he was sent as the first abbot of Beinwil, in the Diocese of Basel. His feast day is December 27.

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Hiconius, also found as Iconius, is the second bishop of Maurienne, mentioned towards the end of the 6th century and at the very beginning of the following century. He is locally considered a blessed.