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1890–1936 · Contemporary · Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools

Aurelio María Villalón Acebrón was born in 1890 in Zafra de Záncara and was a member of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. He died in 1936 in Almería. He is recognized as a blessed within the Roman Catholic Church.

1850–1936 · Contemporary

Aurora López Gonzalez was a Spanish nun born in 1850 in San Lorenzo de El Escorial. She died in 1936 and has been recognized as a blessed.

1879–1936 · Contemporary · Order of St. Augustine

Avelino Rodríguez Alonso was a Spanish Latin Catholic priest, educator, and regular priest of the Order of St. Augustine who served as a head teacher. Born in 1879 in Santiago Millas, he died in 1936 in Paracuellos de Jarama from a gunshot wound. He is recognized as a blessed.

1320–1380 · Medieval · Carmelites

Avertanus of Lucca (Limoges, 1320 – Lucca, 1380) was a French religious and pilgrim, and a member of the Carmelite Order. He is considered a blessed in the Catholic Church, and his feast day is celebrated on February 25.

910–965 · Medieval · Benedictines

Aymard of Cluny, also known as Aymardus of Cluny was the third abbot of Cluny. His feast day is 5 October. Very little is known about his life and the only references come from the biographies of Odo of Cluny or Majolus of Cluny.

1146 · Medieval · Carthusian Order

Ayrald (also Airald or Ayraldus) was a French Carthusian monk and bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne. He died between 1161 and 1162. He was canonized by Pope Pius IX on January 8, 1863. Ayrald was the son of William II of Burgundy.

1419–1492 · Medieval · Franciscans

Baldassare Ravaschieri, OFM (1420 – 17 October 1492) was an Italian Catholic priest and a professed member of the Order of Friars Minor. Ravaschieri served as a noted preacher and confessor and befriended as contemporaries Bernardine of Feltre and architect Giovanni Antonio Amade…

1100–1145 · Medieval · Cistercians

Baldwin (died 6 October 1145) was a Cistercian monk and later Archbishop of Pisa, a correspondent of Bernard of Clairvaux, and a reformer of the Republic of Pisa.

1563–1626 · Reformation

Baltasar de Torres, SJ (born December 14, 1563, in Granada; died June 20, 1626, in Nagasaki) was a Jesuit missionary, priest, blessed of the Catholic Church, and martyr. A victim of anti-Catholic persecution in Japan, he was murdered in odium fidei (out of hatred for the faith).

1447–1516 · Reformation · Carmelites

Baptista Spagnuoli Mantuanus, O.Carm (Italian: Battista Mantovano, English: Battista the Mantuan or simply Mantuan; also known as Johannes Baptista Spagnolo; 17 April 1447 – 22 March 1516) was an Italian Carmelite reformer, humanist, and poet.

1458–1527 · Reformation

Camilla Battista da Varano OSCl, (9 April 1458 – 31 May 1524), from Camerino, Italy, was an Italian princess and a Poor Clare nun and abbess. She is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.

1818–1873 · Modern

Barbara Maix, ICM, religious name religious name Maria Barbara of the Most Holy Trinity, (27 June 1818 – 17 March 1873) was an Austrian Catholic religious sister who established the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Brazil.

1783–1801 · Modern

Barbara Sim A-gi was a Korean Christian laywoman and martyr, born in 1783 in Gwangju, Gyeonggi, Korea, and died in early April 1801 near Seoul. Her martyrdom is recognized by the Catholic Church, and she is titled Venerable.

1813–1839 · Modern

Barbara Sim Jo-i was a Catholic born in Incheon in 1813. She died in Jeonju in 1839 and is recognized as a blessed.

1937–1944 · Contemporary

Barbara Ulma was born in 1937 in Markowa, Poland, to parents Józef and Wiktoria Ulma. A member of the Latin Church, she died in 1944 in Markowa from a gunshot wound. She is recognized as blessed.

1200–1271 · Medieval · Dominican Order

Bartholomew of Breganze (c. 1200 – 1 July 1271) was an Italian Dominican friar and bishop. Bartholomew of Breganze was born in the city of Vicenza to the noble family of Da Breganze (from Breganze).

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Bartholomew of Marmoutier served as an abbot and was a writer. He is recognized as a blessed.

1753–1794 · Modern

Barthélemy Jarrige de La Morelie de Biars was born in 1753 in Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche and served as a Catholic priest. He died in 1794 among the Martyrs of Rochefort and is recognized as blessed.

1228–1300 · Medieval · Third Order of Saint Francis

Bartolo da San Gimignano (born Bartolo Buonpedoni; 1228 – 12 December 1300) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis. Bartolo was born to nobles near Siena and fled home to become a priest to escape his father's wrath.

1224 · Medieval

Bartolomeo Aiutamicristo da Pisa was born in Pisa and died in that same city in 1224. He is recognized as a blessed.

1423–1495 · Medieval · Carmelites

Bartolomeo Fanti (c. 1428 - 5 December 1495) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest from the Carmelite order in Mantua. Fanti served as the spiritual director and rector of a religious movement in his hometown and oversaw the establishment of their rule and statutes while himself s…

1914–1936 · Contemporary

Bartolomé Blanco Márquez (25 November 1914 – 2 October 1936) was a Spanish secretary of Catholic Action and a delegate to the Catholic Syndicates.

1452–1495 · Medieval · Carmelites

Bartolomeu Fanti was an Italian Carmelite friar who belonged to the Mantuan Congregation. For 35 years, he served as spiritual director and rector of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in his hometown.

1904–1976 · Contemporary

Basil or Vasiľ Hopko (21 April 1904, Hrabské — 23 July 1976) was an eparch (bishop) of the Slovak Greek Catholic Church. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 14 September 2003 for his martyrdom under Communist occupation.

1799–1873 · Modern · Congregation of the Holy Cross

Basile-Antoine Marie Moreau, C.S.C. (February 11, 1799 – January 20, 1873) was the French priest who founded the Congregation of Holy Cross from which two additional congregations were founded, namely the Marianites of Holy Cross and the Sisters of the Holy Cross.

1000 · Medieval

Blessed Batho of Freising was an 11th-century missionary in the territory of the Diocese of Freising. His missionary work was centered in what is now Carinthia. According to a legend modeled after the New Testament, he fed converted pagans in Innichen with bread.

1410–1481 · Medieval · Dominican Order

Costanzo da Fabriano, also known as Costanzo Servoli (Fabriano, ... – Ascoli Piceno, February 24, 1481), was an Italian priest of the Order of Preachers. His cult as a blessed was confirmed by Pope Pius VII in 1821.

1539–1564 · Reformation

Beato Francisco Álvares was born in 1539 and died in 1564. He is recognized as a blessed.

1407–1491 · Medieval · Dominican Order

Jakob Griesinger (c. 1407 – 11 October 1491) was a German Roman Catholic professed religious from the Order of Preachers and a former soldier.

1902–1936 · Contemporary · Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God

Beato Miguel Francisco de la Santísima Trinidad was a Spanish religious of the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God, born in 1902 in Motril. He died in 1936 in Paracuellos de Jarama and has been beatified.

1747–1822 · Modern

Serafino Morazzone (1 February 1747 – 13 April 1822) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest. Morazzone served as a simple parish priest in Lecco from his ordination as a priest in 1773 until his death and became noted amongst the faithful for his personal holiness and dedication to…

1200–1268 · Medieval · Cistercians

Beatrice of Nazareth (Dutch: Beatrijs van Nazareth; c. 1200 – 1268), also known as Beatrice of Tienen, was a Flemish Cistercian nun, visionary and mystic.

1260–1303 · Medieval · Carthusian Order

Blessed Beatrix d'Ornacieux (Beatrice of Ornacieux) (c. 1240–1306/09) was a Carthusian nun. Her feast day is 25 November. Beatrice was a Carthusian nun who founded a settlement of the order at Eymieux in the department of Drôme.

1101–1216 · Medieval · Cistercians

Béatrice of Lens (Beatrix) is a blessed, born in Lens, formerly in the County of Hainaut. On October 29, 1216, using the dowry received from her parents, she founded the Cistercian abbey of Épinlieu, near Mons, in present-day Belgium, and entered the abbey herself.

1300–1275 · Medieval · Premonstratensians

Beatrix of Engelport (died after 1275 at the convent of Maria Engelport, near Treis-Karden) was a German choir nun of the Premonstratensian Order who may have been the first prioress of that convent. She is considered a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1324–1399 · Medieval · Poor Clares

Beatrix of Mecklenburg, also known as Beate, Beata, or Beate of Ribnitz (1324–1399), was a princess of Mecklenburg and the first princely abbess of the Poor Clares monastery in Ribnitz from 1349 to 1395. In the Roman Catholic Church, she is venerated as a blessed.

1260 · Medieval · Poor Clares

Benedict of Assisi (Benedetta di Assisi), also referred to as Benoîte d'Assisi in some texts, was an Italian nun born in Assisi in the 13th century. Her family was one of the most powerful in Assisi.

1190–1282 · Medieval · Conventual Franciscans

Benedetto Sinigardi, also known as Fra Benedetto di Arezzo or Sinigardi di Arezzo (1190 - 1282) was a Franciscan friar, and is considered to be the author of the Angelus prayer. He was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Sinigardi a noble and wealthy family.

1560–1625 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Marco Passionei (13 September 1560 – 30 April 1625) - in religion Benedetto da Urbino - was an Italian Roman Catholic and a professed member from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.

1946–1990 · Contemporary

Benedict Daswa (born Tshimangadzo Samuel Daswa; 16 June 1946 – 2 February 1990), was a South African school teacher and principal. He was given the name of "Samuel" by his parents when he started to attend school and assumed the name "Benedict" upon his conversion to Catholicism.…

1040–1107 · Medieval

Benedetto Ricasoli (c. 1040, Montegrossi – 20 January 1107, Coltibuono) was an Italian religious figure and a monk of the Vallombrosan Order. He was beatified by equipollence by Pope Pius X in 1907.

1240–1304 · Medieval · Dominican Order

Pope Benedict XI (Latin: Benedictus XI; 1240 – 7 July 1304), born Nicola Boccasini (Niccolò of Treviso), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 22 October 1303 to his death on 7 July 1304.

1928–1941 · Contemporary

Benigna Cardoso da Silva (15 October 1928 – 24 October 1941) was a Brazilian Catholic child. She was adopted following the deaths of her parents, and was noted for aiding in household chores and attending Mass on a regular basis.

1906–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Benigno Prieto del Pozo (born November 25, 1906, in Salce; died August 16, 1936, in Fuente el Fresno) was a Spanish Franciscan, priest, Christian martyr, and blessed of the Roman Catholic Church.

1194 · Medieval · Benedictines

Benincasa is a genus of flowering plants in the cucumber family, Cucurbitaceae. It includes two species native to Indomalaya and Australasia:

1887–1936 · Contemporary

Benito Paradela Nóvoa was a Spanish religious figure, historian, and archivist born in Amoeiro in 1887. He died in Vallecas in 1936 from a gunshot wound and is recognized as a blessed.

1188–1232 · Medieval · Franciscans

Bentivoglio de Bonis (San Severino Marche, 1188 – San Severino Marche, 1232) was an Italian priest of the Order of Friars Minor; his cult as a blessed was confirmed by Pope Pius IX in 1852.

1728–1792 · Modern

Bernard-François de Cucsac (born 1728 in Toulouse, died September 2, 1792, in Paris) was a Catholic priest, a member of a Catholic society of apostolic life, and a martyr beatified by the Catholic Church, who was a victim of anti-Catholic persecution during the French Revolution.

1140–1224 · Medieval · Cistercians

Bernard II (German: Bernhard II. Herr zur Lippe; c. 1140 – 30 April 1224) was Lord of Lippe from 1167 until 1196. He founded the towns of Lippstadt and Lemgo. In 1167, Bernard married Heilwig (1150–1196), likely the daughter of Otto, Count of Are-Hochstaden.

1428–1458 · Medieval

Bernhard II of Baden (1428 or 1429 at Hohenbaden Castle in Baden-Baden – 15 July 1458 in Moncalieri, Turin), was the second son of Margrave Jacob of Baden and his wife, Catherine of Lorraine. He was born in the late 1420s at Hohenbaden Castle in Baden-Baden.