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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.

1780–1802 · Modern

Charles Yi Gyeong-do was born in Seoul in 1780 and was a member of the Catholic Church. He died in Seoul in 1802 by decapitation. He is recognized as a blessed.

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.

1763–1794 · Modern

Charles-Antoine-Nicolas Ancel (Rouen, October 11, 1763 – Rochefort, July 29, 1794) was a French priest and one of the Martyrs of the Hulks of Rochefort, beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1995.

1743–1794 · Modern · Society of Saint-Sulpice

Charles-René Collas du Bignon was a Catholic priest and member of the Society of Saint-Sulpice born in 1743 in Laval. He died in 1794 in Rochefort and is recognized as a blessed within the Catholic Church.

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.

1958–1994 · Contemporary · White Fathers

Christian Chessel, born in Digne-les-Bains on October 27, 1958, and murdered in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, on December 27, 1994, was a French Catholic priest and White Father.

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.

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.

1562–1588 · Reformation

Christopher Buxton was born in 1562 in Derbyshire and worked as a politician. A member of the Catholic Church, he was executed in 1588 in Canterbury by being hanged, drawn, quartered, and decapitated. He is recognized as a blessed.

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.

1900–1947 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Claudio Granzotto (23 August 1900 – 15 August 1947, born Riccardo Granzotto) was an Italian professed religious from the Order of Friars Minor and a noted sculptor.

1724–1792 · Modern · Society of Jesus

Claudius Cayx-Dumas (1724–1792) was a French Jesuit. He joined the Society of Jesus in 1757.

1722–1792 · Modern · Society of Jesus

Claudius Franciscus Gagnières des Granges (23 May 1722 – 2 September 1792) was a French Jesuit. Born in Chambéry, he was one of the 191 victims of the September Massacres. He was beatified by Pope Pius XI in 1926.

1861–1930 · Contemporary

Clelia Merloni (10 March 1861 – 21 November 1930) was an Italian Roman Catholic nun and the founder of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

1878–1946 · Contemporary

Clemens Augustinus Emmanuel Joseph Pius Anthonius Hubertus Marie Graf von Galen (16 March 1878 – 22 March 1946), better known as Clemens August Graf von Galen, was a German count, Bishop of Münster, and cardinal of the Catholic Church.

1897–1988 · Contemporary

Blessed Father Clement Vismara (September 6, 1897 – June 15, 1988) was an Italian priest and missionary. He is venerated by the Roman Catholic Church. He spent 65 of his 91 years in forests of Burma assisting Akhà and Ikò tribal peoples, particularly children and widows.

1849–1911 · Contemporary

Clotilde Micheli (11 September 1849 - 24 March 1911) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious who established the order known as the Sisters of Angels; she assumed the religious name Maria Serafina of the Sacred Heart upon the order's foundation and her profession into i…

1858–1926 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Colomba Matylda Gabriel (3 May 1858 - 24 September 1926) - religious name Janina - was a Ukrainian Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Benedictine Sisters of Charity.

1761–1801 · Modern

Columba Kang Wan-suk was a Korean Christian laywoman and catechist martyr, born in 1761 in Naepo, Chungcheong, Korea, and died by beheading on July 2, 1801, in Seoul. Her martyrdom is recognized by the Catholic Church, and she is titled Venerable.

1858–1923 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Columba Marmion O.S.B, born Joseph Aloysius Marmion (1 April 1858 – 30 January 1923) was an Irish Benedictine monk and the third Abbot of Maredsous Abbey in Belgium.

1467–1501 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Columba of Rieti was an Italian religious sister of the Third Order of St. Dominic who was noted as a mystic. She was renowned for her spiritual counsel, devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, and fantastic miracles were attributed to her.

1861–1937 · Contemporary

Concepción Cabrera de Armida (December 8, 1862 – March 3, 1937) was a Mexican Catholic mystic and writer. She is also referred to as María Concepción Cabrera Arias de Armida, sometimes as Conchita Cabrera de Armida or Conchita Cabrera Arias de Armida, and often simply as "Conchi…

1533–1612 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor

Concobhar Ó Duibheannaigh (c. 1532 – 1 (O.S.)/11 (N.S.) February 1612; Conor O'Devany, Cornelius O'Devany) was an Irish Franciscan priest from Donegal Abbey and Roman Catholic bishop during the religious persecution of the Catholic Church in Ireland that began during the reign of…

1234–1289 · Medieval · Franciscans

Conrad of Ascoli was an Italian Friar Minor and missionary; his feast day is April 19. Conrad was born at Ascoli in the March of Ancona in 1234. He belonged to the noble family of Miliani and from his earliest years made penance the predominating element of his life.

1177–1227 · Medieval · Cistercians

Conrad of Urach (also named Conrad von Urach; German: Konrad von Urach, also known as Konrad or Kuno von Zähringen; born in the 1170s; died 29 September 1227, probably in Bari) was a Cistercian monk and abbot, and Cardinal Bishop of Porto and Santa Rufina; he declined the papacy.…

1248–1302 · Medieval · Poor Clares

Constance II (in Italian: Costanza; c. 1249 – (1302-04-09)9 April 1302) was queen regnant of Sicily from September 1282 to November 1285 alongside her husband, King Peter I. She was also queen consort of Aragon from 1276 to 1285.

1866–1936 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Constantino Carbonell Sempere (born April 12, 1866, in Alcoy, died August 23, 1936, in Tabernes de Valldigna) was a Jesuit priest, a martyr of the Spanish Civil War, and a victim of anti-Catholic persecution, beatified by the Catholic Church.

1907–1936 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Constantino Fernández Álvarez was a Spanish Catholic priest and member of the Dominican Order born in La Vecilla in 1907. He died in 1936 and has been recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1859–1902 · Contemporary · Third Order of Saint Francis

Contardo Ferrini (5 April 1859 – 17 October 1902) was a noted Italian jurist and legal scholar. He was also a fervent Roman Catholic, who lived a devout life of prayer and service to the poor. He has been beatified by the Catholic Church.

1619 · Reformation

Cosmas Takeya Sozaburō, born in Korea and executed on November 18, 1619, in Nagasaki, Japan, was a Japanese Catholic layman of Korean descent, a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis, and a victim of the anti-Catholic persecution in Japan.

1897–1932 · Contemporary · Daughters of Our Lady of the Garden

María Angélica Pérez (religious name María Crescentia, 17 August 1897 – 20 May 1932) was an Argentine religious sister of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Garden. She also was known to ill people as "Sister sweetness". She was beatified on 17 November 2012 in Buenos Aires.

1903–1936 · Contemporary · Amigonian Friars

Crescence Garcia Pobo, born on April 15, 1903, in Celadas, Spain, and died on October 3, 1936, in Paracuellos de Jarama, near Madrid, was an Amigonian priest executed during the Spanish Civil War.

1638–1690 · Reformation · Third Order of Saint Francis

Cristóbal of Saint Catherine (25 July 1638 – 21 July 1690) – born Cristóbal López de Valladolid Orea – was a Roman Catholic Spanish priest and a professed member of the Third Order of Saint Francis.

1885–1936 · Contemporary

Cristòfol Baqués i Almirall (Olesa de Bonesvalls, Alt Penedès, March 20, 1885, or 1884 – Barcelona, August 20, 1936) was a priest, blessed, and member of the Brotherhood of Diocesan Laborer Priests. He was ordained a priest on June 13, 1908.

1875–1936 · Contemporary

Cruz Laplana y Laguna (Plan, May 3, 1875 – Villar de Olalla, August 7, 1936) was a Spanish Catholic bishop. He was one of the thirteen bishops killed in the Republican zone during the Spanish Civil War, a victim of religious persecution.

1903–1964 · Contemporary · Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance

Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi // , OCSO (September 1903 – 20 January 1964) was an Igbo Nigerian priest of the Catholic Church who worked in the Archdiocese of Onitsha and later became a Trappist monk at Mount Saint Bernard Monastery in England.

1912–1936 · Contemporary · Conventual Franciscans

Pedro Rivera was a French Franciscan friar who was born on September 3, 1912, in Valladolid, Spain. During the Spanish Civil War, he was killed in 1936 in Barcelona, along with friars Alfonso Lopez, Modesto Vegas, Dionisio Vicente, Francisco Remón, and Miguel Remón.

1933–1996 · Contemporary · Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance

Célestin Marie Georges Maxime Ringeard, born on July 29, 1933, in Touvois, Loire-Atlantique, and died in Algeria after late April 1996, was one of the seven monks of Tibhirine whose fate inspired the film Of Gods and Men by Xavier Beauvois, which won an award at the 2010 Cannes F…

1876–1936 · Contemporary · Holy Ghost Fathers

Daniel Jules Alexis Brottier, C.S.Sp. (7 September 1876 – 28 February 1936), was a French Roman Catholic priest in the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans).

1908–1931 · Contemporary

Darío Acosta Zurita (14 December 1908 – 25 July 1931) was a Mexican Roman Catholic priest who ministered in Veracruz where he lived and was killed.

1880–1936 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Dariusz Hernández Morató, SJ (Spanish: Darío Hernández Morató; born October 25, 1880, in Buñol, died September 29, 1936, in Picadero de Paterna) was a Catholic priest, a Jesuit, and a martyr of the Spanish Civil War who was a victim of anti-Catholic persecution and is honored as…

1902–1918 · Contemporary

The Uganda Martyrs are a group of 22 Catholic and 23 Anglican converts to Christianity in the kingdom of Buganda, now part of Uganda, who were executed between 31 January 1885 and 27 January 1887. They were killed on orders of Mwanga II, the Kabaka (King) of Buganda.

1920–1959 · Contemporary

Dedë Malaj (born November 16, 1920, or according to other sources November 16, 1917, in Northern Albania; died May 11 or 12, 1959, on the shores of Lake Shkodra) was a Roman Catholic priest who was arrested, tortured, and shot for his faith in atheist Albania under the Enver Hoxh…

1920–1947 · Contemporary

Dedë Maçaj (born October 21 or February 5, 1920, in Mal i Jushit near Shkodër; died March 15 or March 28, 1947, in Përmet, Albania) was a Roman Catholic priest. He was executed by firing squad by the communist regime in Albania for his faith.