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1701–1792 · Modern · Dominican Order

Antonio Alcalde Barriga (14 March 1701 - 7 August 1792) was a Spanish Roman Catholic prelate and professed member from the Order of Preachers who served as the Bishop of Guadalajara.

1921–1936 · Contemporary

Antonio Ferrer Rodrigo was an activist and altar server born in 1921 in Alfafar, Spain. A citizen of the Second Spanish Republic, he died in 1936 in Picassent from a gunshot wound. He is currently recognized as a Servant of God within the Catholic Church.

1898–1950 · Contemporary

Antonio Lombardi was born in Catanzaro in 1898 to his father, Nicola Lombardi. A philosophy historian and citizen of the Kingdom of Italy and Italy, he died in 1950. He is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1817–1851 · Modern

Antonio Vicente González Suárez (Agüimes, April 5, 1817 – Las Palmas, June 22, 1851) was a Spanish diocesan priest. Pope Francis approved the decree recognizing his heroic virtues on December 22, 2020, and he is recognized as venerable, a preliminary step toward beatification.

1883–1942 · Contemporary · Teutonic Order

Anselm Leo Polák (April 8, 1883, Dolní Životice – October 17, 1942, Jasenovac concentration camp, Gradina Donja, present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, then the Independent State of Croatia) was a Catholic priest, a member of the Teutonic Order, and a martyr of Nazi totalitarianism.

1983–1991 · Contemporary

Audrey Stevenson was born in Paris in 1983 and died in 1991. She is a French citizen who holds the title of Servant of God.

1628–1648 · Reformation

Barbora of Žagarė (1628 – c. 1648) was a Roman Catholic laywoman from Žagarė, then Grand Duchy of Lithuania. According to oral history, Barbora distinguished herself by her Christian virtues and died young under obscure circumstances. Her remains were said to be incorruptible.

1484–1566 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Bartolomé de las Casas, OP ; 11 November 1484 – 18 July 1566) was a Spanish lawyer, clergyman, writer, and activist best known for his work as a historian and social reformer. He arrived in Hispaniola as a layman, then became a Dominican friar.

1930–1993 · Contemporary

Baudouin was King of the Belgians from 17 July 1951 until his death in 1993. He was the last Belgian king to be sovereign of the Congo, before it became independent in 1960 and became the Democratic Republic of the Congo (known from 1971 to 1997 as Zaire).

1649–1730 · Modern · Dominican Order

Pope Benedict XIII (Latin: Benedictus XIII; Italian: Benedetto XIII; 2 February 1649 – 21 February 1730), born Pietro Francesco (or Pierfrancesco) Orsini and later called Vincenzo Maria Orsini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 29 May 1724 to his…

1916–1945 · Contemporary

Bernard Jaruszewski was a Polish presbyter born in Toruń in 1916. He died in 1945 at the Mauthausen concentration camp and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1575–1603 · Reformation · Benedictines

Bernard of Wąbrzeźno was a Catholic priest and a Benedictine monk from the Benedictine Abbey in Lubiń, Poland. He has been named as a candidate for beatification several times, beginning in the 1730s and most recently in 2009.

1920–1945 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Bernard Štuhec was a Salesian of Don Bosco and a university student born in 1920 in Kupetinci. He died in 1945 in Teharje and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1832–1929 · Contemporary

Bernarda Morin (born Venerance Morin Rouleau; 1832–1929) was a Canadian Catholic religious sister who founded the Congregation of the Sisters of Providence in Chile, an autonomous congregation of the Sisters of Providence (Montreal).

1922–2008 · Contemporary

Bernardin Gantin (8 May 1922 – 13 May 2008) was a Beninese Catholic prelate who held senior positions in the Roman Curia for twenty years and the highest position in the College of Cardinals for nine years.

1863–1950 · Contemporary

Heȟáka Sápa, commonly known as Black Elk (baptized Nicholas; December 1, 1863 – August 19, 1950), was a wičháša wakȟáŋ ("medicine man, holy man") and heyoka of the Oglala Lakota people.

1907–1972 · Contemporary · Piarists

Bruno Martínez Sacedo, Sch. P. (Moscardón, Teruel, Spain, November 9, 1907 – León, Nicaragua, December 29, 1972) was a Piarist priest from Teruel who worked in education in Nicaragua. He died in León from injuries sustained in the 1972 Managua earthquake.

1892–1937 · Contemporary

487–583 · Medieval

Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (c. 485 – c. 585), commonly known as Cassiodorus , was a Roman statesman, scholar, and writer who served in the administration of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. Senator was part of his surname, not his rank.

1664–1735 · Modern · Augustinian nuns

Catalina Maura y Pou, also known as Catalina of Saint Thomas of Villanova (Palma de Mallorca, 1664–1735), was a Spanish philosopher and Augustinian nun. She was proclaimed a Servant of God by the Catholic Church.

1648–1695 · Reformation

Catalina de Balboa Ugarte, in religion Catalina de San Mateo de la Concepción (Santa María de Guía de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, April 30, 1648 – Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, May 26, 1695), was a Canarian Poor Clare nun.

1896–1985 · Contemporary

Catherine de Hueck Doherty (née Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkina; August 15, 1896 – December 14, 1985) was a Russian-born Catholic activist who founded the Madonna House Apostolate in 1947.

1984–2012 · Contemporary

Chiara Corbella Petrillo (9 January 1984 – 13 June 2012) was an Italian Catholic public speaker and a mother known for her faith amidst her battle with cancer. Chiara met her future husband Enrico Petrillo in 2002 when both were on a pilgrimage to Medjugorje.

1920–2008 · Contemporary

Chiara Lubich (born Silvia Lubich; 22 January 1920 – 14 March 2008) was an Italian teacher and author who founded the Focolare Movement, which aims to bring unity among people and promote universal family.

1897–1945 · Contemporary

Ciril Lisjak was a farmer born in 1897 in Saksid. He died in 1945 in Velike Žablje and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1925–1942 · Contemporary

Ciril Mavsar was born in 1925 in Šentrupert and died in 1942 in the same location. He is recognized as a Servant of God.

1953–1975 · Contemporary

Claire de Castelbajac was born in 1953 in the 8th arrondissement of Paris and worked as a restorer. A French Catholic, she died in Toulouse in 1975. She is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1679–1709 · Modern · Holy Ghost Fathers

Claude-François Poullart des Places, C.S.Sp. (26 February 1679 – 2 October 1709) was a French Catholic priest who founded the Congregation of the Holy Spirit in 1703 at the age of 24.

1872–1936 · Contemporary · Piarists

Clemente Martínez Cebrián, Sch. P. (Carazo, Burgos, November 23, 1872 – Madrid, August 1936) was a Piarist priest of the San Antón community, murdered on an unknown day in August 1936 during the Spanish Civil War.

1922–1973 · Contemporary

Cvetana Priol was born in 1922 in Maribor, where she also died in 1973 and is buried at the Maribor Cemetery. A citizen of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, she worked as a professor, choir director, pianist, and music educator.

1962–1997 · Contemporary

Daniele Badiali (March 3, 1962 – March 18, 1997) was an Italian Catholic priest and missionary in Peru who was murdered by a regime death squad in odium fidei. The Catholic Church has opened the cause for his beatification.

1908–1945 · Contemporary

Danijel Halas was a Catholic priest born in 1908 in Črenšovci, a location within the former Austria–Hungary and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He died in 1945 in Hotiza and is buried in Velika Polana. He is currently recognized by the Catholic Church as a Servant of God.

1926–2009 · Contemporary

Danijel Hekić was a Latin Catholic priest and confessor born in 1926 in Sveti Petar u Šumi. He died in 2009 in Saccolongo and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1906–1942 · Contemporary

Darinka Čebulj was born in 1906 in Radovljica and worked as a teacher. She died in 1942 in Kočevski Rog and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1921–1942 · Contemporary

Darko Mavsar was born in 1921 in Šentrupert and died in the same location in 1942. He is recognized as a Servant of God.

1994–2012 · Contemporary

Darwin Ramos (December 17, 1994 – September 23, 2012) was a Filipino street child and waste picker. His cause for canonization was opened in August 2019 in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cubao in the Philippines. He is a Servant of God.

1770–1840 · Modern

Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin (Russian: Дими́трий Дими́триевич Голи́цын, romanized: Dimitry Dimitrievich Golitsyn, December 22, 1770 – May 6, 1840) was an emigre Russian aristocrat and Catholic priest known as "The Apostle of the Alleghenies" and also in the United States as Prin…

1559–1630 · Reformation · Order of the Brothers Discalced of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Dominic of Jesus and Mary (1559–1630) was a Spanish Discalced Carmelite and high-ranking official of the order who participated in certain episodes of the Thirty Years' War, as well as the founding of the Discalced Carmelite convent in Ghent.

1914–2004 · Contemporary

Dora del Hoyo Alonso, (11 January 1914 – 10 January 2004; born Salvadora Honorata del Hoyo Alonso in Leon, Spain) was a Spanish Catholic laywoman who was one of the first female members of Opus Dei.: 9–11  A domestic worker by profession, del Hoyo was the first to join the Prela…

1897–1980 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Dorothy Day OblSB (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics.

1931–2005 · Contemporary · Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur

Dorothy Mae Stang, SNDdeN, (June 7, 1931 – February 12, 2005) was an American-born Brazilian Catholic Religious Sister and missionary. She was murdered in Anapu, Pará, in the Amazon Basin in 2005.

1924–1944 · Contemporary

Elena Spirgevičiūtė (22 December 1924 – 4 January 1944) was a Lithuanian student. She was shot and killed by Soviet partisans for resisting rape. One of the four men, Alfonsas Čeponis was posthumously recognized as the Hero of the Soviet Union.

1873–1952 · Contemporary

Elena of Montenegro (Serbian: Јелена Петровић Његош / Jelena Petrović Njegoš; 8 January 1873 – 28 November 1952) was Queen of Italy from 29 July 1900 until 9 May 1946 as the wife of King Victor Emmanuel III.

1866–1914 · Contemporary

Élisabeth Arrighi Leseur (16 October 1866 – 3 May 1914), born Pauline Élisabeth Arrighi, was a French mystic best known for her spiritual diary and the conversion of her husband, Félix Leseur (1861–1950), a medical doctor and well known leader of the French anti-clerical, atheist…

1924–1944 · Contemporary

Emil Kete was a Catholic priest born in 1924 in Dolenje. He died in 1944 in Šempas and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1863–1903 · Contemporary · Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady of Good Counsel

Thérèse Rodon i Asencio (Barcelona, February 26, 1863 – Madrid, December 28, 1903) was a Spanish nun and founder of the Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady of Good Counsel. Her potential beatification is under study by the Catholic Church, which recognizes her as a Servant of God.

1866–1936 · Contemporary

Eustaquio Nieto y Martín (Zamora, March 12, 1866 – Estriégana, July 27, 1936) was a Spanish Catholic bishop. He is one of the thirteen bishops killed in the Republican zone during the Spanish Civil War, a victim of religious persecution.

1884–1946 · Contemporary · Congregation of Marian Fathers

Fabian Ivanovich Abrantovich (Fabijan Abrantovič; Chinese: 龐懷德, Belarusian: Фабія́н Я́навіч Абранто́віч, Russian: Фабиа́н Ива́нович Абранто́вич, Polish: Fabian Abrantowicz; September 14, 1884 – January 2, 1946) was a prominent religious and civic leader from Belarus.

1911–1941 · Contemporary

Ferdinand Potokar was a Catholic priest born in 1911 in Brezno. He died in 1941 in Celje and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1903–1937 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Fernando Huidobro was a Spanish Jesuit theologian and military chaplain born in 1903 in Santander. He died in 1937 in Madrid from a gunshot wound and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.