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1896–1943 · Contemporary

Ivan Bric was a farmer and cultural worker born in 1896 in Dornberk. He died in 1943 in the same town and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1928–1991 · Contemporary

Ivan Burik (8 November 1928 – 8 October 1991) was a Croatian Roman Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Đakovo-Osijek killed during the Croatian War of Independence, murdered by Serb rebels, in the aftermath of the Tovarnik massacre.

1879–1942 · Contemporary

Ivan Kozina was born in 1879 in Zapotok and died in 1942 in the same location. He is recognized as a Servant of God.

1914–1943 · Contemporary

Ivan Salmič was a Catholic priest born in Raka in 1914 and died in Vinica in 1943. A citizen of Cisleithania, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, he is currently recognized as a Servant of God by the Catholic Church.

1915–1942 · Contemporary

Ivanka Škrabec Novak (17 March 1915 – 4 June 1942) was a Slovenian teacher. She was martyred by Communists while six months pregnant because of her devout Catholic faith and opposition to Communism.

1909–1946 · Contemporary

Izidor Zavadlav was a Catholic priest born in Vrtojba in 1909. He died in 1946 and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1930–1957 · Contemporary

Jacques Fesch (6 April 1930 – 1 October 1957) was a French criminal who was convicted of the murder of police officer Jean Vergne in February 1954.

1930–2016 · Contemporary

Jacques Hamel was a French Catholic priest who served in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray. On 26 July 2016, Hamel was murdered during the 2016 Normandy church attack by two Muslim men pledging allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant while Hamel celebrated Mass in his churc…

1884–1942 · Contemporary

Jakob Omahna was a priest born in 1884 in Zgornji Log. He died in 1942 in Dragatuš and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1908–1942 · Contemporary

Jakob Sem was a Catholic priest born in 1908 in Radmirje. He died in 1942 in Jasenovac, Sisak-Moslavina County, and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1878–1971 · Contemporary

Jakob Ukmar was a Catholic priest, religious writer, and editor born in 1878 in Villa Opicina and died in 1971 in Trieste. Throughout his life, he held citizenship in Austria–Hungary, the Kingdom of Italy, the Free Territory of Trieste, and Italy.

1857–1926 · Contemporary

Jan Cieplak (17 August 1857 – 17 February 1926) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and archbishop. Jan Cieplak was born in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Congress Poland, in 1857 to an impoverished family of the Polish nobility.

1880–1939 · Contemporary

Jan Wincenty Hamerski (born 15 September 1951) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Senate of Poland (10th term) representing the constituency of Nowy Sącz. He was also elected to the 9th term (2015–2019) of the Senate of Poland.

1877–1941 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Jan Świerc (29 April 1877 – 27 June 1941) was a Polish Catholic priest who was affiliated with the Salesians of Don Bosco. He was the parish priest for Przemyśl-Zasanie and St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish in Cracow before being murdered at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

1871–1944 · Contemporary

Janez Gnjezda was a Catholic priest born in 1871 in Gore and a citizen of Austria–Hungary and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He died in 1944 in Müncheberg and is currently recognized as a Servant of God by the Catholic Church.

1892–1942 · Contemporary

Janez Hornböck was a Catholic priest born in 1892 in Gansdorf. He died in 1942 at the Dachau concentration camp and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1897–1942 · Contemporary

Janez Kodrič was a Slovenian priest, martyr, and candidate for sainthood, born on March 1, 1897, in Studenice, and died on October 17, 1942, in Gradina Donja, Bosnia and Herzegovina (then the Independent State of Croatia).

1923–1945 · Contemporary · Cistercians

Janez Kostelec was a Cistercian monk born in 1923 in Šentrupert. He died in 1945 in Kočevski Rog and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1907–1942 · Contemporary

Janez Kozina was born in 1907 in Zapotok and died in 1942 in the same location. He is recognized as a Servant of God.

1895–1942 · Contemporary

Janez Raztresen was a Catholic priest born in 1895 in Šentjošt nad Horjulom. He died in 1942 in Mavrlen and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1904–1949 · Contemporary

Janez Černoga was a Catholic priest born in 1904 in Zdole and died in 1949 in Vič. During his lifetime, he held citizenship in Austria–Hungary, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1892–1942 · Contemporary

Janko Komljanec was a Catholic priest born in 1892 in Bučka and a citizen of Cisleithania, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He died in 1942 at Hmeljnik Castle and is currently recognized as a Servant of God by the Catholic Church.

1919–1942 · Contemporary

Jaroslav Kikelj was born in 1919 in Villa Opicina and was a student who held citizenship in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. A member of the Catholic Church, he died in 1942 in Ljubljana. He is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1895–1973 · Contemporary

Jean Cassaigne, born on January 30, 1895, in Grenade-sur-l'Adour (Landes) and died on October 31, 1973, in Di Linh, South Vietnam, was a French clergyman.

1350–1417 · Medieval · Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy

Joan Gilabert Jofré (1364–1417), also known as Padre Jofré or Pare Jofré, was a member of the Christian religious Order of Mercy and the founder of what is claimed to be the first psychiatric care institution in Europe, in Valencia, Crown of Aragon, in medieval Spain.

1912–1999 · Contemporary · Piarists

Joaquín Erviti Lazcano (Estella, October 12, 1912 – Pamplona, March 21, 1999) was a Spanish Catholic priest and member of the Piarist Fathers who spent much of his life working as a preschool teacher at the Piarist school in Pamplona.

1868–1947 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Johann Baptist Reus or João Batista Reus (10 July 1868 – 21 July 1947) was a Jesuit priest and a German-Brazilian religious leader. John Baptist Reus was born to John and Ana Margarida Reus on 10 July 1868 in Pottenstein, Bavaria, the eighth child of 11 children.

1921–1979 · Contemporary · Franciscans

John Randal Bradburne, OFS (14 June 1921 – 5 September 1979) was an English lay member of the Third Order of Saint Francis, a poet, and warden of the Mutemwa leper colony at Mutoko, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

1914–2000 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

John Anthony Hardon (June 18, 1914 – December 30, 2000) was an American Jesuit priest, writer, teacher and theologian. As a beatification process was opened for him in 2005, he is recognized by the Catholic Church as a Servant of God.

1615–1687 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor

John of Jesus Hernández y Delgado (Spanish: fray Juan de Jesús; December 1615 – 6 February 1687) was a Spanish Friar Minor and mystic. The cause for his canonization has been submitted to the Holy See.

1874–1942 · Contemporary

Josef Eppich (born February 20, 1874, in Malgern near Gottschee; died June 2, 1942, in Mitterdorf near Gottschee) was a Catholic priest, publicist, and politician.

1815–1900 · Contemporary

Josefa Leopoldine Brandis was a Catholic nun born in Graz in 1815. She died in Graz in 1900 and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1912–1983 · Contemporary

Joseph Muzquiz (boen José Luis Múzquiz y de Miguel; 1912-1983) was a Spanish Catholic priest who was an early member of Opus Dei. He worked to establish the movement around the world. The cause for his canonization was opened by the Archdiocese of Boston in 2011.

1909–1979 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

José Vandor Puchner (29 October 1909 – 8 October 1979) – born as József Wech – was a Hungarian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member from the Salesians of Don Bosco.

1917–1988 · Contemporary

Joseph Wresinski (12 February 1917 – 14 February 1988) was a French priest and humanitarian activist who was born in Angers and died in Suresnes. Born to immigrant parents, Wresinski grew up in poverty and experienced social exclusion.

1823–1891 · Modern

Joseph-Marie Timon-David, SCJ (1823–1891) was a French Catholic priest and founder of the eponymous Timon David Fathers. Joseph-Marie Timon-David was born on 29 January 1823 in Marseille, into a wealthy and deeply Christian family, which had experienced the trials of the French…

1843–1918 · Contemporary

Josip Stadler (24 January 1843 – 8 December 1918) was a Bosnian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the first archbishop of Vrhbosna, from 1881 to his death in 1918.

1866–1952 · Contemporary

José Gálvez Ginachero (29 September 1866 - 29 April 1952) was a Spanish Roman Catholic doctor. Gálvez Ginachero studied in Granada and Madrid in medicine where he obtained excellent results before doing additional studies in Berlin and Paris.

1913–1972 · Contemporary

José María Hernández Garnica, born on November 17, 1913, in Madrid and died on December 7, 1972, in Barcelona, was a Spanish Catholic priest and a member of Opus Dei. In 2005, he was declared a Servant of God.

1885–1944 · Contemporary

Jože Brecelj (1885–1944) was a joiner and cultural worker born and deceased in Žapuže. He is recognized as a Servant of God within the Catholic Church.

1911–1942 · Contemporary

Jože Geoheli was a Catholic priest born in 1911 in Notranje Gorice. He held citizenship in Austria–Hungary, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

1918–1945 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Jože Šerjak (June 8, 1918 – 1945) was a Slovene writer and poet and a member of the Salesian order. Šerjak was born as the last of four children into a family of the farmer Janez Šerjak and farmer Katarina (née Maček) in Trata pri Velesovem.

1874–1940 · Contemporary

Jožef Pollak was a Catholic priest born in 1874 and died in 1940. He held citizenship in both Austria–Hungary and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He is currently recognized by the Catholic Church as a Servant of God.

1887–1945 · Contemporary

Jožefa Sumper was a Catholic cook and cookbook writer born in 1887 in Latschach. She died in 1945 at the Ravensbrück concentration camp and is currently recognized as a Servant of God.

1824–1907 · Contemporary

Jules Chevalier, MSC (15 March 1824 – 21 October 1907) was a French Catholic priest and founder of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, along with their lay associates, known collectively…

1922–1999 · Contemporary

Julius Kambarage Nyerere was a Tanzanian politician, anti-colonial activist, and political theorist. He governed Tanganyika as prime minister from 1961 to 1962 and then as president from 1962 to 1964, after which he led its successor state, Tanzania, as president from 1964 to 198…

1884–1950 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Kanut Graf des Enffans d’Avernas, OSB (born March 11, 1884, in Schirmdorf, Slovenia; died November 6, 1950, in Manp’o, North Korea), was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest, religious, missionary, and martyr.

1838–1922 · Contemporary

Karmni Grima (2 February 1838 – 25 May 1922) was a Maltese peasant whose mystical religious experience led to the constructions and services as an apostle of Our Lady of Ta' Pinu. Karmni Grima was born in the village of Għarb in Gozo, the sister island of Malta.

1886–1941 · Contemporary

Kazimierz Lach (born February 27, 1886, in Strzelczyska, died April 5, 1941, in Dachau concentration camp) was a Polish Catholic priest, a diocesan priest of the Diocese of Przemyśl, a victim of German terror during World War II, a Servant of God, and a martyr.

1886–1944 · Contemporary · Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul

Kornelija Horvat (Koprivnica, December 22, 1886 – Hvar, January 3, 1944) was a Croatian Catholic nun, a Sister of Charity, and a victim of the Yugoslav communist regime.