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1552–1610 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Matteo Ricci SJ was an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China missions. He created the Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, a 1602 map of the world written in Chinese characters.

1882–1935 · Contemporary

Matthew Kadalikattil, born on April 25, 1872, in Edappady, India, and died in Palai on May 23, 1935, was an Indian Catholic priest of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, founder of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart congregation, and recognized as venerable on June 27, 2011, by Pope B…

1851–1914 · Contemporary

Mathew Makil (27 March 1851 – 26 January 1914) was the second Vicar Apostolic and the first indigenous Vicar Apostolic of the Vicariate of Changanacherry, which is the Syro Malabar Archeparchy of Changanacherry today.

1480–1543 · Reformation · Augustinian nuns

Mattia Ciccarelli (24 February 1481 – 18 January 1543), in religious Cristina, was an Italian nun from the Order of Saint Augustine noted for her ecstasies and the reception of the stigmata.

1910–1949 · Contemporary

Maurice Tornay, CRSA (31 August 1910 – 11 August 1949) was a Swiss Catholic priest of the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine – of the Hospitallers of Saint Nicholas and Grand-St-Bernard of Mont Joux branch – who served as part of the missions in China and Tibet.

1475–1556 · Reformation

Maximus the Greek, also known as Maximos the Greek or Maksim Grek (Greek: Μάξιμος ὁ Γραικός; Russian: Максим Грек; c. 1475 – c. 1556), was a Greek monk, publicist, writer, scholar, and translator active in Russia.

1848–1925 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Meinrad Eugster was a Swiss Benedictine monk born in Altstätten in 1848. He died in Einsiedeln in 1925 and has been declared Venerable within the Catholic Church.

1813–1859 · Modern · Society of African Missions

Melchior-Marie-Joseph de Marion-Brésillac, S.M.A. (2 December 1813 – 25 June 1859) was a French Catholic prelate and the founder of the Society of African Missions. Brésillac was born at Castelnaudary, France, on December 2, 1813. He was eldest of five children.

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Saint Memnon the Wonderworker was alive during the second century A.D. He was a hegumen of an Egyptian monastery. His feast day is April 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics). In the Egyptian desert he practised religious asceticism.

1150–1239 · Medieval

Mercury of Smolensk, also known as Mercurius of Smolensk (date and place of birth unknown; according to tradition, he died on November 24, 1239, in Smolensk), was a legendary saint of the Orthodox Church, a martyr, and a hero of the battles against the Mongols during their invasi…

1797–1863 · Modern · Society of Priests of the Sacred Heart of Betharram

Michel Garicoïts (15 April 1797 – 14 May 1863) was a French Basque Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Bétharram. He combated Jansenism in his parish due to the threat that it posed to the faith.

894–961 · Medieval

Saint Michael Maleinos (Greek: Μιχαήλ Μαλεΐνος, c. 894–12 July 961) was a Byzantine monk who commanded great respect among Christians of Asia Minor.

1453 · Medieval

Michael of Klopsk (Russian: Михаил Клопский, romanized: Mikhail Klopsky; died 1456) was a Russian Orthodox monk and fool for Christ associated with the Klopsky Monastery of the Holy Trinity, located near Novgorod on the river Veryazha.

1577–1652 · Reformation

Dom Michel Le Nobletz (Breton: Mikel an Nobletz) (1577–1652) was a vigorous Counter-Reformation missionary active in the west of Brittany, who was responsible for a revival of popular Catholic culture.

1888–1971 · Contemporary

Miguel Ángel Builes Gómez (9 September 1888 - 29 September 1971) was a Colombian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos from 1924 until his death.

1854–1910 · Contemporary · Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools

Francisco Luis Febres-Cordero y Muñoz (7 November 1854 – 9 February 1910), known as (later Saint) Miguel Febres Cordero and Brother Miguel, was an Ecuadorian Roman Catholic religious brother.

1627–1679 · Reformation

Miguel Mañara Vicentelo de Leca (3 March 1627 – 9 May 1679) was the main founder of the Hospital de la Caridad in Seville. Born in Seville, his family originated in Corsica. His father Tomás Mañara Leca y Colona had been born in Calvi.

1920–1947 · Contemporary

Miroslav Bulešić (13 May 1920 – 24 August 1947) was a Croatian Catholic priest. He studied in Rome before being recalled to his native Istria where he was ordained in 1943 during World War II prior to two parish postings where he became a vocal critic of communism.

1959–1992 · Contemporary

Miroslav Imotski, born Miroslav Lončar (Nebriževac, 1959 – near Imotski, July 5, 1992), was a Serbian Orthodox new martyr who suffered a martyr's death. Members of the Croatian Armed Forces abducted him while he was working in a field and took him in an unknown direction.

1893–1950 · Contemporary · Missionaries of the Holy Spirit

Blessed Moisés Lira Serafín (16 September 1893 – 25 June 1950) was a Mexican priest who founded the Congregation of the Missionaries of Charity of Mary Immaculate. Moisés Lira Serafín was born in Tlatempa, Zacatlán, Mexico, on 16 September 1893.

1941–1959 · Contemporary

María Montserrat Grases García (10 July 1941 – 26 March 1959) was a Catalan Catholic laywoman who was a secular member of Opus Dei. Grases became part of Opus Dei on 24 December 1957 after she discerned whether or not her path would allow her to join their ranks.

1782–1862 · Modern

Moses, born Timofey Ivanovich Putilov (January 15, 1782, in Borisoglebsky; died June 16, 1862, in Kozelsk), was the superior and starets of the Optina Monastery and an Orthodox monastic saint.

990–1043 · Medieval

Moses the Hungarian (Russian: Моисей Угрин, Moisey Ugrin; Hungarian: Magyar Mózes; died 26 July 1043) was a Kievan Russian monk of Hungarian origin. He is venerated as a saint on 26 July by the Eastern Orthodox Church. Moses was born around 990–995.

1874–1959 · Contemporary · Little Sisters of the Poor of Maiquetía

Luisa Aveledo, in religion Sister Marcelina of Saint Joseph, born in Caracas, Venezuela, on June 18, 1874, and died in Barranquilla, Colombia, on November 16, 1959, was a Venezuelan religious sister.

1851–1926 · Contemporary · Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne Congregation of Saint Rose of Lima

Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, OP, also known as Mother Mary Alphonsa (May 20, 1851 – July 9, 1926), was an American Dominican religious sister, writer, social worker, and foundress of the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne.

1823–1906 · Contemporary · Order of the Brothers Discalced of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Veronica of the Passion, OCD (born Sophie Leeves; 1 October 1823 – 11 November 1906) was an Ottoman-born English Catholic nun who founded the Sisters of the Apostolic Carmel, a religious congregation for women based in India.

1905–1933 · Contemporary

Mária Margit Bogner was a nun born in 1905 in Melenci, Kingdom of Hungary. She died of tuberculosis in 1933 in Érd and has been declared Venerable.

1728–1784 · Modern · Presentation Sisters

Honora "Nano" Nagle (c. 1718 – 26 April 1784) was an Irish Catholic religious sister who served as a pioneer of Catholic education in Ireland despite legal prohibitions.

1853–1928 · Contemporary

Nectarius of Optina (born Nikolai Vasilyevich Tikhonov; 1853 – May 12, 1928) was a Russian Orthodox hieromonk and starets. He has been venerated as a local saint since July 26, 1996, and was glorified for the entire Church along with other Optina elders on August 16, 2000.

1955–1964 · Contemporary

Nelson Santana, also called Nelsinho (31 July 1955 – 24 December 1964), was a Brazilian boy who died of osteosarcoma. He came to be widely venerated in his hometown Ibitinga, and Pope Francis recognized his "heroic virtues" in 2019 and declared him venerable.

1841–1936 · Contemporary

Nelson Henry Baker (February 16, 1842 – July 29, 1936) was an American Catholic monsignor in Lackawanna, New York, whom the Vatican has declared as venerable.

1056–1114 · Medieval

Nestor the Chronicler, or Nestor the Hagiographer, (Church Slavonic: Нестор Летописец, romanized: Nestor Letopisec; c. 1056 – c. 1114) was a monk from Kievan Rus' who is known to have written two hagiographies: the Life of the Venerable Theodosius of the Kiev Caves and the Accoun…

1928–2002 · Contemporary

Phanxicô Xaviê Nguyễn Văn Thuận, also known as Francis-Xavier Nguyễn Văn Thuận , was a Vietnamese cardinal in the Catholic Church. He was a nephew of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm, and of Archbishop Ngô Đình Thục.

760–824 · Medieval

Saint Nicetas of Medikion (Greek: Νικήτας Μηδικίου) or Nicetas the Confessor (Νικήτας ο ομολογητής), who is commemorated on 3 April, was a monk who opposed Byzantine Iconoclasm. Nicetas was born in Bithynian Caesarea of a pious family.

1749–1809 · Modern

Nicodemus the Hagiorite or Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain (Greek: Ὅσιος Νικόδημος ὁ Ἁγιορείτης; 1749 – July 14, 1809) was a Greek ascetic monk, mystic, theologian, and philosopher, venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

1790–1865 · Modern

Nicola Mazza (10 March 1790 – 2 August 1865) was an Italian Catholic priest known for his work in the African missions of the 19th century. He was dedicated to both the evangelization of Central Africa (he used to be called "Don Congo" due to this) and equal access to a good educ…

1904–1998 · Contemporary

Nicola Riezzo (11 December 1904 - 20 August 1998) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Otranto from 1969 until his retirement in 1981.

1621–1686 · Reformation · Order of the Minims

Nicholas Barré, O.M. (21 October 1621 – 31 May 1686), was a French Minim friar and Catholic priest, who founded the Sisters of the Infant Jesus. He has been beatified by the Roman Catholic Church.

1943–1964 · Contemporary · Clerics Regular of the Ministers of the Sick

Venerable Nicola D'Onofrio (24 March 1943 – 12 June 1964) was a Catholic Seminarian and member of the Camillian order from Abruzzo, Italy who was declared Venerable by Pope Francis in 2013.

1830–1860 · Modern · Franciscans

Nicolás María Alberca y Torres was a Spanish Catholic priest and Franciscan missionary born in Aguilar de la Frontera in 1830. He died in Damascus in 1860 and is recognized as a Venerable in the Catholic Church.

1100–1156 · Medieval

Nifont (Russian: Нифонт) was Archbishop of Novgorod from 1130 to 1156, the first prelate of Novgorod the Great to hold that title, though it appears the title was held personally and did not extend to the office until 1165.

1340–1391 · Medieval · Order of Friars Minor

Nicholas Tavelic, O.F.M. (Croatian: Nikola Tavelić), was a Croatian Friar Minor, priest and missionary who was the leader of a group of friars who died a martyr's death in Jerusalem on November 14, 1391.

1080–1143 · Medieval

Nicholas of Chernihiv, born Svyatoslav Davydovych (died 1142, Kiev Pechersk Lavra), was the first prince of Kievan Rus' to take monastic vows. He is venerated as a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church, which celebrates his feast day on October 14.

1888–1931 · Contemporary

Saint Nikon of Optina (born Nikolai Mitrofanovich Belyaev; September 26, 1888 – August 8, 1931) was a hieromonk of the Russian Orthodox Church and the last clergyman of the Optina Monastery before its closure and destruction during the Soviet era.

1088 · Medieval

Nikon of the Caves (Nikon the Great; died March 23, 1088) was an 11th-century Old Rus' church figure, hegumen of the Kiev Pechersk Monastery from 1078 to 1088, founder of the Church and Monastery of the Most Holy Theotokos in Tmutarakan, a scholar and chronicler, and an Orthodox…

1352–1426 · Medieval

Nikon of Radonezh, born in 1352 in Yuryev-Polsky and died on November 17, 1426, in Sergiyev Posad, was abbot of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius and a disciple of its founder, Sergius of Radonezh. He is venerated as a saint by the Orthodox Churches.

1101 · Medieval

Nikon the Dry was an 11th-century monk at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra in Kievan Rus'. He was captured and enslaved by the Polovtsians, enduring brutal captivity for more than three years. He eventually gained his freedom, allegedly through a miracle.

1500–1555 · Reformation

Nil Stolobensky (Russian: Нил Столобенский) is a carved and painted wooden sculpture of the eponymous saint, currently housed in the Museum "Legacy of Saint Nil". It is believed to have been created in the 1770s–1780s.

400–430 · Early Church

Saint Nilus the Elder of Sinai (Greek: Νείλος; also known as Neilos, Nilus of Sinai, Nilus of Ancyra, Nil Postnik ("the Faster"); born 4th century; died 12 November 430 or 451) was one of the many disciples and stalwart defenders of St. John Chrysostom.

1433–1508 · Reformation

Nilus of Sora (also Nil Sorsky or Nil Sorski; Russian: Нил Сорский; secular name: Nikolai Maikov; Russian: Николай Майков; c. 1433 – 7 May 1508) was a Russian Orthodox monk, spiritual writer, theologian, and the founder of the Sora Hermitage.