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1601–1651 · Reformation

Saint Nilus the Myrrh-streamer, also known as Nilos/Nilus the Myrrh-gusher, Nilus of Kynouria, or Nilus the Myroblyte (Greek: Άγιος Νείλος ο Μυροβλήτης; born c. 1601, died 1651), was an Orthodox Christian ascetic who lived at Mount Athos.

1829–1911 · Contemporary · Passionists

Venerable Norbert Cassinelli was a Catholic priest and member of the Passionists born in Carasco in 1829. A citizen of the Kingdom of Italy, he died in Recanati in 1911 and is buried in the Civic Cemetery of Recanati.

1879–1958 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Octavio Ortiz Arrieta (19 April 1879 – 1 March 1958) was a Peruvian Roman Catholic Church prelate and a professed member of the Salesians of Don Bosco who served as the Bishop of Chachapoyas from 1921 until his death.

1932–1995 · Contemporary · Little Sisters of the Sacred Heart

Odette Prévost (17 July 1932 – 10 November 1995) was a French Roman Catholic nun, who was working as a teacher and a librarian when she was killed in Algiers en route to Mass. She is recognized as a martyr and was proclaimed blessed on 8 December 2018.

1930–1939 · Contemporary

Odette Vidal de Oliveira, born Odette Vidal Cardoso (15 September 1930 – 25 November 1939), was a Brazilian girl who is being considered for beatification by the Roman Catholic Church.

1150 · Medieval

Onisim of the Caves (Ukrainian: Онисим затвірник Печерський) (fl. 12th–13th century) was a monk of Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, buried at the Near Caves.

320–400 · Early Church

Onuphrius (also Onoufrios; Greek: Ὀνούφριος, romanized: Onouphrios) lived as a hermit in the desert of Upper Egypt in the 4th or 5th centuries.

301–301 · Early Church

Orsisius (in Greek Arsisios, local name Oresiesis-Heru-sa Ast) was an Egyptian monk and author of the fourth century. His memorial is June 15. Orsisius was a disciple of Pachomius on the Island Tabenna in the Nile.

1915–1972 · Contemporary

Ottorino Zanon was an Italian Catholic priest, presbyter, and partisan born in Vicenza in 1915. He died in a traffic collision in Brescia in 1972. He is recognized as Venerable by the Catholic Church.

1862–1933 · Contemporary · Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

Ovide Charlebois, OMI (17 February 1862 - 20 November 1933) was a Canadian Missionary Oblate of Mary Immaculate who served as the Apostolic Vicar of Keewatin from his appointment in 1910 until his death.

1830–1904 · Contemporary

Pablo de Anda Padilla (July 5, 1830 – June 29, 1904) was a Catholic priest and founder of the Minim Daughters of Mary Immaculate. Pablo de Anda Padilla was born on July 5, 1830, in the city of San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, Mexico.

1450–1515 · Reformation

The Venerable Pachomius of Kena was an Eastern Orthodox figure born in 1450 and a citizen of the Tsardom of Russia. He died in 1515 in the Arkhangelsk Oblast.

1400–1384 · Medieval

Pachomius of Nerekhta (secular name Iakov Ignatyev; early 14th century, Vladimir – March 23, 1384, Trinity-Sypanov Monastery) was an igumen of the Russian Orthodox Church, the first igumen of the restored Konstantinov Monastery (now a closed monastery within the city of Vladimir)…

1230 · Medieval

Venerable Pacifique de Lens died in 1230.

1816–1901 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Padre Raffaele of Sant'Elia a Pianisi (14 December 1816 – 6 January 1901), baptized as Domenico Petrucelli, commonly known as Padre Raffaele, was an Italian Priest and a monk of the Franciscan Capuchin order.

1723–1794 · Modern

Paisius Velichkovsky or Wieliczkowski (Paisie de la Neamţ in Romanian; Паисий Величковский in Russian; Паїсій Величковський in Ukrainian; 20 December 1722 – 15 November 1794) was an Eastern Orthodox monk and theologian who helped spread staretsdom or the concept of the spiritual…

390 · Early Church

Palladius of Antioch (died 390), also known as Saint Palladius the Desert Dweller and Palladius the Hermit, was an Early Christian monk in the Roman Empire. Palladius was a hermit in the desert near Antioch (modern Turkey). He was a friend of Saint Simeon.

1908–1927 · Contemporary

Paola Renata Carboni (21 February 1908 - 11 September 1927) was an Italian teenager who is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church. Carboni was the fourth of eight children of a physician who refused to permit his children to attend church or be instructed in religion.

1849–1928 · Contemporary

Venerable Paraskeva was a Russian Empire citizen born in 1849 in the Moscow Oblast. A Christian nun who served as a hegumen, she died in 1928 at the Holy Trinity monastery in Topolevka. She is recognized as a saint in Eastern Orthodoxy.

1914–1930 · Contemporary

Pasquale Canzii was a Catholic seminarian born in Bisenti in 1914 and a citizen of the Kingdom of Italy. He died in Penne in 1930 and is buried at Santa Maria degli Angeli. He has been declared Venerable.

1909–1992 · Contemporary · Congregation of the Holy Cross

Patrick Peyton, CSC (9 January 1909 – 3 June 1992), also known as "the Rosary priest", was an Irish-born Catholic priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, and founder of the Family Rosary Crusade.

225–339 · Early Church

Saint Paul the Simple of Egypt (d. ad. 339) was a hermit and disciple of St. Anthony the Great. St. John, the Abbot of Sinai wrote "Paul the Simple was a clear example for us, for he was the rule and type of blessed simplicity." Though contemporaries, he is not to be confused wit…

1811–1889 · Modern

Paula Delpuig i Gelabert, known in religion as Paula of Saint Louis (Malgrat de Mar, Maresme, February 3, 1811 – Vic, Osona, February 23, 1889), was a sister of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity, or Vedrunas, and the second superior general of the congregation.

1799–1862 · Modern

Pauline Marie Jaricot (22 July 1799 – 9 January 1862) was a French member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. She also was the founder of the Society of the Propagation of the Faith and the Association of the Living Rosary.

1201–1301 · Medieval

Venerable Pavle Morchil was born in 1201 and died in 1301. He died at the Far Caves and is recognized as a saint.

1913–1983 · Contemporary · Piarists

Pedro Díez Gil was a Spanish Piarist priest and teacher who was born in the town of Pampliega, Burgos, on April 14, 1913, and died in Zaragoza on January 14, 1983. He is considered venerable by the Catholic Church.

1887–1963 · Contemporary · Order of the Brothers Discalced of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Pedro Landeta Azcueta, also known as Aureliano of the Blessed Sacrament, was a Professed Priest of the Discalced Carmelites. Azcueta was born on 27 June 1887 in Artunduaga de Basauri, Spain.

1350–1422 · Medieval · Villacrecians

The Venerable Peter of Villacreces (born in Castile, c. 1350 – died in Peñafiel, 1422) was a Castilian Franciscan friar and theologian, and the founder of a group of Observants known as the Franciscan Observance of Peter of Villacreces.

1878–1961 · Contemporary · Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer

Pelágio Sauter (9 November 1878 – 23 November 1961) was a German Roman Catholic priest who worked in the missions of Brazil. He was a member of the Redemptorists. He served in the Brazilian missions from 1909 until his death, never returning to his homeland.

1874–1897 · Modern · Society of Jesus

Petar Barbarić, SJ (19 May 1874 – 15 April 1897) is a Bosnian Herzegovinian Catholic novice from Šiljevišta, near Ljubuški, Bosnia Vilayet (modern Bosnia and Herzegovina, who was in the midst of his studies for the priesthood before he died of tuberculosis.

1020–1089 · Medieval · Vallumbrosan Order

Pietro Igneo (died 11 November 1089) was an Italian Roman Catholic Benedictine monk from the Vallombrosians branch. He also served as a cardinal and was named as the Cardinal-Bishop of Albano.

1442–1490 · Medieval · Franciscans

Pietro Corradini (1435 – 25 July 1490) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Order of Friars Minor. Corradini served in several leadership positions within his order which bought him into contact with the likes of James of the Marches and Camilla Batt…

1290 · Medieval

Peter of the Horde, also known as Peter of Rostov (born Dair Kaidagul, son of Orda-Ichin, or Peter of the Horde, descendant of Genghis Khan; died 1290, Rostov), was a prince of the Golden Horde and a nephew of Khan Berke.

650–734 · Medieval

Peter the Athonite (d. 9th century), sometimes called Peter of Mount Athos, is reputed to have been the first hermit to settle upon the Mount Athos. He is venerated as a saint and commemorated by the Eastern Orthodox, Eastern Catholic and Roman Catholic Churches on June 12.

1050–1115 · Medieval

Peter the Hermit (c. 1050 – 8 July 1115 or 1131), also known as Little Peter, Peter of Amiens (French: Pierre d'Amiens) or Peter of Achères (French: Pierre d'Achères), was a Roman Catholic priest of Amiens and a key figure during the military expedition from France to Jerusalem i…

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Saint Peter the Hermit of Galatia (Greek: Πέτρος ό Ερημίτης) (330 – 429) near Antioch, in Byzantine Syria, lived in the early fifth century AD. Peter's life is recorded by Theodoret of Cyrrhus whose own family was touched by the saint's gifts of healing.

1924–1976 · Contemporary

Petra Mönnigmann was a German Catholic nun born in Oelde in 1924. She died in India in 1976 and has been recognized as a Venerable by the Catholic Church.

1238–1304 · Medieval · Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy

Pedro Armengol (c. 1238 – 27 April 1304), born Pedro Armengol Rocafort, was a Spanish Roman Catholic who was of noble stock and a thief during his adolescence.

1642–1704 · Modern · Society of Jesus

Johann Philipp Jeningen (5 January 1642 – 8 February 1704) was a German Roman Catholic priest from Eichstätt in Bavaria. He served as a popular missionary at the shrine of Our Lady of Schönenberg and attracted many pilgrims from across the globe.

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Saint Phosterius the Hermit was a 7th-century Anatolian Christian hermit. He is commemorated on January 5/18, in the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches.

1938–1996 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Pierre-Lucien Claverie OP (8 May 1938 – 1 August 1996) was a French Catholic prelate who was a professed member from the Order of Preachers, and served as the Bishop of Oran from 1981 until his murder in 1996 by Islamic extremists.

1766–1853 · Modern

Pierre Toussaint was a formerly enslaved Haitian-American hairdresser and philanthropist, brought to New York City by his enslavers in 1787. He was declared Venerable by Pope John Paul II in 1996.

1757–1793 · Modern · Premonstratensians

Pierre-Adrien Toulorge (4 May 1757 – 13 October 1793) was a French Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Premonstratensians and was killed during the French Revolution - he also remained in hiding for most of the revolution and celebrated secret Masses and administe…

1793–1861 · Modern

Pierre-Bienvenu Noailles, born on October 27, 1793, in Bordeaux, France, and died on February 8, 1861, in the same city, was a Catholic priest and founder of the Congregation of the Holy Family of Bordeaux. His cause for beatification was introduced on June 23, 1944.

1355–1435 · Medieval · Congregation of Poor Hermits of St. Jerome

Pietro Gambacorta (15 February 1355 - 17 June 1435) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and the co-founder of the Poor Hermits of St. Jerome. He was a professed religious from the Third Order of Saint Francis and co-founded his order in Rome alongside Nicola da Forca Palena.

1810–1880 · Modern

Born in Vologda in 1810, the Venerable Pimen served as a deacon and presbyter within Eastern Orthodoxy. He died at the Ugresha Monastery in 1880.

1050–1215 · Medieval

Pimen the Faster (born 11th century, died 1215 in Kyiv) was a monk of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra and a saint of the Synaxis of the Venerable Fathers of the Kyiv Caves, who rest in the Near Caves. Little is known about his life.

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Saint Pior (or Prior; 4th century) was an Egyptian monk and hermit in the desert of Scetis, one of the Desert Fathers, and a disciple of Anthony the Great. He lived to a great age. His feast day is 17 June.

320–417 · Early Church

Pshoi, Paisius the Great, as he has been known in Europe since the 5th century AD, Bishoy, Bishūy, Bishāy or Bishiyyah, as his name is pronounced in Arabic , known in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria as the Star of the Desert and the Beloved of our Good Savior, was a Copt…

1876–1958 · Contemporary

Pope Pius XII (Italian: Pio XII; born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli; 2 March 1876 – 9 October 1958) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 2 March 1939 until his death on 9 October 1958.