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1862–1912 · Contemporary

Leonardo Castellanos y Castellanos (5 November 1862 in Ecuandureo, Michoacán − 19 May 1912) was a Mexican Roman Catholic bishop. Ordained to the priesthood on 20 March 1886, Castellanos y Castellanos was named bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tabasco, Mexico in 1908 and d…

1773–1834 · Modern

Leopoldina Naudet (31 May 1773 - 17 August 1834) was an Italian Roman Catholic of both French and Austrian origins. She was a religious sister of the Congregation of Dilette of Jesus and the foundress of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Verona.

1768–1841 · Modern

Hieroschemamonk Leonid (Nagolkin) of Optina, also Leo (or Lev) of Optina, was a venerable elder of Optina Monastery and a founder of Optina's eldership. The future St.

350 · Early Church

Limnaeus, Limnaios, Limnaea, Limnaee, Limnetes, or Limnagenes, meaning in Greek "inhabiting or born in a lake or marsh". It is an ancient Greek surname of several divinities who were believed either to have sprung from a lake or had their temples near a lake.

1923–1943 · Contemporary

Lojze Grozde (27 May 1923 – 1 January 1943) was a Slovenian student who was murdered by Partisans during World War II. His death is recognised as martyrdom by the Catholic Church. He was beatified on 13 June 2010.

1793–1859 · Modern

Louis Querbes (21 August 1793 – 1 September 1859) was a Catholic priest in France who founded the Clerics of Saint Viator (CSV), a religious order which specializes in teaching.

1873–1930 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Luigi Versiglia, S.D.B. (5 June 1873 – 25 February 1930) was an Italian Catholic prelate and professed member from the Salesians of Don Bosco who served as the first apostolic vicar of Shaoguan from 1920 until his murder.

1765–1835 · Modern

Louis-Marie Baudouin (2 August 1765 - 12 February 1835) was a French Roman Catholic priest who was the founder of the Sons of Mary Immaculate and the Ursulines of Jesus. Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed him as venerable on 20 December 2012.

1433–1485 · Medieval

Ludovico Morbioli (1433 - 9 November 1485) was an Italian Roman Catholic from Bologna who led a dissolute life before adopting a life of repentance.

1937–1972 · Contemporary

Luigi Calabresi (14 November 1937 – 17 May 1972) was an Italian Polizia di Stato officer in Milan. Responsible for investigating far-left political movements, Calabresi was assassinated in 1972 by members of Lotta Continua, who blamed him for the death of anarchist activist Giuse…

1842–1915 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Luigi Guanella (19 December 1842 – 24 October 1915) was an Italian Catholic priest who founded several religious communities. He was beatified on 25 October 1964 by Pope Paul VI and was canonized on 23 October 2011 in a celebration that Pope Benedict XVI celebrated in Saint Peter…

1881–1945 · Contemporary

Luigi Lenzini (28 May 1881 – 21 July 1945) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest that served as a pastor in the Archdiocese of Modena-Nonatola. Communist partisans killed him at his parish.

1854–1934 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

José María Amigó Ferrer (17 October 1854 – 1 October 1934) was a Spanish Roman Catholic who served as the Bishop of Segorbe. He was also a professed member of the Order of Friars Minor - also known as the Capuchin order — and was also the founder of two religious orders: the Capu…

1901–1987 · Contemporary

Luis Chávez y González (1901–1987) was the seventh Bishop and third Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador, and immediate predecessor of Archbishop Óscar Romero.

1505–1588 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Louis of Granada, in some sources Luis of Granada, (1504 – 31 December 1588), was a Dominican friar who was noted as theologian, writer and preacher. His beatification process has been long open with the Holy See, with his current status being venerable.

1554–1624 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Luis de la Puente SJ (also D'Aponte, de Ponte, Dupont) (11 November 1554 – 16 February 1624) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian and ascetic writer. He was one of the most esteemed ascetical writer of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

1932–1979 · Contemporary

Luisa Guidotti Mistrali (16 May 1932 – 6 July 1979) was an Italian laywoman of the Roman Catholic Church who worked in the missions in Rhodesia. She was a member of the Women's Medical Missions Association.

890–951 · Medieval

Luke of Steiris, also known as Luke, Luke the Younger, Luke of Hellas, Luke the Wonder-worker (Greek: Λουκάς ό θαυματουργός; 896 — 953 AD) was a Byzantine saint of the tenth century AD who lived in the themes (provinces) of Hellas and Peloponnese in Greece, and who founded the Mo…

1825–1907 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

François-Léon Clergue (23 December 1825 – 8 February 1907) – in religion Marie-Antoine de Lavaur – was a French Roman Catholic priest and professed member from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.

1863–1941 · Contemporary

Léonie Martin, also known as Sister Françoise-Thérèse, VHM (3 June 1863 – 17 June 1941) was a French Catholic nun who led a cloistered life as a member of the Visitation Sisters.

298–395 · Early Church

Saint Macarius of Alexandria (Greek: Μακάριος; died 395) was a monk in the Nitrian Desert. He was a slightly younger contemporary of Macarius of Egypt, and is thus also known as Macarius the Younger. Macarius was born about the year 300 in Alexandria.

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Macedonius the Hermit, sometimes known as Macedonius Kritophagus, lived at the turn of the fourth to fifth century in Byzantine Syria. He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church, with a feast day of January 24.

1443–1503 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Maddalena Panattieri, OP (1443 – 13 October 1503) was an Italian Sister of Penance of Saint Dominic. Panattieri was a stigmatic and received visions during her life with one in particular being the French invasion of the Italian peninsula.

1904–1964 · Contemporary

Madeleine Delbrêl (24 October 1904 – 13 October 1964) was a French Catholic author, poet, and mystic. She came to the Catholic faith after a youth spent as an atheist. Delbrêl died unexpectedly from a brain hemorrhage in 1964 and now has an open cause for canonization.

1774–1835 · Modern

Magdalena di Canossa (1 March 1774 – 10 April 1835) was an Italian religious sister and the foundress of the two Canossian congregations. Magdalena was a leading advocate for the poor in her region after she witnessed first hand the plight of the poor following the spillover effe…

1649 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Manuel Solórzano (1905 – 12 March 1977) was a Salvadoran Catholic who was an active participant in his local parish and was close with its priest, Rutilio Grande García.

1805–1871 · Modern · Sisters of Charity of Montreal

Marie-Anne-Marcelle Mallet (March 26, 1805 – April 9, 1871) was a Roman Catholic nun and founder of the Sisters of Charity of Quebec. Her surname also appears as Maillet or Maillé. Marie was born to Vital Mallet and Marguerite Sarrazin in Montreal, Lower Canada.

301–388 · Early Church

Marcian was Roman emperor of the East from 450 to 457. Very little is known of his life before becoming emperor, other than that he was a domesticus (personal assistant) who served under the commanders Ardabur and his son Aspar for fifteen years.

1900–1925 · Contemporary · Poor Clares

Margaret Anne Sinclair, (29 March 1900 – 24 November 1925), religious name Mary Francis of the Five Wounds, was a Scottish Catholic nun of the Colettine Poor Clares. She was declared venerable by Pope Paul VI on 6 February 1978.

1594–1633 · Reformation · Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul

Marguerite Naseau (July 1594 – February 1633) was a French nun and the first member of Daughters of Charity. Marguerite Naseau was born in a peasant family in July 1594 in Suresnes. She did not have formal education.

1514–1577 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Maria Bagnesi, TOSD (15 August 1514 – 28 May 1577) was an Italian Catholic professed member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. Bagnesi remained confined to her bed for most of her life after falling ill upon receiving news that her father arranged a marriage for her – she escap…

1884–1957 · Contemporary

María Beatriz del Rosario Arroyo y Pidal, religious name María Rosario of the Visitation, (Filipino: María Beatriz del Rosario Pidal Arroyo; February 17, 1884 – June 14, 1957) was a Filipino nun and the founder of the Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary of the Philippines (…

1812–1836 · Modern

Maria Cristina of Savoy (Maria Cristina Carlotta Giuseppa Gaetana Efisia; 14 November 1812 – 21 January 1836) was Queen of the Two Sicilies as the first wife of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies. She died as a result of childbirth.

1706–1745 · Modern · Franciscans

Elisabetta Maria Satellico (31 December 1706 – 8 November 1745) – in religious Maria Crocifissa – was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious from the Poor Clares who served as her convent's abbess. Her beatification was celebrated on 10 October 1993.

1815–1848 · Modern

Maria Domenica Lazzeri (1815–1848) also known as "la Meneghina" was an Italian mystic. She would become the most famous stigmatic of Tyrol. The cause for her beatification was started in 1995. Maria Domenica Lazzeri was born on 16 May 1815 in Capriana, Italy.

1901–1972 · Contemporary

Maria Dulce Rodrigues dos Santos (religious name: Maria Teresa of the Eucharistic Jesus; 20 January 1901 – 8 January 1972) was a Brazilian nun and the founder of the Little Missionary Sisters of Mary Immaculate.

1653–1705 · Modern · Third Order of Saint Francis

Maria Hueber (22 May 1653 – 31 July 1705) was a Tyrolean religious sister, a pioneer in educating girls in and foundress of a congregation of the Third Order of Saint Francis in Brixen.

1860–1943 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Maria Josefa Karolina Brader (15 August 1860 – 27 February 1943), also known by her religious name Maria Caridad of the Holy Spirit, was a Swiss religious sister who founded the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate.

1939–2000 · Contemporary

Maria Laura Mainetti (born Teresina Elsa Mainetti; 20 August 1939 – 6 June 2000) was an Italian religious sister of the Sisters of the Cross. Mother superior of a convent in Chiavenna that specialised in helping juvenile delinquents, she was stabbed to death in a satanic sacrific…

1463–1542 · Reformation · Third Order of Saint Francis

Maria Llorença Requenses Llong (Italian: Maria Lorenza Longo; 1463 – 21 December 1539) was a Spanish nun and the founder of the order of the Capuchin Poor Clares.

1893–1976 · Contemporary

Maria Oliva Bonaldo, in religion, Maria Oliva Bonaldo of the Mystical Body (26 March 1893, Castelfranco Veneto – 10 July 1976, Rome) was an Italian Catholic nun. The founder and Superior General of the Daughters of the Church, she was declared venerable by Pope Francis.

1954–1970 · Contemporary

Maria Orsola Bussone (2 October 1954 – 10 July 1970) was an Italian Roman Catholic and a member from the Focolare Movement. Bussone's involvement in her adolescence in parish activities led her to Catholic Action as well as to other movements that she served as an active particip…

1623–1677 · Reformation · Lay Carmelites

Maria Petyt, also Petijt or Petiyt (1 January 1623 – 1 November 1677), was known as a "great mystic". Her writings have been cited as "unequaled in volume and mystical content within the historical context of the Flemish-speaking 17th century." Maria Petyt was born in Hazebrouck…

1881–1947 · Contemporary · Augustinian nuns

Maria Giovanna Fasce (27 December 1881 - 18 January 1947) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious of the Augustinian nuns in the religious name of "Maria Teresa".

1849–1903 · Contemporary · Comboni Missionary Sisters

Maria Giuseppa Scandola, MSV, (26 January 1849 – 1 September 1903) was an Italian member of the Missionary Sisters of Verona, also known as the Comboni Missionary Sisters. She served in what is now South Sudan, where she offered up her life in 1903.

1826–1886 · Modern · Franciscans

Maria Velotti (16 November 1826 - 3 September 1886), religious name Maria Luigia del Santissimo Sacramento, was an Italian religious sister. She was a member in the Third Order of Saint Francis and the founder of the Suore Francescane Adoratrici della Santa Croce.

1623–1695 · Reformation · Carmelites

Mother Mariana of the Purification (November 5, 1623 in Lisbon – December 8, 1695 in Beja) was a nun of the Carmelite Order of the Ancient Observance who, having been born in Lisbon, Portugal, and lived and professed her religious vows at the Carmelite Convent of Our Lady of Hope…

1707–1788 · Modern

Mariano Arciero (26 February 1707 – 16 February 1788) was an Italian priest of the Roman Catholic Church. As a priest in Naples he exercised his functions as both a pastor and theologian, and was later known as the "Apostle of Calabria" due to his tireless apostolate and efforts…

1778–1866 · Modern · Franciscans

Mariano da Roccacasale (13 January 1778 – 31 May 1866) - born Domenico di Nicolantonio - was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious from the Order of Friars Minor.

1875–1953 · Contemporary

Mariantonia Samà (2 March 1875 - 27 May 1953) was an Italian Roman Catholic. Samà lived alone with her mother until 1920 aiding her in domestic duties while coping with their poor state due to her father's death before Samà was born.