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810–883 · Medieval · Benedictines

Bertharius (Italian: San Bertario di Montecassino) (c. 810 – 883) was a Benedictine abbot of Monte Cassino who is venerated as a saint and martyr. He was also a poet and a writer.

1247 · Medieval

Berthe de Marbais died in 1247. She is recognized as a blessed.

900 · Medieval

Saint Berthevin de Parigny was born in 900 in Manche. He is recognized as a saint.

1060–1142 · Medieval · Benedictines

Berthold of Garsten, O.S.B., also known as Berthold de Rachez (c. 1060 – 27 July 1142), was a German Roman Catholic priest and a monk of the Order of Saint Benedict.

601–705 · Medieval

Saint Berthild, also known as Bertille or Bertilla (died 692), was abbess of Chelles Abbey in France. Berthild was born into one of the most illustrious families in the territory of Soissons, France, during the reign of Dagobert I.

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Saint Bertilla, or Bertille, born on an unknown date and died in 697 in Marœuil-lez-Arras, is a saint of the Catholic Church. The daughter of Ricomer and Gertrude (lords of the Atrebates), she was canonized on October 8, 1081.

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Bertilia (death 687, also known as Bertilla) was a saint and virgin from Northern France. Her parents were wealthy nobles. Bertilia, who was "very beautiful, gentle in speech, and modest in manner", turned "to the service of God alone" from an early age.

660 · Medieval

Saint Bertille of Thuringia (French: Sainte Bertille de Thuringe (died c. 660 AD) or also known as Saint Bertilla, the daughter of Bercarius, King of Thuringia, was a Merovingian princess and Frankish saint who resided in the County of Hainaut in Belgium.

877 · Medieval · Benedictines

Saint Bertilo was a Benedictine abbot and chorbishop who died in 877.

615–698 · Medieval · Benedictines

Bertin (Latin: Bertinus; c. 615 – c. 709 AD), also known as Saint Bertin the Great, was the Frankish abbot of a monastery in Saint-Omer later named the Abbey of Saint Bertin after him. He is venerated as a saint by the Catholic and Orthodox Churches.

1210–1272 · Medieval · Franciscans

Bertold of Regensburg (c. 1210 – 14 December 1272), also known as Berthold of Ratisbon was a German preacher during the high Middle Ages. He was a native of Regensburg, and entered the Franciscan monastery there.

1258–1350 · Medieval

Bertrand (or Bertram) of Saint-Geniès (1258 – 6 June 1350) was the patriarch of Aquileia from 1334 until his death. Bertram was born in Gascony, and became a jurist in the University of Toulouse and papal chaplain.

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Ebertram (Latin: Ebertramus, French: Ebertram; 7th century) was the abbot of the Monastery of Saint-Quentin. He is a saint, with his feast day celebrated on January 24. Saint Ebertram was a native of Coutances, France.

1050–1123 · Medieval

Bertrand of Comminges (c. 1050 - 1126) was Bishop of Comminges, in the diocese of Toulouse, France. It is after him that the commune of Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, is named.

1149 · Medieval

Blessed Bertrand of Grandselve died in 1149.

698 · Medieval

Bertuinus van Malonne was a monk and bishop who died in 698. He is a canonized saint.

601–705 · Medieval · Benedictines

Saint Bertulf, O.S.B. (alternate Bertulph, also known as Bertoul) was born in either Pannonia (Hungary) or Germany; he died in Artois in 705. He became a monk later in his life and founded a Benedictine abbey at Renty.

400–500 · Medieval

Bessarion of Egypt, also known as Bessarion of Scetis or Bessarion the Great (4th century – 5th century) was an Egyptian Christian monk who lived around the 4th to 5th century in Egypt, wandering in the Nitrian Desert.

850–918 · Medieval

Betton (also Beton or Béton) of Sens, also known as Saint Betton (born in Sens or Orléans, mid-9th century – died in Auxerre in February 918), was a Frankish religious figure from northern Burgundy during the 9th and 10th centuries.

570–640 · Medieval

Saint Beuno (Latin: Bonus; d. 640), sometimes anglicized as Bono, was a 7th-century Welsh abbot, confessor, and saint. Baring-Gould gives St Beuno's date of death as 21 April 640, making that date his traditional feastday.

700 · Medieval

Saint Beuve (or Bove or Bova) and her brother Balderic (or Baudry) lived in the 7th century in France. According to Christian Settipani, their father was probably Sigobert the Lame, King of Cologne, rather than Sigebert I of Austrasia, as indicated by Flodoard.

500 · Medieval

Saint Bevignates of Perugia died in 500. He is recognized as a saint.

1100 · Medieval

1937–1992 · Contemporary

Awadhut Mahaprabhu Aghoreshwar Baba Bhagwan Ram (1937–1992) was an Indian guru from Varanasi, a saint of the ascetic Aghori Panth tradition, and a successor in the lineage (parampara) of the Hindu saint Kina Ram.

1466–1544 · Reformation

Bhai Bala (Punjabi: ਭਾਈ ਬਾਲਾ, romanized: Bhāī Bālā; 1466–1544) is believed by some to have been a companion of Guru Nanak. Born in Talwandi into a Sandhu Jat family, Bala is also said to have been a close associate of Bhai Mardana.

1901–1982 · Contemporary

Bhakti Hridaya Bon (Sanskrit: भक्ति हृदय वन, IAST: Bhakti Hṛdaya Vana), also known as Swami Bon (Baharpur, 23 March 1901 – Vrindavan, 7 July 1982), was a disciple of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati and a guru in the Gaudiya Math following the philosophy of bhakti, specifically that of…

1898–1968 · Contemporary

Bhakti Prajnan Keshava (IAST: Bhakti Prajñāna Keśava; 24 January 1898 – 6 October 1968), addressed by the honorific Mahārāja (Mahārāja), was a Gaudiya Vaishnava guru, disciple of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati and the founder-acharya of the religious organisation "Sri Gaudiya Vedanta…

1898–1999 · Contemporary

Bhakti Pramode Puri Goswami (born Pramoda Bhushan Chakravarty) was a saint of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, a philosopher, writer, theologian, and the founder and acharya of the Gaudiya Vaishnava religious organization Sri Gopinatha Gaudiya Math.

1895–1988 · Contemporary

Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar (IAST: Bhakti-rakṣaka Śrīdhara; 10 October 1895 – 12 August 1988) was an Indian guru, writer, sannyasi and spiritual leader in the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, founder-president-acharya of the Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math.

1875–1959 · Contemporary

Bianca Piccolomini Clementini (1875 – 1959) was an Italian Roman Catholic nun and founder of the Company of Saint Angela Merici, the original name for the Ursuline order in Italy, in 1920. Pope Francis declared her venerable in 2016.

1925–1940 · Contemporary

Bibiana Khampai (November 4, 1925 – December 26, 1940) was a Thai blessed of the Catholic Church. Between 1940 and 1944, Thailand was at war with French Indochina.

1930–1995 · Contemporary · Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles

Denise Leclercq (or Leclerc), in religion Sister Bibiane, was a French nun, blessed and martyr, born in 1930 in Gazeran and killed on September 3, 1995, in Algiers. She was beatified on December 8, 2018.

500–460 · Early Church

Vivianus (also Bibianus; died c. 490) was an early saint of the French (Francian) church and the first known bishop of Saintes. A brief Life of his dated to the mid 6th century was edited by Krush in 1896.

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Saint Bienheuré (Bié, Beatus) is a semi-legendary saint of Vendôme. Tradition states that he lived in a cave near the town. Like Saint George, he is said to have fought a dragon. His legend was conflated with that of Beatus of Lungern.

1255–1292 · Medieval · Third Order of Saint Dominic

Benvenuta Bojani (4 May 1254 - 30 October 1292) was an Italian religious sister of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. Bojani dedicated her life to strict austerities as an act of repentance and devotion to God and was said to have had visions of angels and demons.

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Saint Bili Ier served as the bishop of Vannes in France. He is recognized as a saint.

700–734 · Medieval · Benedictines

Bilhild (also spelled Bilihilt, Bilihildis, Bilehild; died 734) was a Frankish noblewoman, remembered as the founder and abbess of the monastery of Altmünster near Mainz, and venerated locally as a saint, on Nov. 27.

100–90 · Early Church

Birillus (died 90 AD) of Antioch was an early Christian saint. He was ordained to the priesthood by Saint Peter and became the first evangelizer and the first bishop of Catania in Sicily.

600–651 · Medieval

Birinus (also Berin, Birin; c. 600 – 3 December 649 or 650) was the first Bishop of Dorchester and was known as the "Apostle to the West Saxons" for his conversion of the Kingdom of Wessex to Christianity.

1853–1937 · Contemporary

Biśuddhānanda Paramahaṃsa was born in 1853 and died in 1937. He is recognized as a saint.

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.

630 · Medieval

Saint Bladulphe was a priest and monk who died in 630.

364–384 · Early Church

Blaesilla, also known as Blesilla (364–384), was a Roman widow and disciple of Jerome. She was born into a wealthy senatorial family in Rome, the eldest daughter of Paula of Rome and sister of Eustochium, who were members of a group of wealthy Christian women who followed the tea…

650 · Medieval

Blandin is a commune in the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France. Blandin was established in 1801 from Virieu. Blandin is located 25 km (15.5 mi) from Voiron and 14 km (8.6 mi) from La Tour-du-Pin.

101–177 · Early Church

Saint Blandina (French: Blandine, c. 162–177 AD) was a Christian martyr who died in Lugdunum (modern Lyon, France) during the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

1883–1918 · Contemporary · Ursulines of Calvarienberg

Blandine Merten (religious name; born Maria Magdalena Merten; 10 July 1883 – 18 May 1918) was a German Ursulines. Merten worked as a teacher in a secular environment from 1902 to 1908.

1864–1936 · Contemporary · Sisters of Adoration, Handmaids of the Blessed Sacrament and of Charity

Juana Francisca Pérez de Labeaga García (Desojo, January 29, 1864 – Madrid, November 10, 1936), better known as Blasa de María, was a Spanish religious sister and member of the Handmaids of the Blessed Sacrament and of Charity, who was killed during the religious persecution of t…

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Blat is an Irish Catholic saint and virgin. She is commemorated in a group of holy virgins alongside Saints Anna, Feammor, and Scoth. Verifying the details of their lives is difficult.

523 · Medieval

Saint Blath or Blathnait (Latin: Flora) is an Irish saint who served as a lay-sister and cook in Saint Brigid's abbey at Kildare. Her name, Blath, is the Irish word for 'flower.' The Martyrology of Gorman playfully refers to her as 'blooming Blath', thus the Latinized Flora, that…

750–835 · Medieval · Benedictines

Saint Blathmac (Latin: Blathmacus, Florentius) was a distinguished Irish monk, born in Ireland about 750 AD. He is known as "Blathmac, son of Flann", to distinguish him from the poet and monk Blathmac mac Con Brettan. He was killed and became a martyr in Iona, about 825.