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1100–1001 · Medieval

Beatus of Cerbi or Beado (County of Toulouse or France?, 11th century – Sant Beado, La Guingueta d'Àneu, Pallars Sobirà, 11th century) is a legendary figure who, according to tradition, died in Cerbi, a village in the Àneu Valley where the hermitage of Sant Beado is located.

1444–1469 · Medieval · Benedictines

Eustochium (born Lucrezia) Bellini (Padua, 1444 – Padua, 1469) was an Italian religious sister. She is considered the patroness of those who suffer from spiritual and physical tribulations. She is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

250–277 · Early Church

Beata of Sens (died 273; some sources state 277) was a Christian martyr during the reign of Aurelian (died 275) and is a saint in the Catholic Church. Beata was born in Spain.

1410–1481 · Medieval · Dominican Order

Costanzo da Fabriano, also known as Costanzo Servoli (Fabriano, ... – Ascoli Piceno, February 24, 1481), was an Italian priest of the Order of Preachers. His cult as a blessed was confirmed by Pope Pius VII in 1821.

1101–1216 · Medieval · Cistercians

Béatrice of Lens (Beatrix) is a blessed, born in Lens, formerly in the County of Hainaut. On October 29, 1216, using the dowry received from her parents, she founded the Cistercian abbey of Épinlieu, near Mons, in present-day Belgium, and entered the abbey herself.

1300–1275 · Medieval · Premonstratensians

Beatrix of Engelport (died after 1275 at the convent of Maria Engelport, near Treis-Karden) was a German choir nun of the Premonstratensian Order who may have been the first prioress of that convent. She is considered a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1324–1399 · Medieval · Poor Clares

Beatrix of Mecklenburg, also known as Beate, Beata, or Beate of Ribnitz (1324–1399), was a princess of Mecklenburg and the first princely abbess of the Poor Clares monastery in Ribnitz from 1349 to 1395. In the Roman Catholic Church, she is venerated as a blessed.

1260 · Medieval · Poor Clares

Benedict of Assisi (Benedetta di Assisi), also referred to as Benoîte d'Assisi in some texts, was an Italian nun born in Assisi in the 13th century. Her family was one of the most powerful in Assisi.

1040–1107 · Medieval

Benedetto Ricasoli (c. 1040, Montegrossi – 20 January 1107, Coltibuono) was an Italian religious figure and a monk of the Vallombrosan Order. He was beatified by equipollence by Pope Pius X in 1907.

701–845 · Medieval

Benito de Massérac (8th century – 845, Nantes), also known as Benedict of Macerac or Benedict of Massérac, was a Greek abbot and hermit in Nantes, in present-day France. He is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church, and his liturgical feast is celebrated on October 22.

1794–1839 · Modern

Bénédicte Hyon Kyong-nyon (Korean: 현경련 베네딕타) was a Korean Christian laywoman, catechist, martyr, and Catholic saint. Born in 1794 in Seoul, Korea, she was beheaded on December 29, 1839, near Seoul.

1909–1937 · Contemporary · Order of the Brothers Discalced of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Angelo Calvi, in religion Benignus of the Child Jesus (Italian: Benigno di santa teresa di gesù bambino), born July 23, 1909, and died October 25, 1937, in Milan, was an Italian Carmelite priest. His cause for beatification was opened in 1991.

1906–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Benigno Prieto del Pozo (born November 25, 1906, in Salce; died August 16, 1936, in Fuente el Fresno) was a Spanish Franciscan, priest, Christian martyr, and blessed of the Roman Catholic Church.

1620–1682 · Reformation

Benito Latras y Loriz, better known as "Cosán" (Cos Sant or holy body), was an abbot of the Monastery of Santa María de Alaón and a deputy of the Cortes of Aragon.

1908–1934 · Contemporary · Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools

Saint Benjamin Julian (born Vicente Alonso Andrés; Jaramillo de la Fuente, Burgos, October 27, 1908 – Turón, Asturias, October 9, 1934) was a Spanish religious brother who was killed during the Revolution of Asturias of 1934.

1188–1232 · Medieval · Franciscans

Bentivoglio de Bonis (San Severino Marche, 1188 – San Severino Marche, 1232) was an Italian priest of the Order of Friars Minor; his cult as a blessed was confirmed by Pope Pius IX in 1852.

870 · Medieval

Beocca (died 870) was a hieromartyr, abbot of Chertsey, and a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. His feast day is April 10. A Danish invading army destroyed the monasteries at Chertsey and Barking, which had been founded by Saint Erkenwald for himself and his sister, Saint Ethe…

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Saint Berenwald, also known as Byrnwald and Beornwald, was an 8th-century priest. He is venerated in Bampton, and his feast day is December 21.

1880–1928 · Contemporary

Jesús Méndez Montoya (Tarímbaro, June 10, 1880 – Mexico, February 5, 1928) was a Mexican priest. As vicar of Valtierrilla, he was a victim of the Cristero War: on February 5, 1928, the Mexican army broke into his church and executed him by firing squad in the building's courtyar…

1728–1792 · Modern

Bernard-François de Cucsac (born 1728 in Toulouse, died September 2, 1792, in Paris) was a Catholic priest, a member of a Catholic society of apostolic life, and a martyr beatified by the Catholic Church, who was a victim of anti-Catholic persecution during the French Revolution.

1867–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Bernard of Lugar Nuevo de Fenollet, born José Bleda Grau (July 23, 1867, in Lugar Nuevo de Fenollet – September 4, 1936, in Genovés), was a Spanish Blessed of the Catholic Church, a martyr, a Capuchin friar, and a victim of the anti-Catholic persecutions during the Spanish Civil…

1182 · Medieval · Benedictines

Bernard the Penitent, also known as Bernard of Sithiu, was a 12th-century Benedictine monk and great traveler, born in the Diocese of Maguelone and died on April 19, 1182, at Saint-Bertin Abbey in Saint-Omer. He was declared a Catholic blessed and is celebrated on April 19.

1902–1932 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Bernardo Vaz Lobo Teixeira de Vasconcelos, O.S.B. (São Romão do Corgo, Celorico de Basto, July 7, 1902 – Foz do Douro, July 4, 1932), better known as Friar Bernardo de Vasconcelos, was a mystical poet and Benedictine monk who, despite passing away just days before turning 30, lef…

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Bernolfo (9th/10th century – Priola, 9th/10th century) was an Italian bishop, venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. Some writings identify him as a bishop of the Diocese of Asti in the 9th or 10th century, who was martyred by the Saracens.

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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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

1047–1120 · Medieval · Knights Hospitaller

Brother Gerard, or Gerard the Hospitaller, born around 1047 into a family from the Amalfi region of Italy and died on September 3, 1120, was the founder of a congregation, the Hospitallers of Saint John, which would later become the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem.

673 · Medieval

Blimond or Blidemundus (died 650 or 673), abbot of Leuconay and who died at Leuconay (the former name of Saint-Valery-sur-Somme), was a Frankish religious figure and restorer of the Abbey of Saint-Valery-sur-Somme. He is recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church.

501–652 · Medieval

Bobulenus, or Bobolenus (Greece, 6th century – Bobbio, 653), was an Italian Christian monk, abbot, and missionary of the Columbanian rule. Possibly of Greek origin, he took his name from the town of Bobbio, where he took his monastic vows.

1332–1389 · Medieval · Order of St. Augustine

Bonaventura Badoaro de Peraga, the Cardinal of Padua, was an Italian cardinal born in Padua, Veneto, Italy, who died on July 10, 1381 (or 1389), in Rome. He was a member of the Order of Saint Augustine and the first cardinal from that order.

1600–1597 · Reformation · Franciscans

The Martyrs of Nagasaki were 26 Franciscan and Jesuit missionaries as well as Japanese converts to Christianity, aged between 12 and 64, who were executed in 1597 by order of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. They are venerated as martyrs and saints in the Catholic and Anglican churches.

1250–1348 · Medieval · Dominican Order

Bonaventure Tolomei, or Saint Bonaventure Tolomei (Siena, ?? – 1348), was a Dominican who, after a libertine adolescence, cared for plague victims and died of the plague. His feast day is December 27.

1913–1942 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Boniface Zukowski (born Piotr Żukowski on January 13, 1913, in Baran-Rapa; died at Auschwitz on April 10, 1942) was a Conventual Franciscan, a martyr of Nazism, and was beatified by John Paul II on June 13, 1999. His feast day is April 10.

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Bonosa (died c. 211) was a holy martyr from Porto Romano. Her feast day is July 15. Saint Bonosa was venerated in a basilica near Capo Due Rami in Porto Romano, together with Saints Eutropius and Zosimus.

986–1015 · Medieval

Boris Vladimirovich (c. 990s – July 24, 1015; baptized as Roman) was the Prince of Rostov (c. 1010–1015). He was a son of the Kievan Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich, born either to Princess Anna or to an unknown Bulgarian woman.

1875–1937 · Contemporary

Boris, born Semyon Timofeyevich (Petrovich?) Voskoboynikov (born August 20/September 1, 1875, in Alexandrovskaya Sloboda, Voronezh Governorate; died December 6, 1937, in Kazakhstan), was a Russian Orthodox bishop and a holy new martyr.

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Saint Boussiris of Gaza (died between 360 and 363) and Nestor, along with the three brothers Nestabe, Eusebius, and Zeno, were martyrs in Gaza, Palestine, under Julian. They are Christian saints commemorated locally on September 21.

1865–1960 · Contemporary

Brigida Maria Postorino, born on November 19, 1865, in Catona, Calabria, and died on March 30, 1960, in Frascati near Rome, was an Italian religious sister and founder of the Daughters of the Immaculate, an order dedicated to serving the poor.

1930–1996 · Contemporary · Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance

Christian Charles Joseph Lemarchand (in religion Father Bruno), born on March 1, 1930, in Saint-Maixent-l'École (Deux-Sèvres) and died (assassinated) after April 20, 1996, in Algeria, was a French Trappist monk of the Abbey of Notre-Dame de l'Atlas in Tibhirine who, along with si…

1907–1972 · Contemporary · Piarists

Bruno Martínez Sacedo, Sch. P. (Moscardón, Teruel, Spain, November 9, 1907 – León, Nicaragua, December 29, 1972) was a Piarist priest from Teruel who worked in education in Nicaragua. He died in León from injuries sustained in the 1972 Managua earthquake.

1905–1942 · Contemporary

Brunon Zembol, OFM, born Jan Brunon Zembol (September 7, 1905, in Łętownia – August 21, 1942, in Dachau), was a Polish Catholic priest, a Friar Minor (Reformed), a martyr of World War II, and a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1887–1936 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order

Bonaventura of Saint Catherine (Spanish: Buenaventura de Santa Catalina), born Buenaventura Gavicaechevarría Guerricabeitia (Ajangiz, July 14, 1887 – Alcázar de San Juan, July 26, 1936), was a Spanish priest of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity.

1205–1260 · Medieval

Beatriz of Assisi (born c. 1205, Assisi – 1260, ibid.) was the daughter of the nobleman Favarone Offreduccio and Ortolana, and the sister of two other saints, Saint Clare of Assisi and Saint Agnes of Assisi.