Álvaro del Portillo
Álvaro del Portillo (1914-1994), the first prelate of Opus Dei and a close collaborator of Saint Josemaría Escrivá, was …
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Ángel Riesco Carbajo
Spanish auxiliary bishop and founder of the Secular Institute of the Apostolic Missionaries of Charity, recognized as Ve…
Áron Márton
Bishop of Alba Iulia, Áron Márton distinguished himself through his heroic defense of the Jews during the Second World W…
Thomas Kurialacherry
Thomas Kurialacherry (1873-1925) was an Indian Syro-Malabar bishop, founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Ad…
Tommaso Reggio
Archbishop of Genoa and founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Martha, Blessed Tommaso Reggio was distinguish…
Vasco de Quiroga
Vasco de Quiroga (c. 1470-1565) was the first bishop of Michoacán in Mexico. A Spanish jurist who became a priest and th…
Vincent Strambi
Vincent Mary Strambi (1745-1824), a Passionist religious who became Bishop of Macerata-Tolentino, was exiled for his loy…
Vital-Justin Grandin
Vital-Justin Grandin (1829-1902) was a French Oblate missionary, the first bishop of Saint-Albert in Canada, recognized …
Venerable Yves Mahyeuc
A Dominican religious born in 1462, Yves Mahyeuc became the confessor to Queen Anne of Brittany before being appointed B…
Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński
Archbishop of Warsaw deported for twenty years to Russia after the 1863 uprising, founder of the Franciscan Sisters of t…