Concetta Bertoli
An Italian layperson and Franciscan tertiary, Concetta Bertoli lived through total paralysis and blindness in a heroic m…
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Jean-Paul II
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Consuelo Utrilla Lozano
Consuelo Utrilla Lozano (1925-1956), in religion Sister Consuelo of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, was a Spanish contempl…
Cornelia Connelly
Foundress of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, Cornelia Connelly (1809-1879) was an American educator whose life was …
Cosma Spessotto
Cosma Spessotto (1923-1980) was an Italian Franciscan priest and missionary in El Salvador, murdered in hatred of the fa…
Crispin of Viterbo
Italian Capuchin friar and questor, famous for his joy, humility, and Marian devotion, canonized in 1982.
Daniel Comboni
Daniel Comboni (1831-1881) was an Italian missionary bishop, founder of the Comboni Missionaries and the Pious Mothers o…
Daniel Coppini
Daniel Coppini (1867-1945), in religion Daniel of Torricella, was an Italian Capuchin priest recognized as venerable, de…
Darío Acosta Zurita
Darío Acosta Zurita (1908-1931) was a young Mexican priest, vicar in Veracruz, assassinated in hatred of the faith in hi…
Daudi Okelo and Jildo Irwa
Daudi Okelo and Jildo Irwa were two young Ugandan catechists of the Acholi tribe, martyred in October 1918 in Paimol for…
Diego Luis de San Vitores
Diego Luis de San Vitores (1627-1672) was a Spanish Jesuit priest, missionary, and martyr in Guam, recognized as the Apo…
Diego Ventaja Milán and 8 companions
Diego Ventaja Milán, Bishop of Almería, Manuel Medina Olmos, Bishop of Guadix, and seven Brothers of the Christian Schoo…
Diego Ventaja, Manuel Medina and companions
Diego Ventaja Milán, Bishop of Almería, and Manuel Medina Olmos, Bishop of Guadix, along with seven Brothers of the Chri…
Dina Bélanger
Dina Bélanger (1897-1929), in religion Sister Marie Sainte-Cécile-de-Rome, was a Canadian religious sister, musician, an…
Domenico Lentini
Domenico Lentini (1770-1828) was an Italian diocesan priest from Lauria. Known as the "Angel of the Altar," he was disti…
Domenico Mazzarella
An Italian Alcantarine Franciscan priest, Domenico Mazzarella (in religion Modestino of Jesus and Mary) devoted himself …
Domingo Iturrate
A Spanish Trinitarian priest, Domingo Iturrate (1901-1927) was distinguished by his profound Eucharistic piety, his obed…
Dominic Methodius Trcka
Czechoslovak Redemptorist priest of the Byzantine rite, who died a martyr in prison under the communist regime in 1959.
Dorothy Day
Co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, Dorothy Day dedicated her life to the poor, social justice, and radical paci…
Edel Quinn
Edel Quinn (1907-1944) was an Irish lay missionary for the Legion of Mary who established the movement in East Africa de…
Edmund Bojanowski
Edmund Bojanowski was a 19th-century Polish layman, founder of the Congregation of the Sisters Servants of the Immaculat…
Edmund Ignatius Rice
Edmund Ignatius Rice (1762-1844) was an Irish educator and religious, founder of the Christian Brothers and the Presenta…
Eduardo Francisco Pironio
Argentine cardinal, a major figure of CELAM and the Roman Curia, Eduardo Francisco Pironio was one of the initiators of …
Egidio Bullesi
Egidio Bullesi (1905-1929) was a young Italian worker, member of the Third Order of Saint Francis and Catholic Action, d…
Egidio Laurent
A religious Canon Regular of the Lateran, Egidio Laurent (Brother Giles) distinguished himself by his humility, his char…
Egidio Malacarne
An Italian Passionist priest, Egidio Malacarne was postulator general of his congregation for over thirty years, working…
Elena Silvestri
Elena Silvestri (1839-1907) was an Italian religious sister, founder of the congregation of the Handmaids of the Child J…
Eleonora López de Maturana
Eleonora López de Maturana (Sister Leonor of Saint Louis) was a Spanish Carmelite Sister of Charity, a missionary in Arg…
Blessed Elia of Saint Clement (Teodora Fracasso)
Italian Carmelite nun (1901-1927), beatified in 2006 by Benedict XVI, known for her spirituality of spiritual childhood …
Elisa Angela Meneguzzi
An Italian religious of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Francis de Sales, Sister Liduina was a missionary in Et…
Elisabeth Canori Mora
A Roman wife and mother, Elisabeth Canori Mora heroically lived through the trials of a difficult marriage. Having becom…
Elisabetta Girelli
Elisabetta Girelli (1839-1919) was an Italian consecrated laywoman, restorer of the Company of Saint Ursula of Brescia w…
Elisabetta Vendramini
Elisabetta Vendramini (1790-1860) was an Italian religious, foundress of the congregation of the Franciscan Tertiary Sis…
Emilia Chapellín Istúriz
Foundress of the congregation of the Little Sisters of the Poor of Maiquetía in Venezuela, Emilia Chapellín Istúriz dedi…
Emmanuel d'Alzon
Emmanuel d'Alzon (1810-1880) was a French priest, founder of the Augustinians of the Assumption and the Oblates of the A…
Emmanuel Domingo y Sol
Spanish priest (1836-1909), founder of the Brotherhood of Diocesan Worker Priests of the Heart of Jesus and the Pontific…
Enrichetta Beltrame Quattrocchi
Enrichetta Beltrame Quattrocchi (1914-2012) was an Italian layperson, daughter of the first spouses to be beatified toge…
Enrico Medi
A renowned Italian physicist, science communicator, and committed politician, Enrico Medi lived his faith and science in…
Enrico Rebuschini
Italian Camillian religious (1860-1938), Enrico Rebuschini dedicated his life to caring for the sick in Cremona while ov…
Enrique de Ossó y Cercelló
Spanish priest (1840-1896), great catechist of the 19th century and founder of the Company of Saint Teresa of Jesus, can…
Esteban Marcuello Zabalza
Esteban Marcuello Zabalza (Esteban de Adoáin), born in 1808 and died in 1880, was a Spanish Capuchin priest and missiona…
Eufemia Gemma Giannini
Eufemia Gemma Giannini (1884-1971) was an Italian religious sister, a close friend of Saint Gemma Galgani, and the found…
Eugene Bossilkov
Bulgarian Passionist bishop and martyr of communism, executed by firing squad in 1952 and beatified by John Paul II in 1…
Eugenia Maria Ravasco
Eugenia Maria Ravasco (1845-1900) was an Italian religious sister, foundress of the Congregation of the Daughters of the…
Eugénie Joubert
Eugénie Joubert (1876-1904) was a French religious sister of the congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family of the S…
Eusebia Palomino Yenes
A Spanish Salesian religious of humble origin, Eusebia Palomino Yenes distinguished herself through her holiness lived i…
Eusebio Kino
An Italian Jesuit priest, missionary, explorer, and cartographer, Eusebio Kino dedicated his life to the evangelization …
Eusebius of Esztergom
Canon of Esztergom who became a hermit in the Pilis Mountains, Blessed Eusebius founded in the 13th century the Order of…
Eustáquio van Lieshout
Eustáquio van Lieshout (1890-1943) was a Dutch missionary priest of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts. Sent to Brazi…
Eustochia Smeralda Calafato
Saint Eustochia Smeralda Calafato (1434-1485) was an Italian Poor Clare nun, founder of the Montevergine monastery in Me…
Exupérien Mas
A Brother of the Christian Schools, Exupérien Mas (1829-1905) was a remarkable spiritual mentor and a social activist co…
Ezequiel Moreno y Díaz
Spanish Augustinian Recollect, missionary in the Philippines and later Bishop of Pasto in Colombia, who died of cancer i…
Federico Albert
An Italian priest and court chaplain, Federico Albert founded numerous educational works in Lanzo Torinese and the congr…
Felice Prinetti
An Italian army officer who became an Oblate of the Virgin Mary priest, Felice Prinetti (1842-1916) is the founder of th…
Felipe de Jesús Munárriz and 50 companions
Felipe de Jesús Munárriz and his 50 companions were Spanish Claretian missionaries martyred in August 1936 in Barbastro …
Felisa Pérez de Iriarte Casado
A Spanish Dominican nun (1904-1954), Sister Teresita of the Child Jesus distinguished herself through her contemplative …
Felix Mary Ghebreamlak
An Eritrean priest and the first Ethiopian Cistercian monk, Felix Mary Ghebreamlak worked for the introduction of Easter…
Felix Monasterio Ateca
Felix of the Virgin (1902-1951) was a Spanish Trinitarian priest, teacher, and master of novices, recognized as Venerabl…
Félix Varela
Félix Varela (1788-1853) was a Cuban priest, philosopher, and politician, recognized as venerable by the Catholic Church…
Ferdinando Maria Baccilieri
Ferdinando Maria Baccilieri (1821-1893) was an Italian priest, parish priest of Galeazza Pepoli for 41 years, and founde…
Filippo Bardellini
An Italian Oratorian priest (1878-1956), Filippo Bardellini was the founder of the Institute of the Little Poor of the H…
Filippo Rinaldi
Filippo Rinaldi (1856-1931), an Italian Salesian priest and third successor of Don Bosco, greatly expanded the congregat…
Filippo Smaldone
Italian priest (1848-1923), known as the apostle of the deaf-mute, founder in Lecce of the Salesian Sisters of the Sacre…
Filomena Ferrer Galcerán
A religious of the Order of Minims, Filomena Ferrer Galcerán (1841-1868) is known for her life of asceticism, her mystic…
Firminius Wickenhauser
A German Franciscan friar and sculptor, Firminius Wickenhauser (1876-1939) was distinguished by his sacred art and his t…
Flora Manfrinati
Flora Manfrinati (1906-1954) was an Italian laywoman, founder of the Family of Educator Apostles and the Work of Our Lad…
Florentino Asensio Barroso
Florentino Asensio Barroso (1877-1936) was a Spanish bishop and martyr of the faith, a victim of religious persecution d…
Florida Cevoli
An Italian Capuchin Poor Clare religious, Florida Cevoli was a disciple of Saint Veronica Giuliani before succeeding her…
Fortunato De Gruttis
An Italian Passionist priest, known as the "martyr of the confessional," he spent nearly thirty-seven years hearing conf…
Fra Angelico
A Dominican painter of the Italian Quattrocento, Fra Angelico placed his artistic genius at the service of the Gospel. P…
Francesco Antonio Fasani
Conventual Franciscan of Lucera, tireless preacher and confessor nicknamed the "Padre Maestro", devotee of the Immaculat…
Francesco Chiesa
An Italian priest and eminent theologian, Canon Francesco Chiesa was the spiritual director of Blessed James Alberione a…
Francesco Faà di Bruno
Francesco Faà di Bruno (1825-1888) was an Italian priest, mathematician, and founder of social works, beatified by John …
Francesco Paleari
Italian priest of the Little House of Divine Providence (Cottolengo), teacher, spiritual director, and renowned confesso…
Francinaina Cirer Carbonell
Francinaina Cirer Carbonell (1781-1855) was a Spanish religious sister, foundress of the congregation of the Sisters of …
Francis Xavier Seelos
A Redemptorist priest and missionary of Bavarian origin, Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos dedicated his life to evangelizat…
Francisco de Asís Méndez Casariego
Spanish priest (1850-1924), co-founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Most Holy Trinity of Madrid and founder…
Francisco de Paula Tarin Arnau
Francisco de Paula Tarín Arnau (1847-1910) was a Spanish Jesuit priest, a tireless missionary in Andalusia, and known as…
Francisco Gárate Aranguren
Francisco Gárate Aranguren (1857-1929) was a Spanish Jesuit brother, a devoted porter at the University of Deusto in Bil…
Francisco Marto
Francisco Marto is one of the three shepherd children of Fatima to whom the Virgin Mary appeared in 1917; canonized on M…
François Nguyễn Văn Thuận
François-Xavier Nguyễn Văn Thuận (1928-2002) was a Vietnamese cardinal, imprisoned for thirteen years by the communist r…
Franz Alexander Kern
Austrian Premonstratensian priest (1897-1924), Father Jakob Kern offered his physical sufferings and his life in a spiri…
Frédéric Janssoone
Frédéric Janssoone (1838-1916) was a French Franciscan priest, missionary in the Holy Land and later in Canada, recogniz…
Frédéric Ozanam
Frédéric Ozanam (1813-1853) was a French layperson, founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul and a precursor of t…
Fulton Sheen
Fulton Sheen (1895-1979) was an American bishop, a pioneer of radio and television, famous for his program 'Life Is Wort…
Gabriel Taborin
Gabriel Taborin (1799-1864), in religion Brother Gabriel, is the founder of the Congregation of the Brothers of the Holy…
Gabriele Allegra
An Italian Franciscan missionary, Blessed Gabriele Allegra (1907-1976) was the first to translate the complete Bible int…
Gaetano Catanoso
A priest of the Archdiocese of Reggio Calabria and apostle of the devotion to the Holy Face, Gaetano Catanoso founded th…
Gaetano Errico
Gaetano Errico (1791-1860), a Neapolitan priest and founder of the congregation of the Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts…
Gaetano Tantalo
Italian priest (1905-1947) recognized as Righteous Among the Nations for hiding and protecting Jewish families under the…
Galileo Nicolini
Galileo Nicolini (1882-1897) was a young Italian Passionist novice who died of tuberculosis at the age of 14 and was dec…
Genoveva Torres Morales
Spanish religious (1870-1956), Genoveva Torres Morales founded the congregation of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Je…
George Preca
Maltese priest (1880-1962), founder of the Society of Christian Doctrine (M.U.S.E.U.M.), George Preca is the first canon…
Georges Bellanger
Georges Bellanger (1861-1902) was a French priest, member of the Congregation of the Religious of Saint Vincent de Paul,…
Blessed Gerard
Blessed Gerard (c. 1040-1120) is the founder of the Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, recognized for his…
Gerardo Sagarduy de Lasgoitia
Spanish Passionist lay brother, nicknamed the "holy porter" of the monastery of Saints John and Paul in Rome, recognized…
Gerland of Germany
A religious and knight of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem in the 13th century, Gerland dedicated himself to the ser…
Germano Ruopollo
The Venerable Germano Ruopollo (1850-1909), born Vincenzo Ruoppolo, was an Italian Passionist priest. A brilliant mind, …
Gesualdo Melacrino
Gesualdo Melacrino (1725-1803) was an Italian Capuchin friar, nicknamed the "Apostle of Calabria," recognized as Venerab…
Giacinto Longhin
Giacinto Longhin (1863-1936) was an Italian Capuchin bishop who led the Diocese of Treviso for thirty-two years, noted f…
Giacomo Cusmano
An Italian priest and physician, Giacomo Cusmano dedicated his life to the most destitute in Palermo by founding the Boc…
Gianna Beretta Molla
Saint Gianna Beretta Molla (1922-1962) is an Italian lay saint, a physician and mother who sacrificed her life to save t…
Gioacchino Maria Stevan
Italian religious of the Order of Servites of Mary, declared Venerable by John Paul II in 1997.
Giovanna Maria Bracaval
A religious sister of Belgian origin, she restored the active life and original charism of the congregation of the Angel…
Giovanni Antonio Farina
Italian bishop, known as the "bishop of the poor," Giovanni Antonio Farina (1803-1888) founded in 1836 the Sisters Teach…
Giovanni Bacile
An Italian priest (1880-1941) from Sicily, Giovanni Bacile was distinguished by his pastoral zeal, his educational work …
Giovanni Battista Mazzucconi
The first martyr of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), Giovanni Battista Mazzucconi gave his life for…
Giovanni Battista Piamarta
Giovanni Battista Piamarta (1841-1913) was an Italian priest from Brescia, educator of working-class youth, and founder …
Giovanni Battista Quilici
An Italian priest from Livorno, Father Giovanni Battista Quilici dedicated himself to the marginalized and founded the c…
Giovanni Battista Rubino
Piedmontese priest and founder of the Congregation of the Oblate Sisters of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga (the Luigines), decla…
Giovanni Battista Scalabrini
Bishop of Piacenza and founder of the Missionaries of St. Charles (Scalabrinians), Giovanni Battista Scalabrini (1839-19…
Giovanni Bruni
Giacomo Bruni, in religion Father John of the Holy Spirit, was a young Italian Passionist priest born in 1882 and died i…
Giovanni Calabria
A priest from Verona (1873-1954), Giovanni Calabria founded the Poor Servants and the Poor Handmaids of Divine Providenc…
Giovanni Folci
An Italian priest (1890-1963), Father Giovanni Folci founded the Opera Divin Prigioniero and the Saint Pius X pre-semina…
Giovanni Maria Boccardo
Italian priest and founder of the congregation of the Poor Daughters of Saint Cajetan, devoted to the poor and the sick.
Giulia Salzano
Italian religious (1846-1929), Giulia Salzano was a tireless catechist in Casoria and founded the congregation of the Ca…
Giunio Tinarelli
Giunio Tinarelli (1912-1956) was an Italian layperson, a worker at the Terni steelworks, who became an apostle of suffer…
Giuseppe Allamano
Giuseppe Allamano (1851-1926), a diocesan priest of Turin and rector of the Consolata Shrine, founded the Consolata Miss…
Giuseppe Ambrosini
Giuseppe Ambrosini (1889-1913) was a young Italian priest from the Diocese of Vicenza, recognized as Venerable by John P…
John Saziari
John Saziari (c. 1327 - 1371) was an Italian farmer and Franciscan tertiary from Cagli, known for his life of prayer, wo…
Maria Euthymia Üffing
Sister Maria Euthymia Üffing (1914-1955) was a German religious of the Sisters of Charity of Münster, beatified in 2001 …