Hugh Canefri
A religious of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem (Hospitallers), Hugh Canefri dedicated more than fifty years of his …
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Jean-Paul II
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Humilis of Bisignano
A lay Franciscan friar and Calabrian mystic, Saint Humilis of Bisignano (1582-1637) was renowned for his ecstasies, infu…
Michael Sopoćko
A Polish priest and confessor of Saint Faustina Kowalska, Blessed Michael Sopoćko is the founder of the Congregation of …
Michał Kozal
Auxiliary Bishop of Włocławek and Polish martyr, Michał Kozal died at the Dachau concentration camp in 1943 after heroic…
Miguel Agustín Pro
A Mexican Jesuit priest, Miguel Agustín Pro carried out a daring clandestine ministry under the Calles persecution befor…
Miguel Febres Cordero
A religious of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, Saint Miguel Febres Cordero was a brilliant Ecuad…
Miguel Mañara
A Spanish venerable layperson, Miguel Mañara (1627-1679) dedicated his life and fortune to the poor of Seville within th…
Mosè Tovini
Mosè Tovini (1877-1930) was an Italian priest, teacher, and rector of the seminary of Brescia, recognized for his humili…
Saint Mutien-Marie Wiaux
A Brother of the Christian Schools in Belgium, Mutien-Marie Wiaux sanctified himself through humility and daily prayer a…
Nazareno Santolini
An Italian Passionist priest, Nazareno Santolini was an exemplary novice master for nearly thirty years, forming generat…
Nazju Falzon
A Maltese lay cleric, Nazju Falzon dedicated himself to teaching the catechism and providing spiritual guidance to Briti…
Nicholas Bunkerd Kitbamrung
Thai priest and the first martyr priest of his country, who died in prison in 1944 due to mistreatment and tuberculosis.
Nicholas Charnetsky and 24 companions
Nicholas Charnetsky (1884-1959) and his 24 companions are martyrs of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, persecuted by …
Nicolas Roland
Nicolas Roland (1642-1678) was a French priest, founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus, and …
Nicolas Steno
A learned anatomist and father of modern geology, Nicolas Steno converted to Catholicism before becoming a bishop of imm…
Nikolaus Gross
Nikolaus Gross (1898-1945) was a German Catholic trade unionist, journalist, and resistance fighter, executed by the Naz…
Nimatullah Kassab Al-Hardini
Born in 1808 in Lebanon, Nimatullah Kassab Al-Hardini was a Maronite monk, teacher, and theologian, recognized for his l…
Noël Pinot
A French priest and martyr of the Revolution, Blessed Noël Pinot was guillotined in Angers in 1794 for refusing to swear…
Norberto Cassinelli
An Italian Passionist priest, the Venerable Norberto Cassinelli was the spiritual director and guide of Saint Gabriel of…
Octavio Ortiz Arrieta
The first Salesian priest born in Peru, Monsignor Octavio Ortiz Arrieta was a dedicated missionary bishop who led the Di…
Omelyan Kovch
A Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, Blessed Omelyan Kovch saved many Jews during the Holocaust before dying a martyr at t…
Oreste Fontanella
An Italian priest and spiritual director of the Biella seminary, Oreste Fontanella devoted himself entirely to the forma…
Otto Neururer
Otto Neururer (1882-1940) was an Austrian priest, the first priest to die as a martyr at the Buchenwald concentration ca…
Paola Elisabetta Cerioli
An Italian widow who became the foundress of the Congregation of the Holy Family of Bergamo, dedicated to orphans and ru…
Paola Renata Carboni
A young Italian laywoman and secretary of Catholic Action, Paola Renata Carboni (1908-1927) offered her sufferings and h…
Paolo Manna
An Italian missionary priest, Paolo Manna worked in Burma before having to return to Italy for health reasons. There, he…
Paolo Pio Perazzo
Paolo Pio Perazzo (1846-1911), nicknamed the "saintly railwayman," was an Italian layperson, Franciscan tertiary, and pi…
Paula Montal Fornés
Spanish religious (1799-1889), Paula Montal Fornés founded the institute of the Daughters of Mary, Religious of the Piou…
Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus
Italian-Brazilian religious (1865-1942), foundress of the Congregation of the Little Sisters of the Immaculate Conceptio…
Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus
Saint Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus, born Amabile Lucia Visintainer, is the founder of the Congregation of the…
Pavel Peter Gojdič
Slovak Greek Catholic bishop, martyr under the communist regime and recognized as Righteous Among the Nations for saving…
Pedro Legaria Armendariz
Spanish priest (1878-1956), founder of the Congregation of the Slaves of Christ the King, recognized as Venerable by the…
Pedro Poveda Castroverde
A Spanish priest born in 1874, Pedro Poveda Castroverde founded the Teresian Association in 1911 for the Christian forma…
Pedro Ruiz de los Paños and 8 companions
Pedro Ruiz de los Paños and his eight companions were Spanish priests of the Fraternity of Diocesan Worker Priests, mart…
Pedro Urraca
Pedro Urraca (1583-1657), a Spanish priest of the Order of Mercy, was distinguished by his heroic charity in Lima and hi…
Pere Tarrés i Claret
A Catalan doctor devoted to the poor, Pere Tarrés i Claret became a priest after the Spanish Civil War and co-founded a …
Peter Donders
A Dutch Redemptorist priest, Peter Donders dedicated his life to the evangelization and care of lepers and slaves in Sur…
Peter Kibe and 187 companions (188 Martyrs of Japan)
Peter Kibe and his 187 companions are a group of Japanese Catholic martyrs put to death for their faith in the 17th cent…
Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur
A Franciscan religious from Tenerife, Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur (1626-1667) dedicated himself to the poor and sick …
Peter To Rot
A Tolai lay catechist, husband, and father, Peter To Rot was put to death in 1945 by Japanese occupation forces for defe…
Pier Giorgio Frassati
A young Italian layperson passionate about the mountains and committed to the poor, Pier Giorgio Frassati left his mark …
Pierina Morosini
Young Italian worker and Catholic Action militant, who died a martyr for purity at the age of 26.
Pierre Bienvenu Noailles
French priest and founder of the Holy Family Association of Bordeaux, recognized as Venerable in 1988.
Pierre Bonhomme
A priest of the Diocese of Cahors and founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Calvary, Pierre Bonhomme…
Pierre Goursat
A French layperson and founder of the Emmanuel Community, Pierre Goursat dedicated his life to adoration, compassion, an…
Pierre Monnereau
Pierre Monnereau (1787-1856) was a French priest, pastor of the parish of Les Brouzils in the Vendée, and founder of the…
Pierre Toussaint
A former Haitian slave who became a highly sought-after hairdresser in New York, Pierre Toussaint dedicated his life and…
Pierre-François Jamet
Norman priest, superior of the Sisters of the Good Savior of Caen, and a pioneer in the education of the deaf and mute.
Pierre-Joseph Cassant
A French Trappist monk, Pierre-Joseph Cassant is a model of evangelical simplicity and spiritual abandonment, beatified …
Pietro Bonilli
Italian priest and founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Spoleto, dedicated to the poor and o…
Pietro Casani
Pietro Casani (1572-1647), in religion Peter of the Nativity of Mary, was an Italian priest and co-founder of the Order …
Pietro Leonardi
An Italian priest from Verona, Pietro Leonardi (1769-1844) dedicated his life to the sick, orphans, and the deaf-mute, a…
Pietro Pattarini of Imola
A renowned jurist and magistrate of Imola, Pietro Pattarini went into exile in Florence where he joined the Order of Sai…
Pio of Pietrelcina
Italian Capuchin (1887-1968), Padre Pio bore the stigmata for fifty years at San Giovanni Rotondo and was canonized in 2…
Pius IX
Pope from 1846 to 1878, Pius IX marked the Church by the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, the pub…
Polycarpe Gondre
Jean-Hippolyte Gondre, known as Brother Polycarpe (1801-1859), was a French religious, second founder of the Institute o…
Quirico Pignalberi
Quirico Pignalberi (1891-1982) was an Italian Conventual Franciscan priest, co-founder of the Militia of the Immaculata …
Rafael Arnáiz Barón
A Spanish Trappist monk (1911-1938), Rafael Arnáiz Barón is known for his profound spirituality of abandonment, summariz…
Rafael Guízar Valencia
Mexican Bishop of Veracruz (1878-1938), tireless missionary and defender of the Church during the revolutionary persecut…
Rafaela Ybarra de Vilallonga
Rafaela Ybarra de Vilallonga (1843-1900) was a Spanish wife, mother, and foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of…
Raffaele Dimiccoli
Italian priest dedicated to the education of youth and service to the poor in Barletta, founder of the New Saint Philip …
Ramón Ibarra y González
Bishop Ramón Ibarra y González (1853-1917) was the first archbishop of Puebla in Mexico and a major spiritual and eccles…
Raphael Kalinowski
A Polish officer in the Russian army and an insurgent in 1863 who was deported to Siberia, Joseph Kalinowski became a Di…
Regina Protmann
Blessed Regina Protmann (1552-1613), foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Catherine, a pioneer in the e…
Rita Josefa Pujalte Sánchez and María Sagrario Moragas
Rita Josefa Pujalte Sánchez and María Sagrario Moragas were two Spanish religious sisters martyred in 1936 during the Ci…
Rita Lopes de Almeida
Rita Lopes de Almeida (1848-1913), in religion Rita Amada de Jesus, was a Portuguese religious sister and foundress of t…
Rosa Maria Benedetta Gattorno
Rosa Maria Benedetta Gattorno (1831-1900) was an Italian widow, foundress of the Daughters of Saint Anne, dedicated to a…
Rosa Ojeda Creus
Rosa Ojeda Creus (1871-1954) was a Spanish religious sister, founder of the Institute of the Carmelite Sisters of Saint …
Rosalie Rendu
A Daughter of Charity, she dedicated her life to the poor of the Mouffetard district in Paris and inspired the founding …
Rosario Angelo Livatino
An upright and courageous Sicilian magistrate, Rosario Livatino was assassinated by the mafia in 1990. Recognized as a m…
Rosario Livatino
Rosario Livatino (1952-1990) was an upright Italian magistrate, murdered by the Sicilian mafia and beatified in 2021 as …
Róża Filipa Białecka
Foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Dominic in Poland, she dedicated herself to the education of rural…
Rudolf Komorek
Rudolf Komorek (1890-1949) was a Polish Salesian priest, a missionary in Brazil among immigrants, renowned for his radic…
Rupert Mayer
A German Jesuit priest, Blessed Rupert Mayer was a courageous opponent of Nazism in Munich and a tireless apostle to the…
Salvatore Lilli and 7 companions
Salvatore Lilli, an Italian Franciscan priest, and seven of his Armenian parishioners were martyred in 1895 in Lesser Ar…
Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli
Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli (1806-1864) was an Italian Dominican priest, a pioneer missionary in the American Midwest, a …
Santina Maria Addolorata
Italian religious of the 20th century, founder of the Congregation of the Sisters Disciples of the Sacred Heart, charact…
Savina Petrilli
Savina Petrilli (1851-1923) was an Italian religious sister, foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Poor of…
Sebastiana Lladó Sala
Sebastiana Lladó Sala (1814-1899), in religion Sister Maria Raphaela of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, was a Spanish religio…
Secondo Pollo
An Italian priest and military chaplain of the Alpine division, Secondo Pollo died at the front in Montenegro in 1941 wh…
Simaan Srugi
A Salesian lay religious (coadjutor brother) born in Nazareth, Simaan Srugi devoted himself body and soul to the sick of…
Simon de Rojas
Spanish Trinitarian (1552-1624) nicknamed "Father Ave Maria", founder of the Congregation of the Slaves of the Most Swee…
Simon Srugi
Simon Srugi (1877-1943) was a Salesian coadjutor brother from Galilee. For nearly fifty years in Beit Gemal, he served a…
Sister Lúcia dos Santos
Sister Lúcia dos Santos, one of the three seers of the Fatima apparitions in 1917, was a Dorothean sister and later a Ca…
Solanus Casey
American Capuchin priest (1870-1957), a humble porter gifted with a charism of healing and co-founder of the Detroit sou…
Saint Stanisław Kazimierczyk
Saint Stanisław Kazimierczyk (1433-1489) was a Polish priest of the Order of Canons Regular of the Lateran, renowned for…
Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski
Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski (1913-1945) was a Polish priest who died as a martyr of charity at the Dachau concentration…
Stefan Wyszyński
Stefan Wyszyński (1901-1981), cardinal and primate of Poland known as the "Primate of the Millennium," was a key figure …
Teodora Fracasso
Teodora Fracasso (1901-1927), in religion Sister Elia of St. Clement, was an Italian Carmelite nun beatified in 2006.
Teodoreto Garberoglio
An Italian Lasallian religious, the Venerable Brother Teodoreto (1871-1954) dedicated his life to the education of youth…
Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
A German Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a Carmelite nun, Edith Stein (Teresa Benedicta of th…
Teresa Bracco
Young Italian laywoman killed in 1944 while defending her purity against a German soldier, beatified in 1998 by John Pau…
Teresa Guasch Toda
Co-founder of the Congregation of the Carmelite Sisters of Saint Joseph, Teresa Guasch Toda dedicated her life to the ed…
Teresa Manganiello
Teresa Manganiello (1849-1876) was an Italian layperson, Franciscan tertiary, and spiritual co-founder of the Congregati…
Teresa Mira García
A Spanish nun of the Carmelite Missionaries of St. Teresa congregation, Teresa Mira García distinguished herself by her …
Teresa of Calcutta
A religious sister of Albanian origin born in Skopje in 1910, Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcu…
Teresa of Jesus of the Andes
A Chilean Discalced Carmelite who died of typhus at nineteen in 1920, Teresa of Jesus of the Andes was the first saint o…
Theodore Guerin
A French religious sister who emigrated to the United States, Saint Theodore Guerin founded the Sisters of Providence of…
Thérèse of St. Augustine
Daughter of King Louis XV, Louise-Marie of France (Sister Thérèse of St. Augustine) left the court of Versailles to ente…
Thevarparampil Kunjachan
Priest of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and tireless apostle to the Dalits in India, known as Kunjachan.
Tiburcio Arnáiz Muñoz
Tiburcio Arnáiz Muñoz (1865-1926) was a Spanish Jesuit priest, founder of the Missionaries of Rural Doctrines, and beati…
Titus Brandsma
Dutch Carmelite, philosopher and advisor to Catholic journalists, Titus Brandsma died a martyr at the Dachau camp in 194…
Tomasa Ortiz Real
Tomasa Ortiz Real (1842-1916), in religion Mother Piedad de la Cruz, was a Spanish religious sister and foundress of the…
Tommaso Reggio
Archbishop of Genoa and founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Martha, Blessed Tommaso Reggio was distinguish…
Toscana of Verona
A 14th-century Italian hospital sister, Toscana of Verona dedicated her life and fortune to the service of the poor, the…
Ubaldesca Taccini
Ubaldesca Taccini (1136-1206) was an Italian Hospitaller nun of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, renowned for her d…
Ulrika Nisch
A Sister of Charity of the Holy Cross, Ulrika Nisch (1882-1913) lived a life of humility and charity as a kitchen assist…
Ursula Ledóchowska
A Polish religious sister born in Austria, Ursula Ledóchowska founded the Congregation of the Ursuline Sisters of the Ag…
Valeriu Traian Frentiu
Romanian Greek-Catholic bishop and martyr of the faith under the communist regime, beatified in 2019.
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…
Vendelin Vošnjak
Slovenian Franciscan priest (1861-1933), founder and first provincial of the Croatian Franciscan Province of Saints Cyri…
Vicenta Chávez Orozco
Mexican foundress of the Servants of the Most Holy Trinity and the Poor, dedicated to the service of the sick.
Vicente Bernedo
Vicente Bernedo (1562-1619) was a Spanish Dominican religious, missionary, and tireless evangelizer of the Bolivian Alti…
Vicente Soler Munárriz and 7 companions
Vicente Soler Munárriz and his seven companions are martyrs of the Spanish Civil War, beatified in 1999 by John Paul II.
Vicente Vilar David
Vicente Vilar David (1889-1937) was a Spanish industrial engineer and business owner, a martyr of the Spanish Civil War,…
Victoria Díez Bustos de Molina
Victoria Díez Bustos de Molina (1903-1936) was a Spanish schoolteacher, a member of the Teresian Association, who was ma…
Vilmos Apor
Bishop of Győr and martyr, Vilmos Apor was killed in 1945 while protecting refugee women from Soviet soldiers.
Vincenzo Cimatti
Vincenzo Cimatti (1879-1965) was an Italian Salesian priest and missionary, a pioneer of the Salesian mission in Japan, …
Virgilio Angioni
Italian priest (1878-1947), founder of the Work of the Good Shepherd and the congregation of the Sisters of the Good She…
Virginia Blanco Tardío
Virginia Blanco Tardío (1916-1990) was a Bolivian consecrated laywoman, a pioneer of religious education and a major fig…