List of blesseds - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a list of beatified persons
Beatification
Beatification is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a dead person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in his or her name . Beatification is the third of the four steps in the canonization process...

or blesseds according to the Catholic Church. The list is in alphabetical order by Christian name but, if necessary, by surname, the place or attribute part of name as well.

Blessed	Date of death	Date of beatification Beatification Beatification is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a dead person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in his or her name . Beatification is the third of the four steps in the canonization process...
Adolph Kolping Adolph Kolping Adolph Kolping was a German Catholic priest.-Life:Kolping grew up as the son of a shepherd. At the age of 18 he went to Cologne as a shoemaker’s assistant. He was shocked by the living conditions of most people living there, which influenced his decision to become a priest...	1865	1991
Agnellus of Pisa Agnellus of Pisa Blessed Agnellus of Pisa was a Friar Minor and founder of the English Franciscan Province. He was born in 1195 at Pisa,of the prominent family, Angenelli. This similarity to the upbringing of St.Francis makes it no surprise that Agnellus was approached by St. Francis himself and asked to join the...	1236	1882
Albertina Berkenbrock Albertina Berkenbrock Blessed Albertina Berkenbrock was a Brazilian Roman Catholic virgin.-Biography:Albertina was born in São Luís, Imaruí, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Her grandparents immigrated from Schöppingen, Germany to Brazil and brought with them their three children, one of who was Johann Hermann, who would become...	1931	2007
Alexandrina Maria da Costa Alexandrina Maria da Costa Alexandrina Maria da Costa , also known as Blessed Alexandrina of Balasar, was a Portuguese mystic of the Eucharist, who was born and died in Balasar . Alexandrina left many written works, which have been studied mainly in Italy by Fr. Umberto Pasquale and Signorile couple...	1955	2004
Alfonso Maria Fusco Alfonso Maria Fusco Blessed Alfonso Maria Fusco was a Roman Catholic priest and founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. John the Baptist, commonly known as Baptistine Sisters...	1910	2001
Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, O.S.B. was a Benedictine monk and Cardinal Archbishop of Milan during World War II...	1954	1996
Aloysius Stepinac Aloysius Stepinac Aloysius Viktor Stepinac , also known as Blessed Aloysius Stepinac, was a Croatian Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Zagreb from 1937 to 1960. In 1998 he was declared a martyr and beatified by Pope John Paul II....	1960	1998
Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy The Blessed Amadeus IX , surnamed the Happy, was the Duke of Savoy from 1465 to 1472. He was the son of Louis, Duke of Savoy, and Anne de Lusignan, daughter of Janus of Cyprus, King of Cyprus....	1472	1677
Ana de los Angeles Monteagudo Ana de los Angeles Monteagudo Ana de los Angeles Monteagudo was born in Arequipa, Peru. She was a Dominican nun who was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1985. She was a cloistered nun at the Santa Catalina Monastery. Her feast day is January 10th....	1686	1985
Angela of Foligno Angela of Foligno Angela of Foligno was a Christian author, Franciscan tertiary, and mystic. She was noted not only for her spiritual writings, but also for founding a religious order.-Early life and conversion:...	1309	1693
Angelina di Marsciano Angelina di Marsciano Blessed Angelina di Marsciano, T.O.R., was an Italian religious Sister and foundress, and is a beata of the Roman Catholic Church. She founded a congregation of Third Order Regular Sisters, known today as the Franciscan Sisters of Blessed Angelina...	1435	1825
Angelo Paoli Angelo Paoli Blessed Angelo Paoli was an Italian Carmelite, known as "the father of the poor".-Life:He was born at born at Argigliano, Tuscany, the son of Angelo Paoli and Santa Morelli, as a young man he spent the greater part of his leisure time in teaching Catholic doctrine to the poor children of Argigliano...	1720	2010
Anna Maria Taigi Anna Maria Taigi Anna Maria Gesualda Antonia Taigi was an Italian woman who was beatified by Pope Benedict XV in 1920.-Life:...	1837	1920
Anne Catherine Emmerich Anne Catherine Emmerich Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich was a Roman Catholic Augustinian nun, stigmatic, mystic, visionary and ecstatic....	1824	2004
Anne of Saint Bartholomew Anne of Saint Bartholomew Blessed Anne of St. Bartholomew, O.C.D., was a Spanish Discalced Carmelite nun, and companion to Saint Teresa of Avila.-Life:...	1626	1917
Anne-Marie Javouhey Anne-Marie Javouhey Blessed Anne-Marie Javouhey was a French nun who founded the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Cluny. She is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church...	1851	1950
Anton Martin Slomšek Anton Martin Slomšek Anton Martin Slomšek was a Slovene bishop, author, poet, and advocate of Slovene culture.Slomšek was born to a peasant family in the hamlet of Slom near the village of Ponikva in the Municipality of Šentjur, Lower Styria. He studied theology and philosophy before being ordained in 1824 at the...	1862	1999
Anne-Marie Rivier Anne-Marie Rivier Blessed Anne-Marie Rivier was a Religious Sister in the Latin Rite branch of the Catholic Church and foundress of the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary, a religious congregation ministering in eighteen different countries...	1838	1982
Antoni Julian Nowowiejski Antoni Julian Nowowiejski Antoni Julian Nowowiejski was a Polish bishop of Płock , titular archbishop of Silyum, first secretary of Polish Episcopal Conference , honorary citizen of Płock and historian...	1941	1999
Antonio Rosmini-Serbati Antonio Rosmini-Serbati Blessed Antonio Rosmini-Serbati was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and philosopher. He founded the Rosminians, officially the Institute of Charity or Societas a charitate nuncupata.-Biography:...	1855	2007
Anthony Baldinucci Anthony Baldinucci Anthony Baldinucci was an Italian Jesuit priest and missionary, best known for his unusual methods of conducting missions.-Life:...	1665	1893
Anthony Neyrot Anthony Neyrot Anthony Neyrot was an Italian Dominican priest, apostate, reconvert, and martyr.-Life:...	1460	1767
Archangela Girlani	1494	1864
Arnold Janssen Arnold Janssen Saint Arnold Janssen, S.V.D., was a Roman Catholic priest and missionary, and is venerated as a saint. He is best known for founding the Society of the Divine Word, a Roman Catholic missionary religious congregation, also known as the Divine Word Missionaries, as well as two congregations for...	1909	2003
Ascensión Nicol Goñi Mother Ascensión Nicol Goñi Blessed María Ascensión Nicol y Goñi, O.P., was a Spanish Roman Catholic Religious Sister of the Third Order of St. Dominic, having previously been a cloistered nun of the Dominican Second Order...	1940	2005
August Czartoryski August Czartoryski Blessed August Franciszek Maria Anna Józef Kajetan Czartoryski, Duke of Vista Alegre was a Prince of the Polish Czartoryski family, born in Paris during the family's exile. A sickly child, he spent much of his youth being shuttled to various health spas. He was accompanied and tutored by a...	1893	2004
Augustine Fangi Augustine Fangi Augustine Fangi, O.P. was an Italian Dominican friar and priest. He was commonly regarded in his time as a miracle worker, and as prior of several houses, was concerned with restoring and maintaining regular observance of the Rule of Saint Dominic...	1493	1878
Baptista Varani Baptista Varani Baptista Varani , O.S.C., was an Italian Poor Clare nun and ascetical writer.-Life:...	1527	1843
Bartholomew of Braga	1514	2001
Bartolo Longo Bartolo Longo Blessed Bartolo Longo was a Satanist priest who later repented and became a lay Dominican, dedicating his life to the Virgin Mary. He was eventually awarded a papal knighthood.-Early years:...	1926	1980
Basil Moreau Basil Moreau The Blessed Father Basil Anthony Marie Patrice Moreau, CSC was the French priest who founded the Congregation of Holy Cross from which three additional congregations were founded, namely the Marianites of Holy Cross, the Sisters of the Holy Cross, and the Sisters of Holy Cross...	1873	2007
Beatrice d'Este Beatrice d'Este (died 1226) Blessed Beatrice d'Este was the daughter of Azzo VI of the Este family by his second wife, Sophia Eleanor, daughter of Humbert III, Count of Savoy. She was the aunt of Saint Beatrice d'Este....	1226	1763
Beatrix d'Ornacieux Beatrix d'Ornacieux Blessed Beatrix d'Ornacieux was a Carthusian nun. Her feast day is 13 February.Beatrice was a Carthusian nun who founded a settlement of the order at Eymieux in the department of Drôme...	1306	1869
Benôite (Benedicta) Rencurel Benôite (Benedicta) Rencurel Benoîte Rencurel was a shepherdess from Saint-Étienne-le-Laus, France who saw apparitions from the Virgin Mary beginning from 1664 through 1718. The apparitions became known as Our Lady of Laus, and the site receives thousands of pilgrim visits a year. The site gained Vatican approval in May 2008...	1647	1984
Caius of Korea Caius of Korea Blessed Caius of Korea is the 128th of the 205 Roman Catholic Martyrs of Japan beatified by Pope Pius IX on 7 July 1867, after he had canonized the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan five years before on 8 June 1862.The 19th century French Catholic missionary Claude-Charles Dallet wrote of him in his A...	1624	1867
Candlemas of San José Blessed Candlemas of San José Mother Candlemas of San José is the founder of the congregation known today as the Hermanas Carmelitas de Madre Candelaria...	1940	2008
Carlos Manuel Rodriguez Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Blessed Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Santiago was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico. Rodríguez was a layperson of the Roman Catholic Church, who was beatified on April 29, 2001...	1963	2001
Catherine Jarrige Catherine Jarrige Blessed Catherine Jarrige , known as Catinon Menette, a beatified third-order Dominican of the Catholic Church.- Youth :...	1836	1996
Ceferino Namuncurá Ceferino Namuncurá Blessed Ceferino Namuncurá was a saintly religious student and the object of a Roman Catholic cultus of veneration in northern Patagonia and throughout Argentina.- Early life :...	1905	2007
Ceferino Giménez Malla Ceferino Giménez Malla Ceferino Giménez Malla was a Spanish Gypsy, a Roman Catholic catechist and activist for Spanish Romani causes, considered the patron saint of Romani people in Roman Catholicism...	1936	1997
Celine Borzecka Celine Borzecka Mother Celine Chludzińska Borzęcka, also known as Blessed Celine Borzęcka , was a foundress, along with her daughter Hedwig Borzecka, of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Resurrection, a Roman Catholic religious order.Celine was born in Antowil, Orsza, formerly Poland, today in Belarus, one of...	1913	2007
César de Bus César de Bus Blessed César de Bus was a French Catholic priest, founder of two religious congregations.-Life:...	1607	1821
Charles I, Count of Flanders Charles I, Count of Flanders Blessed Charles the Good was Count of Flanders from 1119 to 1127. He is most remembered for his murder and its aftermath.-History:...	1127	1884
Charles I of Austria and Hungary	1922	2004
Charles de Foucauld Charles de Foucauld Charles Eugène de Foucauld was a French Catholic religious and priest living among the Tuareg in the Sahara in Algeria. He was assassinated in 1916 outside the door of the fort he built for protection of the Tuareg and is considered by the Catholic Church to be a martyr...	1916	2005
Chiara Badano Chiara Badano Chiara Badano, called Chiara “Luce” , was an Italian teenager who has been declared "Blessed" within the Catholic Church. She belonged to the Focolare Movement and died prematurely at eighteen after succumbing to osteosarcoma, an aggressive and painful form of bone cancer...	1990	2010
Christina von Stommeln Christina von Stommeln Blessed Christina of Stommeln , also known as Christina Bruso and Christina Bruzo, was a Roman Catholic mystic, ecstatic, and stigmatic....	1312	1908
Christopher Robinson Christopher Robinson (priest) Christopher Robinson was an English Catholic priest and martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:Robinson was born at Woodside, near Westward, Cumberland. He was admitted to the English College at Reims in 1589, and was ordained priest and sent on the English mission in 1592...	1598	1987
Christopher Wharton Christopher Wharton Christopher Wharton was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:...	1600	1987
Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Toledo, Primate of Spain and Patriarch of the West Indies....	1909	2009
Clare of Rimini Clare of Rimini Blessed Clare of Rimini, born as Chiara Agolanti, was born at Rimini in 1282 and died there on February 10, 1346. She was deprived at an early age of the support and guidance of her parents and, later, of her pious husband...	1346	1782
Clemens August Graf von Galen Clemens August Graf von Galen Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen was a German count, Bishop of Münster, and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church....	1946	2005
Columba of Rieti Columba of Rieti Columba of Rieti was an Italian female Dominican tertiary mystic. She was renowned for her spiritual advice, devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, and the fantastic miracles attributed to her....	1501	1625
Conrad of Offida Conrad of Offida The Blessed Conrad of Offida was an Italian Friar Minor preacher and founder of the Celestines.-Biography:Conrad was born at Offida, a little town in the March of Ancona, c. 1241...	1306	1817
Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi was an Igbo Nigerian ordained a Roman Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Onitsha, Nigeria on December 19, 1937...	1964	1998
Didacus Joseph of Cadiz Didacus Joseph of Cadiz Blessed Didacus Joseph , O.F.M. Cap., of Cadiz was born on March 29, 1743 and given the name Joseph Francis. His lineage dated from the Visigoth kings....	1801	1894
Dominic Barberi Dominic Barberi Blessed Dominic of the Mother of God, born Dominic Barberi was an Italian theologian and a member of the Passionist Congregation...	1849	1963
Edward Osbaldeston Edward Osbaldeston Blessed Edward Osbaldeston was an English martyr, born about 1560. Не was hanged, drawn, and quartered at York, 16 November 1594.Son of Thomas Osbaldeston, and nephew of Edward Osbaldeston, of Osbaldeston Hall, near Blackburn, Lancashire, he went to the English College of Douai, then at Reims,...	1594	1987
Edmund Catherick Edmund Catherick Edmund Catherick was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...	1642	1929
Edmund Ignatius Rice Edmund Ignatius Rice Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice , was a Roman Catholic missionary and educationalist. Edmund was the founder of two orders of religious brothers: the Congregation of Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers....	1844	1996
Elisabeth Hesselblad Elisabeth Hesselblad Blessed Elisabeth Hesselblad, religious name Maria Elisabetta Hesselblad, was a Swedish nurse, nun, and beatified woman....	1957	2000
Elizabeth of the Trinity Elizabeth of the Trinity Elizabeth of the Trinity was a French nun and religious writer. She was born Élisabeth Catez in the military camp of Avord in the district of Farges-en-Septaine . Her parents were Captain Joseph and Marie Catez. Elizabeth was the first born of her family. She had a terrible temper...	1906	1984
Eufrasia of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Eufrasia of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Blessed Eufrasia of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was born on October 7, 1877 in Edathuruthy, a locale in the city of Thrissur, Kerala, India. She was named Rosa Eluvathingal...	1952	2006
Francesco Bonifacio Francesco Bonifacio Francesco Giovanni Bonifacio was an Italian Catholic priest, killed by the Yugoslav communists in Grisignana ; he was beatified in Trieste on .-Early life:...	1946	2008
Francesco Faà di Bruno Francesco Faà di Bruno Francesco Faà di Bruno was an Italian mathematician and priest, born at Alessandria. He was of noble birth, and held, at one time, the rank of captain-of-staff in the Sardinian Army. He is the eponym of Faà di Bruno's formula...	1888	1988
Francesco Spoto Francesco Spoto Francesco Spoto was a Sicilian missionary killed in the Congo. He was beatified in Palermo, Sicily on April 27, 2007.-Web sources:...	1964	2007
Francis of Fabriano Francis of Fabriano Francis of Fabriano was an Italian Franciscan writer. He was beatified in 1775.-Life:...	1322	1775
Francis Xavier Seelos Francis Xavier Seelos Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos was a German-American Roman Catholic priest and Redemptorist missionary....	1867	2000
Francisco Marto Jacinta and Francisco Marto Francisco Marto and his sister Jacinta Marto , also known as Blessed Francisco Marto and Blessed Jacinta Marto, together with their cousin, Lúcia dos Santos were the children from Aljustrel near Fátima, Portugal, who said they witnessed three apparitions of an angel in 1916 and...	1919	2000
Francisco Palau Francisco Palau Blessed Francis Palau y Quer is a beatified Discalced Carmelite Spanish priest. He founded "The School of the Virtue" -- which was a model of catechetical teaching for adult persons—at Barcelona. In 1860-61, he also founded a mixed Congregation of Third Order of Discalced Carmelites, both Brothers...	1872	1980
Franciszka Siedliska Franciszka Siedliska Blessed Franciszka Siedliska , also known as Mother Mary of Jesus the Good Shepherd, was the founder of a Roman Catholic religious order of nuns, the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth.-Life:...	1902	1989
François de Laval François de Laval This article is in part a sermon and generally comes close to hagiography.Blessed François-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval was the first Roman Catholic bishop of Quebec and was one of the most influential men of his day. He was appointed when he was 36 years old by Pope Alexander VII. He was a member...	1708	1980
Françoise d'Amboise Françoise d'Amboise Françoise d'Amboise was born in the castle of Thouars. She was the daughter of the rich noble Louis d'Amboise, prince of Talmont and Viscount of Thouars....	1485	1863
Franz Jägerstätter Franz Jägerstätter Blessed Franz Jägerstätter, O.F.S., was an Austrian conscientious objector during World War II. Jägerstätter was sentenced to death and executed...	1943	2007
George Napper George Napper George Napper was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929 by Pope Pius XI.-Life:George Napper a son of Edward Napper George Napper (Napier) (born at Holywell manor, Oxford, 1550; executed at Oxford 9 November 1610) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a...	1610	1929
Giovanni Antonio Farina	1888	2001
Giovanni Dominici Giovanni Dominici Giovanni Dominici was an Italian Cardinal, statesman and writer. His ideas were a profound influence on the art of Fra Angelico.-Life:Dominici was born in Florence....	1420	1832
Giselle of Bavaria Giselle of Bavaria Blessed Gisela of Hungary was the first queen of Hungary.- Biography :Gisela was a daughter of Henry II, Duke of Bavaria and Gisela of Burgundy.... Queen consort of Hungary	1065	1975
Gregor Lakota Gregor Lakota Blessed Hryhorij Lakota was a Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church auxiliary bishop who suffered religious persecution and was martyred by the Soviet Government....	1950	2001
Grimoaldo of the Purification Grimoaldo of the Purification Blessed Grimoaldo of the Purification, born Ferdinando Santamaria, a religious and clerical student of the Passionist Congregation, born on May 4, 1883 in Pontecorvo, Frosinone, Italy; died November 18, 1902 at Ceccano, Italy...	1902	1995
Gunther of Bohemia	1045
Helen Enselmini Helen Enselmini Blessed Helen Enselmini of Arcella , also known as Sister Elena Elsimi, was a Catholic Saint. She was born in Padua, Italy, and became a Clarisse nun at age 12, receiving the veil from Saint Francis of Assisi at San Nicola Arcella, near Padua, Italy. She is said to have had the gift of inedia,...	1242	1695
Hugh Cook Faringdon Hugh Cook Faringdon Blessed Hugh Cook Faringdon, O.S.B., , also known as Hugh Faringdon or Hugh Cook, was a Benedictine monk who ruled as the last Abbot of Reading Abbey in the English town of Reading. At the dissolution of the monasteries under King Henry VIII of England, he was accused of high treason and executed...	1539	1895
Humphrey Middlemore Humphrey Middlemore Blessed Humphrey Middlemore was a Roman Catholic priest and Carthusian monk, from England. He is considered a martyr by the Catholic Church...	1535	1886
Imelda Lambertini Imelda Lambertini Blessed Imelda Lambertini is the patroness of First Holy Communicants.- Early life :Imelda was born in 1322 in Bologna, the only child of Count Egano Lambertini and Castora Galuzzi. Her parents were devout Catholics and were known for their charity and generosity to the underprivileged of Bologna...	1333	1826
Irmã Dulce Irmã Dulce The Blessed Irmã Dulce, S.M.I.C., was a Brazilian Catholic Franciscan Sister who was the founder of the Obras Sociais Irmã Dulce also known as the Charitable Works Foundation of Sister Dulce. Her work with the poor population in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, has made her a candidate for sainthood in...	1992	2011
Isidore of Saint Joseph Isidore of Saint Joseph Blessed Isidore of Saint Joseph, also known as ‘the Brother of the Will of God’ born Isidore de Loor, a lay brother of the Passionist Congregation, born on April 13, 1881 in Vrasene, Belgium; died October 6, 1916 at Kortrijk, Belgium...	1916	1984
Ivan Merz Ivan Merz Blessed Ivan Merz was a Bosnian-Croatian lay academic, beatified by Pope John Paul II on a visit at Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 23, 2003...	1896	1928
Jacinta Marto Jacinta and Francisco Marto Francisco Marto and his sister Jacinta Marto , also known as Blessed Francisco Marto and Blessed Jacinta Marto, together with their cousin, Lúcia dos Santos were the children from Aljustrel near Fátima, Portugal, who said they witnessed three apparitions of an angel in 1916 and...	1920	2000
Jacques Desire Laval (Father)	1864	1979
James Salomoni James Salomoni Blessed James Salomoni was an Italian Dominican priest, ascetic, and mystic who is venerated as a beatus by the Catholic Church.Born in Venice into a noble family, Salomoni was brought up by his mother after his father died. His mother later became a Cistercian nun and he was then raised by his...	1314	1568
Jerzy Popiełuszko	1984	2010
Joana, Princess of Portugal	1490	1693
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John Baptist Scalabrini John Baptist Scalabrini Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini was ordained priest on 30 May 1863. He was made Bishop of Piacenza in Italy, on 28 November 1887 he founded the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles now known as the Scalabrinian Fathers and Brothers...	1901	1997
John Henry Newman	1890	2010
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John Pibush John Pibush John Pibush was an English Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...	1601	1929
Jolenta of Poland Jolenta of Poland Jolenta of Poland was the daughter of Béla IV of Hungary and Maria Laskarina. She was the sister of Saint Margaret of Hungary and Saint Kinga...	1298	1927
Josaphata Hordashevska Josaphata Hordashevska Blessed Josaphata Hordashevska, S.S.M.I., born Michaelina Hordashevska, a Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Religious Sister, was the first member of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate....	1919	2001
José Olallo José Olallo José Olalla was a Cuban friar, beatified in 2008. He was abandoned at 30 days of age, and was raised in an orphanage in Havana.A member of the Hospitallier Order of Saint John of God, he helped the sick and wounded during Cuba's Ten Years' War, giving aid to people on both sides.Raul Castro...	1889	2008
Joseph Gérard Joseph Gérard Blessed Joseph Gérard, OMI was a French Catholic missionary who chiefly worked among the Basotho people of modern day Lesotho and the Free State province of South Africa. He was born in Bouxières-aux-Chênes, in the Diocese of Nancy and received his religious training from the Missionary Oblates of...	1914	1988
Joseph Vaz Joseph Vaz Blessed Joseph Vaz was a Catholic Oratorian priest from Goa. He is known as theApostle of Ceylon....	1711	1995
Josephine Leroux Josephine Leroux Josephine Leroux , born Anne-Joseph Leroux, was an Ursuline nun. She was born in Cambrai, France. She became an Ursuline in Valenciennes, taking the name Josephine. She fled to Mons, Hainaut when the monasteries and convents were suppressed during the French Revolution, but returned to Valenciennes...	1794	1920
Junípero Serra Junípero Serra Blessed Junípero Serra, O.F.M., , known as Fra Juníper Serra in Catalan, his mother tongue was a Majorcan Franciscan friar who founded the mission chain in Alta California of the Las Californias Province in New Spain—present day California, United States. Fr...	1784	1988
Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevicius Jurgis [George] Matulaitis was a Roman Catholic Bishop of Vilnius from 1918 to 1925 and founder of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. On 28 June 1987, Pope John Paul II beatified him as the Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulewicz.-Biography:Matulaitis was the son of...	1927	1987
Kamen Vitchev Kamen Vitchev Born May 23, 1893 at Srem, Bulgaria, Peter Vitchev came from a peasant family. He joined the Catholic congregation known as the Assumptionists, or Augustinians of the Assumption, in 1910, beginning his novitiate in Gempe, Belgium, and later taking the name Kamen. He pursued his studies of...	1952	2002
Kateri Tekakwitha Kateri Tekakwitha Kateri Tekakwitha or Catherine Tekakwitha was a Mohawk-Algonquian woman from New York and an early convert to Catholicism, who has been beatified in the Roman Catholic Church.-Her life:...	1680	1980
Kuriakose Elias Chavara Kuriakose Elias Chavara Blessed Kuriakose Elias Chavara was the co-founder and first prior-general of the Congregation of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate and of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Mother of Carmel....	1871	1886
László Batthyány-Strattmann László Batthyány-Strattmann The Blessed Prince László Batthyány-Strattmann de Németújvár, in German Ladislaus Fürst Batthyány-Strattmann von Güssing, was a Hungarian aristocrat and physician. The devout Catholic became known as the "doctor of the poor"...	1931	2003
Laura Vicuña Laura Vicuña Blessed Laura Vicuña is a blessed person in the Roman Catholic Church. She is the patron of abuse victims.-Escape from Chile:...	1904	1988
Louis Martin Louis Martin (blessed) Blessed Louis Martin was a French layman and the father of Saint Thérèse de Lisieux. His wife was Blessed Marie-Azélie Guérin.-Early life:...	1894	2008
Louis-Zéphirin Moreau Louis-Zéphirin Moreau Louis-Zéphirin Moreau was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and fourth Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe, from 1875 to 1901.He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 10 May 1987.-References:...	1901	1987
Ludovica Albertoni Ludovica Albertoni Ludovica Albertoni , sometimes known as Louisa Albertoni or Ludovica Albertoni Cetera, is considered a blessed person in Christianity. Her feast day is January 31....	1533	1671
Ludovico of Casoria Ludovico of Casoria Blessed Ludovico of Casoria, O.F.M., was an Italian Franciscan friar, renowned social reformer and founder of the "Gray Friars of Charity" and the "Gray Sisters of St. Elizabeth".-Life:Born Archangelo Palmentieri, he apprenticed as a cabinet maker in his youth...	1885	1993
Luis Magaña Servin	1928	2004
Mafalda of Portugal Mafalda of Portugal Infanta Mafalda of Portugal was a Portuguese infanta , later Queen consort of Castile for a brief period. She was the second youngest daughter of King Sancho I of Portugal and Dulce of Aragon....	1256	1793
Margaret of Castello Margaret of Castello Blessed Margaret of Castello is an Italian Roman Catholic Church patron of the poor, crippled, and the unwanted. She was born blind, lame, deformed, hunchbacked and a dwarf, into a family of nobles in the castle of Metola, in southeast of Florence...	1320	1609
Margaret of Lorraine Margaret of Lorraine Margaret of Lorraine was Duchess of Alençon, and a nun of the order of Poor Clares . She was beatified in 1921.-Marriage and children:...	1463	1921
Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury was an English peeress, one of two women in sixteenth-century England to be a peeress in her own right with no titled husband, the daughter of George of Clarence, the brother of King Edward IV and King Richard III...	1541	1886
Margaret of Savoy Blessed Margaret of Savoy The Blessed Margaret of Savoy was Marchioness of Montferrat.-Family:Margaret was the eldest of the four children—all daughters—born to Amadeo of Savoy, and his wife Catherine of Geneva.Her paternal grandparents were Giacomo of Savoy, titular Prince of Achaea and his second wife...	1464	1669
Margareta Ebner Margareta Ebner Blessed Margareta Ebner, O.P., was a German nun who is considered part of the tradition of German mysticism and a visionary...	1351	1979
Maria Adeodata Pisani Maria Adeodata Pisani Born 29 December 1806 at Naples, Italy; Died 25 February 1855 at the Benedictine monastery at Mdina, MaltaVenerated: 24 April 2001 by Pope John Paul II Beatified: 9 May 2001 by Pope John Paul II...	1855	2001
Maria Alfonsina Danil Ghattas (Maria Soultaneh)	1843	1927
Maria Gabriella Sagheddu Maria Gabriella Sagheddu Blessed Sister Maria Gabriella Sagheddu was a Trappist nun. She was born in Sardinia in 1914 and died of tuberculosis in the Trappist monastery of Grottaferrata in 1939...	1939	1981
Maria Romero Meneses Maria Romero Meneses Blessed María Romero Meneses, was a Salesian Sisters, beatified by Pope John Paul II on the 14 April 2002.-Early life:...	1977	2002
Maria Restituta Maria Restituta Sister Maria Restituta was a nun and a nurse. Her birthname was Helen Kafka...	1943	1998
Maria Teresia Ledóchowska	1922	1975
Maria Theresa Chiramel Maria Theresa Chiramel Blessed Maria Theresa Chiramel was a Syro-Malabarese Catholic nun who was beatified in 2000. She was the daughter of Thoma and Thanda Chiramel Mankidiyan in the village of Puthenchira, Thrissur District, in Kerala, India. She was baptized Thresia Chiramel Mankidiyan on May 3, 1876. She was the...	1926	2000
Mariam Baouardy Mariam Baouardy Blessed Mariam Baouardy was a Melkite Greek Catholic Carmelite nun. She was born on January 5, 1846 in I'billin. In April 1878 she played an important role in the identification of the Biblical Emmaus thanks to a private revelation. She died on August 26, 1878 in Bethlehem...	1878	1983
Marianne Cope	1918	2005
Marie Anne Blondin	1890	2001
Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas Blessed Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas was a Palestinian Christian nun who was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009...	1927	2009
Marie-Azélie Guérin Martin Marie-Azélie Guérin Martin Blessed Marie-Azélie "Zélie" Martin née Guérin was a French laywoman and the mother of Saint Thérèse de Lisieux. Her husband was Blessed Louis Martin.-Early life:...	1877	2008
Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta Blessed Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta was a member of the Holy Family Sisters in Bafwabaka, Belgian Congo, respectively Republic of the Congo ...	1964	1985
Marie-Geneviève Meunier Marie-Geneviève Meunier Blessed Marie-Geneviève Meunier , also known as Sister Constance, was a Carmelite novice and one of the Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne. She took the religious habit on 16 December 1788. She mounted the platform singing Laudate Dominum before being guillotined in Paris.Marie-Geneviève was beatified...	1794	1906
Marija Petković Marija Petkovic Marija Petković, also known as "The Blessed Mary of Jesus Crucified Petković" , was the founder of the Catholic Congregation of the Daughters of Mercy...	1966	2003
Mark Barkworth Mark Barkworth Mark Barkworth was a Catholic priest and martyr .He was born about 1572 at Searby in Lincolnshire. He studied for a time at Oxford, though no record remains of his stay there. He was received into the Catholic Church at Douai in 1593, by Father George, a Flemish Jesuit and entered the College...	1601	1929
Mary of the Divine Heart Mary of the Divine Heart Blessed Mary of the Divine Heart , born Maria Droste zu Vischering, was a German Roman Catholic nun best known for influencing Pope Leo XIII's consecration of the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus...	1899	1975
Matilde of the Sacred Heart Matilde of the Sacred Heart Blessed Matilde del Sagrado Corazón Téllez Robles was a Spanish Roman Catholic nun and the foundress of the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary, Mother of the Church.- Biography :...	1841	1902
Matthew Carrieri Matthew Carrieri Blessed Matthew Carrieri of Mantua was a Dominican friar noted for the "austerity of his life." He was the spiritual instructor of Stephana de Quinzanis, and like her, an alleged stigmatic.-Life:...	1470	1482
Maurus Scott Maurus Scott Blessed Maurus Scott , born William Scott, was an English lawyer who became a Benedictine monk and priest, serving as a missionary in England during the period of recusancy. He was executed at Tyburn, and is a Catholic martyr....	1612	1929
Mercedes de Jesús Molina Mercedes de Jesús Molina Blessed Mercedes de Jesús Molina is a Roman Catholic blessed from Baba, Ecuador. She was a missionary who devoted her life to the care of abandoned children and founded the order of the Sisters of Mariana de Jesús...	1828	1883
Michał Sopoćko	1975	2008
Miguel Agustín Pro	1927	1988
Miles Gerard Miles Gerard Miles Gerard was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...	1590	1929
Nazju Falzon Nazju Falzon Blessed Ignatius Falzon was a Maltese priest who was beatified in 2001.Falzon was born to Francis Joseph Falzon, a judge, and Mary Teresa Falzon, the daughter of a judge. He had three brothers; all four became lawyers, and two of the brothers entered the priesthood...	1865	2001
Notker the Stammerer	912	1512
Odo of Novara Odo of Novara Odo of Novara was an Italian Carthusian monk.A native of Novara, he was appointed as prior of Geirach in Slovenia. However, he experienced difficulties with Dietrich, the local bishop, who persecuted him...	1200	1859
Odoric of Pordenone Odoric of Pordenone Odoric of Pordenone was an Italian late-medieval traveler...	1331	1775
Osanna of Mantua Osanna of Mantua Blessed Osanna Andreasi of Mantua was a Dominican tertiary, stigmatic, and mystic.-Life:...	1505	1694
Ozana of Kotor	1565	1934
Patrick O'Hely Patrick O'Hely Patrick O'Hely was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop of Mayo, Ireland, who was executed by the English secular authorities.-Biography:...	1579	1992
Pavol Peter Gojdič Pavol Peter Gojdic Pavol Gojdič, also known as Pavel Peter Gojdič or Peter Gojdič , was a Basilian monk and the bishop of the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Prešov martyred by the communist regime in Czechoslovakia....	1960	2001
Pedro Calungsod Pedro Calungsod Blessed Pedro Calungsod is a Filipino Roman Catholic martyr who was killed while doing missionary work in Guam in 1672. He was beatified on March 5, 2000, by Pope John Paul II. As a skilled sacristan and teacher of cathecism, he was a companion of Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores to the Marianas...	1672	2000
Pier Giorgio Frassati Pier Giorgio Frassati Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, T.O.S.D., was an Italian Catholic activist, who was a member of the Third Order of St. Dominic. He has been beatified by the Roman Catholic Church....	1925	1990
Pierina Morosini Pierina Morosini Pierina Morosini was born in Fiobbio, a frazione of Albino, Bergamo, Italy on 7 January 1931 to farmers Rocco Morosini and Sara Noris....	1957	1987
Pierre de Luxembourg Pierre de Luxembourg Pierre de Luxembourg was a Catholic ecclesiastic. He was beatified in 1527.Pierre was born July 20, 1369, in Ligny-en-Barrois, Meuse, France. He was the second of the six children of Guy of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny, and Saint-Pol, and Mahaut de Châtillon.Both of Pierre's parents died while he...	1387	1527
	1878	2000
Ralph Corbie Ralph Corbie Ralph Corbie was an Irish Jesuit. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...	1644	1929
Richard Whiting Richard Whiting Richard Whiting may refer to:* Richard Whiting , the last Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey before the Dissolution of the Monasteries...	1539	1895
Robert Dibdale Robert Dibdale Robert Dibdale, or Debdale, was a Catholic priest and martyr.He was born the son of John Dibdale of Shottery, in the parish of Stratford-upon-Avon and the birthplace of William Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway at a date unknown. He had a brother Richard and sisters Joan and Agnes. It would seem...	1586	1987
Robert Nutter Robert Nutter Robert Nutter was an English Catholic martyr. He was beatified in 1987....	1600	1987
Rose-Chrétien de la Neuville Rose-Chrétien de la Neuville Blessed Rose-Chrétien de la Neuville was a French Carmelite nun and one of the Martyrs of Compiègne. She married young but was widowed. She was professed as a nun in 1777, taking the name Sister Julie Louise of Jesus, and sang in the convent choir...	1794	1906
Rudolf Komorek	1949	1995
Sancha of Portugal	1229	1705
Sadok and 48 Dominican martyrs from Sandomierz	1260	1807
Sára Salkaházi Sara Salkahazi Blessed Sára Salkaházi, S.S.S. , born as Sára Schalkház, was a Hungarian Roman Catholic religious sister who saved the lives of approximately one hundred Jews during World War II...	1944	2006
Sebastian Newdigate Sebastian Newdigate Blessed Sebastian Newdigate was a Roman Catholic priest and Carthusian monk, of England. He is considered a martyr by the Catholic Church....	1535	1886
Seraphina Sforza Seraphina Sforza Seraphina Sforza , born Sveva da Montefeltro, was an Italian noblewoman and nun, a Poor Clare after her husband Alessandro Sforza discarded her....	1478	1754
Stanislaus Papczyński Stanislaus Papczynski Blessed Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary Papczyński , a priest of the Roman Catholic church, a member of the Piarist Order, the founder of the Congregation of Marian Fathers; beatified by the Roman Catholic Church in 2007. Son of Tomasz Papka—a blacksmith—and Zofia née Tacikowska...	1701	2007
Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski Blessed Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski was a Polish priest, scout and is patron of Polish Scouts. He joined Scouting on March 21, 1927. Stefan served as Patrol leader, later as Troop Leader and during his years in the High Seminary of Pelplin Diocese he was an active member of its Scout Club...	1945	1999
Stephana de Quinzanis Stephana de Quinzanis Blessed Stephana de Quinzanis was an Italian Dominican tertiary and stigmatic.-Life:...	1530	1740
Stephen Nehmé Stephen Nehmé Stephen Nehmé was a Lebanese Maronite Catholic monk in the Lebanese Maronite Order. He was beatified on 27 June 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI.-Life:...	1938	2010
Szilárd Bogdánffy Szilárd Bogdánffy Szilárd Ignác Bogdánffy was a Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Satu Mare and Oradea of the Latins. On October 30, 2010 he was proclaimed blessed in a ceremony held in St...	1953	2010
Terence Albert O'Brien Terence Albert O'Brien Terence Albert O'Brien was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop of Emly. He was beatified among the Seventeen Irish Martyrs by Pope John Paul II on September 27, 1992.-Biography:...	1651	1992
Teresa of Calcutta	1997	2003
Teresa of Portugal Teresa of Portugal Theresa of Portugal was Queen of Léon as the first wife of King Alfonso IX of Léon...	1250	1705
Thaddeus McCarthy Thaddeus McCarthy Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy was an Irish ecclesiastic, who was appointed Bishop of Ross, Ireland in 1482 and Bishop of Cork and Cloyne in 1490. His feast day is 25 October.- Early life :...	1492	1896
Theodore Romzha Theodore Romzha Blessed Theodore Romzha was bishop of the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Mukacheve from 1944 to 1947. Assassinated by Stalin's NKVD, he was beatified as a martyr by Pope John Paul II on June 27, 2001.-Early life:...	1947	2001
Thomas Cottam Thomas Cottam Blessed Thomas Cottam was an English Catholic priest and martyr from Lancashire, who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I.-Life:...	1582	1886
Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland Blessed Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland, 1st Baron Percy, KG , led the Rising of the North and was executed for treason. He was later beatified by the Catholic Church.-Early life:...	1572	1895
Thomas Thwing Thomas Thwing Blessed Thomas Thwing was an English Catholic priest and martyr.Born at Heworth Hall, near York, in 1635, he was the son of George Thwing, Esquire, of Kilton Castle, Brotton, and Heworth Hall, and was the nephew of the Catholic martyr Edward Thwing. His mother was Anne, sister of the Sir Thomas...	1680	1929
Thurston Hunt Thurston Hunt The Blessed Thurston Hunt was an English Roman Catholic priest. He was tried and executed with the Blessed Robert Middleton, also a priest. They were declared to be martyrs by the Catholic Church, and beatified in 1987, by Pope John Paul II.A contemporary sang ofIn November 1600, Middleton was...	1601	1987
Titus Brandsma Titus Brandsma Blessed Titus Brandsma was a Dutch Carmelite priest and professor of philosophy. Brandsma was vehemently opposed to Nazi ideology and spoke out against it many times before the Second World War....	1942	1985
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Valentinus Paquay Valentinus Paquay Valentinus Paquay , born Jan Louis, also known as the little holy father of Hasselt , was a Friar Minor....	1905	2003
Vasyl Velychkovsky Vasyl Velychkovsky Blessed Martyr Vasyl Velychkovsky was a priest, and later bishop, of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church .In 1920 he entered the seminary in Lviv...	1973	2001
Vilmos Apor Vilmos Apor Blessed Baron Vilmos Apor de Altorja was the Bishop of Győr during World War II who became famous for protesting against the persecution of the Hungarian Jews... of Hungary	1945	1997
Vincent Romano Vincent Romano Blessed Vincent Romano, also called Vincenzo Dominico Romano, was born in Torre del Greco, Naples, Italy. Vincent was a parish priest of the village of Herulano who was noted for his very simple way of life and his care of orphans. He was oppressed by French invaders in his area, and also by some...	1831	1963
William Andleby William Andleby William Andleby was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:...	1597	1929
William Exmew William Exmew Blessed William Exmew, was an English Catholic priest, Carthusian monk and martyr. Exmew was beatified by Pope Leo XIII, on 9 December 1886.-Life:...	1535	1886
William Harrington William Harrington (priest) William Harrington was an English Jesuit priest. He is a Roman Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.-Life:His father had entertained Edmund Campion at the ancestral home, Mount St. John, early in 1581...	1594	1929
William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford Blessed William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford was the youngest son of Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, and his wife, the former Alethea Talbot. He was a supporter of the Royalist cause before being implicated in the Popish Plot and executed for treason...	1680	1929
William Joseph Chaminade William Joseph Chaminade William Joseph Chaminade or Guillaume-Joseph Chaminade, now called by his liturgical title of Blessed Chaminade , was a French Roman Catholic priest who survived persecution during the French Revolution. He founded the Society of Mary, also called the Marianists, in 1817...	1850	2000
Wincenty Kadłubek	1223	1764
Zdenka Cecília Schelingová Zdenka Cecilia Schelingová Blessed Zdenka Cecília Schelingová , was a Slovak nun of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Holy Cross and a victim of communist persecution in the former Czechoslovakia.She was born at Krivá na Orave...	1955	2003

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