Chronological list of saints and blesseds in the 20th century

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A list of people, who died during the 20th century, who have received recognition as Blessed (through beatification) or Saint (through canonization) from the Catholic Church:

NameBirthBirthplaceDeathPlace of deathNotes
Josep Manyanet y Vives 1833 Tremp, Spain 1901 Barcelona, Spain Priest
Blessed Louis Zephyrinus Moreau 1824 Bécancour, Quebec, British Province of Lower Canada 1901 Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe
Blessed Tommaso Reggio 1818 Genoa, Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia 1901Genoa, Kingdom of Italy Archbishop of Genoa
Agostino Roscelli 1818Bargone, Casarza Ligure (now Genoa), Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia1902Genoa, ItalyPriest
Maria Goretti 1890 Corinaldo, Italy1902 Nettuno, ItalyVirgin and martyr
Blessed Contardo Ferrini 1859 Milan, Kingdom of Italy 1902 Suna, Novara, Kingdom of Italy
Blessed Grimoaldo of the Purification
(Ferdinando Santamaria)
1883 Pontecorvo, Italy1902 Ceccano, Italy
Blessed Maria of Jesus Siedliska 1842 Roszkowa Wola, Congress Poland 1902 Rome, ItalyFounder of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth
Blessed Matilde of the Sacred Heart 1841 Robledillo de la Vera, Spain1902 Don Benito, SpainFounder of the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary, Mother of the Church
Gemma Galgani 1878 Camigliano, Italy1903 Lucca, Italy
Blessed Clemente Marchisio 1833 Racconigi, Cuneo, Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia1903 Rivalba, Turin, ItalyPriest and Founder of the Institute of the Daughters of St. Joseph
Geltrude Caterina Comensoli 1847 Bienno, Italy1903 Bergamo, ItalyFounder of the Congregation of the Sacramentine Sisters of Bergamo
Blessed Marie-Joseph Cassant 1878 Casseneuil, French Third Republic 1903 Toulouse, French Third Republic Trappist priest
Blessed Hendrina Stenmanns (Josepha)1852 Issum, German Confederation 1903 Netherlands Co-Foundress of Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit
Blessed Mary of the Passion (Helene de Chappotin)1839 Nantes, Orléanist Kingdom of France 1904 San Remo, Italy
Blessed Laura Vicuña 1891 Santiago, Chile1904 Junín de los Andes, Neuquén, Argentina
Blessed Bonifacia Rodriguez Castro 1837 Salamanca, Spain1905 Zamora, Spain
Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini 1839 Fino Mornasco, Italy1905 Piacenza, Italy Bishop of Piacenza and founder of Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo- Scalabrinian for Migrants
Blessed Juan Nepomuceno Zegrí Moreno 1831 Grenada, Spain1905 Málaga, SpainFounder of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy
Blessed Valentinus Paquay 1828 Tongeren, Belgium1905 Hasselt, Belgium
Blessed Małgorzata Szewczyk 1828 Khmelnytskyi, Galicia and Lodomeria 1905 Aleksandrów, Poland
Ezekiel Moreno y Diaz 1848 Alfaro, Spain1906 Montegudo, SpainMissionary, Bishop of Pasto
Elizabeth of the Trinity (Élisabeth Catez)1880 Avord, Cher, French Third Republic1906 Dijon, French Third Republic Carmelite nun
Blessed Giuseppina Gabriela Bonino (Josephine Gabriel Bonino)1843 Savigliano, Italy1906 Savona, ItalyFounder of the Sisters of the Holy Family
Blessed Maria Christina Brando 1856 Naples, Italy1906  Casoria, Italy
Blessed Ana Petra Pérez Florido 1845 Málaga, Spain1906 Barcelona, SpainFounder of the Institute of the Mothers of the Helpless and of St. Joseph of the Mountain
Raphael Kalinowski 1835 Vilnius, Lithuania 1907 Wadowice, Poland
Joseph Freinademetz 1852 Badia, Austria1908 Taikia, ChinaMissionary priest of the Society of the Divine Word
Blessed Maddalena Caterina Morano 1847 Chieri, Italy1908 Catania, Italy
Arnold Janssen 1837 Goch, Kingdom of Prussia 1909 Steyl, Netherlands Priest, founder of the Society of the Divine Word
Blessed Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás 1833 Quintana del Pidio, Spain1909 Toledo, Spain Cardinal
Blessed Emmanuel Domingo y Sol 1836 Tortosa, Spain1909Tortosa, SpainPriest and founder of the Pontifical Spanish College in Rome
Blessed Isidore Bakanja 1885 Bokendela, Belgian Congo 1909 Busira, Belgian Congo
Mary MacKillop 1842Newtown, Melbourne, British Colony of New South Wales (now Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia)1909 North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Miguel Febres Cordero 1854 Cuenca, Ecuador 1910 Premia, ItalyMember of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
Blessed Alfonso Maria Fusco 1839 Angri, Italy1910 Angri, ItalyPriest and founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. John the Baptist
Blessed Maria Schininà 1844 Ragusa, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies 1910  Ragusa, Kingdom of Italy Founder of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Blessed Bernard Mary of Jesus (Bernard Silvestrelli)1831Rome, Italy1911 Moricone, ItalyPriest
Blessed Josephine Vannini 1859Rome, Italy1911 Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Blessed Maria Marcellina Darowska 1827 Szulaki, Poland
(now in Ukraine)
1911 Jazlowiec, Poland
(now in Ukraine)
Founder of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
María del Monte Carmelo Sallés y Barangueras 1848 Vic, Barcelona, Spain1911 Madrid, Spain
Arcangelo Tadini 1846 Verolanuova, Italy1912 Botticino Sera, ItalyPriest, founder of the Congregation of Worker Sisters of the Holy House of Nazareth
Blessed Bronisław Markiewicz 1842 Pruchnik, Austrian Empire 1912 Miejsce Piastowe, Austria-Hungary
Candida Maria de Jesus Cipitria y Barriola 1845 Andoain, Spain1912 Salamanca, Spain
Blessed Jan Beyzym 1850 Volhynia, Poland1912 Madagascar Jesuit priest and missionary in Madagascar
Maria Josefa of the Heart of Jesus 1842  Vitoria, Álava, Spain1912  Bilbao, Biscay, Spain
Blessed Francesco Spinelli 1853 Milan 1913 Rivolta d'Adda
Blessed Giovanni Maria Boccardo 1848  Moncalieri, Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861) 1913 Moncalieri, Turin, Kingdom of Italy
Giovanni Battista Piamarta 1841  Brescia, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia 1913  Remedello, Kingdom of Italy
Blessed Ulrika Nisch 1882 Oberdorf 1913 Allensbach
Benedict Menni 1841  Milan, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia 1914  Dinan, Côtes-d'Armor, French Third Republic
Pius X (Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto)1835 Riese, Italy1914 Apostolic Palace, Vatican City Pope
Blessed Elena Guerra 1835 Lucca 1914 Lucca
Blessed Joseph Gerard 1831 Bouxières-aux-Chênes, Orléanist Kingdom of France1914 Roma, British Basutoland (now Lesotho)Priest and Missionary
Leonie Françoise de Sales Aviat 1844 Sézanne 1914 Perugia
Rebecca (or Rafka) Al-Rayes 1832 Lebanon 1914Lebanon
Blessed Ignatius Maloyan 1869  Mardin, Ottoman Empire 1915 Mardin, Ottoman Empire
Blessed Giuseppe Baldo 1843 Italy 1915Italy
Luigi Guanella 1842 Campodolcino 1915 Como
Blessed Placidio (Tomasso) Riccardi 1844 Trevi 1915 Rome
Albert Chmielowski 1845 Igołomia, Congress Poland 1916 Kraków, Austria-Hungary
Blessed Charles de Foucauld 1858 Strasbourg, Second French Empire 1916 Tamanrasset, French Algeria Priest and hermit
Blessed Frédéric Janssoone 1838 Ghyvelde, Hauts-de-France, Orléanist Kingdom of France1916 Montreal, Canada
Blessed Honorat da Biała 1829  Biała Podlaska, Congress Poland 1916  Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą, Mazowieckie, Vistula Land
Blessed Isidore of Saint Joseph (Isidore de Loor)1881 Vrasene, Belgium1916 Kortrijk, Belgium Passionist brother
Blessed Klara (Ludwika) Szczęsna 1863 Cieszki, Congress Poland 1916 Kraków, Kingdom of Poland
Blessed Juana María Condesa Lluch 1862  Valencia, Kingdom of Spain 1916 Valencia, Kingdom of Spain
Blessed Nemesia (Giulia) Valle 1847 Aosta 1916 Borgaro Torinese
Blessed Piedad of the Cross (Tomasa Ortiz Real) 1842 Bocairente 1916 Alcantarilla
Frances Xavier Cabrini 1850 Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, Italy1917 Chicago, Illinois, United States
Mutien-Marie Wiaux 1841 Mellet, Belgium1917 Malonne, BelgiumMember of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
Blessed Blandine Merten 1883 Düppenweiler, Saarland, Germany1918 Trier, Germany
Johannes Karhapää 1884 Ilomantsi, Grand Duchy of Finland 1918 Joensuu, Finland teacher and missionary
Blessed María Dolores Rodríguez Sopeña 1848 Vélez-Rubio 1918 Madrid
Marianne Cope 1838 Heppenheim, Grand Duchy of Hesse 1918 Kalaupapa, US Territory of Hawaii
Blesseds Daudi Okelo and Jildo Irwa  Uganda1918Uganda
Blessed Diego (Giuseppe) Oddi 1839 Vallinfreda 1919 Bellegra Franciscan
Francisco Marto 1908 Fátima, Portugal 1919 Fatima, Portugal
Blessed Josaphata Michaelina Hordashevska 1869 Lwów, Galicia (Austria-Hungary)1919 Krystynopol, Ukrainian People's Republic
Blessed José Gregorio Hernández 1864 Isnotú, Trujillo, Venezuela 1919 Caracas, VenezuelaFather of new medicine in Venezuela
Blessed Maria Antonia Bandres 1898 Tolosa 1919 Salamanca Daughters of Jesus (Spain)
Teresa of Los Andes (Juana Fernández Solar)1890 Santiago, Chile1920 Los Andes, Chile
Jacinta Marto 1910Fatima, Portugal1920 Fatima, PortugalSeer of Our Lady of Fatima
Zygmunt Gorazdowski (or Horazdovski) 1845 Sanok, Podkarpackie, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary1920 Lwów, Republic of Poland
Blessed Andrea Carlo Ferrari 1850 Lalatta, Italy1921 Milan, Italy Archbishop of Milan
Blessed Anna Eugenia PIcco 1867 Crescenzago, Milan, Kingdom of Italy1921 Parma, Kingdom of Italy
Blessed Maria Anna Rosa Caiani (Maria Margherita of the Sacred Heart) 1863 Poggio a Caiano, Florence, Kingdom of Italy1921 Poggio a Caiano, Florence, Kingdom of Italy
Maria Bertilla Boscardin (Ann Francis Boscardin)1888 Brendola, Italy1922 Treviso, Italy
Blessed Angela Salawa 1881 Kraków, Poland1922 Krakow, Molopolskie, Poland
Blessed Charles 1887 Persenbeug Castle, Persenbeug-Gottosdorf, Austria-Hungary1922 Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
Blessed Maria Fortunata Viti 1827 Veroli, Italy 1922Veroli, Italy
Blessed Joseph Nascimbeni 1851 Torri del Benaco, Verona, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia1922 Castelleto del Garda, Verona, Kingdom of Italy
Blessed Maria Theresa Ledochowska 1863 Loosdorf, Austrian Empire 1922Rome, ItalyMissionary
Blessed Columba Marmion 1858 Dublin, Ireland1923 Maredsous Abbey, Belgium Benedictine monk and abbot
Filippo Smaldone 1848 Naples, Italy1923 Lecce, ItalyPriest and founder of the Salesian Sisters of the Sacred Hearts
Jozef Bilczewski 1860 Wilamowice, Austria-Hungary 1923 Lwów, Poland (now Ukraine) Archbishop of Lviv
Blessed Luigi Tezza 1841 Conegliano, Trevisio, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia1923 Lima, Peru
Blessed Luigi Variara 1875 Viarigi, Asti, Kingdom of Italy1923 San José de Cúcuta, Norte de Santander, Colombia
Blessed Savina Petrilli 1851 Siena, Grand Duchy of Tuscany1923 Sienna, Kingdom of Italy
Blessed Edward Poppe 1890 Temse, Belgium1924 Moerzeke, Belgium Priest
Blessed Jakob (Franz Alexander) Kern 1897 Vienna, Austria-Hungary1924 Vienna General Hospital, Vienna, Austria-Hungary O.Praem
Józef Sebastian Pelczar 1842 Korczyna, Podkarpackie, Congress Poland1924 Przemysl, Podkarpackie, Second Polish Republic
Maria Bernarda Bütler 1848 Auw, Aargau, Switzerland1924 Cartagena, Colombia Founder of the Congregation of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Mary, Help of Christians
Rafaela Porras Ayllón 1850 Pedro Abad, Córdoba, Kingdom of Spain1925 Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Anna Schaffer 1882 Mindelstetten, Bavaria, German Empire1925 Mindelstetten, Bavaria, German
Blessed Manuel Míguez González 1831 Xamirás, Ourense, Kingdom of Spain1925 Getafe, Madrid, Kingdom of Spain
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati 1901 Turin, Italy1925Turin, Italy
Blessed Bartolo Longo 1841 Latiano, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies 1926 Pompeii, Kingdom of Italy
Blessed Colomba Gabriel 1858 Ivano-Frankivsk, Galicia, Austrian Empire1926 Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Blessed Joseph Allamano 1851 Castelnuovo, Asti, Kingdom of Sardinia1926 Turin, Kingdom of Italy
Blessed Luigi Talamoni 1848 Monza, Kingdom of Italy1926 Milan, Kingdom of Italy
Blessed Maria Theresa Chiramel 1876 Puthenchira, Thrissur, British India1926 Kuzhikattussery, Thrissur, British IndiaFounder of Holy Family Congregation
Blessed Mariano de Jesus Euse Hoyos 1845 Yarumal, Antioquia, Colombia1926 Angostura, Antioquia, Colombia
Blessed Maria Concepción Barrecheguren García 1905 Granada, Kingdom of Spain 1927 GranadaLaywoman
David Uribe Velasco 1889 Buenavista de Cuéllar, Guerrero, México1927 San José Vista Hermosa, Mexico
Jenaro Sanchez Delgadillo 1876 Agualele, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico1927 La Loma, outside of Tecolotlán, Jalisco, MéxicoMartyr, Saints of the Cristero War
Jose Isabel, Flores Varela, and Jose Maria Robles Hurtado   Mexico1927 Mexico Saints of the Cristero War
Cristóbal Magallanes Jara and Companions1869 Totatiche, Mexico1927 Colotlán, MexicoPriest and Martyr
Giuseppe Moscati 1880 Benevento, Italy1927Naples, Italy
Julio Alvarez Mendoza 1866 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico1927 San Julián, Mexico
Mateo Correa Magallanes 1866 Tepechitlán, Mexico1927 Durango, MexicoMartyr, Saint of the Cristero War
Pedro Esqueda Ramirez 1887 San Juan de los Lagos, Mexico1927 Teocaltitán, Mexixo
Rodrigo Aguilar Aleman 1875 Sayula, Jalisco1927 Tula, MexicoMartyr, Saint of the Cristero War
Blessed Domingo Iturrate Zubero 1901 Dima, Vizcaya, Kingdom of Spain1927 Belmonte, Cuenca, Kingdom of Spain
Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius 1871 Lūginė, Lithuania1927 Kaunas, Lithuania Archbishop of Vilnius and founder of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Blessed Annibale Maria di Francia 1851 Messina, Italy1927Messina, Italy
Blessed Miguel Pro 1891 Guadalupe, Mexico1927 Mexico City Jesuit priest, martyr
Blessed Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas 1843 Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire 1927 Ein Karem, British Mandatory Palestine nun
Atilano Cruz Alvarado 1901 Teocaltiche, Mexico1928 Cuquío, MexicoMartyr, Saint of the Cristero War
Jesus Mendez Montoya 1880 Tarímbano, Michoacán, Mexico1928 Valtierrilla, Guanajuato, Mexico
Justino Orona Madrigal 1877 Atoyac, Jalisco, Mexico1928 Cuquío, Jalisco, MexicoSaint of the Cristero War
Toribio Romo González 1900 Jalostotitlán, Mexico1928 Tequila, MexicoMartyr, Saint of the Cristero War
Tranquilino Ubiarco Robles 1899 Zapotlán el Grande, Jalisco, Mexico1928 Tepatitlán, Jalisco
Blessed Mateo Elías Nieves Castillo 1882 Yuriya, Guanajuato, Mexico1928 Caraña de Caracheo, Guanajuato
Blessed Ivan Merz 1896 Banja Luka, Austria-Hungary 1928 Zagreb, Kingdom of Yugoslavia lay man
Blessed Cecilia Eusepi 1910 Monte Romano, Italy1928 Nepi, Italyautobiography entitled "The Story of a Clown"
José Sánchez del Río 1913 Sahuayo, Mexico1928 Sahuayo, MichoacánMartyr, Saint of the Cristero War
Blessed Anton Maria Schwartz 1852 Baden, Lower Austria, Austrian Empire1929 Vienna, First Austrian Republic
Blessed Dina Bélanger 1897 Quebec, Canada1929 Sillery, Quebec, Canada
Blessed Francisco Garate 1857 Azpeitia, Spain1929 Bilbao, Spain Jesuit brother
Blessed Joseph-Mary Rubio y Peralta 1864 Dalías, Spain1929 Aranjuez, Spain Jesuit priest, apostle of Madrid
Blessed Giulia Salzano 1846 Santa María Capua Vetere, Province of Caserta, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies1929 Casoria, Naples, Kingdom of Italy
Riccardo Pampuri 1897 Trivolzio, Italy1930Milan, Italy
Blessed Louis Versiglia and Calixtus Caravario   1930 Li-Thau-Tseul, China Martyr Saints of China
Blessed Irene Stefani 1891 Anfo, Italy1930Nyeri, Kenya
Blessed Clelia Merloni 1861 Forlì, Italy1930Rome, ItalyReligious Sister and Founder of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; incorrupt
Blessed Darío Acosta Zurita 1908 Naolino, Veracruz, Mexico1931 Assumption Cathedral, Puerto de Veracruz, Mexico
Blessed Ignacy Kłopotowski 1866 Korzeniowka, Belsky Uyezd, Grodno Governorate1931 Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
Blessed László Batthyány-Strattmann 1870 Dunakiliti, Austria-Hungary1931 Vienna, Austria
Blessed Philip Rinaldi 1856 1931 
Saint Angela of the Cross 1846 1932 Nun, Foundress of the Sisters of the Company of the Cross  [ es ]
Blessed Eurosia Fabris 1866 Quinto Vicentino, Italy1932 Marola, Veneto, Italy
Cirilo Bertran, Marciano Jose, Innocencio of Mary Immaculate, and companions  1934 
Blessed Maria Domenica Mantovani 1862 1934 
Blessed Antonia Mesina 1919 Orgosolo, Sardinia 1935 
Blessed Eusebia Palomino Yenes 1899 1935 
Blessed Leonid Feodorov 1879 Saint Petersburg, Russia1935 Viatka, Russia
Blessed Maria Karlowska 1865 1935 
Blessed Pietro Bonilli 1841 1935 
Blessed Amparo Rosat Balasch and Maria del Calvario Romero Clariana   1936 
Blessed Giacinto Longhin 1863 1936 
Blessed Angela of Saint Joseph and 16 companions  1936 
Blessed Bartolome Blanco Marquez 1914 Pozoblanco, Spain1936 
Blessed Ceferino Giménez Malla 1861 Fraga, Spain1936 
Blessed Clemencia Riba Mestres and Companions  1936 
Blessed Crescencia Valls Espí 1863 Onteniente, Spain1936 Canals, Spain
Blessed Daniel Brottier 1876 La Ferté-Saint-Cyr, France1936 Paris, France Spiritan priest
Blessed Denis Pamplona and 12 Companions  1936 
Blessed Deogracias Palacios and Companions  1936 
Blessed Dolores de Santa Eulalia Puig Bonany   1936 
Blessed Felipe de Jesus Munarriz and Companions  1936 
Blessed Florentino Asensio Barroso 1877 1936  Bishop of Barbastro
Blessed Jacinto Hoyuelos Gonzalo 1914 1936 
Blessed Jose Ruiz Bruixola 1857 1936 
Blessed Josefa de San Juan Ruano Garcia   1936 
Blessed Juan Bautista Ferreres Boluda 1861 1936 
Blessed Lucio Martinez Mancebo and Companions  1936 
Blessed Maria Gabriela de Hinojosa Naveros and Companions  1936 
Blessed Maria Sagrario 1881 1936 
Blessed Maria Teresa Ferragud Roig   1936 
Blessed Mary Ginard Marti 1894 1936 
Blessed Martyrs of Daimiel   1936 Daimiel, Spanish Republic
Blessed Mercè Prat i Prat 1880 1936 
Blessed Niceta Plaja Xifra de San Prudencia and companions  1936 
Blessed Pedro de Alcantara Villanueva Larrayoz 1881 1936 
Blessed Pedro Poveda Castroverde 1874 1936 
Blessed Philip de Jesus Monarriz and companions  1936 
Blessed Proceso Ruiz Cascales and companions  1936 
Blessed Santiago Mestre Iborra de Rafelbunol 1909 1936 
Blessed Tomas Sitiar Fortia and companions  1936 
Blessed Victoria Diez y Bustos de Molina 1903 1936 
Blessed Vincente Soler 1867 1936 
Blesseds Carlos Erana Guruceta, Fidel Fuidio, and Jesus Hita   1936 
Blesseds Francisca de Rafelbunol (Maria Fenollosa Alcayna) and Jose Fenollosa Alcayna   1936 
Blesseds Jose Aparicio Sanz, Enrique Juan Requena, and Jose Perpina Nacher   1936 
Blesseds Jose Ferrer Esteve and Alfredo Parte Saiz   1936 
Blesseds Joseph Tapies Sirvant and Pascal Araguas Guardia   1936 
Blesseds Maria de Jesus, Dolores Aguiar-Mella Diaz, and Consuelo Aguiar-Mella Diaz   1936 
Blesseds Maria de la Purificacion Ximenez Ximenez, Maria Jesefa del Rio Messa, and Sofia Ximenez Ximenez   1936 
Blesseds Maria del Carmen Moreno Benitez and Maria Amparo Carbonell Munoz   1936 Salesian Sisters
Blesseds Maria Jesus, Maria Veronica, Maria Felicidad Masia Ferragud   1936 
Blesseds Maria Pilar Martinez   1936 
Blesseds Pedro Ruiz de los Panos y Angel and Jose Sala Pico   1936 
Blesseds Rita Delores Pujalte and Francisca Aldea   1936 
Blesseds Manuel González-Serna and 19 companions  1936  Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War
Jaime Hilario Barbal 1889 Enviny, Spanish Republic1937 Member of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
André Bessette 1845 Mont-Saint-Grégoire, Quebec, British Province of Canada 1937 Montreal, CanadaReligious brother
Blessed Tobias Borras Roman 1861 1937 
Blessed Vicente Vilar David 1889 1937 
Blessed Enrico Rebuschini 1860 1938 
Faustina Kowalska 1905 Głogowiec, Russian Empire 1938 Kraków, PolandAuthor of "Divine Mercy in my Soul: The Diary of Maria Faustina Kowalska"
Blessed Julio Junyer Padern 1892 1938 
Rafael Arnaiz Baron 1911 1938 
Rafael Guizar Valencia 1878 Cotija, Mexico1938 Mexico City, Mexico Bishop of Veracruz
Blessed Alice Kotowska 1899 1939 Piaśnica, PolandOne of the 108 Martyrs of World War Two
Blessed Anselm Polanco and Philip Ripoll Morata   1939 
Blessed Ursula Ledóchowska 1865 Loosdorf, Austria1939Rome, Italy
Blessed Agnes Phila and companions  1940  Martyrs of Thailand
Ascensión Nicol Goñi 1868 Tafalla, Spanish State 1940PeruMissionary and mother superior of the Congregation of Dominican Missionaries of the Rosary
Blessed Franciszek Rogaczewski 1892 1940 
Luigi Orione 1872 Pontecurone, Kingdom of Italy1940 Sanremo, Kingdom of Italy
Blessed Manuel Gonzalez Garcia 1877 1940 
Blessed Maria Bernardina Jablonska 1878 1940 
Blessed Otto Neururer 1882 1940 
Blessed Philip Siphong Onphitak 1907 1940 Martyrs of Thailand
Maximilian Kolbe 1894 Zduńska Wola, Russian Empire1941KL Auschwitz, German-Occupied Poland Conventual Franciscan priest, Martyr
Blessed Andriy Ishchak 1887 1941 
Blessed Yakym Senkivskyi 1896 Velyki Hai, Ukraine, Russian Empire1941 Drohobych, Ukraine, USSR Martyr
Blessed Elisa Angela Meneguzzi 1901 1941 
Blessed Mykola Konrad 1876 1941 
Blessed Secondo Pollo 1908 1941 
Blessed Volodymyr Pryjma 1906 1941 
Leopold Mandić 1866 1942 
Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)1891 Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland)1942KL Auschwitz, German-Occupied PolandJewish convert, Carmelite nun
Blessed Mary Restituta Kafka 1894 1942 
Blessed Mislav Bohatkiewicz 1904 1942 
Pauline of the Suffering Heart of Jesus 1865 1942 
Blessed Peter Edward Dankowski 1908 1942 
Blessed Emil Szramek 1887 1942 
Blessed Janina Szymkowiak 1910 1942 
Titus Brandsma 1881 1942 Dutch Carmelite priest
Blessed Wojciech Nierychlewski 1903 1942 
Blessed Anthony Leszczewicz 1890 1943 
Blessed Bernhard Lichtenberg 1875 1943 
Blessed Maria Josefa Karolina Brader 1860 1943 
Blessed Jakob Gapp 1897 1943 
Blessed Maria Stella Mardosewicz and companions  1943 
Blessed Nazaire Marcii Mesa 1889 1943 
Blessed Franz Jägerstätter 1907Sankt Radegund, Upper Austria1943 Brandenburg-Görden Prison, Brandenburg an der Havel, GermanyAustrian conscientious objector during WWII
Blesseds Józef and Wiktoria Ulma with Seven Children 1900/1944 Markowa 1944 Markowa, Occupied Poland First fully beatified family [1]
Blessed Emilian Kovch 1884 1944 
Blessed Nicholas Bunkerd Kitbamrung 1895 1944 
Blessed Tarsykia Matskiv 1919 1944 
Blessed Teresa Bracco 1924 1944 
Blessed Giuseppe Beotti 1912 Gragnano Trebbiense 1944 Sidolo, Bardi Priest and martyr of Nazi era [2]
Blessed Teresa Grillo Michel 1855 1944 
Blessed Karl Leisner 1915 1945 
Blessed Marcel Callo 1921 1945 
Blessed Maria Pilar Izquierdo Albero 1906 1945 
Blessed Maria Raffaella Cimatti 1861 1945 
Blessed Natalia Tułasiewicz 1906 1945 
Blessed Nikolaus Gross 1898 1945 
Blessed Peter To Rot 1912 1945 
Blessed Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski 1913 1945 
Blessed Alberto Marvelli 1918 1946 
Alphonsa Muttathupadathu 1910 Arpookara, Kerala, India 1946 Bharananganam, Kerala, India Religious sister
Blessed Bolesława Lament 1862 1946 
Blessed Vitalij Volodymyr Bajrak, O.S.B.M. 1907 Shvaikivtsi, Ukraine, Russian Empire1946 Drohobych, Ukraine, USSR
Blessed Joseph Kugler 1867Neuhaus, Bavaria1946 Regensburg, Germany
Josephine Bakhita 1869 Sultanate of Darfur (now Sudan)1947 Italy Canossian religious sister
Blessed Hryhorij Chomyszyn 1867 Hadynkivtsi, Ukraine, Russian Empire1947 Kiev, Ukraine, USSR
Blessed Claudio Granzotto 1900 1947 
Blessed Josaphat Kotsylovsky, O.S.B.M. 1876 Pakoshivka, Ukraine, Russian Empire1947 Przemyśl, Poland Bishop of Przemyśl
Blessed Maria Giovanna Fasce 1881 1947 
Blessed Theodore Romzha 1911 1947  Bishop of Mukacheve
Blessed Jan Wojciech Balicki 1869 1948 
Blessed Giuseppe Giaccardo 1896 1948 
Blessed Vicenta Chávez Orozco 1867 1949 
Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena 1874 1949 
Blessed Maria Candida of the Eucharist 1884 1949 
Blessed Nykyta Budka 1877 1949 
Blessed Roman Lysko 1914 1949 
Blessed Hryhory Lakota 1883 1950  Bishop of Przemyśl
Blessed Pere Tarrés i Claret 1905 1950 
Blessed Giuseppina Suriano 1915 1950 
Artémides Zatti 1880 1951 
Blessed Clement Sheptytsky 1869 1951 
Blessed Enrichetta Alfieri 1891 Kingdom of Italy 1951 Milan
Blessed Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi 1880 1951 
Blessed Mykola Tsehelskyi 1896 1951 
Blessed Zoltán Meszlényi 1892 Hatvan, Austria-Hungary1951 Kistarcsa, Hungarycommunist martyr
Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga 1901 Viña del Mar, Chile1952 Santiago, ChileChilean Jesuit priest, author of Is Chile a Catholic Country? , Founder of the Chilean Trade Union Association
Euphrasia Eluvathingal 1877 1952 
Blessed Ivan Ziatyk 1899 1952 
Blessed Kamen Vitchev 1893 1952 
Blessed Josaphat Chichkov 1884 1952 
Blessed Laurentia Herasymiv 1911 1952 
Blessed Olympia Bida 1903 1952 
Blessed Paolo Manna 1872 1952 
Blessed Pavel Djidjov 1919 1952 
Blessed Eugene Bossilkov 1900 1952 
Blessed Alfred Ildefonse Schuster 1880Rome, Italy1954 Venegono Inferiore near Milan Benedictine priest, archbishop of Milan and cardinal
Giovanni Calabria 1873 1954 
Blessed Alexandrina Maria da Costa 1904 1955 
Katherine Drexel 1858 1955 
Blessed Eurythimia Üffing 1914 1955 
Blessed Zdenka Schelingova 1916 1955 
Genoveva Torres Morales 1870 1956 
Blessed Carlo Gnocchi 1902 San Colombano al Lambro, Italy1956Milan, Italypriest
Blessed Maria Crocifissa Curcio 1877 1957 
Mary Elisabeth Hesselblad 1870 1957 
Blessed Petro Werhun 1890 1957 
Blessed Pierina Morosini 1931 1957 
Blessed Solanus Casey 1870 1957 
Blessed Nicola da Gesturi 1882 Gesturi, Italy1958 Cagliari, Italy
María Natividad Venegas de la Torre 1868 1959 
Blessed Dominick Trcka 1886 1959 
Blessed Nicholas Charnetsky 1884 1959 
Blessed Aloysius Stepinac 1898 Brezarić, Austria-Hungary (now Croatia)1960 Krašić, Yugoslavia (now Croatia) Archbishop of Zagreb and Cardinal
Blessed Pavel Peter Gojdic 1888 1960  Bishop of Prešov
Gianna Beretta Molla 1922 Magenta, Italy1962Magenta, Italy
Blessed María Ludovica de Angelis 1880 1962 
Blessed Carlos Manuel Rodriguez Santiago 1918 1963 
John XXIII (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli)1881 Sotto il Monte Giovanni XXIII, Italy1963 Vatican City Pope, Second Vatican Council
Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala 1878 1963 
Blessed Oleksiy Zarytskyi 1912 1963 
Blessed Anwarite Nengapeta 1939 1964 
Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi 1903 1964  Trappist priest
Blessed Simeon Lukach 1893 1964 
Blessed Maria Corsini Beltrame Quattrocchi 1884 1965 
Blessed Marija Petković 1892 Blato, Croatia 1966 
Blessed Laura Evangelista Alvarado Cardozo 1875 1967 
Pio of Pietrelcina 1887 1968  Capuchin priest, known as 'Padre Pio'
Blessed Maria Troncatti 1883 Brescia, Italy 1969 Morona-Santiago, Ecuador
Blessed James Alberione 1884 Fossano, Province of Cuneo,

Kingdom of Italy

1971 
Blessed Thevarparampil Kunjachan 1891 1973 
Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky 1903 1973 
María de las Maravillas de Jesús 1891 1974 
Blessed Michael Sopocko 1888 Juszewszczyzna, Ashmyany, Poland 1975 Białystok, PolandPriest, spiritual director of Saint Faustina Kowalska
Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer 1902  Barbastro, Spain 1975 Rome Priest, founder of the Opus Dei
Blessed Gabriele Allegra 1907 San Giovanni la Punta, Italy1976 Hong Kong Translator of Chinese Catholic Bible
Blessed Vasil Hopko 1904 Hrabské, Austria-Hungary (now Slovakia)1976 Prešov, Slovakia Auxiliary Bishop of Prešov
Blessed Maria Romero Meneses 1902 Granada, Nicaragua 1977 León, Nicaragua Nun known for her work with the poor in Costa Rica.
Paul VI 1897 Concesio, Italy1978Vatican CityPope
Blessed John Paul I 1912 Canale d'Agordo, Italy1978Vatican CityPope
Óscar Romero 1917 El Salvador 1980 San Salvador Bishop, shot during Mass
Blessed Stanley Rother 1935 Okarche, Oklahoma 1981 Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala American missionary priest in Guatemala, murdered by gunmen at the rectory of the church
Blessed Isabel Cristina Mrad Campos 1962 Barbacena, Minas Gerais, Brazil 1982 Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, BrazilVirgin and Martyr
Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko 1947 1984 Polish priest
Blessed Sandra Sabattini 1961 Riccione, Rimini, Italy1984 Bologna, Italy Coma due to car accident
Blessed Chiara Badano 1971 Sassello, Italy1990 Sassello, Italy Focolare Movement
Blessed Benedict Daswa 1946 Limpopo, South Africa1990Limpopo, South AfricaMurdered by local mob
Blessed Rosario Livatino 1952 Sicily, Italy1990Sicily, ItalyMurdered by Stidda
Blessed Elisabetta Martinez 1905 Galatina, Italy1991Rome, ItalyFounder of the Daughters of St. Mary of Leuca
Irmã Dulce Pontes 1914 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil1992 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Charitable Works Foundation of Sister Dulce
Blessed Pino Puglisi 1937 Palermo, Italy1993Palermo, ItalyMurdered by Italian Mafia
Blessed Alvaro del Portillo 1914 Madrid, Spain1994Rome, ItalyBishop, Prelate of Opus Dei
Blessed Esther Paniagua Alonso 1949 Izagre, Spain1994 Algiers, AlgeriaNun, murdered by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria
Blessed Gaetana Tolomeo 1936 Catanzaro, Kingdom of Italy1997Catanzaro, ItalyLayperson, member of Catholic Action
Teresa of Calcutta 1910 Skopje, Ottoman Empire1997 Calcutta, IndiaReligious sister, founder of the Missionaries of Charity
Blessed Eduardo Francisco Pironio 1920 Buenos Aires, Argentina1998 Rome, ItalyCardinal
María de la Purísima Salvat Romero 1926 Madrid, Spain1998 Seville, SpainNun, religious superior
Blessed Maria Laura Mainetti 1939 Colico, Italy2000 Chiavenna, Italy Sister of the Cross, martyred in satanic sacrifice

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A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person.

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