218 lives of faith. Showing 49–60.
Martyr · 1 December
Charles de Foucauld, born as Charles Eugène, vicomte de Foucauld de Pontbriand , in religion Charles of Jesus, was a French monk, Catholic priest and hermit who lived among the Tuareg people in the Sahara in Algeria.
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Priest / Deacon · 3 December
Francis Xavier , venerated as Saint Francis Xavier, was a Navarrese cleric and missionary.
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Doctor of the Church · 14 December
St. John of the Cross was a Spanish Catholic priest, mystic, and Carmelite friar. He is a major figure of the Counter-Reformation in Spain, and he is one of the 38 Doctors of the Church.
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Monastic / Hermit
Benedict Biscop , also known as Biscop Baducing, was an Anglo-Saxon abbot and founder of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Priory .
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Martyr · 20 November
Edmund the Martyr was king of East Anglia from about 855 until his death.
United Kingdom · Early origin
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Monastic / Hermit · 12 July
Giovanni Gualberto was an Italian Roman Catholic abbot and the founder of the Vallumbrosan Order.
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Priest / Deacon · 15 January
Arnold Janssen , was a German-Dutch Catholic priest and missionary who is venerated as a saint.
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Bishop · May 21
Eugène de Mazenod, OMI was a French aristocrat and Catholic bishop who founded the congregation of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.
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Priest / Deacon · 22 January
Vincent Pallotti, SAC was an Italian Catholic cleric and the founder of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate, later known as the Pious Society of Missions .
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Monastic / Hermit · 21 October
Laura Montoya, in full María Laura de Jesús Montoya Upegui , religious name Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena, was a Colombian Roman Catholic religious sister and the founder of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Virgin Mary and…
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Priest / Deacon · 6 February
Alfonso Maria Fusco was a Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Sisters of Saint John the Baptist – also known as the Baptistine Sisters.
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Monastic / Hermit
Bartolomea Capitanio was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious and the co-foundress of the Sisters of Charity of Lovere that she established with Vincenza Gerosa.
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