180 lives of faith. Showing 85–96.
Martyr · 20 September
Jean-Charles Cornay was a French missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society who was martyred in Vietnam. He was executed in Ha Tay, Tonkin, now Vietnam, during the persecutions of Emperor Minh Mạng.
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Martyr · 11 September
John Gabriel Perboyre, CM was a French Catholic priest of the Congregation of the Mission who served as a missionary in China, where he suffered martyrdom.
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Martyr · 3 June
Joseph Mukasa Balikuddembe was a Ugandan Catholic martyr and the majordomo at the court of Mwanga II of Buganda, recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church.
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Martyr · 19 September
José María de Yermo y Parres was a Mexican Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and of the Poor.
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Martyr · May 21
José María Robles Hurtado was a Mexican priest and one of several priests martyred during the Cristero War.
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Priest · 2 May
Jose Maria Rubio, SJ was a Spanish Jesuit, known as the "Apostle of Madrid ". He was canonised in 2003 by Pope John Paul II.
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Bishop
Józef Bilczewski was a Polish Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Lviv from 1900 until his death. He served as a theological and dogmatics professor in the Lviv college after himself having earned two doctorates in the course of his own studies.
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Bishop
Józef Sebastian Pelczar was a Polish Roman Catholic bishop and was also the co-founder of the Sister Servants of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus which he had established in 1894 with Ludwika Szczęsna.
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Martyr · 21 September
Laurent-Joseph-Marius Imbert, affectionately known in Korea as Bishop Laurentius Bum Sehyeong was a Roman Catholic French bishop in Asia.
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Priest · 24 October
Luigi Guanella was an Italian Catholic priest who founded several religious communities. He was beatified on 25 October 1964 by Pope Paul VI and was canonized on 23 October 2011 in a celebration that Pope Benedict XVI celebrated in Saint Peter's Square.
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Priest
Luigi Maria Palazzolo was an Italian Roman Catholic priest. He established the Sisters of the Poor which was also known as the Palazzolo Institute.
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Religious · 25 May
Madeleine Sophie Barat, RSCJ,, was a French religious sister who founded the Society of the Sacred Heart, a worldwide religious institute of educators.
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