Priest · 28 November
St. James of the Marches
Jacob de Marchia, commonly known in English as Saint James of the Marches, was an Italian Friar Minor, preacher and writer.
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Martyr · 20 September
St. Jean-Charles Cornay
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 · 4 May
St. John Boste
John Boste is a saint in the Catholic Church, and one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
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Priest · 16 June
St. John Francis Regis
John Francis Regis, SJ, commonly known Saint Regis, was a French Jesuit priest who was canonized in 1737. A tireless preacher and social reformer, Regis is best known for his work with at-risk women and orphans.
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Martyr · 4 May
St. John Houghton
John Houghton, OCart was a Catholic priest of the Carthusian order and the first martyr to die as a result of the Act of Supremacy by King Henry VIII of England.
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Martyr · 22 August
St. John Kemble
John Kemble was an English Catholic priest killed by the crown due to his ministry. He was canonized in 1970 by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
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Priest · 9 October
St. John Leonardi
John Leonardi, OMD was an Italian Catholic priest and the founder of the Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of Lucca.
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Priest · 18 September
St. John Macias
John Macías, OP, was a Spanish -born Dominican friar who evangelized in Peru in 1620. He was canonized in 1975 by Pope Paul VI.
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Martyr · 19 July
St. John Plessington
John Plessington, also known as John Plesington, William Scarisbrick and William Pleasington, was an English Catholic priest who was executed by the English Crown for violating the ban on the presence of Catholic priests in the kingdom.
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Martyr · 21 June
St. John Rigby
John Rigby was an English Roman Catholic layman who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I. He is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
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Martyr · 10 December
St. John Roberts
John Roberts, OSB was a Welsh Benedictine monk and priest, and was the first prior of St. Gregory's, Douai, France.
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Bishop · 17 December
St. John of Matha
John of Matha OSsT was a French Catholic priest and co-founder of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity, initially dedicated to ransoming Christians who had been captured by marauders from North Africa.
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