320 lives of faith. Showing 145–156.
Martyr
Guillaume Courtet, O.P. was a French Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and missionary. One of the first Frenchman to have visited Japan, he died as a martyr by beheading in Nagasaki at the hands of the Tokugawa Shogunate on Michaelmas Day 1637 after three…
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Bishop · 23 December
Ivo of Chartres, Can.Reg. , was a French canon regular and abbot who then served as the Bishop of Chartres from 1090 until his death. He was an important authority in Catholic canon law during the Investiture Crisis of that era. He is honored as a saint in…
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Priest / Deacon · May 16
Luigi Giovanni Orione was an Italian priest who was active in answering the social needs of his nation as it faced the social upheavals of the late 19th century.
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Monastic / Hermit · 11 December
María de las Maravillas de Jesús, OCD was a Spanish Discalced Carmelite.
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Monastic / Hermit · 18 January
Margaret of Hungary, OP was a Dominican nun and the daughter of King Béla IV of Hungary and Maria Laskarina.
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Monastic / Hermit · 7 March
María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa , later known as Mama Antula in Santiagueño Quechua, was a Catholic religious sister who established the Daughters of the Divine Savior .
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Monastic / Hermit · 2 February
Mary Catherine Kasper, A.D.J.C. was a German Catholic Religious Sister and the foundress of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ. Kasper entered the religious life later in her life despite having harbored a desire to become a religious sister for a very…
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Monastic / Hermit · 16 July
Marie-Madeleine Postel , born Julie Françoise-Catherine Postel, was a French Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Sisters of Christian Schools.
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Martyr · 19 January
Melchior Grodziecki was a Silesian Jesuit priest.
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Monastic / Hermit
Naum , also known as Naum of Ohrid or Naum of Preslav , was a medieval Bulgarian writer and missionary among the Slavs, considered one of the Seven Apostles of the First Bulgarian Empire.
Origin uncertain · Birthplace unknown
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Religious · 6 November
Dom Nuno Álvares Pereira, OCarm , known as Constable of Portugal, was a Portuguese general who played a decisive role in the 1383–1385 Crisis that assured Portugal's independence from Castile.
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Priest / Deacon
Odilo of Cluny was the 5th Benedictine Abbot of Cluny, succeeding Mayeul and holding the post for around 54 years.
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