Here is a list of Saints, Blesseds, Venerables, Servants of God and other holy people whose causes have open for evaluation of their holiness. Walk through the end of the 19th century in the period after the First Vatican Council around 30 years earlier up to the period just before the Second Vatican Council. These are the holy men and women who lived through the most horrific times of the 20th century and the time period where some of our modern day, everyday items that make up our world have come from.
I’m sure there are more Saints, Blesseds and others I could have fit in here, but here is who I fit in. If you want any of them to be elevated to saints, start praying to the holy non-saints for a miracle so they can get elevated.
Right before the start of the 1890’s came saints who were alive in 1889.
Saints And Other Catholics Alive And Well In 1889
And then came the 1890’s.
The 1st Full Decade Of Cinema & Sherlock Holmes-1890 -1899
| A Look At Life In The 1890’s.
And now those
Born in 1890 – 21st Century sorted by Death Date.
All Descriptions Taken From Wikipedia
1900’s
St. Maria Goretti
(October 16, 1890 – July 6, 1902: Aged 11)
Feast: July 6
Patronage: Forgiveness, chastity, temptations to impurity
, victims of rape, teenagers, modern youth, Children of Mary
21 Young Saints and Their Companions
She was an Italian virgin martyr of the Catholic Church, and one of the youngest saints to be canonized. She was born to a farming family. Her father died when she was nine, and the family had to share a house with another family, the Serenellis. She took over household duties while her mother and siblings worked in the fields.
One afternoon, Alessandro, the Serenellis’ 20-year-old son, made sexual advances to her. When she refused to submit to him, he stabbed her 14 times. She was taken to the hospital but she died while forgiving him. He was arrested, convicted, and jailed. During imprisonment, he repented. After 27 years, he was released from prison and visited her mother to beg forgiveness, which she granted. He later became a lay brother in a Capuchin monastery and died in 1970. Maria was beatified in 1947 and canonized in 1950. She is especially venerated in the Congregation of the Passion (Passionists).
New Pope
August 4, 1903
Pope Pius X succeeds Pope Leo XIII as the 257th pope.
Wright Flyer Flight
December 17, 1903
First sustained flight by a manned heavier-than-air powered and controlled aircraft.
Blessed Laura Vicuña
(April 5, 1891 – January 22, 1904: Aged 12)
Feast: January 22
21 Young Saints and Their Companions
She was a Chilean child who was noted for her religious devotion. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1988 as the patron of abuse victims, having herself experienced physical abuse.
Ellen Organ
(August 24, 1903 – February 2, 1908)
She was an Irish child particularly dedicated to the Eucharist, the story of her life inspired Pope Pius X to admit young children to Holy Communion. In 1910, Pope Pius X issued the decree Quam singulari, which lowered the age of Holy Communion for children from 12 years to around 7. Despite devotion to her over the years, the Catholic Church has not opened a cause for her canonisation.
1910’s
Sinking of the Titanic
April 15, 1912
World War I
(July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918)
New Pope
September 3, 1914
Pope Benedict XV (Giacomo della Chiesa) succeeds Pope Pius X, becoming the 258th pope.
Fatima Apparitions
May 13–October 13 ,1917 (at monthly intervals)
10-year-old Lúcia Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto report experiencing a series of Marian apparitions near Fátima, Portugal, which become known as Our Lady of Fátima.
Sts. Francisco and Jacinta Marto
Feast: February 20
They were siblings from Aljustrel, a small hamlet near Fátima, Portugal, who, with their cousin Lúcia dos Santos (1907–2005), reportedly witnessed three apparitions of the Angel of Peace in 1916, and several apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Cova da Iria in 1917. The title Our Lady of Fátima was given to the Virgin Mary as a result, and the Sanctuary of Fátima became a major centre of global Catholic pilgrimage.
The two Marto children were solemnly canonized by Pope Francis at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima, in Portugal, on 13 May 2017, the centennial of the first Apparition of Our Lady of Fátima. They are the youngest Catholic saints, with Jacinta being the youngest saint who did not die a martyr.
St. Francisco de Jesus Marto
(June 11, 1908 – April 4, 1919)
1920’s
Prohibition in the United States
(January 17, 1920 – December 5, 1933)
St. Jacinta de Jesus Marto
(March 5, 1910 – February 20, 1920)
Saint Teresa of Los Andes
(July 13, 1900 – April 12, 1920) Feast
Feast: April 12
Feast: July 13 (Discalced Carmelites)
Giving Her Children Brown Scapulars
She was a Chilean nun of the Discalced Carmelites.
Fernández Solar was a pious child but had an often unpredictable temperament for she could be prone to anger and being vain but could also demonstrate her charitable and loving nature; she seemed transformed when she decided to become a nun and her character seemed to change for her sole ambition was to dedicate herself to the service of God. However her time in the convent was cut short due to her contracting an aggressive disease that killed her – she knew she would die but was consoled knowing she would be able to make her profession before she died.
Servant of God Francis J. Parater
(October 10, 1897 – February 7, 1920)
While studying for the priesthood Parater was still active in the Boy Scouts, a “director of the summer camp for the Boy Scouts of America. The leaders of the Scouts saw such virtue and ideals in Frank that they wanted him to serve as a summer camp director supervising those who were his seniors. He was considered a ‘four-ply scout,’ exceptional in every way.”
After being sent to the North American College in Rome, Parater contracted rheumatism that developed into rheumatic fever. Three months later Parater died the day after the rector offered a votive Mass of the Sacred Heart for him.
Francis Parater Boy Scouts of America –Aleteia
Servant of God Eileen Rosaline O’Connor
(February 19, 1892 – January 10, 1921)
Founder of the Society of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor
(Melbourne, Australia – New South Wales, Australia)
All Kinds of Saints Day
She was an Australian who was the co-founder of the Society of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor religious order – also known as the Brown Nurses – to provide free nursing services to the poor.
NEW POPE
February 6, 1922
Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) succeeds Pope Benedict XV, to become the 259th pope
100 Years Ago
Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati
(April 6,1901 – July 4, 1925: Aged 24)
Feast: July 4
Patronage: Students, Young Catholics, Mountaineers
Youth groups, Catholic Action, Dominican tertiaries
World Youth Day
21 Young Saints and Their Companions OCTOBER 09, 2020
The World Around Saints Pier And Carlos |
He was an Italian Catholic activist and a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. He was dedicated to social justice issues and joined several charitable organizations, including Catholic Action and the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, to better aid the poor and less fortunate living in his hometown of Turin.
Frassati’s cause for canonization opened in 1932 after the Turin poor made several pleas for such a cause to open. Pope Pius XII suspended the cause in 1941 due to a range of allegations later proven to be false, which allowed for the cause to resume. Pope John Paul II beatified Frassati in May 1990 and dubbed him the “Man of the Eight Beatitudes”. On 7 September 2025, he was canonized along with Carlo Acutis by Pope Leo XIV.
Mary Annella Zervas, O.S.B.
(April 7, 1900 – August 14, 1926)
She was an American Catholic religious sister who joined the Benedictines at a young age and died at 26 after a three-year battle with pityriasis rubra pilaris. Prior to the 1960s, Zervas’ grave in St. Joseph, Minnesota, was considered a place of Christian pilgrimage and began to be once again around 2008. On October 15, 2023, Bishop Andrew Cozzens of Crookston opened a cause for her canonization.
On October 15, 2023, Bishop Andrew Cozzens of Crookston announced that he was beginning an inquiry into her life that could lead to the opening of a cause for her canonization. The US bishops voted to approve the cause on November 12, 2024, and it is scheduled to be formally opened on October 9, 2025.
Blessed Teresa Demjanovich (Miriam Teresa)
(March 26, 1901 – May 8, 1927)
Feast: May 8
She was an American Ruthenian Greek Catholic Sister of Charity. For a life of servitude, much spiritual writing and several blessings to those who invoked her after death, she was beatified by the Catholic Church in 2014. The ceremony, held in Newark, New Jersey, was the first such to take place in the United States.
Blessed Maria Concepción Barrecheguren García
(November 27, 1905 – May 13, 1927)
She was a young Spanish woman. Conchita died on May 13, 1927, aged 22, due to tuberculosis. On May 5, 2020, Pope Francis recognized Conchita’s heroic virtues, giving her the title of Venerable. On the same day, her father Francisco was also declared venerable. On May 21, 2022, a decree was signed recognizing the miracle obtained through her intercession
Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro,
(January 13, 1891 – November 23, 1927)
He was a Mexican Jesuit priest executed under the presidency of Plutarco Elías Calles on the false charges of bombing and attempted assassination of former Mexican President Álvaro Obregón.
Pro’s arrest, without a trial or evidential support, gained prominence during the Cristero War. Known for his religious piety and innocence, he was beatified in Rome on September 25, 1988, by Pope John Paul II as a Catholic martyr, killed in odium fidei (“in hatred of the faith”).
Saint José Sánchez del Río
(March 28, 1913 – February 10, 1928: Aged 14)
Feast: May 8
21 Young Saints and Their Companions
He was a Mexican Cristero who was put to death by government officials because he refused to renounce his Catholic faith. His death was seen as a largely political venture on the part of government officials in their attempt to stamp out dissent and crush religious freedom in the area. He was dubbed “Joselito”.
October 24–29 – Wall Street Crash of 1929: Three multi-digit percentage drops wipe out more than $30 billion from the New York Stock Exchange (10 times greater than the annual budget of the federal government)
1930’s
Saint Callistus Caravario
(June 18, 1903 ― February 25, 1930)
He was a Salesian priest serving in China, who along with Luigi Versiglia was martyred in China.
Saint Richard Pampuri
(August 2, 1897 – May 1, 1930)
He was an Italian medical doctor and a veteran of World War I who was also a professed member of the Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God. Pampuri worked as a field doctor on the battlefield during the Great War and was discharged in 1920 when he was able to resume his studies and soon begin his own practice as a doctor where he tended to the poor without charge. He became a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis as “Antonio” while founding the Band of Pius X, which he dedicated to the medical care of poor people. But Pampuri later became a professed religious for the call was too great for him to ignore; he managed a free dental clinic in Brescia for his order.
Blessed Antonia Mesina: Age 15
(June 21, 1919 –May 17, 1935)
Feast: May 17
Catholic Bard Black Friday Special: More Saints
She was a 15 year old Italian Roman Catholic and part of Catholic Action. Mesina was murdered in mid-1935 after she attempted to fend off a would-be rapist and suffered 74 strikes with a stone before she died.
Juan Elías Medina & 126 Companions
1934, 1936-1939
All Blessed Saints Day
Ricardo Farré Masip
(Eduardo of the Child Jesus)
(April 3, 1897–July 25, 1936)
Saints of the Americas
Benet Domènech t & 2 Companions
(September 6, 1892- August 6, 1936)
Next To Be Blessed And Sainted
María Pilar Gullón Yturriaga & 2 Companions
Oct. 28, 1936
All Blessed Saints Day
During the Spanish Civil War Catholic people faced persecution from the Republican faction of the war, in part due to their support of the nationalists and the recently abolished monarchy. The Catholic Church venerates them as martyrs. More than 6,800 clerics and other Catholic people were killed in what has been dubbed the Red Terror. As of November 2023, 2,129 Spanish martyrs have been beatified; 11 of them being canonized. For some 2,000 additional martyrs, the beatification process is underway
Blessed Joan Roig i Diggle
(May 12, 1917 – September 11, 1936)
Feast: September 11
Patronage: Persecuted Christians, Catalonia
He was a Spanish Roman Catholic and a member of the Federation of Young Christians of Catalonia Roig did his education in Barcelona before he moved to complete it under the La Salle Brothers and Piarists in El Masnou. He hoped to pursue law during his schooling but had to do work in warehouses in order to support his father who lost his job due to a financial situation in his workplace. He delivered communion to the old and sick and was known for offering them comfort during dark times; this increased during the Spanish Civil War when it became uncertain as to the fate for priests and religious. Roig spoke out against communism which made him an opponent to the regime; he was arrested and killed soon after for his religious convictions.
Saint Maria Faustyna Kowalska
(August 25, 1905 – 5 October 1938)
Feast: October 5
She was a Polish Catholic religious sister and mystic. Faustyna, popularly spelled “Faustina“, had apparitions of Jesus Christ which inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy, therefore she is sometimes called the “secretary” of Divine Mercy.
Saint Rafael Arnaiz Barón
(9 April 1911 – 26 April 1938)
He was a Spanish Trappist conventual oblate. He studied architecture in Madrid, but decided to cease his studies in favor of the religious life. This was often interrupted due to his struggle with type 1 diabetes and his being called for active military service. But these never hindered his religious call and he did as best as he could to deal with his diabetes through his constant life of reflection and writing on spiritual subjects in his letters.
New Pope
March 2, 1939
Pope Pius XII (Cardinal Pacelli) succeeds Pope Pius XI to become the 260th pope.
Venerable Maria del Carmen González-Valerio y Sáenz de Heredia
(March 14, 1930 – July 17, 1939)
On The Road To Blessed Sainthood
She was a Spanish girl. Due to her heroic virtue, when she sacrificed her life to God for the salvation of her father’s killers and the persecutors of the church, she was declared a venerable by Pope John Paul II on January 16, 1996.
Beginning of WWII
September 1, 1939 –
1940’s
Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe OFMConv
(January 8, 1894 – August 14, 1941)
Feast: August 14
Patronage: prisoners, drug addicts, families, journalists, amateur radio operators, pro-life movement, people with eating disorders
He was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, priest, missionary, and martyr. He volunteered to die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II. He had been active in promoting the veneration of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, founding and supervising the monastery of Niepokalanów near Warsaw, operating an amateur-radio station (SP3RN), and founding or running several other organizations and publications.
Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross,
(October 12, 1891 – 9 August 1942)
Feast: August 9
Patronage: Europe; loss of parents; converted Jews; martyrs;
World Youth Day
Giving Her Children Brown Scapulars
She was a German Jewish Agnostic philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun. Edith Stein was murdered in the gas chamber at the concentration camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau on 9 August 1942, and is canonized as a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church; she is also one of six patron saints of Europe.
Blessed Jan Franciszek Macha
(January 18,1914 – December 3, 1942)
Feast: December 2
Next To Be Blessed And Sainted | Mark Wilson (patheos.com)
He was a Polish Roman Catholic priest. He was once rejected for ecclesial studies so studied law for some months before being accepted as a seminarian. He was ordained just months before the outbreak of World War II and was assigned to a parish church as a vicar on 1 September 1939 just as the Nazi forces invaded Poland in an attack that sparked the conflict. Macha aided student and scout activities and set about providing material assistance to families who lost sons and husbands to the war. He was arrested in 1942 and was moved from prison to prison before being executed by the guillotine.
Sophie Scholl
(May 9, 1921 – February 22, 1943)
Remembering The Holy Men And Women Of World War II |
She was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active in the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany
Blessed Franz Jägerstätter, OFS
(May 20, 1907 –August 9, 1943)
Feast: May 21
12 Interesting Fascinating Catholics And Christians
He was an Austrian farmer and conscientious objector during World War II. Jägerstätter was sentenced to death and executed for his refusal to fight for Nazi Germany.
Servant of God Willi Graf
(January 2, 1918 – October 12, 1943)
On The Road To Blessed Sainthood
Archdiocese prepares beatification cause of anti-Nazi White Rose member
He was a German member of the White Rose resistance group in Nazi Germany.[1] The Catholic Church in Germany included Graf in their list of martyrs of the 20th century.
Claude Newman
(1923-1944)
All Kinds of Saints Day
He was a death row inmate who had a conversion to Christ. Listed below are a few articles dealing with the story. One is sure he was visited by the blessed Virgin while in prison. The other article doesn’t believe in the sensational view of the conversion.
The Amazing Conversion of Death Row Inmate Claude Newman
Powerful Conversion Clouded by Controversy | The Divine Mercy
Blessed Giuseppe Beotti
(August 26, 1912 – July 20, 1944)
He was an Italian Catholic priest murdered by Nazi soldiers for his charitable works.
Blessed Giovanni Remo Fornasini
(February 23, 1915 – October 13, 1944)
Feast: October 13
All Blessed Saints Day
He was an Italian Roman Catholic priest, resistance member and patriot in the Province of Bologna. He was murdered by a German Nazi Waffen SS soldier and was posthumously awarded Italy’s Gold Medal of Military Valour. He is being investigated by the Catholic Church towards his possible canonisation. His beatification was celebrated in Bologna on September 26, 2021,
WWII: D-Day
June 6, 1944
55,000 Allied troops shipped from England land on the beaches of Normandy in northern France, beginning Operation Overlord and the Invasion of Normandy. The Allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland, in the largest amphibious military operation in history. This operation helps liberate France from Germany, and also weakens the Nazi hold on Europe.
Fr. Ignatius Maternowski, OFM Conv.
(1912-1944)
Remembering the Holy Men and Women of World War II
In the early morning hours of D-Day, Fr. Ignatius parachuted with a large number of troops into occupied territory, the hamlet of Guetteville in the town of Picauville. An American glider had crashed nearby. There were many casualties. Immediately Fr. Ignatius began ministering to the wounded paratroopers and glider victims. Realizing that a suitable aid station would be needed, Fr. Ignatius calculated a risky strategy: attempting negotiations with his German counterpart in the peaceful hope of combining their wounded together in one common hospital. Walking between enemy lines unarmed, with helmet hanging from his belt, and wearing his chaplain’s insignia and a Red Cross armband, he bravely went to meet with the head Nazi medic. As he returned through the no-man zone to the American side, he was shot in the back by an enemy sniper, becoming the only U.S. chaplain to be killed on D-Day. He was 32, in the fifth year of his priesthood. Our Lady of the Angels Province
Blessed Ulma family
Feast: July 7
Józef and Wiktoria Ulma with Seven Children were a Polish Catholic family in Markowa, Poland, during the Nazi German occupation in World War II who attempted to rescue Polish Jewish families by hiding them in their own home during the Holocaust. They and their children were summarily executed on 24 March 24, 1944 for doing so.
Blessed Józef Ulma
(March 2, 1900 –March 24, 1944)
On The Road To Blessed Sainthood
Blessed Wiktoria Ulma
(December 10, 1912 –March 24, 1944)
On The Road To Blessed Sainthood
Servant of God Joseph Verbis Lafleur
(January 24, 1912 – September 7, 1944)
Ordained as a priest in the Diocese of Lafayette in 1938, he was assigned a parish, but when World War II broke out, he volunteered as a military chaplain. He was taken a prisoner of war, and gave his life while saving the lives of his fellow servicemen during a torpedo attack aboard a sinking Japanese P.O.W. ship off the coast of the Philippines in the final year of the war. Louisiana bishop set to advance 3 causes of canonization, including 12-year-old and WWII POW
Servant of God Nicolò Cortese
(March 7, 1907 – November 3, 1944)
He was an Italian Catholic priest and professed member from the Order of Friars Minor Conventual. He served as both a parish priest and as the director for the “Il Messaggero di Sant’Antonio” magazine in Padua before and during World War II. It was in that conflict that he set up an elaborate network designed to protect Jewish people as well as British prisoners of war and Yugoslavs. But the Nazis soon discovered his plans and organized his arrest in October 1944 before killing him some weeks later after brutal tortures in their interrogations.
The process for his beatification opened in 2002 and he became titled as a Servant of God. He has also been referred to as the “Italian Father Kolbe” in reference to the saint.
Blessed Rolando Maria Rivi: Age 14
(January 7 1931 –April 13, 1945)
Feast: May 29
Catholic Bard Black Friday Special: More Saints
He was an Italian Roman Catholic seminarian. Rivi was noted for his studious and pious nature with an intense love for Jesus Christ, which was evident through frequent confession and the reception of the Eucharist. He was amiable to all and wore his cassock with great pride in order to affirm that he belonged to Christ and his church. Accusing him of having spied for the Italian Social Republic, Communist partisans murdered him in odium fidei (in hatred of the faith) towards the end of World War II in Modena because he was learning to become a priest.
Blessed Mario Ciceri
(September 8, 1900 – April 4, 1945)
Feast: June 14
Next To Be Blessed And Sainted
He was an Italian Roman Catholic priest from Milan. He was born to farmers and had an inclination to enter the priesthood since his childhood; he studied in Bergamo and in Milan before he was ordained as a priest at the Duomo in 1924 and was assigned his first pastoral role at a local parish church. Ciceri became renowned for his diligent attention to the poor and to the sick and also focused on children and teenagers. He revitalized Catholic Action in his area and was responsible for having recruited teens into the movement
Blessed Marcel Callo
(December 6, 1921 – March 19, 1945: Aged 23)
Feast: June 14
21 Young Saints and Their Companions
He was a French Catholic member of the Young Christian Workers, a Catholic Action movement inspiring lay participation and solidarity with the poor.
Callo served as an apprentice at a print store from the age of thirteen before joining Catholic associations in France. He was conscripted to serve during World War II and the Gestapo arrested him in 1944 for his Christian activities. He died in the Mauthausen concentration camp after being forced to do long hours of labour.
Venerable Maria Magdalene Bódi
(August 8, 1921 — March 23 1945)
Hungarian worker, Christian martyr, virgin
Germany Surrenders
May 4, 1945
World War II: The German surrender at Lüneburg Heath is signed, coming into effect the following day. It encompasses all Wehrmacht units in the Netherlands, Denmark and northwest Germany.
Saint Peter To Rot
(March 5, 1912 – July 7, 1945)
Feast: July 7
He was a Papua New Guinea Catholic. He served as a catechist in his village and was entrusted with the leadership of the local parish during World War II when Imperial Japanese forces occupied the region and imprisoned Catholic missionaries. In response to Japanese oppression of his community, he publicly opposed their actions and continued to hold secret prayer services after the Japanese restricted him from active pastoral service. To Rot married in 1936, and he criticized Japanese attempts to encourage his people to return to the pre-Christian practice of taking multiple wives. He was executed by the Japanese in 1945.
His beatification was celebrated in Papua New Guinea in 1995. His canonization will take place on October 19, 2025.
WWII: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima:
August 6,1945
United States Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay drops a uranium-235 atomic bomb, codenamed “Little Boy“, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m. local time, resulting in between 90,000 and 146,000 deaths.
WWII:Atomic bombing of Nagasaki:
August 9, 1945
United States B-29 Bockscar drops a plutonium-239 atomic bomb, codenamed “Fat Man“, on the Japanese city of Nagasaki at 11:02 a.m. local time, resulting in between 39,000 and 80,000 deaths.
Saint Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception
(August 1910 –July 28, 1946)
Feast: July 28
Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord
She was an Indian Catholic nun and educator. She is the first woman of Indian origin to be canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church, and the first canonized saint of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church.
Blessed Maurice Tornay
(August 31, 1910 – August 11, 1949)
Feast: August 11
He was a Swiss Catholic priest of the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine – of the Hospitallers of Saint Nicholas and Grand-St-Bernard of Mont Joux branch – who served as part of the missions in China and Tibet.
He fought against anti-Catholic religious persecution in independent Tibet and was ambushed and murdered by Tibetan Buddhist monks of the Karma Kagyu sect from the Karma Gon Monastery while he travelled to Lhasa disguised as a pilgrim to appeal directly to the Dalai Lama for religious toleration to be granted to the Catholic Church in Tibet.
1950’s
Servant of God, Emil Kapaun
(April 20, 1916 – May 23, 1951)
Servant of God Emil was a Roman Catholic priest and United States Army captain who served as a United States Army chaplain during World War II and the Korean War. Kapaun was a chaplain in the Burma Theater of World War II, then served again as a chaplain with the U.S. Army in Korea, where he was captured. He died in a prisoner of war camp.
In 2013, Kapaun posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his actions in Korea. He is the ninth American military chaplain Medal of Honor recipient.
Humani Generis Encyclical
August 12, 1950
In his encyclical Humani generis, Pope Pius XII requires Catholic theologians to defer to the teachings of the Church as a whole but declares evolution to be a serious hypothesis that does not contradict essential Catholic views.
New Marian Dogma
November 1, 1950
Pope Pius XII witnesses the “Miracle of the Sun” at the Vatican and defines a new dogma of Roman Catholicism, the Munificentissimus Deus, which says that God took Mary’s body into Heaven after her death (the “Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary“).
Saint Alberto Hurtado
January 22, 1901 – August 18, 1952
He was a Chilean Jesuit priest, lawyer, social worker, and writer of Basque ancestry. He founded the Hogar de Cristo foundation in 1944.
Hurtado was canonized on October 23, 2005, by Pope Benedict XVI, becoming his country’s second saint.
Blessed Maria Ripamonti
(May 26, 1909 – July 4, 1954)
Feast: August 11
Patronage: Persecuted Christians
All Blessed Saints Day
She was an Italian Roman Catholic and a professed religious from the Ancelle della carità. Ripamonti worked at a spinning mill before leaving her hometown in 1932 for Brescia to enter a religious congregation after having met a visiting nun in her hometown. In 1938 she made her perpetual profession and started residing in the order’s motherhouse in Brescia and was later diagnosed late with a serious illness that led to her death
Blessed Cecília Schelingová
(December 24, 1916 – 31 July 31, 1955)
Feast: November 23
All Kinds of Saints Day
She was a Slovak Roman Catholic religious sister of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Holy Cross and a victim of communist persecution in the former Czechoslovakia. Schelingová worked for the most part in the hospital at Bratislava before her arrest and aided priests fleeing persecution from the totalitarian communist regime in her home nation.
The beatification was celebrated on 14 September 2003 on the occasion of Pope John Paul II visiting Slovakia.
Blessed Giustino Maria Russolillo
(January 18,1891 – August 2, 1955)
Feast: August 2
Patronage: Vocationist Fathers, Vocationist Sisters
Apostles of Universal Sanctification
Next To Be Blessed And Sainted
He was an Italian Catholic priest and the founder of the Vocationists, the Vocationist Sisters and of the Secular Institute of the Apostles of Universal Sanctification.
Russolillo was a pastor at St. George Parish in Pianura, where he was born, and dedicated his life to promoting, cultivating and educating young people about God’s call in their life. In doing so, he help young people to fulfill their religious vocation to priesthood and consecrated life.
Venerable Augustine John Ukken
(December 19, 1880 – October 13, 1956) (aged 75)
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He was a priest from the Indian state of Kerala in Thrissur and the founder of the Congregation of Sisters of Charity (CSC).
Servant of God Cora Evans – American Catholic History
(July 9, 1904 – March 30, 1957)
She was an American homemaker who was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and eventually converted to Catholicism in 1935. She reported seeing visions of Jesus and the Saints, and a mission to promote what she referred to as the “Mystical Humanity of Christ”. She is a candidate for canonization and the move to canonize Cora Evans was sealed by the bishops and sent to Rome for formal consideration. A parishioner of Our Lady of the Pillar in Half Moon Bay, California, is the promoter of her cause for canonization.
New Pope
October 28, 1958
Pope John XXIII succeeds Pope Pius XII, as the 261st pope.
Venerable María Montserrat Grases García: Age 17
(July 10, 1941 –March 26, 1959)
Catholic Bard Black Friday Special
She was a Catalan Catholic laywoman who was a secular member of Opus Dei.
Grases became part of Opus Dei on 24 December 1957 after she discerned whether or not her path would allow her to join their ranks. Her cheerfulness and friendship with others made her a known figure for her piety and her compassionate nature towards the poor and the ill since she would often catechize to children and tend to the poor in the poor regions in Barcelona alongside her friends.
Grases further continued her studies despite her bone cancer and she continued to demonstrate a cheerful demeanor centered on offering her suffering for Opus Dei’s founder Saint Josemaría Escrivá and for both Pope Pius XII and Pope John XXIII, who both reigned during her illness.
Servant of God Marcel Van
(March 15, 1928 – July 10, 1959)
On The Road To Blessed Sainthood
He was a Vietnamese Redemptorist brother. During his life, he reported receiving locutions and visions from Thérèse of Lisieux, Jesus Christ, and the Blessed Virgin Mary. He is called “The Apostle of Love”, continuing the teachings of Therese of Lisieux’s “Little Way.” He died in a North Vietnam internment camp, and his cause for beatification was opened in 1997 by archbishop Nguyễn Văn Thuận. He called himself Little brother of the Christ Child.
Servant of God Charlene Richard
(January 13, 1947 – August 11, 1959)
She was a twelve-year-old Catholic Cajun girl from Richard, Acadia Parish, Louisiana, (30°25′18″N 92°18′46″W) in the United States. She has become the focus of a popular belief that she has performed a number of miracles. Local Catholic clergy and diocesan officials permitted, promoted, and participated in the popular veneration of Richard for years prior to her being named a Servant of God.
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