The Saints · Modern Era

Virgin Martyr of Le Ferriere — Patroness of Forgiveness

Passionist student (Ferdinando Santamaria), dead of meningitis at nineteen before he could be ordained

Stigmatic Mystic of Lucca — Passionist Tertiary

French Discalced Carmelite mystic; Trinitarian theologian

All-Russian Pastor — Apostle of Daily Eucharistic Reception

Australia's first saint — foundress of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart

Italian Salesian; first successor of St. John Bosco as Superior General of the Salesians

Foundress of the Little Sisters of the Holy Family, who serve the priests of Canada's seminaries and colleges

Pope of the Eucharist

The Wife whose Journal Converted her Husband

Foundress of the Oblates of the Holy Spirit; the 'apostle of the Holy Spirit' who moved Leo XIII to write to the whole Church about Pentecost

Don Guanella — Founder of the Servants of Charity

Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Mardin; martyr of the Armenian Genocide (1915)

Universal Brother — hermit of the Sahara

Polish Franciscan Third Order; apostle of the Kraków poor

First US Citizen Canonized — Patroness of Immigrants

Beloved Mother of Outcasts — Damien's Successor at Kalaupapa

American former slave; Denver 'Angel of Charity'; 20th-century African-American Catholic candidate for sainthood

Venezuelan physician and university professor, the 'doctor of the poor' — the first saint of Venezuela

The Little Flower of the Andes — first Chilean saint

The Children of Fatima — Cousins of the Servant of God Lucia dos Santos

Metropolitan of Pentapolis — Wonderworker of Aegina

Co-foundress of Our Lady's Nurses for the Poor — the 'Brown Nurses' of Coogee

Last Emperor of Austria-Hungary (1916–1918); Catholic peace-seeking monarch of World War I

Verso l'alto — Man of the Beatitudes

The Dublin Labourer — for Those Recovering from Drink

The French Polisher of the Cowgate — Sister Mary Francis of the Five Wounds

Apostle of the Rosary of Pompei — Former Satanic Priest Reconverted

Foundress of the Congregation of the Holy Family — Syro-Malabar Mystic

Meri Hōhepa — nurse, herbalist and friend of the Māori of the Whanganui River; foundress of the Sisters of Compassion

God's Architect — Builder of the Sagrada Família

Rector of the Consolata shrine in Turin for forty-six years; founder of the Consolata Missionaries and the Consolata Missionary Sisters

Physician of the Naples Poor — Patron of Catholic Doctors

Mexican Jesuit Martyr — 'Viva Cristo Rey!'

25 Mexican Cristero War Martyrs

Cristero Priest-Martyr — Patron of the Mexican Migrant

Mexican Cristero teenage martyr (age 14, 1928)

Founder of the Teresian Association — Martyr of the Spanish Civil War

Father Baker of Lackawanna — the Padre of the Poor

Brother André — the Miracle Man of Montreal

The Child of Six who Wrote Letters to God

Apostle of Divine Mercy — first saint of the third millennium

Russian Athonite Elder — Mystic of 'Keep Thy Mind in Hell and Despair Not'

Don Orione — Founder of the Sons of Divine Providence

Martyr of Charity at Auschwitz

Co-Patroness of Europe — martyr of Auschwitz

Austrian conscientious objector; Catholic martyr for refusing to serve in the Nazi Wehrmacht

Spanish-Bolivian foundress; Missionaries of the Papal Crusade

Slovak teenage martyr for chastity (1944); Slovak virgin-martyr

Envoy of the Legion of Mary to East Africa

Catechist, husband and father, martyr — the first saint of Papua New Guinea

Anna Muttathupadathu — First Indian Woman Canonized

Italian Catholic Action lay-hero; young Rimini martyr of Christian charity

Madre Moretta — From Sudanese Slavery to Italian Canossian Sister

Founder of Boys Town — "There is no such thing as a bad boy"

Teresita — the Madrid Schoolgirl who wanted to be a Saint