Modern Era
The 20th century, 1951–2000
44 saints, in the order they died
1916 — 1951
Ven. Fr. Emil Kapaun
American military chaplain; Korean War Prisoner-of-War hero; Venerable
St. John Nepomucene Church, Pilsen, Kansas, United States — shrine, United States
0 miracles · 1 relic→
1908 — 1951
Servant of God Dr. Takashi Nagai
Japanese Catholic physician; witness of the Nagasaki atomic bombing (1945)
Nagai Memorial Museum and Nyokodo Hermitage, Nagasaki, Japan — shrine, Japan
0 miracles · 1 relic→
1858 — 1955
St. Katharine Drexel
Heiress Who Gave Away Twenty Million Dollars — Foundress of Schools for Black and Native Americans
St. Katharine Drexel Shrine, Bensalem (Cornwells Heights), United States
2 miracles · 1 relic→
1876 — 1956
Servant of God Msgr. John Cyril Hawes
The architect-priest of Western Australia — Fra Jerome, hermit of Cat Island
St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Geraldton — his design, Australia
0 miracles · 1 relic→
1902 — 1956
Bl. Carlo Gnocchi
Italian military chaplain; post-war care of war-mutilated children
Church of San Pietro in Sala, Milan, Italy — shrine, Italy
0 miracles · 1 relic→
1870 — 1957
Bl. Solanus Casey
The Simplex Capuchin — wonderworker of Detroit
St. Bonaventure Monastery, Detroit, United States
2 miracles · 1 relic→
1887 — 1957
Ven. Mary Glowrey, JMJ (Mary of the Sacred Heart)
The Melbourne doctor who became a nun in India and kept practising medicine
Guntur, Andhra Pradesh — where she worked, and her tomb at St. Joseph's Convent, India
0 miracles · 1 relic→
1876 — 1958
Ven. Pope Pius XII
260th Pope (1939–1958); World War II and Cold War pope; rescuer of Roman Jews
St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City — tomb in the Vatican grottoes, Vatican City
0 miracles · 1 relic→
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1929 — 1958
Ven. Satoko Kitahara
The Mary of Ants Town
Tokyo — Ants Town, on the bank of the Sumida, Japan
0 miracles · 1 relic→
1898 — 1960
Bl. Alojzije Stepinac
Croatian Cardinal Archbishop of Zagreb; confessor of both the Nazi Ustaše regime and the Yugoslav Communist regime
Cathedral of the Assumption, Zagreb, Croatia — his tomb, Croatia
0 miracles · 1 relic→
1922 — 1962
St. Gianna Beretta Molla
Italian pediatrician; mother-martyr who gave her life for her unborn daughter
Church of Ponte Nuovo, Magenta, Italy — shrine, Italy
0 miracles · 1 relic→
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1898 — 1962
Servant of God Therese Neumann
The Stigmatist of Konnersreuth
Konnersreuth, Bavaria, Germany
2 miracles · 1 relic→
1881 — 1963♕ Pope #261
St. John XXIII
'Il Papa Buono' — Pope of the Second Vatican Council
St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican, Vatican City
2 miracles · 1 relic→
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1886 — 1963
Ven. Robert Schuman
Father of Europe — the Statesman who went to Mass every morning
Saint-Quentin, Scy-Chazelles — his tomb, France
0 miracles · 1 relic→
1939 — 1964
Bl. Anuarite Nengapeta
Marie-Clémentine Anuarite — Congolese Sister-Martyr
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Isiro, Democratic Republic of Congo
0 miracles · 1 relic→
1903 — 1964
Bl. Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi, OCSO
Nigerian Trappist; first canonized modern Nigerian Catholic
Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, Onitsha, Nigeria — shrine, Nigeria
0 miracles · 1 relic→
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1929 — 1967
Servant of God Vincent Capodanno
The Grunt Padre — Navy Chaplain, Medal of Honor
Staten Island, New York, United States
0 miracles · 1 relic→
1887 — 1968
St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
Stigmatist, bilocator, confessor — Capuchin Franciscan
Sanctuary of St. Pio, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
5 miracles · 2 relics→
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1883 — 1969
St. Maria Troncatti, FMA
Salesian Sister, nurse and missionary for forty-seven years among the Shuar of the Ecuadorian Amazon — 'Madrecita'
Chapel of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, Sucúa — her tomb, Ecuador
2 miracles · 1 relic→
1903 — 1973
Bl. Vasyl Velychkovsky, CSsR
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Bishop; Soviet-era martyr-confessor
St. Joseph's Ukrainian Catholic Church, Winnipeg, Canada — shrine preserving his incorrupt body, Canada
1 miracle · 1 relic→
1902 — 1975
St. Josemaría Escrivá
Founder of Opus Dei
Prelatic Church of Santa Maria della Pace, Villa Tevere, Rome, Italy
0 miracles · 1 relic→
1916 — 1975
Bl. Guadalupe Ortiz de Landázuri
Spanish chemist; first female Numerary of Opus Dei beatified
Church of Blessed Álvaro del Portillo, Madrid, Spain — shrine, Spain
0 miracles · 1 relic→
1928 — 1977
Bl. Rutilio Grande, SJ
Salvadoran Jesuit; proto-martyr of the Salvadoran civil war
Church of San Salvador Apóstol, El Paisnal, El Salvador — shrine, El Salvador
0 miracles · 1 relic→
1922 — 1977
Bl. Andrea Bordino
Italian Cottolengan Brother; Turin hospital-caregiver saint
Cottolengo Little House of Divine Providence, Turin, Italy — shrine, Italy
0 miracles · 1 relic→
1903 — 1977
St. María Carmen Rendiles Martínez
Foundress of the Servants of Jesus (Siervas de Jesús) of Caracas — the first Venezuelan woman canonised
Chapel of Jesús Hostia, Colegio Belén, Los Palos Grandes, Caracas — her tomb, Venezuela
2 miracles · 1 relic→
1897 — 1978♕ Pope #262
St. Paul VI
Pope of Humanae Vitae and the completion of Vatican II
St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican, Vatican City
2 miracles · 2 relics→
1912 — 1978♕ Pope #263
Bl. Pope John Paul I (Albino Luciani)
The Smiling Pope — Pope for 33 days
Vatican Grottoes, St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
1 miracle · 1 relic→
1895 — 1979
Bl. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
American Catholic televangelist; 20th-century Catholic media pioneer; preacher-Archbishop
Cathedral of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception, Peoria, Illinois, United States — shrine, United States
0 miracles · 1 relic→
1917 — 1980
St. Óscar Arnulfo Romero
Martyr of the Americas — voice of the voiceless
Metropolitan Cathedral of San Salvador, El Salvador
1 miracle · 2 relics→
1897 — 1980
Servant of God Dorothy Day
American convert; co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement
Maryhouse Catholic Worker, New York City, United States — site of death, United States
0 miracles · 1 relic→
1901 — 1981
Bl. Stefan Wyszyński
Cardinal Primate of Poland — 'Primate of the Millennium'
Archcathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist, Warsaw, Poland
0 miracles · 1 relic→
1935 — 1981
Bl. Stanley Rother
Father Aplas' — First U.S.-Born Martyr Officially Beatified by the Catholic Church
Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine, Oklahoma City, United States
1 miracle · 1 relic→
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1902 — 1981
Ven. Marthe Robin
The Stigmatist of Châteauneuf — Foundress of the Foyers de Charité
Foyer de Charité, Châteauneuf-de-Galaure, France
2 miracles · 1 relic→
1906 — 1982
Servant of God Bishop Vincent McCauley, CSC
American Holy Cross Bishop; apostle of Uganda; proto-African Catholic missionary Bishop
Basilica of the Sacred Heart, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, United States, United States
0 miracles · 1 relic→
1947 — 1984
Bl. Jerzy Popiełuszko
Chaplain of Solidarność — Martyr of the Polish Communist Regime
Church of St. Stanislaus Kostka, Warsaw (Żoliborz district), Poland
1 miracle · 1 relic→
1971 — 1990
Bl. Chiara Luce Badano
Focolare Youth — Patroness of Catholic Teenagers
Parish Church of the Most Holy Trinity, Sassello, Liguria, Italy
1 miracle · 1 relic→
1937 — 1990
Servant of God Sr. Thea Bowman, FSPA
American Franciscan Sister; African-American Catholic evangelizer and Gospel-tradition witness
Cathedral of St. Peter the Apostle, Jackson, Mississippi, United States — shrine, United States
0 miracles · 1 relic→
1896 — 1991
Cardinal Henri de Lubac, SJ
French Jesuit theologian; architect of the Second Vatican Council; Cardinal of the Ressourcement movement
Jesuit Residence, rue de Sèvres, Paris, France, France
0 miracles · 1 relic→
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1909 — 1992
Ven. Patrick Peyton, CSC
The Rosary Priest
Father Peyton Memorial Centre, Attymass, County Mayo, Ireland
1 miracle · 1 relic→
1937 — 1993
Bl. Pino Puglisi
Anti-Mafia Priest of Brancaccio — Martyr of Cosa Nostra
Church of San Gaetano, Brancaccio, Palermo, Italy
1 miracle · 1 relic→
1914 — 1994
Bl. Álvaro del Portillo
Spanish priest; first successor of St. Josemaría Escrivá as head of Opus Dei
Prelatic Church of Our Lady of Peace, Rome, Italy — Opus Dei mother-church, Italy
0 miracles · 1 relic→
1926 — 1994
Ven. Jérôme Lejeune
French pediatric geneticist; discoverer of Trisomy 21; Catholic pro-life scientist
Notre-Dame de Chalouet Cemetery, Chalo-Saint-Mars, France — tomb, France
0 miracles · 1 relic→
1910 — 1997
St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Mother of the Poor — founder of the Missionaries of Charity
Mother House of the Missionaries of Charity, Calcutta, India
2 miracles · 3 relics→
1939 — 2000
Bl. Maria Laura Mainetti
Daughter of the Cross Sister — Martyr of Satanic Ritual Violence
Parish Church of San Lorenzo, Chiavenna, Sondrio, Italy
0 miracles · 1 relic→