Modern Era
The 21st century
17 saints, in the order they died
1928 — 2002
Ven. Cardinal François-Xavier Nguyễn Văn Thuận
Vietnamese Cardinal; 13-year prisoner of the Vietnamese Communist regime
Church of Santa Maria della Scala, Rome, Italy — tomb, Italy
1 miracles · 1 relics→
1920 — 2005♕ Pope #264
St. John Paul II
Apostle to the Nations — Pope of the New Millennium
St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican, Vatican City
3 miracles · 3 relics→
1907 — 2005
Ven. Sister Lúcia dos Santos
Carmelite of Coimbra — the Last Surviving Witness of the Fátima Apparitions
Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary, Fátima — her tomb, beside Francisco and Jacinta Marto, Portugal
2 miracles · 1 relics→
1991 — 2006
St. Carlo Acutis
Patron Saint of the Internet — first millennial saint
Sanctuary of the Stripping (Santuario della Spogliazione), Assisi, Italy
4 miracles · 4 relics→
1945 — 2006
Servant of God Fr. Andrea Santoro
Italian priest of the Roman Diocese; martyr of the Turkish Anatolian Catholic mission
Church of Santa Maria, Trabzon, Turkey — site of martyrdom, Turkey
1 miracles · 1 relics→
1972 — 2007
Servant of God Fr. Ragheed Ganni
Iraqi Chaldean Catholic priest; martyr of the Iraq Catholic community
Church of the Holy Spirit, Mosul, Iraq — site of martyrdom, Iraq
1 miracles · 1 relics→
1920 — 2008
Ven. Chiara Lubich
Italian laywoman; founder of the Focolare Movement
Focolare Center of Rocca di Papa, Rome, Italy — mother-house, Italy
1 miracles · 1 relics→
1947 — 2010
Servant of God Bishop Luigi Padovese, OFM Cap.
Italian Capuchin; Apostolic Vicar of Anatolia; martyr of the Turkish Anatolian Catholic mission
Cathedral of İskenderun, Turkey — site of martyrdom, Turkey
1 miracles · 1 relics→
1984 — 2012
Servant of God Chiara Corbella Petrillo
Roman Mother Who Refused Cancer Treatment to Save Her Unborn Son
Cemetery of Verano (Cimitero del Verano), Rome — Chiara Corbella tomb, Italy
0 miracles · 1 relics→
1938 — 2014
Servant of God Fr. Frans van der Lugt, SJ
Dutch Jesuit; martyr of the Syrian Homs siege
Jesuit Residence, Homs, Syria — site of martyrdom, Syria
1 miracles · 1 relics→
1979 — 2015
The 21 Coptic Martyrs of Libya
Sts. Milad Makeen Zaky and Companions — 'In the Name of Jesus Christ'
Church of the Martyrs of Faith and Homeland, El-Aour, Minya Governorate, Egypt, Egypt
2 miracles · 1 relics→
1930 — 2016
Bl. Jacques Hamel
French Parish Priest Beheaded at the Altar — Martyr of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray
Church of Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, Seine-Maritime, France
1 miracles · 1 relics→
1956 — 2016
Servant of God Sister Veronika Theresia Rácková SSpS
Slovak Holy Spirit Missionary — Killed in South Sudan
St. Bakhita Medical Centre, Yei, Central Equatoria, South Sudan, South Sudan
0 miracles · 1 relics→
1982 — 2016
Servant of God Sr. Clare Crockett, SHM
Northern Irish Servant of the Home of the Mother; modern-media-generation missionary; Servant of God
Chapel of the Servants of the Home of the Mother, Derry, Northern Ireland — shrine, United Kingdom
2 miracles · 1 relics→
1924 — 2019
Servant of God Sr. Wilhelmina Lancaster, OSB
American Benedictine; founder of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles; incorrupt body of Missouri
Abbey of Our Lady of Ephesus, Gower, Missouri, United States — shrine preserving her incorrupt body, United States
2 miracles · 1 relics→
1920 — 2019
Servant of God Cardinal Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir
Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and All the East (1986–2011); Lebanese anti-Syrian-occupation confessor
Maronite Patriarchate, Bkerké, Lebanon — Maronite mother-church, Lebanon
1 miracles · 1 relics→
1927 — 2022♕ Pope #265
Servant of God Pope Benedict XVI
Pope (2005–2013) — Theologian of the Liturgy — First Modern Pope to Renounce the Papacy
St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican — Tomb of Benedict XVI in the Vatican Grottoes, Vatican City
0 miracles · 1 relics→