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The following is the list of saints, including the year in which they were canonized and the country or countries with which they are associated. The Four Martyrs of Thane (d. 1321) ( India ) Francis Xavier , Jesuit priest (1622, China , India, and Japan )
Saint Chi, an 18-year-old man who was tortured and martyred in China It is known [ citation needed ] that mingled in this rebellion were all the secret societies and the accumulated and repressed hatred against foreigners in the last decades of the 19th century, because of the political and social changes following the Second Opium War and the ...
This is a list of beatified individuals or blesseds according to the Catholic Church. The list is in alphabetical order by Christian name but, if necessary, by ...
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It lists of hundreds of saints from Ireland and beyond. [1] In various religions, a saint is a revered person who has achieved an eminent status of holiness, known as sainthood. The word saint comes from the Latin word sanctus, meaning ' holy ', and although saint has been applied in other religious contexts, the word has its origins in ...
Beatified Canonised Diocese Rite St. Francis Xavier (Francisco de Jasso Azpilicueta) S.J. 7 April 1506: Navarra, Spain: 3 December 1552: China: Cofounder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) 3 December (solemnity in India) 25 October 1619: 12 March 1622: Goa and Daman: Latin St. Gonsalo Garcia (Gonçalo Garcia) O.F.M. 15 May 1557: Bassein, Bombay ...
List of saints of the Canary Islands; List of Catalonian saints; List of venerated Central Americans and Caribbeans; Martyr Saints of China; List of Cornish saints; List of Croatian saints and beatified people
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