A list of people, who died during the 16th century, who have received recognition as Blessed (through beatification) or Saint (through canonization) from the Catholic Church:
NameBirthBirthplaceDeathPlace of deathNotesBlessed Columba of Rieti1467 Rieti, Umbria, Italy1501 Blessed Jerome Garibo1440 1502 Blessed Bernardino of Fossa1420Fossa, Italy1503 Blessed Louisa of Savoy1461 1503 Blessed Magdalen Panattieri1443 1503 Blessed Timothy of Montecchio1414 1504 Blessed Vincent of Aquila 1504 Joan of Valois 1464 1505 Blessed Ladislaus of Gielniow1440 1505 Blessed Margaret of Ravenna1442 1505 Blessed Osanna of Mantua 1449 1505 Blessed John-Angelo Porro1451 1506 Blessed Antonia of Brescia1407 1507 Blessed Francis of Calderola 1507 Francis of Paola1416 1507 Blessed Gratia of Kotor1438 1508 Blessed Jacopino de'Canepacci1438 1508 Catherine of Genoa1477Genoa, Italy1510Genoa, ItalyBlessed Mark of Marconi1480 1510 Blessed John Liccio 1511 Blessed Margaret Fontana1440Modena, Italy1513ItalyBlessed Paula Montaldi1443 1514 Joseph of Volokolamsk 1515 Blessed Paula Gambara-Costa1473 1515 Blessed Hans Wagner 1516 Blessed Giles of Lorenzana1443 1518 Blessed Elena Duglioli1472Bologna, Italy1520Bologna, ItalyBeginning of Protestant ReformationBlessed Domenico Spadafora 1521 Blessed Margaret of Lorraine1463 1521 Blessed Michael Pini1450 1522 Blessed Baptista Varani1458 1527 Blessed Margareta Kratz1430Scharfenstein, Germany1532 Blessed Louisa Albertoni 1473 1533 Augustine Webster 1535 John Fisher1469 1535 Bishop of RochesterJohn Houghton 1535 Richard Reynolds1492 1535 Robert Lawrence 1535 Thomas More1478 1535 Blessed John Haile (or Hale) 1535 Rector of St. Dunstan's Church, Cranford, LondonBlessed Laurence of Villamagna1476 1535 Blessed Sebastian Newdigate 1535 Blessed William Exmew 1535 Blesseds Humphrey Middlemore 1535 Gerolamo Emiliani1481Venice, Italy1537Somasca, ItalyBlessed John Davy 1537 Blessed Richard Bere 1537 Blessed Robert Salt 1537 Blessed Thomas Johnson 1537 Blessed Walter Pierson 1537 Blessed William Greenwood 1537 Blesseds John Rochester and James Walworth 1537 Blessed Thomas Green 1537 John Stone 1539 Blessed John Forest1473 1538 Anthony Maria Zaccaria1502 1539 Blessed Adrian Fortescue1476 1539 Blessed Hugh Cook Faringdon 1539 Blessed John Baptist of Fabriano1469 1539 Blessed John Beche (Thomas Marshall) 1539 Blessed John Eynon 1539 Blessed John Rugg 1539 Blessed John Thorne 1539 Blessed Richard Whiting1460 1539 Blessed Roger James 1539 Angela Merici 1470 1540 Blessed Carthusian Martyrs 1540 Blessed Edward Powell 1540 Blessed Richard Fetherston 1540 Blessed Thomas Abel 1540 Blessed William Horne 1540 Blessed David Gonson 1541 Blessed Margaret Pole1473 1541 Blessed Christina of Aquila 1543 Blessed Lucy of Narni"Blessed Lucy of Narni", CNS, November 15, 2018 1476 1544 Blesseds John Larke 1544 Blessed Peter Favre1506 1546 Cajetan 1480 1547 Blessed Catherine of Racconigi1486 1547 Blessed Philippa of Gheldre1462 1547 Juan Diego1474 1548 John of God1495 1550 Francis Xavier1506 1552 Thomas of Villanova1488 1555 Bishop of ValenciaIgnatius of Loyola1491 1556 Peter of Alcantara1499 1562 Blessed John Marinoni1490 1562 Blessed Osanna of Cattaro1493 1565 Blessed John Armero 1566 Salvatore of Orta1520 1567 Stanislaus Kostka1550 1568 John of Avila 1569 Blessed Alphonsus de Vaena 1570 Blessed Ignatius de Azevedo and Companions 1570 Blessed Joanninus de San Juan 1570 Blessed John Felton 1570 Blessed John Fernandez 1570 Blessed Thomas Plumtree 1570 Blessed John Story 1571 Adrian Van Hilvarenbeek 1572 Andrew Wouters 1572 Cornelius 1572 Francis Borgia1510 1572 Francis Rod 1572 Godfrey of Duynen 1572 Godfrey of Merville 1572 James Lacop 1572 John of Cologne"St. John of Cologne", Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia 1572 John of Osterwick 1572 Leonard Wegel (Veckel, Wickel) 1572 Martyrs of Gorkum"Martyrs of Gorkum", Oxford Reference 1572 Nicasius Jonson 1572 Nicholas Pieck 1572 Nicholas Poppel 1572 Peter of Asche (Peter van Asche) 1572 Pius V1504 1572 popeTheodoric of Emden 1572 Willehad of Denmark 1482 1572 Blessed Thomas Percy1528 1572 Blessed Thomas Woodhouse 1573 Catherine of Palma1533 1574 Cuthbert Mayne (Maine)1544 1577 Blessed Mary Bartholomea of Florence 1577 Blessed John Nelson1534 1578 Blessed Thomas Sherwood1551 1578 Blassed Alexander Briant1556 1581 Edmund Campion1540London, England1581Tyburn, EnglandLouis Bertrand 1526 1581 Ralph Sherwin 1581 Blessed Everald Hanse 1581 Blessed Patrick Cavanagh and Companions 1581 John Payne (Paine) 1582 Luke Kirby1549 1582 Teresa of Avila1515 1582 Blessed James Thompson 1582 Blessed John Shert 1582 Blessed Lawrence Richardson 1582 Blessed Richard Kirkman 1582 Blessed Robert Johnson 1582 Blessed Thomas Cottam1549 1582 Blessed Thomas Ford 1582 Blessed William Filby 1582 Blessed William Lacey 1582 Blessed John Bodey 1583 Blessed John Slade 1583 Blessed Nicholas of Factor1520 1583 Blessed Richard Thirkeld 1583 Blessed William Hart 1583 Blesseds Rudolph Acquaviva, Alphonsus Pacheco, Peter Berno, Anthony Francis, and Francis Aranha 1583 Charles Borromeo1538 1584 Bishop of MilanRichard Gwyn (Richard White)1537 1584 Blessed Dermot O'Hurley1519 1584 Blessed George Haydock1556 1584 Blessed James FennBunson, Matthew et al., "Thomas Hemerford", Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, OSV Publishing, 2003 1540 1584 Blessed John Finch 1584 Blessed John Munden1543 1584 Blessed John Nutter 1584 Blessed Margaret (Eleanor) Ball"Patron Saints for the Congress", International Eucharistic Congress 2012 1584 Blessed Thomas Hemerford 1584 Blessed William Carter1548 1584 Blessed Hugh Taylor1560 1585 Blessed Marmaduke Bowes 1585 Blessed Maurice MacKenraghtyKinrechtan (MacKenraghty), Maurice, Dictionary of Irish Biography 1585 Blessed Thomas Alfield 1585 Margaret Clitherow"Margaret Clitherow", History of York. Retrieved 14 November 2024.McSheffery, Daniel F., "St. Margaret: Mother and Martyr", The Homiletic & Pastoral Review, April 1994 1555 1586 Blessed Edward Stransham1557 1586 Blessed John Adams1543 1586 Blessed John Sandys 1586 Blessed Nicholas Woodfen (Wheeler) Wainewright, JohnBannerman. "Venerable Nicholas Woodfen", Lives of the English Martyrs, (Edwin H. Burton and J. H. Pollen eds.), London. Longmans, Green and Co., 1914 1586 Blessed Richard Langley 1586 Blessed Robert Dibdale1558 1586 Blessed William Thomson1560 1586 Blesseds John Fingley and Robert Bickerdike 1586 Blesseds Robert Anderson and William Marsden 1586 Felix of Cantalice"St. Felix of Cantalice", The Capuchin Franciscans, Province of Our Lady of Angels of the Portiuncula 1513 1587 Blessed Bernard Scammacca1430 1587 Blessed George Douglas 1587 Blessed John Hambley1560 1587 Margaret Ward 1588 Ralph Crockett ", 1588 Richard Martin 1588 Blessed Christopher Buxton 1588 Blessed Edward Burden1540 1588 Blessed Edward Campion 1588 Blessed Edward James 1588 Blessed Edward Shelley 1588 Blessed Henry Webley1558 1588 Blessed Hugh More1563 1588 Blessed James Claxton 1588 Blessed John Robinson 1588 Blessed John Roche 1588 Blessed Nicholas Garlick1555 1588 Blessed Richard Flower 1588 Blessed Richard Leigh 1588 Blessed Richard Martin 1588 Blessed Robert Morton 1588 Blessed Robert Sutton1545 1588 Blessed Robert Widmerpool 1588 Blessed Robert Wilcox 1588 Blessed Thomas Felton1567 1588 Blessed Thomas Holford (Thomas Acton) Nine Martyrs of the Shrewsbury Diocese by Kevin Byrne, accessed 7 November 2012 1588 Blessed William Dean 1588 Blessed William Guntei 1588 Blessed William Hartley 1588 Blessed William Way 1588 Benedict the Black (Benedict the Moor) Venable, Cecelia Guiterrez. "St. Benedict the Moor (1526-1589)", BlackPast.org 1526 1589 Catherine de Ricci 1522 1589 Blessed William Spenser and Robert Hardesty 1589 Blesseds George Nichols, Richard Yaxley, Thomas Belson, and Humphrey Pritchard 1589 Blesseds John Amias and Robert Dalby 1589 Blessed Bartolomeu Fernandes dos Martires 1514 1590 Blessed Christopher Bales1564 1590 Blessed Edmund Duke1564 1590 Blessed Francis Dickenson 1590 Blessed Miles Gerard 1590 Blessed Nicholas Horner 1590 Blesseds Edward Jones and Antony Middleton 1590 Blesseds Richard Hill, John Hogg, and Richard Holiday 1590 Aloysius Gonzaga"Finding God Amid Disease: The Story of St. Aloysius Gonzaga", Gonzaga University 1568 1591 Edmund Genings, Eustace White, and Polydore Plasden, priests and martyrs (d. 1591), and Swithun Wells1536 1591 John of the Cross1542 1591 Martyrs of London15821588 1591 Polydore Plasden1563 1591 Blessed Alphonsus de Orozco1500 1591 Blessed George Beesley1563 1591 Blessed John Mason 1591 Blessed Lawrence Humphrey 1591 Blessed Ralph Milner and Roger Dickenson 1591 Blessed Robert Thorpe 1591 Blessed Sidney Hodgson 1591 Blessed William Pike 1591 Alexander Sauli"Saint Alexander Sauli", Barnabite Fathers USA"St. Alexander Sauli", Christ in the Desert Monastery 1534 1592 Bishop of PaviaPaschal Baylon1540 1592 Blessed Thomas Pormort1559 1592 Blessed William Patenson 1592 John Boste 1593 Blessed Edward Waterson London1593 (OS)Newcastle upon TyneBlessed James Bird 1593 Blessed William Davies 1593 Blesseds James Sales and William Saultemouche15567 1593 Blessed Edward Osbaldeston1560 1594 Blessed John Carey 1594 Blessed John Cornelius1557 1594 Blessed John Ingram1565 1594 Blessed John Speed 1594 Blessed Patrick Salmon 1594 Blessed Thomas Bosgrave 1594 Blessed William Harrington1566 1594 Henry Walpole1558 1595 Philip Howard 1595 Philip Neri1515 1595 Robert Southwell1561 1595 William Freeman 1595 Blessed Alexander Rawlins 1595 Blessed William Freeman1558 1595 Blesseds George Errington 1596 Anthony Dainan 1597 Bonaventure of Miako 1597 Cosmas 1597 Francis of St. Michael 1597 James Kisai 1597 John Soan de Goto 1597 Leo Karasuma 1597 Louis Ibarachi 1585 1597 Martin de Aguirre 1597 Martin Loynaz of the Ascension 1597 Matthias of Meako 1597 Michael Kozaki 1597 Paulo Miki, priest and martyr, and Companions1565 1597 Peter Baptist 1597 Peter CanisiusGhezzi, Bert. "St. Peter Canisius, SJ (1521-1597)", ignatianspirituality.com' accessed 27 June 2017. 1521 1597 Peter Shukeshiko 1597 Peter Sukejiro 1597 Philip of Jesus 1597 Thomas Danki 1597 Thomas Kozaki 1597 Blessed Henry Abbot 1597 Blessed Joseph of Anchieta1534 1597 Blessed Paul of Saint Mary 1597 Blessed Edward Fulthrop 1597 Blessed Thomas Warcop 1597 Blessed William Andleby 1597 John Jones/Buckley 1598 Blessed Christopher Robinson 1598 Blesseds Peter Snow and Ralph Grimston 1598 Blessed Christopher Wharton 1600 Blessed Edward Thwing (Thweng)1565 1600 Blessed John Grande1546 1600 John Rigby 1600 Blessed Robert Nutter1557 1600 Blessed Sebastian Aparicio 1600 Blesseds Thomas Hunt and Thomas Sprott 1600 Blessed Thomas Palasor 1600 Blessed John Talbot 1600
See also
Christianity in the 16th century*
References