List of Canadian Catholic saints and beatified people
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The history of the Catholic Church in Canada extends back to the arrival of the earliest European explorers. A French priest accompanied the explorer Jacques Cartier , performing the first ever recorded Holy Mass on Canadian soil on July 7, 1534, on the shores of the Gaspé Peninsula . It was followed by deliberate conversion of the First Nations into the fold of Catholicism. Soon after, more and more religious congregations set foot in Canada especially among French-speaking present-day Quebec.
In this long history of the Roman Catholic Church in Canada, a number of deceased persons of the Church have had their life and work declared worthy of achieving one of the four stages of canonization in the Catholic Church: Servants of God ; Venerable ; Beatification (Blessed); and, for some, full recognition as a Saint .
Fondateurs
The list of Canadian Roman Catholic Saints (St.), Blesseds (Bl.) and Venerables (Ven.) includes six individuals called the Fondateurs , or Founders. These people are particularly venerated for establishing the Church in Canada. Generally, these are: St. Marguerite Bourgeoys , St. Marguerite d'Youville , St. François de Laval , St. Marie de l'Incarnation , Bl. Catherine de Saint-Augustin and Ven. Jeanne Mance . Sometimes, Ven. Jérôme Le Royer de la Dauversière is also included.
Saints
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Martyrs of North America:
- Jean de Brébeuf (1593–1649), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Manche, France – Ontario, Canada)
- Noël Chabanel (1613–1649), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Haute-Loire, France – Ontario, Canada)
- Antoine Daniel (1601–1648), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Seine-Maritime, France – Ontario, Canada)
- Charles Garnier (1605–1649), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Paris, France – Ontario, Canada)
- Isaac Jogues (1602–1646), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Orléanais, France – New York, United States)
- Gabriel Lallemant (Lalemant) (1610–1649), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Paris, France – Ontario, Canada)
- René Goupil (1607–1642), Professed Religious of the Jesuits (Maine-et-Loire, France – New York, United States)
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Jean de Lalande
(1620–1646), Professed Religious of the Jesuits (Seine-Maritime, France – New York, United States)
- Beatified: June 21, 1925 by Pope Pius XI
- Canonized: June 29, 1930 by Pope Pius XI
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Elizabeth Ann Seton
(1774–1821), Founder of the
Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul of Halifax
(New York City, USA – Emmitsburg, Maryland, USA)
- Declared "Venerable": December 18, 1959
- Beatified: March 17, 1963 by Pope John XXIII
- Canonized: September 14, 1975 by Pope Paul VI
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Marguerite Bourgeoys
(1620–1700), Founder of the Sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dame (Aube, France – Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": June 19, 1910
- Beatified: November 12, 1950 by Pope Pius XII
- Canonized: October 31, 1982 by Pope John Paul II
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Marie-Marguerite d'Youville née Dufrost de Lajemmerais
(1701–1771), Widow; Founder of the Sisters of Charity of Montréal (Gray Sisters) (Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": March 3, 1955
- Beatified: May 3, 1959 by Pope John XXIII
- Canonized: December 9, 1990 by Pope John Paul II
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Alfred Bessette
(André) (1845–1937), Professed Religious of the Congregation of Holy Cross (Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": June 12, 1978
- Beatified: May 23, 1982 by Pope John Paul II
- Canonized: October 17, 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI
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Kateri Tekakwitha
(c. 1656–1680), Young Layperson of the Archdiocese of Montréal (New York, United States – Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": January 3, 1943
- Beatified: June 22, 1980 by Pope John Paul II
- Canonized: October 21, 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI
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Marie Guyart Martin
(Marie of the Incarnation) (1599–1672), Widow; Professed Religious of the Ursuline Nuns (Indre-et-Loire, France – Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": July 19, 1911
- Beatified: June 22, 1980 by Pope John Paul II
- Canonized (equipollent): April 3, 2014 by Pope Francis [1]
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François de Montmorency-Laval
(1623–1708), Bishop of Québec (Eure-et-Loir, France – Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": February 28, 1960
- Beatified: June 22, 1980 by Pope John Paul II
- Canonized: April 3, 2014 by Pope Francis [1]
Blesseds
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André Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
(1758–1792), Priest of the Archdiocese of Sens (Québec, Canada – Paris, France)
- Declared "Venerable": October 1, 1926
- Beatified: October 17, 1926 by Pope Pius XI
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Eulalie Durocher
(Marie-Rose) (1811–1849), Founder of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary
- Declared "Venerable": July 13, 1979
- Beatified: May 23, 1982 by Pope John Paul II
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Marie-Léonie Paradis
(Marie-Léonie) (1840–1912), Founder of the Little Sisters of the Holy Family (Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": January 31, 1981
- Beatified: September 11, 1984 by Pope John Paul II
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Louis-Zéphirin Moreau
(1824–1901), Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe; Cofounder of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Saint-Hyacinthe (Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": May 10, 1973
- Beatified: May 10, 1987 by Pope John Paul II
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Frédéric Janssoone
(1838–1916), Professed Priest of the Franciscan Friars Minor (Nord, France – Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": March 21, 1985
- Beatified: September 25, 1988 by Pope John Paul II
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Marie-Catherine Simon de Longpré
(Marie-Catherine of Saint Augustine) (1632–1668), Professed Religious of the Augustinian Sisters of Mercy of Jesus (Canadian Federation) (Manche, France – Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": June 9, 1984
- Beatified: April 23, 1989 by Pope John Paul II
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Dina Bélanger
(Marie of Saint Cecilia of Rome) (1897–1929), Professed Religious of the Religious of Jesus and Mary (Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": May 13, 1989
- Beatified: March 20, 1993 by Pope John Paul II
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Esther Blondin
(Marie–Anne) (1809–1890), Founder of the Sisters of Saint Anne (Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": May 14, 1991
- Beatified: April 29, 2001 by Pope John Paul II
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Vasyl Velychkovsky
(1903–1973), Professed Religious of the Redemptorists; Eparch of the "clandestine" Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church; Martyr (Ivano-Frankvisk, Ukraine – Manitoba, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": April 24, 2001
- Beatified: June 27, 2001 by Pope John Paul II
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Mykyta Budka
(1877–1949), Auxiliary Eparch of Lviv of the Ukrainians; Martyr (Ternopil, Ukraine – Karaganda, Kazakhstan)
- Declared "Venerable": April 24, 2001
- Beatified: June 27, 2001 by Pope John Paul II
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Émilie Tavernier-Gamelin
(1800–1851), Founder of the
Sisters of Providence of Montréal
(Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": December 23, 1993
- Beatified: October 7, 2001 by Pope John Paul II
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Basil Moreau
(1799–1873), Founder of the
Sisters of Holy Cross
(Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": April 12, 2003
- Beatified: September 16, 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI
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Marie-Louise-Élisabeth de Lamoignon de Molé de Champlâtreux
(1763–1825), widow; founder of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Louis of Vannes (Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": January 16, 1986
- Beatified: November 27, 2011 by Cardinal Angelo Amato
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Marie-Élisabeth Turgeon
(1840–1881), Founder of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary (Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": October 9, 2013
- Beatified: April 26, 2015 by Cardinal Angelo Amato , S.D.B.
Venerables
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Vital-Justin Grandin
(1829–1902), Professed Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Bishop of Saint-Albert (Mayenne, France – Alberta, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": December 15, 1966
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Alfred Pampalon
(1867–1896), Professed Priest of the Redemptorists (Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": May 14, 1991
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Élisabeth Bergeron
(Mère Saint-Joseph) (1851–1936), Cofounder of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Saint-Hyacinthe (Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": January 12, 1996.
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Délia Tétreault
(Marie of the Holy Spirit) (1865–1941), Founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception (Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": December 18, 1997
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Jérôme Le Royer de la Dauversière
(1597–1659), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Le Mans; Cofounder of the Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph (Sarthe – Charente-Maritime, France)
- Declared "Venerable": July 6, 2007
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Adolphe Châtillon (Théophanius-Léo) (1871–1929), Professed Religious of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Brothers) (Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": April 2, 2011
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Marie-Josephte Fitzbach
(Marie of the Sacred Heart) (1806–1885), Widow; Founder of the Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Good Shepherd Sisters (Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": June 28, 2012
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Antoni Kowalczyk (1866–1947), Professed Religious of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (Krotoszyn, Poland – Alberta, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": March 27, 2013
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Rosalie Cadron-Jetté
(Mère of the Nativity) (1794–1864), Founder of the Misericordia Sisters (Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": December 9, 2013
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Marie-Anne-Marcelle Mallet
(1805–1871), Founder of the Sisters of Charity of Québec (Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": January 27, 2014
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Joseph Staub (Marie-Clément) (1876–1936), Professed Priest of the Assumptionists; Founder of the Sisters of Saint Joan of Arc (Haut-Rhin, France – Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": April 3, 2014
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Jeanne Mance
(prob. 1606–1673) Layperson of the Archdiocese of Montréal (Haute-Marne, France – Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": November 7, 2014
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William Gagnon (1905–1972), Professed Religious of the Hospitallers of Saint John of God
- Declared "Venerable": December 14, 2015
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Aurélie Caouette
(Catherine-Aurélie of the Precious Blood) (1833–1905), Founder of the Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood (Québec, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": December 1, 2016
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Élisabeth Bruyère
(1818–1876), Founder of the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa (Québec – Ontario, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": April 14, 2018
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Ovide Charlebois
(1862–1933), Professed Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Apostolic Vicar of Keewatin; Titular Bishop of Berenice (Québec - Manitoba, Canada)
- Declared "Venerable": November 28, 2019
Servants of God
- Jeanne Le Ber (1662–1714), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Montréal (Québec, Canada)
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Martyrs of French Revolution:
- Anne Le Prince veuve le Blanc (1721–1794), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Quimper-Léon (Nova Scotia, Canada – Finistère, France)
- Anastasie le Blanc (1760–1794), Layperson of the Diocese of Quimper-Léon (Nova Scotia, Canada – Finistère, France)
- Michael Power (1804–1847), Bishop of Toronto (Nova Scotia – Ontario, Canada)
- Stephen Eckert (Stephen of Dublin) (1869–1923), Professed Priest of the Franciscan Capuchins (Ontario, Canada – Wisconsin, United States)
- Elzéar DeLamarre (1854–1925), Priest of the Diocese of Chicoutimi; Founder of the Antonian Sisters of Mary (Québec, Canada)
- Vénérance Morin-Rouleau (Bernarda) (1832–1929), Founder of the Sisters of Providence of Chile [now part of the Sisters of Providence of Montréal] (Québec, Canada – Santiago, Chile)
- Léon Pratte (1864–1930), Priest of the Diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe (Québec, Canada)
- Gérard Raymond (1912–1932), Seminarian of the Archdiocese of Québec (Québec, Canada)
- Louis Doumain (1920–1944), Priest of the Diocese of Viviers; Martyr (Alberta, Canada – Saalekreis, Germany)
- Eugène Prévost (1860–1946), Priest and Founder of the Congregation of the Sacerdotal Fraternity and of the Oblate Sisters of Bethany (Québec – Maine-et-Loire, Canada)
- Albert L'Heureux (Alphonse) (1894–1947), Professed Priest of the Trappists; Martyr (Québec, Canada – Hebei, China)
- Louis Émond (1876–1949), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Québec (Québec, Canada)
- Victor Lelièvre (1876–1956), Professed Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (Ille-et-Vilaine, France – Québec, Canada)
- Pierre Fallaize (1887–1964), Professed Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Auxiliary Bishop of MacKenzie (Calvados, France – Northwest Territories, Canada)
- Georges-Philias Vanier (1888–1967), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Ottawa; Governor-General of Canada (Québec – Ottawa, Canada)
- Gilberte Lapierre (Marie-Claire) (1895–1979), Professed Religious of the Poor Clare Nuns (Québec, Canada)
- Dorian LaPlante (Flavian) (1907–1981), Professed Religious of the Congregation of Holy Cross (Québec, Canada – Chittagong, Bangladesh)
- Catherine de Hueck Doherty (1896–1985), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Pembroke; Founder of the Madonna House Apostolate (Nizhegorodskaya oblast’, Russia – Ontario, Canada)
- Pauline Archer–Vanier (1898–1991), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Ottawa (Québec, Canada – Oise, France)
- Colette Lamontaigne Samson (1923–1991), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Québec (Québec, Canada)
- Carmelina Tarantino (Carmelina of the Cross) (1937–1992), Professed Religious of the Passionist Sisters of Saint Paul of the Cross (Naples, Italy – Ontario, Canada)
- Julienne Dallaire (Julienne du Rosaire) (1911–1995), Founder of the Dominican Missionary Adorers (Québec, Canada)
- Emiliano Tardif [Émilien] (1928–1999), Professed Priest of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart; Founder of the Community of the Servants of the Living Christ (Québec, Canada – Córdoba, Argentina)
Candidates for sainthood
- Nicolas Viel (d. 1625), Professed Priest of the Franciscan Friars Minor (Recollects) (Coutances, France – Québec, Canada)
- Auhaitsique [Ahuntsic] (d. 1625), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Québec (Québec, Canada)
- Joseph Chiwatenhwa (1602-1640) and Marie Aonetta (d.1650?), Married Laypersons of the Archdiocese of Québec (Québec, Canada) [2]
- Barthélemy Vimont (1594-1667), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Lisieux, France - Québec, Canada)
- Marie-Madeleine de Chauvigny de la Peltrie (1603-1671), Professed Religious of the Ursulines of Québec (Alençon, France – Québec, Canada)
- Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot (1611-1693), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Châtillon-sur-Seine, France – Québec, Canada)
- Claude Pelletier (Didace) (1657-1699), Professed Religious of the Franciscan Friars Minor (Recollects) (Québec, Canada) [3]
- Esther Wheelwright (Maria Joseph of the Infant Jesus) (1696–1780), Professed Religious of the Ursulines of Québec (Maine, USA – Québec, Canada)
- Frances Margaret Allen (1784–1819), Professed Religious of the Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph (Vermont, USA – Québec, Canada)
- Esther Pariseau (Marie-Joseph of the Sacred Heart) (1823–1902), Professed Religious of the Sisters of Providence of Montréal (Québec, Canada – Washington, USA)
- Éléonore Potvin (Marie-Zita of Jesus) (1865-1903), Founder of the Servants of Jesus-Marie (Canada)
- Jean-Baptiste Rouvière (1881–1913), Professed Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Martyr (Lozères, France – Northwest Territories, Canada)
- Guillaume Le Roux (1885–1913), Professed Priests of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Martyr (Finistère, France – Northwest Territories, Canada)
- Alexis-Louis Mangin (1856-1920), Priest of the Archdiocese of Ottawa; Founder of the Servants of Jesus-Marie (Canada)
- Marie Bibeau (Marie-Anne de Jésus) (1865–1924), Founder of the Little Franciscans of Mary (Lower Canada, Canada – Massachusetts, USA)
- Marie Rose Ferron (1902-1936), Layperson of the Diocese of Providence (Canada-USA)
- Emma Tétu (Marie-Domitille) (1887–1942), Professed Religious of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa (Québec, Canada)
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Martyrs of Fengxian (Jiangsu, China):
[4]
- Alphonse Dubé (1890–1943), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Québec, Canada)
- Prosper Bernard (1902–1943), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Québec, Canada)
- Armand Lalonde (1904–1943), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Québec, Canada)
- Rose Prince (1915-1949), Layperson of the Diocese of Prince George (Canada) [5] [6]
- Léon Arcand (Didace) (1886–1952), Professed Priest of the Franciscan Friars Minor (Québec, Canada – Shandong, China)
- Henri Roy (1898-1965), Professes Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Founder of the Secular Institute "Pius X" (Maine, USA - Quebec, Canada)
- James Arthur Mackinnon (1932–1965), Priest of the Scarboro Foreign Mission Society; Martyr (Nova Scotia, Canada – Monte Plata, Dominican Republic) [7]
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Martyrs of Maseru, Lesotho:
- Almanzar Joseph Ménard (1906–1966), Professed Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (Québec, Canada)
- Raynald Beauregard (1931–1976), Professed Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (Québec, Canada)
- Maurice Lefebvre Beaudry (1922–1971), Professed Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Martyr (Québec, Canada – La Paz, Bolivia)
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Martyrs of Uganda:
- Jean-Paul Demers (1910–1971), Priest of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) (Québec, Canada)
- Gérard Perrault (1915–1971), Priest of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) (Québec, Canada)
- Wilfred Lépine (1923–1980), Priest of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) (Québec, Canada)
- Raoul Joseph Léger (1951–1981), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Moncton; Lay Missionary of the Québec Foreign Missionary Society; Martyr (New Brunswick, Canada – Guatemala City, Guatemala)
- Douglas William Main (John) (1926–1982), Professed Priest of the Benedictines (Olivetan Congregation) (London, United Kingdom – Québec, Canada)
- Claudia Murphy (Sybil) (1930-1996), Professed Religious of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa (Nova Scotia, Canada – Cape Coast, Ghana)
- Mary Josephine Mulligan (1920–1996), Founder of the Sisters of Our Lady Immaculate (Québec, Canada)
- Jean-Luc Hudon (Bernardin-Jean) (1936-1998), Professed Religious of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Brothers); Martyr (Québec, Canada – Sud-Est, Haiti)
- Martin John Royackers (1959-2001), Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Martyr (Ontario, Canada – Saint Mary, Jamaica)
- William Lloyd Ryan (1917–2003), Priest of the Diocese of Hamilton; Founder of the Sisters of Our Lady Immaculate (Ontario – Québec, Canada)
- Richard Émile Joyal (1951-2013), Professed Priest of the Society of Mary (Marianists); Martyr (Manitoba, Canada – Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
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Martyrs of Rwanda:
- François Cardinal (1942–1992),professed religious, Brothers of Christian Instruction (De La Mennais Brothers) (Québec, Canada)
- Claude Simard (1933–1994), professed priest, Congregation of Holy Cross (Québec, Canada)
- Guy Pinard (1945–1997), priest of the Missionaries of Our Lady of Africa (White Fathers) (Québec, Canada)
See also
External links
References
- 1 2 "Pope declares by decree three new saints for the Americas" . 3 April 2014 . Retrieved 3 November 2017 .
- ↑ America’s first paths of holiness: Lives of indigenous saints and martyrs Angelus News , 20 September 2017
- ↑ A Newfoundland Saint in Placentia? Archival Moments , 20 February 2017
- ↑ Three martyred at China mission The Catholic Register , 15 September 2011
- ↑ A candidate for sainthood? Grave of Rose Prince brings pilgrims to former residential school National Post , 21 December 2017
- ↑ Could Rose Prince be a saint? Prince George Citizen , 2 July 2013
- ↑ People remember Cape Breton priest killed in Dominican Republic Cape Breton Post , 2 October 2017
- Ewald, Daniel P. (2009). Saints and Blesseds of the Americas . Xlibris. ISBN 978-1-4363-6761-5 .
- Habig, Marion A. (1974). Saints of the Americas . Our Sunday Visitor. ISBN 0-87973-880-4 .
- "Hagiography Circle"
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