In the Catholic Church, Venerable is the title used for a person who has been posthumously declared "heroic in virtue" during the investigation and process leading to beatification.

The following is an incomplete list of people declared to be venerable. The list is in alphabetical order by Christian name but, if necessary, by surname or the place or attribute part of the name.

Venerable Year of death Year declared venerable
Agnelo de Souza 1927 1986
Alessandro Luzzago 1602 1899
Alfred Pampalon 1896 1991
Alfredo Obviar 1978 2018
Aloísio Sebastião Boeing 2006 2023
Aloysius Schwartz 1992 2015
Alphonse Gallegos 1991 2016
Andrey Sheptytsky 1944 2015
Anne de Guigne 1922 1990
Anne de Xainctonge 1621 1900
Antonietta Meo 1937 2007
António Barroso 1918 2017
Antônio de Almeida Lustosa 1974 2023
Antônio Ferreira Viçoso 1875 2014
August Hlond 1948 2018
Augustus Tolton 1897 2019
Aureliano of the Blessed Sacrament 1963 1999
Attilio Giordani 1972 2013
Benigna Victim of Jesus 1981 2022
Benoîte Rencurel 1718 2009
Bernard Łubieński 1933 2018
Bruno Lanteri 1830 1965
Caesar Baronius 1607 1745
Carla Ronci[1] 1970 1997
Caroline-Barbe Colchen Carré de Malberg 1891 2014
Catherine McAuley 1841 1990
Clotilde of France 1802 1808
Cornelia Connelly 1879 1992
Damião de Bozzano 1997 2019
Delia Tetreault 1941 1997[2]
Dolindo Ruotolo 1882 1970
Edel Quinn 1944 1994
Eusebio Kino 1711 2020
Faustino Pérez-Manglano[3] 1963 2011
Fathi Baladi 1980 2019
Francesca Lancellotti 2008 2023
Francesco Convertini 1868 2017
Francis Libermann 1852 1876
François Nguyễn Văn Thuận 2002 2017
Frederic Baraga 1868 2012
Fulton Sheen 1979 2012
Geevarghese Mar Ivanios 1953 2024
Giacomo Gaglione 1962 2009
Gioacchino La Lomia 1905 2002
Giovanni Bacile 1941 2015
Giuseppe Carraro 1980 2015
Giuseppe Marchetti 1896 2016
Guido Vidal França Schäffer 2009 2023
Henriette Delille 1862 2010
Hermínio Pinzetta 1972 2019
Ignacia del Espíritu Santo 1748 2007
Innocentto Leonelli 1625 before 1679[4]
Isabel Larrañaga Ramírez 1899 1999
Jérôme Lejeune[5] 1926 1994
Joaquina Maria Barcelo Pages 1940 2012
Joseph Hartmann 1866 1998
Kadalikkattil Mathai Kathanar 1935 2011
Leo Dupont 1876 1939
Léon-Gustave Dehon 1925 1997
Lúcia of Fátima 2005 2023[6]
Luigi Maria Olivares 1943 2004
Louise of France 1787 1873
Margaret Anne Sinclair 1925 1978
Margherita Occhiena 1856 2006
Maria Kaupas 1940 2010
Maria Teresa of the Eucharistic Jesus 1972 2014
María de Ágreda 1665 1673
María Luisa Josefa 1937 2000
Marie de Sales Chappuis 1793 1875
Marthe Robin 1981 2014
Mary Potter 1913 1988
Mary Angeline Teresa McCrory 1994 2012
Mary Ward 1645 2009
Matt Talbot 1925 1975
Matteo Farina 2009 2020
Nano Nagle 1784 2013
Nelson Baker 1931 2011
Odette Vidal Cardoso 1939 2021
Patrick Peyton 1992 2017
Pelágio Sauter 1961 2014
Pierre Toussaint 1853 1996
Pietro Riminucci 1960 2008
Pope Pius XII 1958 2009
Rafaél Manuel Almansa Riaño 1840 1927
Rafael Cordero 1868 2013[7]
Robert Schuman 1963 2021
Rosalie Cadron-Jetté 1864 2013
Romano Bottegal 1978 2013
Rudolf Komórek 1949 1995
Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli 1864 1993
Satoko Kitahara 1958 2015
Serafina of God 1699 1723
Simon Srugi 1943 1993
Teofilo Camomot 1988 2022
Tereza Margarida of the Heart of Mary 2005 2023
Thomas Kurialacherry 1925 2011
Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly 1929 2018
Veronica of the Passion 1906 2014
Vital-Justin Grandin 1902 1966
Vítor Coelho de Almeida 1987 2022
Vittorio De Marino 1929 1992
Vincent Cimatti 1965 1991
Zacarias of Saint Teresa 1957 2014

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References

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  1. ^ "Biografia di Carla Ronci" [Biography of Carla Ronci]. Diocese of Rimini (in Italian). 6 December 2023. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  2. ^ "Venerable Delia Tetreault". Archived from the original on 2016-03-09. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
  3. ^ "Faustino Pérez-Manglano Magro".
  4. ^ Augusto Vernarecci (1903). Fossombrone dai tempi antichissimi ai nostri con illustrazioni e appendice di documenti [Fossombrone from ancient times to ours with illustrations and appendix of documents]. Vol. 2 pt. 2. Forni. p. 653.
  5. ^ "French doctor who made Down discovery closer to sainthood". AP NEWS. 2021-01-21. Retrieved 2021-01-21.
  6. ^ Promulgazione di Decreti del Dicastero delle Cause dei Santi, 22.06.2023
  7. ^ "Papa Francisco autoriza camino a beatificación del Maestro Rafael Cordero". NotiCel. CyberNews. 9 December 2013.
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