There have been four Redemptorists canonised saints. Many other Redemptorists have been declared Blessed and with God's help will be canonised saints.
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St. Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787). Founder of the Redemptorists, Bishop, Doctor of the Church and the Patron of Moral Theologians. |
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St. Gerard Majella (1726-1755). Redemptorist Brother, Patron of Mothers, master of simple prayer. |
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St. Clement Hofbauer (1751-1820). Parish priest, preacher, and apostle for the poor. Heroic pioneer of the Redemptorists in Austria and Poland. |
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St. John Neumann (1811-1860). Canonised June 19th 1977. Redemptorist missionary from Europe to the United States, founder of the parochial school system in the United States, Bishop of Philadelphia. |
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Blessed Gennaro Maria Sarnelli (1702-1744).Beatified May 12th 1996. He left us 30 works which treat of meditation, mystical theology, spiritual direction, law, pedagogy, moral and pastoral themes. By his social action in favour of women he is considered one of the authors who treated this subject most fully in the Europe of the first half of the eighteenth century. |
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Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos (1819 - 1867).Beatified April 9th 2000. Missioner, Healer, gentle Confessor, an inspiring Preacher and a kindly friend to all. |
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Blessed Peter Donders (1809-1887).Beatified May 23rd 1982. Redemptorist Missionary who worked most of his Redemptorist life for the lepers in Surinam, Dutch Guiana (South America.) We hope he will soon be canonised. |
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Blessed Kasper Stanggassinger (1871-1899).Beatified April 24th 1988. This young German Redemptorist died at 28. He left behind a reputation for great generosity and holiness which encouraged many to seek his intercession and eventually led to his beatification. |
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Blessed Vasil Velechkovskyi C.Ss.R. (1903-1973). Beatified June 27th, 2001. Born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. Joined the Redemptorists in 1920. Ordained priest 1925. Missioner for 20 years. Arrested by the Soviets. After a two year trial in Kiev, he was condemned to be shot. Later commuted to 10 years in Siberian labour camps. Liberated in 1955. Consecrated Bishop in Moscow 1969. Twice more arrested and liberated. Settled in Winnipeg, Canada. Died June 1973. |
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Blessed Nicholas Charnetsky C.Ss.R. (1884-1959).Beatified June 27th, 2001. Born in Semakivtsi, Western Ukraine. Ordained priest 1909. Later joined the Redemptorists in 1919. Missioner for 5 years. Consecrated Bishop in 1931. Arrested in Lviv 1945. Tortured and humiliated, he was condemned to 15 years of forced labour in Siberia. Released in 1956 in a dying condition. He recovered, continued his ministry and died in Lviv, April 1959. |
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Blessed Zenon Kowalyk C.Ss.R. (1903-1941). Beatified June 27th, 2001. Born in Ivatsciv Horisiscnij, Ukraine. Professed as a Redemptorist 1926. Ordained priest 1932. Famous as a preacher and confessor. Arrested by the Bolsheviks in 1940. Imprisoned and tortured. Official Soviet documents state he was shot in prison in Lviv, June 1941. |
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Blessed Ivan Ziatyk C.Ss.R. (1899-1952). Beatified June 27th, 2001. Born in Galizia, Ukraine. Ordained priest 1923. Later, in 1935, professed as a Redemptorist and taught in the Redemptorist Seminary. Interned by the Soviets (With 58 other Redemptorists) in 1946. Arrested in 1950 and imprisoned. Interrogated and tortured. Condemned to 10 years of sorced labour in Siberia, where he was beaten to death in 1952. |
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Blessed Dominik Trechka (1886-1959) Beatified November 4th, 2001. Blessed Dominik Trechka was born in Moravia in 1886. As a Redemptorist priest he gave Parish Missions, worked among the Greek Catholics in Galizia and Slovakia, and helped in the formation of younger Redemptorists. In 1950 he was sentenced by the Czech Communist Government to twelve years imprisonment, and after unspeakable torture, died in prison in 1959. |
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