List of saints from Oceania: Difference between revisions

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This page is a list of '''[[Saint#Catholicism|saints]],''' [[beatification|blessed]]s, [[List of venerable people (Roman Catholic)|venerables]], and [[List of Servants of God|Servants of God]] '''from Oceania''', as recognized by the [[Roman Catholic (term)|Roman]] Catholic Church. These people were born, died, or lived their religious life in any of the states or territories of [[Oceania]].

The region of Oceania was the last continent where the Catholic Church arrived. Consequently, it is the continent with the fewest saints.

* [[Peter Chanel]], Marist priest (1954, [[Wallis and Futuna]])

* [[Father Damien]], priest of the [[Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary]] (2009, [[Hawaii]])

* [[Mary MacKillop]], founder of the [[Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart]] (2010, [[Australia]])

* [[Pedro Calungsod]], layman (2012, [[Guam]])

* [[Marianne Cope]], Franciscan sister (2012, Hawaii)

* [[Diego Luis de San Vitores]], Jesuit priest (Guam)

* [[Giovanni Battista Mazzucconi]], PIME priest ([[Papua New Guinea]])

* [[Peter To Rot]], layman (Papua New Guinea)

* [[Suzanne Aubert]], religious ([[New Zealand]])<ref>[http://suzanneaubert.co.nz/suzanne-aubert-declared-venerable/ "Suzanne Aubert declared ‘venerable’", DoLC website] (retrieved 5 April 2018)</ref>

* [[Alain-Marie Guynot de Boismenu]], bishop with the [[Sacred Heart Missionaries]] (Papua New Guinea)

* [[Leopoldina Burns]]

* [[Eileen Rosaline O'Connor|Eileen O'Connor]]

* [[B. A. Santamaria]]<ref>{{cite web | last =Keane | first =Eamonn | date = | title =Lay Saint, B.A. Santamaria | work =AD2000 | url =http://www.ad2000.com.au/articles/2010/decjan2010p13_3430.html | accessdate =27 February 2015 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20150227055119/http://www.ad2000.com.au/articles/2010/decjan2010p13_3430.html | archive-date =27 February 2015 | url-status =dead }}</ref>

** [[Sister Teresia]], a sister from Papua New Guinea with the [[Marianist Family|Daughters of Mary Immaculate]] who died in 1946 as a result of torture by the Japanese occupiers.<ref name="Aerts">{{cite web | last =Aerts | first =Theo | date = | title =Papua New Guinea Martyrs | work =Melanesian Journal of Theology 9-1 (1993) | url =http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/mjt/09-1_44.pdf | accessdate = 27 February 2015 }}</ref>

** [[Sister Cicilia]] and ten other native Marianist sisters who died in service during the Japanese occupation in air raids, POW camps, or otherwise.<ref name="Aerts"/>

** [[Magdalena Aiwaul]], a native from [[Tumleo Island]] who wished to join the [[Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit]] and was shot aboard the [[Japanese destroyer Akikaze]] after being arrested with the Sisters.<ref name="Aerts"/>

** Bishop [[Joseph Loerks]] (or Lörks), German Vicar Apostolic of Central [[New Guinea]] (now the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Wewak]]), also shot aboard the [[Japanese destroyer Akikaze]].<ref name="Aerts"/>

** [[Charlie Mathies|Charlie]], [[Allan Mathies|Allan]] and [[Dora Mathies]]; [[Jimi Johnson]]; [[Elsie Kraemer]]; Paula; and two unnamed teenagers, laypeople working at the missions of Papua New Guinea killed aboard the [[Yorishime Maru]].<ref name="Aerts"/>

** [[Arthur C. Duhamel]], Marist, killed on [[Guadalcanal]].<ref name="Aerts"/>

** [[James Gerard Hennessey]], killed aboard the [[SS Montevideo Maru|Montevideo Maru]].<ref name="Gold">{{cite web | last = | first = | date = | title =American Saints | url =https://americansaints.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/23-to-29-june-2013/ | accessdate = 27 February 2015 }}</ref>

** Marist brothers Augustine ([[Frederick Gerard Mannes]]), Donatus and Ervin, missing during the [[Japanese occupation of the Solomon Islands|occupation of the Solomon Islands]].<ref name="hagiography">{{cite web | last = | first = | date = | title =Papua New Guinea | work =Hagiography | url =http://newsaints.faithweb.com/new_martyrs/Papua_New_Guinea1.htm | accessdate = 27 February 2015 }}</ref>

** [[Francis Douglas (priest)|Vernon Francis Douglas]], a New Zealand [[Missionary Society of St. Columban|Columban priest]] killed by Japanese soldiers in 1943 in the [[Philippines]] having demonstrated outstanding priestly fidelity (especially to the [[Seal of the Confessional and the Catholic Church|Seal of Confession]]).<ref name="Laracy">{{cite encyclopedia | last =Laracy | first =Hugh | date =7 June 2013 | title =Douglas, Francis Vernon | encyclopedia =the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand | url =http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/biographies/5d23/douglas-francis-vernon | accessdate = 27 February 2015 }}</ref>

*[[List of saints of the Canary Islands]]

==References==

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==External links==

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