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List of venerated couples

The following is a list of modern-day couples recognized by various Christian denominations to have lived such an exemplary holy lives in marriage and are under the process for canonization.^[1][2]

Catholic Church

Saints

• Saints Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (973-1024 A.D.) and Saint Cunigunde of Luxembourg (ca. 975-1024 A.D.), Imperial couples of the Holy Roman Empire, who reigned from 999 A.D. until their death.
• Saint Stephen I of Hungary (ca. 975–1038) and Blessed Gisela of Hungary (ca. 985–1065), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Budapest-Esztergom; King and Queen of Hungary (Hungary-Germany)
• Saint Isidro Merlo Quintana (ca. 1070–1130) and Blessed Maria Torribia de la Cabeza Merlo (d. 1175), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Madrid (Spain)
• Saint Ferdinand III of Castile (1199-1252) and Blessed Elisabeth of Swabia (1205-1235), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Seville; King and Queen of Castile (Spain)
• Saints Louis Joseph Aloys Martin (1823-1894) and Marie-Azélie Guérin Martin (1831-1877), Married Laypersons from the Dioceses of Séez and Bayeux-Lisieux (France)

Blesseds

• Blessed Louis IV of Thuringia (1200-1227) and Saint Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Budapest-Esztergom; King and Queen of Hungary (Hungary-Germany)
• Blesseds Luchesio Modestini (1180-1260) and Bounadonna de Segni Modestini (d. 1267), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Siena; Members of the Secular Franciscans (Italy)
• Blesseds Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi (1880-1951) and Maria Corsini-Beltrame Quattrocchi (1884-1964), Married Laypersons from the Vicariate of Rome (Italy)
• Blessed Karl I (IV) von Österreich (1887-1922) and Servant of God Zita de Bourbon-Parma (1892-1989), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Vienna and the Diocese of Lemans; Emperor and Empress of Austria-Hungary (Portugal-Italy-Switzerland-Austria)
• Blessed Bartolo Longo (1841-1926) and Marianna Farnararo de Fusco Longo (1836-1924), Married Laypersons from the Diocese of Pompei; Members of the Lay Dominicans; Founders of the Dominican Sisters of Pompei (Italy)
• Blessed Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam (1813-1853) and Servant of God Marie-Josephine-Amélie Soulacroix Ozanam (1820-1894), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Paris and Marseille; Founders of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (France)^[2]

Venerables

• Venerable Pierre Toussaint (1766-1853) and Servant of God Juliette Noel Toussaint (ca. 1786–1851), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of New York (Haiti-United States of America)
• Venerables Sergio Bernardini (1882-1966) and Domenica Bedonni Bernardini (1889-1971), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Modena-Nonantola; Members of the Secular Franciscans (Italy)

Servants of God

• Servants of God Alfonso Sanches (1289-1329) and Teresa Martins de Meneses Telo (d. 1350), Married Laypersons from the Diocese of Braga (Portugal-Spain)^[3]
• Servants of God Carlo Tancredi Falletti di Barolo (1782-1838) and Juliette-Victorienne-Françoise Colbert Falletti di Barolo (1786-1864), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Turin; Founders of the Sisters of Saint Anne and the Daughters of Jesus the Good Shepherd (Italy-France)^[4]
• Servant of God Francisco Armida García (1854-1901) and Blessed María Concepción Cabrera Arias de Armida (1862-1937), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Mexico; Founder of the Apostleship of the Cross and the Religious of the Cross of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; Cofounder of the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit (Mexico)^[2]
• Servants of God Jerônimo de Castro Abreu Magalhães (1851-1909) and Zélia (Elisa) Pedreira Abreu Magalhães (1851-1919), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)^[5][6][7]
• Servants of God Nicolás Pakarati Urepotahi (1860-1927) and Elizabet Rangitaki Temaki Urepotahi (1869-1949), Married Laypersons from the Diocese of Villarrica; Catechists (Easter Island, Chile)^[8]
• Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War:
  • Servants of God Plàcid Armengol Ceranova (1873-1936) and Emília Serra Saura de Armengol (1888-1936), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Barcelona (Spain)^[9]
  • Servants of God José Carné Moreno (d. 1936) and María Dolores Gómez Plaza de Carné (d. 1936), Married Laypersons from the Diocese of Cuenca (Spain)^[10]
  • Servants of God Manuel Marín Portela (d. 1936) and Teresa Basulto Jiménez de Marín (d. 1936), Married Laypersons from the Diocese of Jaén (Spain)
  • Servants of God Francisco de Paula Ortega Montilla (d. 1936) and María Antonia Vergara Melgar de Ortega (d. 1936), Married Laypersons from the Diocese of Córdoba (Spain)
  • Servants of God Gabino Díaz-Toledo Martín-Macho (1897-1936) and María Paz Pascuala Merchán Gouvert de Díaz-Toledo (1897-1936), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Toledo (Spain)^[11]
  • Servants of God Moisés Méndez-Benegassi García-Mora (1894-1936) and María Luisa Sánchez-Arévalo García-Mora de Méndez-Benegassi (1888-1936), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Mérida-Badajoz (Spain)
• Servants of God Karol Jozéf Wojtyła (1879-1941) and Emilia Kaczorowska Wojtyła (1884-1929), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Kraków (Poland)^[12][13][14]
• Servants of God Giovanni Gheddo (1900-1942) and Rosetta Franzi Gheddo (1902-1934), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Vercelli (Italy-Russia)^[15][16]
• Servants of God Józef Ulma (1900-1944) and Wiktoria Niemczak Ulma (1912-1944), Married Laypersons from the Diocese of Przemyśl; Martyrs (Poland)^[17][18][19]
• Servants of God František Munk (1895-1945) and Gizela Munková (1900-1945), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Bratislava; Martyrs (Slovakia)^[20][21][22]
• Servants of God Eugenio Balmori Martínez (1900-1946) and Francisca Cinta Sarrelangue de Balmori (1909-1988), Married Laypersons from the Diocese of Coatzacoalcos (Mexico)^[23][24]
• Servants of God Teodor Nimylovych (1889-1947), Priest and Olha Kapko Nimylovych (d. 1947), Married Laypersons from the Archeparchy of Lviv of the Latins; Martyr (Ukraine)^[25]
• Servants of God Louis Wandete [Ouandete] (ca. 1877–1949) and Valerie Ama Wandete [Ouandete] (ca. 1883–1948), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Korhogo (Côte d'Ivore)^[26]
• Servants of God Félix Leseur (1861-1950) and Pauline-Élisabeth Arrighi Leseur (1866-1914), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Paris (France)^[2]
• Servants of God Paulus Takashi Nagai (1908-1951) and Marina Moriyama Midori (1908-1945), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Nagasaki (Japan)^[27][28][29]
• Servants of God Manuel Casesnoves Soler (1904-1958) and Adela Soldevila Galiana de Casesnoves (1906-1988), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Valencia; Members of the Lay Dominicans (Spain)^[30][31][32]
• Servants of God Georges-Philias Vanier (1888-1967) and Pauline Archer-Vanier (1898-1991), Married Laypersons from the Archdioceses of Ottawa and Montreal (Canada-France)^[33][34][35]
• Servants of God Ulisse Amendolagine (1893-1969) and Lelia Cossidente Amendolagine (1893-1951), Married Laypersons from the Vicariate of Rome; Members of the Lay Carmelites (Italy)^[36][37]
• Servants of God Enrique Ernesto Shaw (1921-1962) and Cecilia Bunge de Shaw (1921-2007), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires (France-Argentina)^[38][39]
• Servants of God Edmond Michelet (1889-1970) and Marie Michelet née Vialle (1900-1989), Married Laypersons from the Diocese of Tulle (France)^[40][41][42]
• Servants of God Edward Joseph Doherty (1890-1975) and Catherine De Hueck Doherty (1896-1985), Married Laypersons from the Diocese of Pembroke; Founders of the Madonna House Apostolate (Russia-Canada-United States)^[2][43]
• Servants of God Fernando Crespo Alfageme (1907-1976) and María Lourdes de Miguel Crespo de Crespo (1913-1983), Married Laypersons from the Personal Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei (Spain)^[44]
• Servants of God Raoul Follereau (1903-1977) and Madeleine Follereau née Boudou (1902-1991), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Paris (France)^[45][46][47]
• Servants of God Settimio Manelli (1886-1978) and Licia Gualandris Manelli (1907-2004), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Vicariate of Rome; Members of the Secular Franciscans (Italy)^[48][49]
• Servants of God Anatolii Hurhula (1905-1980), Priest and Irina Durbak Hurhula (1908-1980), Married Laypersons from the Eparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk; Martyrs (Ukraine)^[50]
• Servants of God Eduardo Ortiz de Landázuri Fernández de Heredia (1910-1985) and Laura Busca Otaegui de Ortiz de Landázuri (1918-2000), Married Laypersons from the Personal Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei (Spain)^[51]
• Servants of God Aristides Calvani Silva (1918-1986) and Adela Rina Abbo Fontana de Calvani (1919-1986), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Caracas (Trinidad and Tobago-Venezuela-Guatemala)^[52]
• Servants of God Abraham Reyes Díaz (1917-1988) and María Patricia García García de Reyes (1924–2006), Married Permanent Deacon and Layperson from the Archdiocese of Caracas; Cofounders of the『Fe y Alegría』Association (Venezuela)^[53][54][55]
• Servants of God Tomás Alvira y Alvira (1906-1992) and Francisca [Paquita] Domínguez Susín de Alvira (1906-1994), Married Laypersons from the Personal Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei (Spain)^[56][57][58]
• Servants of God Cyprien Rugamba (ca. 1935–1994) and Daphrose Mukasanga (ca. 1944–1994), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Kigali; Members of the Emmanuel Community (Rwanda)^[59][60]
• Servants of God Marcello Inguscio (1934-1996) and Anna Maria Ritter Inguscio (1938-1996), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Catania; Consecrated Members of the Ecclesial Family of Church-World Mission (Italy)^[61][62]
• Servants of God Francesco Bono (1939-1996) and Maria Rosario de Angelis Bono (1913-1984), Married Laypersons from the Diocese of Locri-Gerace (Italy)^[63]
• Servants of God Aldo Michisanti (1937-1997) and Enrica Onorante Michisanti (1945-2007), Married Laypersons of the Vicariate of Rome (Italy)^[64][65][66]
• Servants of God Francesco Ugenti (1913-1998) and Teresa Sivilli Ugenti (1913-1984), Married Laypersons from the Diocese of Bari-Bitento; Members of the Holy Family Institute (Italy)^[67][68]
• Servants of God Henry Casolani (1917-1999) and Inez Vassallo Casolani (1915-1992), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Malta (Malta)^[69][70][71]
• Servant of God Pietro Molla (1912-2010) and Saint Gianna Beretta Molla (1922-1962), Married Laypersons of the Archdiocese of Milan (Italy)^[72][73][74]
• Servants of God Daniel George Hyams (1921-2012) and Domitilla Maria Rota Hyams (1918-2011), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Johannesburg (Italy-South Africa)^[75][76]

Candidates for sainthood

• Joseph Chiwatenhwa (1602?-1640) and Marie Aonetta (d. 1650?), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Quebec (Canada)^[77]
• Antonio Brignole Sale (1786-1863) and Artemisia Negroni-Brignole Sale (d. ), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Genoa (Italy)^[78]
• Francois Soubirous (1807-1871) and Louise Casterot Soubirous (1825-1866), Married Laypersons of the Diocese of Tarbes-Lourdes (France)
• Alessandro Francesco Manzoni (1785-1873) and Enrichetta Blondel Manzoni (1791-1833), Married Layperson from the Archdiocese of Milan (Italy)^[79]
• Domenico Fassati (1804-1878) and Maria De Maistre Fassati (1824-1905), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Turin; Member of the Salesian Cooperators (Italy)^[80]
• Amadeo Ferdinando di Savoia (1845-1890) and Maria Vittoria Carlotta dal Pozzo della Cisterna (1847-1876), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Turin; King and Queen of Spain (Italy-France)^[81]
• Thomas Poynton (1802-1892) and Mary Kennedy Poynton (1812-1891), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Wellington (Ireland-New Zealand)^[82][83]
• Michele Alberione (1837-1904) and Teresa Allocco Alberione (1850-1923), Married Laypersons from the Diocese of Alba (Italy)^[84]
• Francesco Viancino (1821-1914) and Luisa Barel Viancino (d. ?), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Turin (Italy)^[85]
• Nikollë Bojaxhiu (1873-1918) and Dranafile Bernaj Bojaxhiu (1889-1972), Married Laypersons from the Diocese of Skopje (Macedonia-Albania)^[86]
• Ignacio Lacson Arroyo (1852-1935) and Maria Pidal Regalado de Arroyo (1864-1920), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Jaro (Philippines)
• Jožef Mavsar (1891-1942) and Terezija Bukovec Mavsar (1893-1942), Married Laypersons of the Archdiocese of Ljubljana; Martyrs (Slovenia)
• Bernhard Kreulich (1890-1944) and Maria Budziak Kreulich (1889-1944), Married Laypersons from the Diocese of Essen; Martyrs (Germany)^[87]
• Joseph Ratzinger Sr. (1877-1959) and Maria Peintner Ratzinger (1884-1963), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising (Germany)^[88]
• Juan Nepomuceno (1892-1973) and Maria Teresa Gomez Nepomuceno (1893-1970), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of San Fernando (Philippines)^[89]
• Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) and Raïssa Oumançoff Maritain (1883-1960), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Paris (Russia-France)^[90][91]
• Oskar Schindler (1908-1974) and Emilie Pelzl Schindler (1907-2001), Married Laypersons of the Archdiocese of Berlin (Czech Republic-Germany)^[92][93]
• Fritz Spieler (1893-1974) and Hilda Spieler-Meyer (1896-1953), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising; Cofounders of the Franciscan Sisters Pro Infante et Familia (Germany)^[94]
• Patrick Crowley (1911-1974) and Patricia Caron Crowley (1913-2006), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Chicago; Founders of the Christian Family Movement (Illinois, United States)^[95]
• William Gauchat (1907-1975) and Dorothy Helen Schmitt Gauchat (1921-2000), Married Laypersons of the Diocese of Cleveland (Ohio, United States)
• Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889-1977) and Alice Marie Jourdain von Hildebrand (1923-2022), Married Laypersons of the Archdiocese of New York (New York, USA)
• Francis Joseph Sheed (1897-1981) and Mary Josephine Ward Sheed (1889-1975), Married Laypersons of the Archdiocese of Sydney (Australia-United Kingdom-United States)
• Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa (1920-1982) and Emanuela Setti Carraro dalla Chiesa (1950-1982), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Palermo; Martyrs (Italy)^[96]
• Felipe Barreda Rodríguez (1931-1983) and María Eugenia García de Barreda (1933-1983), Married Laypersons from the Diocese of Estelí; Martyrs (Nicaragua)^[97]
• Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990) and Katherine Dobbs Muggeridge (1903-1994), Married Laypersons from the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton (Switzerland-United Kingdom)
• Giacomo Spanu (1921-1991) and Iside Giovanna de Zolt Spanu (1921-2003), Married Laypersons from the Diocese of Cagliari (Italy)^[98]
• Baudouin of Belgium (1930-1993) and Fabiola de Mora Aragón (1928-2014), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels; King and Queen of Belgium (Spain-Belgium)^[99][100]
• Herbert Wallbrecher (1922-1997) and Gertraud WeiB Wallbrecher (1923-2016), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising; Founders of the Catholic Integrated Community (Germany)
• Francisco González-Barros Albardonedo (1924-2001) and Ramona González Penas de Gonzáles-Barros (1932-2006), Married Laypersons of the Personal Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei (Spain)
• Piero Corti (1925-2003) and Lucille Teasdale-Corti (1929-1996), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Milan (Italy-Canada-Uganda)^{[101][102][103]}
• Guerrino Casadio (1918-2004) and Lucia Gambetti Casadio (1923-1995), Married Laypersons of the Diocese of Imola (Italy)^[104]
• Edward Warren (1926-2006) and Lorraine Rita Moras Warren (1927-2019), Married Laypersons from the Diocese of Bridgeport (United States)
• John Billings (1918-2007) and Evelyn Livingston Billings (1918-2010), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Melbourne-Canberra (Australia)^[105][106]
• Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. (1915-2011) and Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver (1921-2009), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Baltimore (United States)^{[107][108][109]}
• Scott Adam (1940-2011) and Jean Hawkins Adam (1944-2011), Married Layperson from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles; Martyrs (California, USA - Somalia)^[110][111]
• Peter Thomas Geach (1916-2013) and Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe Geach (1919-2001), Married Laypersons from the Diocese of East Anglia (Ireland-United Kingdom)
• Alexander Joseph Toczko (1919-2015) and Jeannette Dolores Malachowski Toczko (1919-2015), Married Layperson from the Diocese of San Diego (California, USA)^[112][113]
• Bob Lord (1935-2016) and Pauline Eve Macaluso Lord (Penny) (1927-2014), Married Laypersons from the Diocese of Little Rock (United States)^[114]
• Oscar Lang (1931-2015) and Vernetta Margaret Stieber Lang (1931-2015), Married Laypersons from the Archdiocese of Nouméa (Canada)^[115][116]
• Jerome Francis Coniker (1938-2018) and Servant of God Gwen Cecilia Billings Coniker (1939-2002), Married Laypersons from the Diocese of Steubenville; Founders of the Apostolate for Family Consecration (United States)^[117][118]

Orthodox Church

• Saints Peter of Murom (1167-1228) and Fevronia of Murom (1175-1228), Russian Orthodox Couple; Prince and Princess of Murom; Wonderworkers (Russia)
• Saints Stefan Uroš IV Dušan (ca. 1308–1355) and Helena (1332-1359), Eastern Orthodox Couple; King and Queen of Serbia (Serbia-Bulgaria)
• Saints Dmitri Donskoy (1350-1389) and Eudoxia of Moscow (1353-1407), Russian Orthodox Couple; Grand Prince and Princess of Moscow (Russia)
• Saints Nikolay Aleksandrovich Romanov (1868-1918) and Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova (1872-1918), Russian Orthodox Couple; Emperor and Empress of Russia; Martyrs (Germany-Russia)^[119][120]

References

External links

• Santi Sposi From Santi e Beati website.
• CatholicSaints.Info