List of South American saints

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This page is a list of South American saints, blesseds, venerables, and Servants of God, as recognized by the Roman Catholic Church. These people were born, died, or lived their religious life in any of the territories of South America with the exception of Brazil, which has its own page.

Image of St. Rose of Lima, first American-born person to be canonized, in the church at Paniqui.

The Catholic Church entered South America in 1500 through Brazil and quickly expanded across the continent with the Spanish and Portuguese cultures. Today this area remains heavily Catholic.

List of saints[]

The following is the list of saints, including the year in which they were canonized and the country or countries with which they are associated.

  • St. Louis Bertrand (1526–1581), Dominican priest (Colombia)
    • Declared Venerable: N/A
    • Beatified: 19 July 1608 by Pope Paul V
    • Canonized: 12 April 1671 by Pope Clement X
  • St. Rose of Lima (1586–1617), lay Dominican (Peru)
    • Declared Venerable: N/A
    • Beatified: 15 April 1668 by Pope Clement IX
    • Canonized: 12 April 1671 by Pope Clement X
  • St. Turibius of Mongrovejo (1538–1606), secular Archbishop (Peru)
    • Declared Venerable: N/A
    • Beatified: 2 July 1679 by Pope Innocent XI
    • Canonized: 10 December 1726 by Pope Benedict XIII
  • St. Francis Solanus (1549–1610), Franciscan priest (Peru)
    • Declared Venerable: N/A
    • Beatified: 20 June 1675 by Pope Clement X
    • Canonized: 27 December 1726 by Pope Benedict XIII
  • St. Peter Claver (1580–1654), Jesuit priest (Colombia)
    • Declared Venerable: N/A
    • Beatified: 21 September 1851 by Pope Pius IX
    • Canonized: 15 January 1888 by Pope Leo XIII
  • St. Mariana de Jesús de Paredes (1618–1645), secular Franciscan (Ecuador)
    • Declared Venerable: 19 March 1776
    • Beatified: 20 November 1853 by Pope Pius IX
    • Canonized: 9 July 1950 by Pope Pius XII
  • St. Martin de Porres (1579–1639), Dominican brother (Peru)
    • Declared Venerable: N/A
    • Beatified: 29 October 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI
    • Canonized: 6 May 1962 by Pope John XXIII
  • St. John Macias (1585–1645), Dominican brother (Peru)
    • Declared Venerable: 2 February 1762
    • Beatified: 22 October 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI
    • Canonized: 28 September 1975 by Pope Paul VI
  • St. Miguel Febres Cordero (1854–1910), De La Salle Brother (Ecuador)
    • Declared Venerable: 16 March 1970
    • Beatified: 30 October 1977 by Pope Paul VI
    • Canonized: 21 October 1984 by Pope John Paul II
  • St. Roque González de Santa Cruz, Juan del Castillo, and Alfonso Rodríguez Olmedo (d. 1628), Jesuits (Paraguay and Peru)
    • Declared Martyrdom: 3 December 1933
    • Beatified: 28 January 1934 by Pope Pius XI
    • Canonized: 16 May 1988 by Pope John Paul II
  • St. Ezequiel Moreno y Díaz (1848–1906), Augustinian Recollect (Colombia)
    • Declared Venerable: 1 February 1975
    • Beatified: 1 November 1975 by Pope Paul VI
    • Canonized: 11 October 1992 by Pope John Paul II
  • St. Teresa of Los Andes (1900–1920), Discalced Carmelite (Chile)
    • Declared Venerable: 22 March 1986
    • Beatified: 3 April 1987 by Pope John Paul II
    • Canonized: 21 March 1993 by Pope John Paul II
  • St. Benito de Jesus (born Hector Valdivielso Saez) (1910–1934), De La Salle Brother and Martyr in Spain (Argentina)
    • Declared Martyrdom: 7 September 1989
    • Beatified: 29 April 1990 by Pope John Paul II
    • Canonized: 21 November 1999 by Pope John Paul II
  • St. Alberto Hurtado (1901–1952), Jesuit priest (Chile)
    • Declared Venerable: 21 December 1991
    • Beatified: 16 October 1994 by Pope John Paul II
    • Canonized: 23 October 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI
  • St. Maria Bernarda Bütler (1848–1924), foundress, Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Mary Help of Christians (Colombia and Ecuador)
    • Declared Venerable: 21 December 1991
    • Beatified: 29 October 1995 by Pope John Paul II
    • Canonized: 12 October 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI
  • St. Narcisa de Jesús (1832–1869), layperson (Ecuador and Peru)
    • Declared Venerable: 23 October 1987
    • Beatified: 25 October 1992 by Pope John Paul II
    • Canonized: 12 October 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI
  • St. Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena (1874–1949), foundress, Missionary Sisters of Mary Immaculate and St. Catherine of Siena (Colombia)
    • Declared Venerable: 22 January 1991
    • Beatified: 25 April 2004 by Pope John Paul II
    • Canonized: 12 May 2013 by Pope Francis
  • St. Jose Gabriel del Rosario Brochero (1840–1914), secular priest (Argentina)
    • Declared Venerable: 19 April 2004
    • Beatified: 14 September 2013 by Cardinal Angelo Amato
    • Canonized: 16 October 2016 by Pope Francis
  • St. Ignacia Nazaria March Mesa (1889–1943), foundress, Missionary Crusaders of the Church (Argentina and Bolivia)
    • Declared Venerable: 1 September 1988
    • Beatified: 27 September 1992 by Pope John Paul II
    • Canonized: 14 October 2018 by Pope Francis

List of blesseds[]

  • Bl. Peter Donders (1809–1887), Redemptorist priest (Suriname)
    • Declared Venerable: 25 March 1945
    • Beatified: 23 May 1982 by Pope John Paul II
  • Bl. Mercedes de Jesús Molina (1828–1883), foundress, Marianitas Sisters (Ecuador)
    • Declared Venerable: 27 November 1981
    • Beatified: 1 February 1985 by Pope John Paul II
  • Bl. Ana de los Angeles Monteagudo (1602–1686), Dominican nun (Peru)
    • Declared Venerable: 23 May 1975
    • Beatified: 2 February 1985 by Pope John Paul II
  • Bl. Laura Vicuña (1891–1904), child (Argentina and Chile)
    • Declared Venerable: 5 June 1986
    • Beatified: 3 September 1988 by Pope John Paul II
  • Bl. and 6 Hospitallers of Saint John of God and martyrs in Spain (d. 1936) (Colombia)
    • Declared Martyrdom: 14 May 1991
    • Beatified: 25 October 1992 by Pope John Paul II
  • Bl. Francesca Maria Rubatto (1844–1904), foundress, Capuchin Sisters of Mother Rubatto (Uruguay)
    • Declared Venerable: 1 September 1988
    • Beatified: 10 October 1993 by Pope John Paul II
  • Bl. Laura Evangelista Alvarado Cardozo (1875–1967), Recollect nun (Venezuela)
    • Declared Venerable: 7 March 1992
    • Beatified: 7 May 1995 by Pope John Paul II
  • Bl. Maria Vicenta Rosal (1815–1886), religious, Bethlemite Sisters, Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Colombia and Ecuador)
    • Declared Venerable: 6 April 1995
    • Beatified: 4 May 1997 by Pope John Paul II
  • Bl. Mariano de Jesús Euse Hoyos (1845–1926), diocesan priest (Colombia)
    • Declared Venerable: 3 March 1990
    • Beatified: 9 April 2000 by Pope John Paul II
  • Bb. Maria of Jesus, Consuelo Aguiar-Mella Diaz and Maria Dolores Aguiar-Mella Diaz, Escolapia sister and two laywomen, Martyrs in Spain (d. 1936) (Uruguay)
    • Declared Martyrdom: 28 June 1999
    • Beatified: 11 March 2001 by Pope John Paul II
  • Bl. Luigi Tezza (1841–1923), Camillian priest (Peru)
    • Declared Venerable: 24 April 2001
    • Beatified: 4 November 2001 by Pope John Paul II
  • Bl. Artémides Zatti (1880–1951), Salesian priest (Argentina)
    • Declared Venerable: 7 July 1997
    • Beatified: 14 April 2002 by Pope John Paul II
  • Bl. Luigi Variara (1875–1923), Salesian priest (Colombia)
    • Declared Venerable: 2 April 1993
    • Beatified: 14 April 2002 by Pope John Paul II
  • Bl. María del Tránsito Cabanillas (1821–1885), foundress, Franciscan Tertiary Missionary Sisters (Argentina)
    • Declared Venerable: 28 June 1999
    • Beatified: 14 April 2002 by Pope John Paul II
  • Bl. Maria Josefa Karolina Brader (1860–1943), foundress, Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate (Colombia and Ecuador)
    • Declared Venerable: 28 June 1999
    • Beatified: 23 March 2003 by Pope John Paul II
  • Bl. María Ludovica de Angelis (1880–1962), religious, Daughters of Our Lady of Mercy (Argentina)
    • Declared Venerable: 20 December 2001
    • Beatified: 3 October 2004 by Pope John Paul II
  • Bl. Ceferino Namuncurá (1886–1905), child (Argentina)
  • Bl. Candlemas of San José (1863–1940), foundress, Hermanas Carmelitas de Madre Candelaria (Venezuela)
  • Bl. María Angélica Pérez (1897–1932), religious, Daughters of Our Lady of the Garden (Argentina and Chile)
    • Declared Venerable: 22 June 2004
    • Beatified: 17 November 2012 by Cardinal Angelo Amato
  • Bl. Maria Troncatti (1883–1969), Salesian sister (Ecuador)
    • Declared Venerable: 12 November 2008
    • Beatified: 24 November 2012 by Cardinal Angelo Amato
  • Bl. (1913–1936), Claretian and martyr in Spain (Colombia)
    • Declared Martyrdom: 1 July 2010
    • Beatified: 13 October 2013 by Cardinal Angelo Amato
  • The Three Martyrs of Chimbote
    • Michał Tomaszek (1960–1991), priest of Chimbote (Peru)
    • Zbigniew Adam Strzałkowski (1958–1991), priest of Chimbote (Peru)
    • Alessandro Dordi (1931–1991), priest of Chimbote (Peru)
      • Declared Martyrdom: 3 February 2015
      • Beatified: 5 December 2015 by Cardinal Angelo Amato
  • Bl. María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa (1730–1799), founderess, Daughters of the Divine Savior (Argentina)
    • Declared Venerable: 1 July 2010
    • Beatified: 27 August 2016 by Cardinal Angelo Amato
  • Bl. Jesús Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve (1916–1989), Bishop of Arauca, a professed member of the Xaverian Missionaries of Yarumal and martyr (Colombia)
    • Declared Martyrdom: 7 July 2017
    • Beatified: 8 September 2017 by Pope Francis
  • Bl. Pedro María Ramírez Ramos (1899–1948), diocesan priest and martyr (Colombia)
    • Declared Martyrdom: 7 July 2017
    • Beatified: 8 September 2017 by Pope Francis
  • Bl. Saturnina Rodríguez de Zavalía (Catalina of Mary) (1823–1896), founderess, Handmaids of the Heart of Jesus (Argentina)
    • Declared Venerable: 18 December 1997
    • Beatified: 25 November 2017 by Cardinal Angelo Amato
  • Bl. Carmen Elena Rendiles Martínez (1903–1977), foundress, Servants of Jesus of Caracas (Venezuela)
    • Declared Venerable: 5 July 2013
    • Beatified: 16 June 2018 by Cardinal Angelo Amato
  • Bl. María Guggiari Echeverría (1925–1959), Discalced Carmelite (Paraguay)
    • Declared Venerable: 27 March 2010
    • Beatified: 23 June 2018 by Cardinal Angelo Amato
  • The Martyrs of La Rioja
    • Carlos de Dios Murias (1945–1976), priest of La Rioja (Argentina)
    • Gabriel Longueville (1931–1976), priest of La Rioja (Argentina)
    • Wenceslao Pedernera (1936–1976), layman of La Rioja (Argentina)
  • Bl. Enrique Angelelli (1923–1976), Bishop of La Rioja, (Argentina)
  • Bl. Victor Emilio Moscoso Cárdenas (1846–1897), professed priest, (Ecuador)
  • Bl. José Gregorio Hernández (1864–1919), layman (Venezuela)
    • Declared Venerable: 16 January 1986
    • Beatified: 30 April 2021 by Archbishop Aldo Giordano
  • Bl. Mamerto Esquiú (1826–1883), Franciscan friar (Argentina)

List of venerables[]

  • Ven. Francisco Camacho (1629–1698), Hospitaller of Saint John of God (Peru)
    • Declared Venerable: 1 January 1881
  • Ven. (1583–1657), Mercedarian priest (Peru and Ecuador)
    • Declared Venerable: 31 January 1981
  • Ven. Dorotea de Chopitea (1816–1891), lay Salesian (Chile)
    • Declared Venerable: 9 June 1983
  • Ven. (1844–1904), Claretian priest (Chile)
    • Declared Venerable: 23 October 1987
  • Ven. (1562–1619), Dominican priest (Bolivia)
    • Declared Venerable: 22 January 1991
  • Ven. Camila Rolón (1842–1913), foundress, Poor Sisters of Saint Joseph of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
    • Declared Venerable: 2 April 1993
  • Ven. Emilia de San Jose Chapellin (1858–1893), foundress, Little Sisters of the Poor of Maiquetía (Venezuela)
    • Declared Venerable: 23 December 1993
  • Ven. (1887–1925), religious, Missionary Sisters of Mary Immaculate and Saint Catherine of Siena (Colombia)
    • Declared Venerable: 26 March 1994
  • Ven. (1849–1930), Mercedarian priest (Argentina)
    • Declared Venerable: 26 March 1994
  • Ven. (1852–1929), secular priest and founder, Missionary Oblates of Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (Ecuador)
    • Declared Venerable: 26 March 1994
  • Ven. (1875–1953), foundress, Canonesses of the Cross (Peru)
    • Declared Venerable: 3 April 2009
  • Ven. (1874–1959), foundress, Sisters of the Poor of Saint Peter Claver (Colombia and Venezuela)
    • Declared Venerable: 20 December 2012
  • Ven. Rosa Elena Cornejo Pazmiño (1874–1964), founderess, Franciscan Missionaries of the Immaculata (Ecuador)
    • Declared Venerable: 20 December 2012
  • Ven. (1874–1935), Augustinian priest (Bolivia)
    • Declared Venerable: 9 December 2013
  • Ven. (1822–1894), foundress, Sisters Servants of Jesus in the Sacrament (Argentina)
    • Declared Venerable: 27 January 2014
  • Ven. Francisco Valdés Subercaseaux (1908–1982), Capuchin Bishop (Chile)
    • Declared Venerable: 7 November 2014
  • Ven. Virginia Blanco Tardío (1916–1990), laywoman (Bolivia)
    • Declared Venerable: 22 January 2015
  • Ven. Jacinto Vera (1813–1881), Bishop of Montevideo (Uruguay)
    • Declared Venerable: 5 May 2015
  • Ven. Rafaél Manuel Almansa Riaño (1840–1927), priest (Colombia)
    • Declared Venerable: 9 May 2016
  • Ven. Isidoro Zorzano Ledesma (1902–1943), member of Opus Dei (Argentina)
    • Declared Venerable: 21 December 2016
  • Ven. Octavio Ortiz Arrieta (1879–1958), Bishop of Chachapoyas (Peru)
    • Declared Venerable: 27 February 2017
  • Ven. (1841–1900), religious of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity (Argentina)
    • Declared Venerable: 19 May 2018
  • Ven. Miguel Ángel Builes (1888–1971) , Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos (Colombia)
    • Declared Venerable: 19 May 2018
  • Ven. (1836–1918), foundress of the Congregation of the Augustinian Daughters of the Most Holy Saviour, (Ecuador)
    • Declared Venerable: 7 November 2018
  • Ven. (1898–1993), foundress of the Little Sisters of the Annunciation, (Colombia)
    • Declared Venerable: 12 February 2019
  • Ven. Enrique Ernesto Shaw (1921–1962), businessman, (Argentina)
    • Declared Venerable: 24 April 2021
  • Ven. Antonia Luzmila Rivas López (María Augustina) (1920-1990), Professed Religious of the Religious of the Good Shepherd; Martyr (Peru)
    • Declared Martyr: 22 May 2021
  • Ven. Pedro Ortiz de Zàrate (1622–1683), priest of the Diocese of Orán (Argentina)
    • Declared Martyr: 13 October 2021
  • Ven. Giovanni Antonio Solinas (1643–1683), professed priest of the Society of Jesus (Argentina)
    • Declared Martyr: 13 October 2021
  • Ven. Nicolás Ayllón (1632–1677), layman (Peru)
    • Declared Venerable: N/A
  • Ven. Peter Bardesio, lay Franciscan (Chile)
    • Declared Venerable: N/A

In addition, Habig refers to , a Franciscan priest martyred in 1862 in Bolivia, of whom he says the "title of 'Venerable' has, it seems, been bestowed on him popularly, not officially."

List of Servants of God[]

  • Servant of God [Luigi Bolla Sartori] (Yankuam' Jintia) (1932-2013), Professed Priest of the Salesians of Don Bosco (Peru)
  • Servant of God (1906–1943), secular priest (Argentina and Paraguay)
  • Servant of God (1855–1933), foundress, Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Venezuela)
  • Servant of God (1915–2003), Eudist Archbishop (Venezuela)
  • Servant of God (1563–1635), Conceptionist nun and visionary of Our Lady of Good Success (Ecuador)
  • Servant of God Maria Esperanza de Bianchini (1928–2004), Mystic and received the stigmata and Marian Appraritions (Venezuela)
  • Servant of God (1924–2006), secular priest (Diocese of La Crosse, WI, USA) (Peru and Bolivia)
  • Servant of God (1972-2002), Seminarian of the Diocese of San Miguel (Argentina)
  • Servant of God (Barnabé of Larraul) (1907-1998), Professed Priest of the Franciscan Capuchins (Ecuador)
  • Servant of God (Maria Benedetta of the Immaculate) (1918-2001), Professed Religious of the Poor Sisters of Saint Joseph of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
  • Servant of God [Amandita] (1999-2005), Child of the Archdiocese of San Cristobal de Venezuela (Venezuela)
  • Servant of God (1891-1956), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of Montevideo (Uruguay)
  • Servant of God (Mercedes of Saint Therese) (1930-2012), Professed Religious of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns (Colombia)
  • Servant of God (1913-2010), Married Layperson of the Archdiocese of San Cristobal de Venezuela (Venezuela)
  • Servant of God (1968–2012), Layperson of the Diocese of Esmeraldas; Member of the Ecclesial Family "Hogar de Nazaret" (Ecuador)
  • Servant of God Jorge Novak (1928–2001), Professed Priest of the Society of the Divine Word; Bishop of Quilmes (Argentina)
  • Servant of God [Joseph Henry Cappel] (1908–2004), Priest of the Maryknoll Missionary Society (Chile)
  • Servant of God (1884–1945), Founder of the Servants of Christ the Priest (Colombia)
  • Servant of God (1853–1940), Professed Priest of the Redemptorists (Argentina)
  • Servant of God (prob. 1604–1686), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Mercedes-Luján (Argentina)
  • Servant of God (1847–1899), Priest of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians) (Argentina)
  • Servant of God Alonzo de Barzana (ca. 1530–1597), Professed Priest of the Jesuits (Peru)
  • Servant of God [Andres Aziani Samek-Lodovici] (1953–2008), Layperson of the Diocese of Carabayllo; Member of the Memores Domini Lay Association (Peru)
  • Servant of God Pablo Muñoz Vega (1903–1994), Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Archbishop of Quito; Cardinal (Ecuador)
  • Servant of God (1935–2007), Professed Priest of the Secular Institute of the Schoenstatt Fathers (Chile)
  • Servant of God (Antonio of Jesus) (1873–1942), Professed Priest of the Franciscan Friars Minor (Argentina)
  • Servant of God (1830–1904), Professed Priest of the Dominicans; Bishop of Cordoba; Founder of the Dominican Tertiary Sisters of Saint Joseph (Argentina)
  • Servant of God (Jesús of the Cross) (1911–1998), Professed Religious of the Franciscan Friars Minor (Argentina)
  • Servant of God Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín (1927–2006), Priest of the Personal Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei; Archbishop of Guayaquil (Argentina-Ecuador)
  • Servant of God (1920–2003), Priest of the Personal Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei; Bishop of Santa Maria de Los Ángeles (Chile)

Other open causes[]

Others have been proposed for beatification, and may have active groups supporting their causes. These include:

See also[]

References[]

  • Ewald, Daniel P. (2009). Saints and Blesseds of the Americas. Xlibris. ISBN 978-1-4363-6761-5.[self-published source]
  • Habig, Marion A. (1974). Saints of the Americas. Our Sunday Visitor. ISBN 0-87973-880-4.
  • "Hagiography Circle"
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