Time Line 1556

Canonizations

Beatifications

Births

• Cardinal Jacques Davy du Perron
• Saint Jeremiah of Valachia
• Saint Margaret Clitherow
• Saint Alexander Briant
• Saint Gundislavus Garcia
• Saint Jeanne de Lestonnac
• Saint Joseph Calasanz
• Saint Joseph of Leonissa
• Venerable Giovanni Battista Cioni

Deaths

• Saint Antonius of Siya
• Saint Ignatius of Loyola
• Thomas Cranmer

Ordinations

Professions

Consecrations

Founded

Elevated

Suppressed

Published

Other Events

• Saint Peter of Alcantara named commissioner of his Order in Spain
• Saint Bernadine Realino receives his law degree

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