Canadian Martyrs (8)
Group of eight Jesuit missionaries of New France, including Jean de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, put to death between 1642 …
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Catholic Martyrs of Ireland
The Catholic Martyrs of Ireland refer to a group of seventeen blessed, clergy and laity, executed in hatred of the faith…
English Martyrs of 1886 (54)
Group of 54 Catholics (bishops, priests, religious, and laypeople) executed in England and Wales between 1535 and 1679 f…
English Martyrs of 1895 (9)
The English Martyrs of 1895 form a group of nine Catholics (abbots, monks, priests, a knight, and a nobleman) executed i…
Irish Martyrs (17)
Group of seventeen Catholic faithful (bishops, priests, and laypeople) martyred in Ireland for their faith between 1579 …
Jan Franciszek Macha
Jan Franciszek Macha (1914-1942) was a Polish priest and martyr of Nazism, beatified in 2021 for his clandestine charita…
Ján Havlík
Ján Havlík (1928-1965) was a Slovak Lazarist seminarian, a martyr of the Czechoslovak communist regime, beatified in 202…
Jan Sarkander
Jan Sarkander (1576-1620), a Catholic priest from Moravia, died in Olomouc from the effects of torture for refusing to v…
Jan Świerc and 8 companions
Jan Świerc and his 8 companions are a group of nine Polish Salesian priests martyred by the Nazi regime between 1941 and…
Jan Świerc and companions
Jan Świerc and his eight companions are Polish Salesian priests, martyrs of Nazism at Auschwitz and Dachau, beatified in…
János Brenner
János Brenner (1931-1957) was a Hungarian Cistercian priest and martyr, murdered at the age of 25 under the communist re…
János Scheffler
Bishop of Satu Mare and martyr of communism, Blessed János Scheffler died in prison in 1952 for his absolute fidelity to…
Jean-Baptiste Souzy and 63 companions
A priest of the Diocese of La Rochelle, Jean-Baptiste Souzy was deported to the Rochefort prison ships during the Reign …
Jean-Gabriel Perboyre
Jean-Gabriel Perboyre (1802-1840), a French Lazarist priest, was a missionary in China where he died a martyr, strangled…
Jean-Marie du Lau and 190 companions (191)
Group of 191 ecclesiastics and laypeople murdered in Paris on September 2 and 3, 1792, for refusing to take the schismat…
Jerzy Popiełuszko
Chaplain of the Solidarity trade union, Father Jerzy Popiełuszko was an indefatigable defender of human rights and freed…
Jesús Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve
Bishop Jesús Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve (1916-1989), Bishop of Arauca in Colombia, was a pastor devoted to the poor and i…
Joan Roig i Diggle
Joan Roig i Diggle (1917-1936) was a young Spanish layman, a member of the Federation of Young Christians of Catalonia, …
Johannes Laurentius Weiss and 2 companions
Johannes Laurentius Weiss (Father Liberatus) and his companions Michele Pio Fasoli and Samuele Marzorati were Franciscan…
Johannes Prassek
German Catholic priest, vicar in Lübeck, beheaded by the Nazis in 1943 for his opposition to the regime and his ecumenic…
John de Brito
A Portuguese Jesuit missionary in South India, John de Brito adopted the lifestyle of Tamil ascetics and was beheaded in…
Blessed John de Britto
A 17th-century Portuguese Jesuit, John de Britto dedicated his life to the evangelization of India, adopting local custo…
John Fisher and Thomas More (2)
John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, and Thomas More, Chancellor of England, refused to recognize Henry VIII as the supreme…
John Gazulli
Albanian diocesan priest and martyr, sentenced to death and hanged in 1927 for his defense of Catholic schools and his o…
Saint John of Nepomuk
A priest and canon of Prague in the 14th century, John of Nepomuk became the first martyr of the seal of the confessiona…
John Ogilvie
A Scottish Jesuit who converted to Catholicism, John Ogilvie was hanged in Glasgow in 1615 for his refusal to recognize …
José Álvarez-Benavides and 114 companions
Group of 115 Spanish martyrs (95 clergy and religious, and 20 laypeople) murdered in hatred of the faith between 1936 an…
José Álvarez-Benavides de la Torre and 114 companions (115)
Group of 115 martyrs (95 priests and 20 laypeople) murdered in hatred of the faith during the Spanish Civil War in the d…
José Antón Gómez and 3 companions (4)
Four Spanish Benedictine monks from the priory of Montserrat in Madrid, martyred in 1936 in hatred of the faith at the b…
José María Fernández Sánchez and 38 companions (39)
José María Fernández Sánchez and his 38 companions are a group of 39 martyrs of the Vincentian Family (33 Lazarists and …
José María Gran Cirera and 9 companions (10)
Group of ten martyrs (three Spanish missionary priests and seven indigenous Mayan laypeople) murdered in hatred of the f…
José Sánchez del Río
A fourteen-year-old Mexican boy, José Sánchez del Río was put to death on February 10, 1928, in Sahuayo for refusing to …
José Trinidad Rangel Montaño and companions (3)
Three martyrs of the Cristero War in Mexico (two priests and one layman), executed on April 25, 1927, at Rancho de San J…
Josef Mayr-Nusser
Josef Mayr-Nusser (1910-1945) was an Italian layman, member of Catholic Action and the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul,…
Josep Samsó Elías
Spanish priest and martyr of the Civil War, pastor of Mataró and great catechist, beatified in 2010.
Josep Tàpies and 6 companions
Group of seven diocesan priests from the Diocese of Urgell martyred on August 13, 1936, in Salàs de Pallars at the begin…
Joseph Tàpies Sirvant and companions (7)
Group of seven diocesan priests from Urgell (Catalonia) martyred in 1936 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War for t…
Joseph Thạo Tiến and 16 companions (17)
Seventeen martyrs (missionaries and laypeople) murdered in Laos between 1954 and 1970 in hatred of the faith, beatified …
Józef and Wiktoria Ulma with seven children (9)
The Ulma family, consisting of parents Józef and Wiktoria and their seven children, was martyred in 1944 in Poland for h…
Juan Aguilar Donis and 5 companions (6)
Group of six martyrs of the Dominican family (five religious and one layman) executed in hatred of the faith in 1936 in …
Juan Bautista and Jacinto de los Ángeles
Juan Bautista and Jacinto de los Ángeles, Zapotec laymen and prosecutors in San Francisco Cajonos, were martyred in 1700…
Juan del Castillo
A Spanish Jesuit, Juan del Castillo was one of the three protomartyrs of the Guarani Reductions of the Río de la Plata, …
Juan Elías Medina and 126 companions (127)
Juan Elías Medina and his 126 companions are a group of 127 martyrs of the Spanish Civil War, murdered in hatred of the …
Julián Heredia Zubía and 17 companions (18)
Group of 18 Cistercian martyrs (16 monks of Viaceli and 2 nuns of Fons Salutis) murdered in 1936 during the Spanish Civi…
Kamen Vitchev, Pavel Djidjov and Josaphat Chichkov
Three Bulgarian Assumptionist priests, martyrs of communism in 1952, beatified by John Paul II in 2002.
Karolina Kózka
A young Polish laywoman who died a martyr in 1914 while defending her chastity against a Russian soldier, Karolina Kózka…
Korean Martyrs (103)
Group of 103 Korean martyrs put to death during the persecutions of 1839, 1846 and 1866, canonized together by John Paul…
Leonard Melki
A Lebanese Capuchin priest and missionary in Mesopotamia, Blessed Leonard Melki (1881-1915) died as a martyr during the …
Leonella Sgorbati
Sister Leonella Sgorbati (1940-2006), an Italian Consolata missionary nun, dedicated her life to serving the sick in Ken…
Liborius Wagner
A Catholic priest converted from Lutheranism, Liborius Wagner was martyred in 1631 in Franconia during the Thirty Years'…
Lindalva Justo de Oliveira
Lindalva Justo de Oliveira (1953-1993) was a Brazilian religious sister of the Daughters of Charity, a martyr of purity …
Lojze Grozde
Lojze Grozde (1923-1943) was a young Slovenian layman, a member of Catholic Action, murdered in hatred of the faith by c…
Lübeck Martyrs (4)
The Lübeck Martyrs were four German Christian clergymen (three Catholic priests and one Lutheran pastor) executed by beh…
Lucien Botovasoa
Lucien Botovasoa (1908-1947) was a Malagasy lay teacher, father, and member of the Third Order of Saint Francis, who die…
Luigi Carrara and 3 companions (4)
Luigi Carrara, Giovanni Didonè, Vittorio Faccin, and Albert Joubert are four missionaries and priests murdered in 1964 i…
Luigi Lenzini
Luigi Lenzini (1881-1945) was an Italian martyr priest, murdered in hatred of the faith by communist partisans after the…
Luigi Palić
A Franciscan priest and martyr in Kosovo, Luigi Palić gave his life in 1913 to defend the Christian faith and freedom of…
Luis Navarro
Luis Obdulio Arroyo Navarro (1950-1981) was a Guatemalan lay catechist, a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis, wh…
Lycarion May
A Swiss Marist brother and dedicated educator for the poor children of Barcelona, Blessed Lycarion May died a martyr in …
Manuel Gómez González
Spanish missionary priest in Brazil, martyred in 1924 with the young Adílio Daronch.
Manuel González-Serna Rodríguez and 19 companions (20)
Group of twenty martyrs (priests, seminarian, and laypeople) of the Archdiocese of Seville, murdered in hatred of the fa…
Manuel Izquierdo and 123 companions
Manuel Izquierdo and his 123 companions are martyrs of the Diocese of Jaén, murdered in hatred of the faith during the S…
Manuel Izquierdo Izquierdo and companions
Group of 59 martyrs from the Diocese of Jaén, led by Father Manuel Izquierdo Izquierdo, murdered in hatred of the faith …
Manuel Ruiz López and 10 companions (11)
Group of eleven martyrs of Damascus, consisting of eight Franciscans led by the guardian Manuel Ruiz López and the three…
Manuel Solórzano
Manuel Solórzano (1905-1977) was a Salvadoran layman, husband, and father, assassinated in hatred of the faith on March …
Marcel Callo
Marcel Callo (1921-1945) was a young French worker, a militant of the Young Christian Workers (JOC), who died as a marty…
Marcello Maruzzo
Marcello Maruzzo (Father Tullio), born in 1929 in Italy, was a Franciscan priest and missionary in Guatemala. Committed …
Marco Criado
A Spanish Trinitarian and missionary in the Alpujarras, Blessed Marco Criado died a martyr in 1569, stoned and tortured …
Marguerite Rutan
A Daughter of Charity and martyr of the French Revolution, Marguerite Rutan dedicated her life to the poor and the sick …
María Gabriela Hinojosa Naveros and 6 companions
Nuns of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary in Madrid, they were martyred in November 1936 during the Spanish Civil…
Maria Goretti
Maria Goretti (1890-1902) was a young Italian peasant girl, mortally wounded at the age of eleven for resisting an assau…
María Isabel Lacaba Andía and 13 companions (14)
Group of fourteen Spanish Conceptionist nuns martyred in hatred of the faith in 1936 at the beginning of the Spanish Civ…
Maria Jula Ivanišević and companions (5)
Group of five religious sisters of the congregation of the Daughters of Divine Charity, martyred in December 1941 in Bos…
Maria Krzysztofa Klomfass and 14 companions (15)
Group of fifteen religious sisters of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Catherine martyred in 1945 by Red Army so…
Maria Laura Mainetti
Sister Maria Laura Mainetti, Daughter of the Cross, was murdered in the year 2000 by three teenagers during a satanic ri…
Maria Mercedes Prat
Religious sister of the Company of Saint Teresa of Jesus, martyr of the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona in 1936.
Maria Paschalis Jahn and 9 companions (10)
Group of ten religious sisters of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Elizabeth, martyred in 1945 by Red Army soldi…
María Pilar Gullón Yturriaga and 2 companions (3)
María Pilar Gullón Yturriaga, Octavia Iglesias Blanco, and Olga Pérez-Monteserín Núñez were three lay nurses of the Span…
María Pilar Martínez García and 2 companions
Three Spanish Discalced Carmelite nuns from the monastery of San José de Guadalajara, martyred on July 24, 1936, at the …
Maria Restituta Kafka
An Austrian Franciscan sister of Czech origin and a dedicated nurse, she opposed the Nazi regime by refusing to remove c…
María Sagrario de San Luis Gonzaga
The first female pharmacist in Spain to manage her own pharmacy, Elvira Moragas Cantarero became a Carmelite under the n…
Mariam Vattalil
Mariam Vattalil (Sister Rani Maria) was an Indian Franciscan Clarist nun, a martyr for social justice among the poor and…
Mariano Mullerat i Soldevila
Mariano Mullerat i Soldevila (1897-1936) was a Spanish lay doctor, mayor of Arbeca, and a martyr of the Spanish Civil Wa…
Marie-Clémentine Anuarite
Nun of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family in the DRC, martyr of purity murdered in 1964 while forgiving …
Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta
A Congolese religious sister of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family, she died a martyr in 1964 while defe…
Marie-Madeleine Fontaine and 3 companions (4)
Four Daughters of Charity of Arras, martyred in Cambrai in 1794 for refusing to take the revolutionary oath.
Mario Ghibaudo
An Italian priest and curate of Boves, Mario Ghibaudo died a martyr at the age of 23 on September 19, 1943, murdered by …
Mario Vergara
Mario Vergara (1910-1950) was an Italian PIME missionary priest, martyred in Burma with the catechist Isidore Ngei Ko La…
Martin Lumbreras Peralta and Melchor Sánchez Pérez
Martin Lumbreras Peralta and Melchor Sánchez Pérez, Spanish Augustinian Recollect priests, were sent as missionaries to …
Martyrs of Barbastro (Munárriz and 50 companions)
Group of 51 Claretian missionaries of Barbastro murdered in August 1936 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, beati…
Martyrs of Cajonos (2)
Juan Bautista and Jacinto de los Ángeles were two Zapotec laymen from Mexico, churchwardens (fiscales) martyred in 1700 …
Martyrs of China (120)
Group of 120 martyrs of China (87 Chinese and 33 foreign missionaries), killed for their faith between 1648 and 1930, ca…
Martyrs of Cuncolim (5)
Group of five Jesuit missionaries martyred on July 25, 1583, in Cuncolim (Goa, India) for their Christian faith.
Martyrs of Daimiel (26)
The 26 martyrs of Daimiel are a group of Spanish Passionist religious, led by Father Nicéphore de Jésus et Marie, murder…
Martyrs of England 1895 (9)
Group of nine Catholics (abbots, monks, laypeople) executed in England between 1539 and 1572 for refusing to recognize t…
Martyrs of England 1929 (136)
Group of 136 Catholics (priests, religious, and laypeople) executed in England between 1541 and 1680 for their fidelity …
Martyrs of England and Wales (54)
Group of 54 Catholics (50 priests and 4 laypeople) executed in England and Wales between 1535 and 1679 for refusing to r…
Martyrs of Gondar (2)
Agathangelus of Vendôme and Cassian of Nantes, 17th-century French Capuchin priests, were sent to Ethiopia to work for t…
Martyrs of Indonesia (2)
Denis of the Nativity and Redemptus of the Cross are two Discalced Carmelites martyred in 1638 in Sumatra, recognized as…
Martyrs of Japan (16)
Lorenzo Ruiz of Manila and fifteen companions, priests, religious, and laypeople associated with the Dominican Order, pu…
Martyrs of Košice (3)
Three priests — Mark Crisin, Stephen Pongrácz, and Melchior Grodziecki — tortured and killed for the faith in Košice on …
Martyrs of Laval (19)
Group of nineteen Christians (fifteen priests, three nuns, and one laywoman) executed in Mayenne in 1794 for their fidel…
Martyrs of Mexico (25)
Group of twenty-five Mexican martyrs, Cristóbal Magallanes Jara and twenty-four companions (twenty-two priests and three…
Martyrs of Nowogródek (11)
The eleven Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth offered their lives as a sacrifice to save hostages condemned to death…
Martyrs of Orange (32)
The 32 martyrs of Orange were a group of nuns from various congregations guillotined in July 1794 for their fidelity to …
Martyrs of Pratulin (13)
Group of thirteen Polish Greek-Catholic laypeople killed in 1874 in Pratulin by the Imperial Russian Army for refusing t…
Martyrs of Rochefort (64)
Group of 64 French priests and religious who died in deportation on prison ships at Rochefort in 1794 and 1795, beatifie…
Martyrs of Songkhon (7)
A group of seven Thai Catholics (one catechist, two nuns, and four laypeople) martyred in December 1940 in Songkhon.
Martyrs of Turón (9)
Group of nine religious—eight Lasallian Brothers and one Passionist priest—martyred in Turón (Asturias) on October 9, 19…
Martyrs of Vietnam (117)
Group of 117 martyrs of Vietnam (Andrew Dung-Lac, priest, and his 116 companions), put to death for their faith between …
Mateo Casals Mas and 108 companions (109)
Mateo Casals Mas and his 108 companions are a group of 109 Claretian missionaries martyred in Spain between 1936 and 193…
Mateo Elías Nieves Castillo
Mexican Augustinian priest, martyr of the Cristero War in 1928 for refusing to abandon his clandestine ministry.
Maurice Tornay
A canon of the Great St Bernard and missionary, Maurice Tornay died a martyr in Tibet in 1949 while attempting to defend…
Max Josef Metzger
German pacifist priest and pioneer of ecumenism, martyr of Nazism beheaded in 1944 and beatified in 2024.
Maximilian Kolbe
A Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, Maximilian Kolbe founded the Militia of the Immaculata and the friary of Niepokala…
Mexican Cristero Martyrs (beatified)
Group of 25 Mexican martyrs (22 priests and 3 laypeople) executed for their faith between 1915 and 1937 during the relig…
Michał Kozal
Auxiliary Bishop of Włocławek and Polish martyr, Michał Kozal died at the Dachau concentration camp in 1943 after heroic…
September Martyrs (191)
Group of 191 Catholics (bishops, priests, religious, and laypeople) massacred in Paris between September 2 and 5, 1792, …
Uganda Martyrs (22)
Twenty-two pages and Catholic servants of the court of King Mwanga II of Buganda, led by Charles Lwanga, put to death fo…
Ursuline Martyrs of Valenciennes (11)
Group of eleven religious sisters (mostly Ursulines) executed in Valenciennes in October 1794 during the Reign of Terror…