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This page is a directory of articles about members of the Roman Catholic Society of Jesus (Jesuits) who died as martyrs. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
The saints of the Society of Jesus (also known as the Jesuits) are listed here alphabetically.The list includes Jesuit saints from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Since the founder of the Jesuits, St Ignatius of Loyola, was canonised in 1622, there have been 52 other Jesuits canoni
Very Rev. Diego Laynez, S.J. Diego Laynez, S.J. (sometimes spelled Laínez) (Spanish: Diego Laynez), born in 1512 (Almazán, Spain) and died on 19 January 1565 (Rome), was a Spanish Jesuit priest and theologian, a New Christian (of converted Jewish descent), and the second Superior General of the Society of Jesus after the founder Ignatius of Loyola.
Edward J. Sponga – American former Jesuit priest and the 16th President of the University of Scranton; left the Jesuits in 1968 to marry a divorced woman, thus incurring automatic excommunication George Augustus Stallings, Jr. – American former diocesan priest; excommunicated in 1990 after publicly breaking with the Catholic Church and ...
Edmund Campion, SJ (25 January 1540 – 1 December 1581) was an English Jesuit priest and martyr. While conducting an underground ministry in officially Anglican England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters. Convicted of high treason, he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn.
Jesuits were a target for Gestapo persecution, and many Jesuit priests were deported to death camps. [208] Jesuits made up the largest contingent of clergy imprisoned in the Priest Barracks of Dachau Concentration Camp. [209] Vincent Lapomarda lists some 30 Jesuits as having died at Dachau. [210]
This is a list of Jesuit theologians, Roman Catholic theological writers from the Society of Jesus, taken from the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913, article list and textual allusions, for theologians up to the beginning of the twentieth century. It is chronologically arranged by date of death.
Thomas Garnet, SJ (9 November 1575 – 23 June 1608) was a Jesuit priest who was executed in London during the English Reformation. He is the protomartyr (i.e., the first martyr associated with a place) of Saint Omer and of Stonyhurst College. He was executed at Tyburn and is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.