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A representative sample of only 117 martyrs—including 96 Vietnamese, 11 Spanish Dominicans, and ten French members of the Paris Foreign Missions Society (Missions Etrangères de Paris (MEP))—were beatified on four separate occasions: 64 by Pope Leo XIII on May 27, 1900; eight by Pope Pius X on May 20, 1906; 20 by Pope Pius X on May 2, 1909 ...
It falls on the first Sunday of November, within the liturgical period of Allhallowtide, which is dedicated to remembering the martyrs and saints of Christianity. [3] [4] [5] The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church is observed by many Christian denominations, with over 100,000 congregations honoring the holiday worldwide. [1]
Martyrs of Nowogródek: 11 Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth executed by the Gestapo in 1943 in occupied Poland. Martyrs of Otranto: 813 residents of the city of Otranto, Italy put to death in 1480 for refusing to convert to Islam. Saints of the Cristero War: 25 Catholic saints and martyrs who died in the Mexican Cristero War.
Type 1; 2 Martyrs of New Guinea: 1942 Mem 3 St. Gregory the Great, Bishop, Teacher of the Faith 604 Mem 4 First Anglican Eucharist in Canada (1578) n/a Com 8 The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary: n/a Mem 10 Edmund James Peck, Priest, Missionary 1924 Mem 13 St. Cyprian of Carthage, Bishop, Martyr 258 Mem 14 Holy Cross Day: n/a HD 16 St ...
This is an incomplete list of humans and angels whom the Catholic Church has canonized as saints.According to Catholic theology, all saints enjoy the beatific vision.Many of the saints listed here are to be found in the General Roman Calendar, while others may also be found in the Roman Martyrology; [1] still others are particular to local places and their recognition does not extend to the ...
[1] A third category category includes accounts that are believed by some to be largely or purely legendary. The Acts of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and those of Saint George fall into this category. [1] Eusebius of Caesarea was likely the first Christian author to produce a collection of Acts of the Martyrs. [1]
New martyrs of China altar, Binondo Chinese Parish Church Besides all those already mentioned who were killed by the Boxers, there were the following: Alberic Crescitelli , a priest of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions of Milan , who carried out his ministry in Southern Shaanxi and was martyred on 21 July 1900
The Martyrs of Laos are seventeen Catholic priests and professed religious as well as one lay young man venerated as martyrs killed in Laos between 1954 and 1970 of the First and Second Indochina Wars during a period of anti-religious sentiment under the Pathet Lao Theravada Buddhist-communist political movement. [1] [2]