This page is an index of lists of people considered martyrs. A martyr is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, refusing to renounce, or refusing to advocate a belief or cause as demanded by an external party. This refusal to comply with the presented demands results in the punishment or execution of the martyr by the oppressor.
This list is sorted at the top level by religious or political affiliation of the martyrs on each list, and then by the country or location of martyrdom.
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This page is an index oflistsof people considered martyrs. A martyr is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, refusing...
victims of the Armenian genocide, who are called Holy Martyrs. April 24 is Armenian Genocide Memorial Day, and also called "Armenian Martyrs Day". Martyrdom...
Diocletian's persecution of Christians before repenting afterwards, which would explain why he is omitted from listsofmartyrs. The accusation is rejected...
Japanese Martyrs Nagasaki Wiki: Detailed Access Information from Nagasaki Station to 26 Martyrs Monument 2008 Beatification of Japanese Martyrs Britto,...
Canadian Martyrs (French: Martyrs canadiens), also known as the North American Martyrs (French: Saints martyrs canadiens, Holy Canadian Martyrs), were eight...
"Forty Martyrsof Sebaste". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 10 March 2024. Homilies xix in P.G., XXXI, 507 sqq. "Martyr Acacius of the Holy 40 Martyrsof Sebaste"...
of the Twenty-Six Holy Martyrsof Japan (Nagasaki) Basilica Minore de Santuario de San Pedro Bautista Twenty-Six Martyrs Museum and Monument Martyrs of...
majority of the martyrs were laypeople. More than 10,000 martyrs died in persecutions which extended over more than one hundred years. Of all these martyrs, seventy-nine...
Colchester Martyrs were 16th-century English Protestant martyrs. They were executed for heresy in Colchester, Essex, during the reigns of Henry VIII and...
inscriptions of the earlier period and in the signatories appended to such councils as Nicaea or Ancyra, or again in the listsofmartyrs. At a later date...
Dũng-Lạc và các bạn tử đạo), also known as the Martyrsof Annam, Martyrsof Tonkin and Cochinchina, Martyrsof Indochina, are saints on the General Roman...
term English Martyrs is applied to two groups of people executed by either side of the English Reformation. See: List of Catholic martyrsof the English...
Martyrs University The Christian Martyrsof Uganda "Papal nuncio launches construction of Munyonyo martyrs shrine", NTV, 3 May 2015. "Uganda Martyrs"...
saints of China, 103 Korean martyrs, 117 Vietnamese martyrs, the Mexican Martyrs, Spanish martyrs and French revolutionary martyrs. Note that 78 popes are...
first group ofmartyrs, known as the Twenty-Six Martyrsof Japan (1597), were canonized by the Church in 1862 by Pope Pius IX. The persecution of Missionaries...
The Forty Martyrsof England and Wales or Cuthbert Mayne and Thirty-Nine Companion Martyrs are a group of Catholic, lay and religious, men and women,...
martyr of Nepal. Rebelled against Juddha Shamsher Jung Bahadur Rana: 4 Martyrsmartyred in 1941 — represented in the Shahid Gate: Shukraraj Shastri Dharma...
was given for 63 recognised martyrs to have their relics honoured and pictures painted for Catholic devotions. These martyrs were formally beatified by...
The Ipswich Martyrs were nine people burnt at the stake for their Lollard or Protestant beliefs around 1515-1558. The executions were mainly carried out...
Christianity re-established in Japan. The first group ofmartyrs, known as the Twenty-Six Martyrsof Japan (1597), were canonized by the Church in 1862 by...
Holy Forty Martyrs Church is a Christian temple dedicated to the Forty Martyrsof Sebaste and may refer to: Bulgaria Holy Forty Martyrs Church, Veliko...
The Martyrsof Gorkum (Dutch: Martelaren van Gorcum) were a group of 19 Dutch Catholic clerics, secular and religious, who were hanged on 9 July 1572 in...