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    The Martyrs of Pratulin (or Wincenty Lewoniuk and 12 Companion Martyrs of Pratulin) were a group of 13 Ukrainian Greek Catholic men and boys who were...
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    considered martyrs by the Catholic Church, and a number of them were canonized as the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. In the 20th century, a "Shrine of the...
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    Tokyo, Japan: Prohibition of Christian religion by Hideyoshi and the 26 martyrs  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Japanese Martyrs". Catholic Encyclopedia...
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    The 108 Martyrs of World War II, known also as the 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs (Polish: 108 błogosławionych męczenników), were Catholics from Poland killed...
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  • The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales or Cuthbert Mayne and Thirty-Nine Companion Martyrs are a group of Catholic, lay and religious, men and women,...
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    list, of recognized saints. The first persons honoured as saints were the martyrs. Pious legends of their deaths were considered affirmations of the truth...
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    Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei (category Chinese Servants of God)
    government-approved Catholic Patriotic Association. At the time of his death he was the oldest member of the College of Cardinals. On September 8, 1955, Kung, along with...
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    Red Terror (Spain) (category Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes from August 2020)
    War White Terror (Spain) Erich Mielke Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War 233 Spanish Martyrs 498 Spanish Martyrs Paracuellos massacre Republican repression...
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    Simeon, Arethas (1971). The Martyrs of Najrân: New Documents. Bruxelles: Société des Bollandistes. p. 54. OCLC 516915. The Church of England quarterly review...
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    József Mindszenty (category People of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956)
    Spiritual heirs of numberless confessors and martyrs! Is this the Church you venerate and love? Would you recognize in such a Church the features of your Mother...
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    Sára Salkaházi (category Female resistance members of World War II)
    Salkaházi (1899–1944)", Vatican News Service "Bl. Sara Salkahazi, Martyr, Member of the Sisters of Social Service". Catholic News Agency. Archived from the original...
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    Erich Klausener (category 20th-century Roman Catholic martyrs)
    – 30 June 1934) was a German Catholic politician and Catholic martyr in the "Night of the Long Knives", a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from...
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  • devotions. These martyrs were formally beatified by Pope Leo XIII, 54 in 1886 and the remaining nine in 1895. Further groups of martyrs were subsequently...
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    Imperial Russian Army killed a group of 13 Greek Catholics in the village. They later became known as the Pratulin Martyrs. During "Operation Barbarossa" the...
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    Cristero War (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024)
    2020. "14-year-old Mexican martyr to be beatified Sunday" ; Catholic News Agency; 5 November 2005 "Relics of Mexican martyrs find permanent home in Cicero"...
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    Rupert Mayer (category Catholic saints and blesseds of the Nazi era)
    JSTOR 30098634. "The Martyrs of our century beatified by Pope John Paul II". www.vatican.va. Retrieved 16 May 2022. "A Jesuit Martyr to the Nazis: Hitler...
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    those martyred during the war. Martyrs of Daimiel Martyrs of Turon 233 Spanish Martyrs 498 Spanish Martyrs "Church beatifies 522 'martyrs' of Spanish...
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    inhabitants of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, by the Eastern Orthodox population of the city in April 1182. The Roman Catholics of Constantinople...
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  • Anti-Catholicism in the United States (category History of religion in the United States)
    dates back to the colonial history of the U.S. Anti-Catholic attitudes were first brought to the Thirteen Colonies of British North America by Protestant...
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  • The Catholic Church has recognized several of those killed in connection with the Cristero rebellion as martyrs. Perhaps the best-known is Miguel Pro, SJ...
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    vendéen de recherches historiques, 2007, pp. 140, 466 John W. Carven, Martyrs for the Faith, Vincentian Heritage Journal, 8:2, Fall 1987 Jacques Hussenet...
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    faith, refusal was often met with violence and even murder, like the martyrs of Pratulin. During World War II in Yugoslavia, the Chetniks killed an estimated...
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    Maximilian Kolbe (category Martyred Roman Catholic priests)
    General Roman Calendar. He is one of ten 20th-century martyrs who are depicted in statues above the Great West Door of Anglican Westminster Abbey, London...
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  • are Canonized. Martyrs of China Korean Martyrs China Martyrs of 1900 Martyr Saints of China Blessed Bartolome Blanco Marquez, cooperator of the Salesian...
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    Pope John Paul II Martyrs of Pratulin (Rokitno, Poland): Wincenty Lewoniuk (1849–1874), Married Layperson of the Diocese of Siedlce (Janów Podlaski, Poland)...
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  • ISBN 978-1-59614-431-6. "108 Martyrs of World War II". Saints.SQPN.com. 12 April 2009. Retrieved 9 August 2013. Glatz, Carol (20 September 2010). "Martyred German priest...
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  • Walter Ciszek (category American people of Polish descent)
    priest of the Russian Greek Catholic Church who clandestinely conducted missionary work in the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1963. Fifteen of these years...
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    Aloysius Stepinac (category Academic staff of the University of Zagreb)
    died of polycythemia, for which he had been receiving treatment for a number of years. On 3 October 1998, Pope John Paul II declared him a martyr and beatified...
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    Mit brennender Sorge (category History of Catholicism in Germany)
    examples of martyrs, the Church needed no lessons on heroism from people who obsessed on greatness, strength and heroism. 27. Humility in the spirit of the...
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    the defeat of the Sokoto Caliphate and other Islamic states by the British, which were to constitute much of Northern Nigeria. The aftermath of the First...
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