264 lives of faith. Showing 145–156.
Martyr · September 20
Paul Chong Hasang was a Korean Catholic lay missionary known as one of the Korean Martyrs. His feast day is September 20, and he is also venerated along with the rest of the 103 Korean martyrs on 20 September.
Korea (historical region) · Historical region
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Martyr · 19 October
Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel was an English nobleman. He was canonised by Pope Paul VI in 1970, as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
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Martyr · 5 February
Philip of Jesus, OFM was a Spanish Franciscan missionary who became one of the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan. He is the first Mexican Catholic saint and is the patron saint of Mexico City.
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Martyr · November 24
Pierre-Rose-Ursule Dumoulin-Borie was a French Catholic missionary priest and a member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society.
France · Family origin
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Martyr · 21 February
Robert Southwell, SJ, also Saint Robert Southwell, was an English Catholic priest of the Jesuit Order. He was also an author of Christian poetry in Elizabethan English, and a clandestine missionary in Elizabethan England.
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Roque González de Santa Cruz, SJ was a Guaraní -Spanish Jesuit priest who was the first missionary among the Guarani in Paraguay.
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Martyr · April 13
Sabás Reyes Salazar was a Mexican Catholic vicar and one of many priests martyred during the Cristero War. Reyes was canonized by Pope John Paul II on 21 May 2000 as one the Martyrs of the Cristero War.
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Saint Valentine was a 3rd-century Roman saint, commemorated in Western Christianity on February 14 and in Eastern Orthodoxy on July 6.
Origin uncertain · Birthplace unknown
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Martyr · July 8
Saint Sunniva is the patron saint of the Norwegian Church of Norway Diocese of Bjørgvin, as well as all of Western Norway.
Ireland · Traditional attribution
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Martyr · 23 June
Thomas Garnet, SJ was an English Jesuit priest who was executed in London during the English Reformation. He is the protomartyr of Saint Omer and of Stonyhurst College.
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Toribio Romo González, known as Saint Toribio Romo was a Mexican Catholic priest and martyr who was killed during the anti-clerical persecutions of the Cristero War.
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Martyr · July 31
Abanoub is a 4th-century Christian saint and martyr from Egypt.
Egypt · Present-day geography
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