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Gohard of Nantes, 843 by Normans. Roderick, Eulogius, Perfectus, Laura, Flora and Maria, Aurelius and Natalia, Nunilo and Alodia, and other Martyrs of Cordoba, 850-59. Bertharius of Monte Cassino, 883 by Saracens. Edmund of East Anglia, 869. [ 69 ] Ludmila of Bohemia, 921. Wiborada of St. Gall, 921 by Magyars.
Æbbe of Coldingham, daughter of Æthelfrith, king of Bernicia. Ælfflæd of Whitby, daughter of Oswiu, king of Northumbria. Ælfthryth of Crowland, daughter of Offa, king of Mercia. Æthelberht, Prince of Kent, martyred in 669. Æthelburh of Barking, sister of the Bishop of London, who was reputedly of Royal blood.
List of royal saints and martyrs: a list of Christian monarchs, other royalty, and nobility who have been beatified or canonized, or who are otherwise venerated as or conventionally given the appellation of "saint" or "martyr". List of Unitarian martyrs: a list of people considered martyrs for their adherence to the Unitarianism movement.
Canonized Roman Catholic saints have been through a formal institutional process resulting in their canonization. There have been thousands of canonizations. Pope John Paul II alone canonized 110 individuals, as well as many group canonizations such as 110 martyr saints of China, 103 Korean martyrs, 117 Vietnamese martyrs, the Mexican Martyrs, Spanish martyrs and French revolutionary martyrs.
Christian martyr. In Christianity, a martyr is a person who was killed for their testimony for Jesus or faith in Jesus. [ 1 ] In the years of the early church, stories depict this often occurring through death by sawing, stoning, crucifixion, burning at the stake, or other forms of torture and capital punishment.
List of Catholic martyrs of the English Reformation. Martyr Saints of China. Colchester Martyrs. Martyrs of Córdoba. Saints of the Cristero War.
The names of the confessors, as we find them also in later sources, were formerly inscribed on this fresco. Acts of these martyrs, written subsequently, in Greek, Syriac and Latin, are yet extant, also a "Testament" of the Forty Martyrs. In the West, the feast of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste was celebrated on 10 March and suppressed in 1969. [1]
This is an incomplete list of people 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 ...