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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.
Christian martyrs
108 Martyrs of World War II : 108
Polish
Roman Catholics martyred by the
Nazi Party during World War II.
Canadian Martyrs : eight
Jesuit missionaries from
Sainte-Marie among the Hurons martyred during warfare between the
Iroquois (particularly the
Mohawk people ) and the
Huron .
Elias and companions : five Christians from
Roman Egypt martyred in the city of
Caesarea Maritima .
Four Crowned Martyrs : nine people venerated as martyrs and saints by the Catholic Church.
Korean Martyrs : 8,000-10,000 Catholics were killed during the
19th century in
Korea , 103 of whom have been
canonized .
List of Protestant martyrs of the Scottish Reformation : men and women executed under heresy laws during the
Scottish Reformation .
List of protomartyrs : a list of known protomartyrs; a protomartyr is the first
Christian martyr in a country or among a particular group, such as a
religious order .
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.
Martyrs of Gorkum : 19
Dutch Catholic clerics and friars hanged by militant Dutch
Calvinists during the
16th century religious wars .
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 .
Uganda Martyrs : 23
Anglican and 22 Catholic Christians executed on the orders of
Mwanga II of Buganda between 1885 and 1887.
Vietnamese Martyrs : according to the Catholic Church, an estimated 130,000-300,000 Catholics were persecuted in
Vietnam between 1745 and 1862.
Martyrs of China
Martyrs of England
Martyrs of Japan
Martyrs of the Roman Empire
20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia : A name for the victims of
persecution of Christians in
Nicomedia ,
Bithynia (modern Izmit, Turkey) by the
Roman Emperors
Diocletian and
Maximian in the early 4th century AD.
Agapius, Atticus, Carterius, Styriacus, Tobias, Eudoxius, Nictopolion, and companions : soldiers who were burned at the stake at Sebaste (modern
Sivas , Turkey) in 315, during the reign of Emperor
Licinius .
Behnam, Sarah, and the Forty Martyrs : 4th-century Christians who were martyred during the reign of
Shapur II .
Carpophorus, Exanthus, Cassius, Severinus, Secundus, and Licinius : tradition in
Como , Italy, holds that these Christian soldiers were martyred during the reign of the Roman emperor
Maximian .
Christians martyred during the reign of Diocletian : men and women martyred during the
Diocletianic Persecution .
Denise, Dativa, Leontia, Tertius, Emilianus, Boniface, Majoricus, and Servus : 8 martyrs killed in the late
5th century during the persecution of
Trinitarian Christians in
Proconsular Africa .
Donatus, Romulus, Secundian, and 86 Companions : a group of
Christians who were
martyred at
Concordia Sagittaria (at the time called Iulia Concordia ), near
Venice , during the Diocletian Persecution.
First Martyrs of the Church of Rome : Christians martyred in the city of
Rome during persecution by
Nero in 64 AD
Forty Martyrs of Sebaste : a group of Roman soldiers in the
Legio XII Fulminata whose martyrdom in 320 for the Christian faith is recounted in traditional martyrologies.
Scillitan Martyrs : 12 North African Christians who were executed in Proconsular Africa on 17 July 180 AD.
The Seven Brothers of Lazia : 7 Roman soldiers executed during the persecutions of co-emperor Maximian.
Seven Robbers : A group of robbers from the Greek island of
Corfu who were converted in prison and then executed in the 2nd century AD.
Ten thousand martyrs : may refer to either of two groups of possibly-apocryphal Roman-era martyrs.
Theban Legion : an entire
Roman legion who had converted en masse to Christianity and were martyred together in 286.
Martyrs of Spain
Jewish martyrs
Mormon martyrs
See also