Blessed Paul Yun Ji-chung joins St. Andrew Kim Taegon as another Korean martyr who is known for his courageous faith in the midst of Christian persecution.
Pope Leo XIV has also moved forward the sainthood causes of 50 more Spanish martyrs and a Carmelite who died in the USA.
As Algeria descended into civil war, the Spanish government offered Sister Esther a safe way out. Her surprising response revealed a profound love.
Blessed James Duckett was killed for selling Catholic literature in England during a time when Catholics were a highly targeted group.
Cardinal Frank Leo, Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto, will represent the Holy Father and join Bishop Stephen G. Parkes in Savannah at the solemn liturgy on October 31.
Pope Leo stopped at the home of fellow Augustinians, two of whom, Spanish nuns, were martyred in 1994: “No one can take our lives because we have already given them,” Sister Esther wrote, in prophetic words.
St. Patrick did not always meet a willing audience, ready and open to receive the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Bishop Paolo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Southern Arabia, invoked the intercession of several martyrs who were killed in Yemen, that peace might reign in the Middle East.
Four Missionaries of Charity were killed in 2016, victims of a terrorist attack, and were instruments of peace in the Gulf region.
As Leo XIV prepares to become the first pope to visit Algeria, we look back on his connection with these martyrs who were committed to dialogue with Muslims.
2026 marks the centenary of the start of the “Cristiada,” a little-known Mexican civil war for religious freedom. It produced dozens of martyrs among clergy and laity alike.
Five Franciscan friars were killed for upholding the dignity of marriage in what would later become the United States of America.
During restoration work near Madrid, a hidden document recounts the 1947 exhumation of a priest killed in the first days of the Spanish Civil War.
St. Emerentiana was the foster-sister of St. Agnes of Rome, and would eventually join her sister in the ranks of martyrs.
Fr. Augusto Ramírez Monasterio was tortured and killed in 1983 in Guatemala after refusing to break the seal of confession.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, writing on behalf of the Pope to Catholic journalists meeting in France, referred to the French priest Father Jacques Hamel, martyred by Islamic terrorists.
Praising the new martyrs of France and Spain, Pope Leo XIV emphasized how their sacrifices — though from different historical moments — share a single testament.
