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Child

Biologically, a child is generally a human between the stages of birth and puberty. Some vernacular definitions of a child include the fetus, as being an unborn child. The legal definition of "child" generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger than the age of majority...

ren and adolescents who died or were martyr

Martyr

A martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...

ed and have been declared saint

Saint

A saint is a holy person. In various religions, saints are people who are believed to have exceptional holiness.In Christian usage, "saint" refers to any believer who is "in Christ", and in whom Christ dwells, whether in heaven or in earth...

s or martyr

Martyr

A martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...

s of the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Anglican, Episcopalian

Episcopal Church (United States)

The Episcopal Church is a mainline Anglican Christian church found mainly in the United States , but also in Honduras, Taiwan, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, the British Virgin Islands and parts of Europe...

, or Lutheran Churches or have been beatified or venerated by those churches.

List of child saints

110 Infant and Child Martyrs of the French Revolution
Dechristianisation of France during the French Revolution
The dechristianisation of France during the French Revolution is a conventional description of the results of a number of separate policies, conducted by various governments of France between the start of the French Revolution in 1789 and the Concordat of 1801, forming the basis of the later and...
- André Minaud
- Anne Morilleau
- Catherine Renaud
- Céleste Morilleau
- Céleste-Agathe-Aimée Arnaud
- Céleste-Victoire Boisseleau
- Etienne Bériau
- François Bossis
- Henri Soret
- Jacques Fournier
- Jacques Simoneau
- Jacques Sorin
- Jean Boisseleau
- Jean Charrier
- Jean Girard
- Jean Malidin
- Jean Mignen
- Jean Minaud
- Jean Perrocheau
- Jean Pogu
- Jean Rousseau
- Jean Simoneau
- Jean Sorin
- Jean-Baptiste Vrignaud
- Jean-François Erceau
- Jeanne Bériau
- Jeanne Daviaud
- Jeanne Fêvre
- Jeanne Gralepois
- Jeanne Gris
- Jeanne Malidin
- Jeanne Minaud
- Jeanne Renaud
- Jeanne Robin
- Jeanne Rousseau (age 23 months)
- Jeanne Rousseau (age 4 years)
- Jeanne Savariau
- Joseph Archambaud
- Joseph Jean-Baptiste Bossis
- Joseph Mandin
- Joseph-Jacques Simoneau
- Louis Bossis
- Louis Bouron
- Louis Epiard
- Louis Gralepois
- Louis Hiou
- Louis Mandin
- Louis Vrignaud
- Louis-Augustin Rousseau
- Louise Martin
- Louise Minaud (age 15 days)
- Louise Minaud (age 2 years and 9 months)
- Louise-Anne Martin
- Louise-Marie Minaud
- Lubin-Louis Guillet
- Madeleine Bouron
- Madeleine Tenet
- Marie Bernard
- Marie Charuau
- Marie Daviaud
- Marie Garreau
- Marie Guitet
- Marie Hermouet
- Marie Malard
- Marie Malidin
- Marie Remaud
- Marie Ricouleau
- Marie-Anne Fournier
- Marie-Anne Gautret
- Marie-Anne Joli
- Marie-Anne Minaud
- Marie-Anne Prévit
- Marie-Anne Renaud
- Marie-Anne Rortais
- Marie-Françoise Martin
- Marie-Jeanne Girard
- Marie-Jeanne Vrignaud
- Marie-Madeleine Bériau
- Marie-Madeleine Charuau
- Marie-Modeste Airiau
- N. Fétivau
- Perrine Simoneau
- Pierre Boisseleau
- Pierre Bouet
- Pierre Daviaud
- Pierre Fétivau
- Pierre Geai
- Pierre Girard
- Pierre Gouin
- Pierre Graton
- Pierre Gris
- Pierre Minaud (age 4 years and 2 months)
- Pierre Minaud (age 6 years and 11 months)
- Pierre Pogu
- Pierre Renaud (age 1 year and 6 months)
- Pierre Renaud (age 6 years and 7 months)
- Pierre Simoneau
- Pierre-Jean Daviaud
- Pierre-René Fort
- Rosalie Martin
- Rosalie Martineau
- Rose Malidin
- Rose Prévit
- Rose Remaud
- Rose-Aimée Fort
- Suzanne Forgeau
- Thomas Airiau
- Véronique Martin
- Véronique Minaud
- Victoire-Céleste-Flore Rousseau
Adílio Daronch
Adílio Daronch
Blessed Adílio Daronch was a Brazilian teenager who has been beatified by the Roman Catholic Church as a martyr....
Agapitus of Palestrina
Agapitus of Palestrina
Saint Agapitus is venerated as a Martyr saint. Agapitus may have been a member of the noble Anicia family of Palestrina. At the age of fifteen, he was beheaded on orders of the prefect Antiochus and the emperor Aurelian...
Agatha of Sicily
Agatha of Sicily
Saint Agatha of Sicily is a Christian saint. Her memorial is on 5 February. Agatha was born at Catania, Sicily, and she was martyred in approximately 251...
Agnes of Bavaria
Agnes of Rome
Albertina Berkenbrock
Albertina Berkenbrock
Blessed Albertina Berkenbrock was a Brazilian Roman Catholic virgin.-Biography:Albertina was born in São Luís, Imaruí, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Her grandparents immigrated from Schöppingen, Germany to Brazil and brought with them their three children, one of who was Johann Hermann, who would become...
Aldo Blundo
Aldo Marcozzi
Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov
Alexia González-Barros
Alojzij Grozde
Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna....
Andreas Oxner
Andreas Oxner
Anderl Oxner von Rinn, also known as Andreas Oxner, was a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. According to a blood libel accusation, the three-year old boy was killed by foreign Jews in the village of Rinn .-Initial accusations:In 1475, in the wake of the blood libel of Simon of Trent, the bones...
Anfrosina Berardi
Angela Elena Muñoz Moral
Angela Iacobellis
Angelina Pirini
Angelo Bonetta
Anna Kolesárová
Anne de Guigné
Anne de Guigne
The Venerable Anne de Guigné was a French girl who is being considered for sainthood by the Roman Catholic Church.-Life and death:...
Anna Marie Zelíková
Antonia Mesina
Antonia Mesina
Blessed Antonia Messina was born on 21 June 1919. She was the second of ten children born to a poor family. After four years of school she took over housekeeping to help her bedridden mother, Grazia. She joined Catholic Action at the age of ten. While gathering firewood on 17 May 1935, she was...
Antonietta Meo
Antonietta Meo
The Venerable Antonietta Meo was an Italian girl who may become the youngest saint ever canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.-Life and death:...
Antônio da Rocha Marmo
Aquilina
Arcangela Filippelli
Arthelais
Arthelais
Saint Arthelais is venerated as a Christian saint. She is one of the patron saints of Benevento, with Saints Barbatus of Benevento and Bartholomew being the others. Her feast day is on March 3....
Barbora Umiastauskaitė
Barulas
Barulas
Saint Barulas was a third century boy who was martyred with along with Romanus of Caesarea by Emperor Galerius by being whipped and beheaded for their Christian beliefs. Their feast day is on November 18....
Belina
Belina (virgin)
Saint Belina was a Roman Catholic virgin martyr. A peasant girl from Troyes, France, she was threatened with rape by the feudal lord of the district. She refused his advances and died in defense of her virginity. She was canonized by Pope Innocent III in 1203....
Bernhard Lehner
Carlo Grisolia
Cecilia Eusepi
Cecilia Eusepi
Venerable Cecilia Eusepi was an Italian teenager who is venerated by the Roman Catholic Church.She has been compared to Thérèse of Lisieux, whose book The Story of a Soul she read as a young girl, and strove to follow the Little Flower's "little way." When she was already dying of tuberculosis,...
Ceferino Namuncurá
Ceferino Namuncurá
Blessed Ceferino Namuncurá was a saintly religious student and the object of a Roman Catholic cultus of veneration in northern Patagonia and throughout Argentina.- Early life :...
Celsus
Nazarius and Celsus
Saints Nazarius and Celsus were two martyrs of whom nothing is known except the discovery of their bodies by Saint Ambrose.According to Paulinus the Deacon's Vita Ambrosii, Ambrose, at some time within the last three years of his life, after the death of the Emperor Theodosius Saints Nazarius and...
Cessianus
Charity
Faith, Hope and Charity
Saints Faith, Hope and Charity , Church Slavonic: are a group of Christian martyred saints. Their mother is said to have been Sophia ; Sapientia is also mentioned in some accounts, though not as their mother. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, these were, in fact, two groups bearing the...
Chiara Badano
Chiara Badano
Chiara Badano, called Chiara “Luce” , was an Italian teenager who has been declared "Blessed" within the Catholic Church. She belonged to the Focolare Movement and died prematurely at eighteen after succumbing to osteosarcoma, an aggressive and painful form of bone cancer...
Clara Segura
Coleta Meléndez Torres
Crescentius of Rome
Crescentius of Rome
Saint Crescentius of Rome is venerated as a child martyr by the Roman Catholic Church. According to tradition, he was born of a noble Roman family and was baptized along with his parents by Saint Epigmenius. During the persecutions of Christians by Diocletian, the family fled to Perugia, where...
Cyril of Caesarea
Dentlin of Soignies
Dmitry Ivanovich
Domenico Blasucci
Dominguito del Val
Dominic Savio
Dominic Savio
Dominic Savio was an Italian adolescent student of Saint John Bosco. He was studying to be a priest when he became ill and died at the age of 14, possibly from pleurisy....
Dymphna
Elena Spirgevičiūtė
Eulalia of Barcelona
Eulalia of Mérida
Faith
Faith, Hope and Charity
Saints Faith, Hope and Charity , Church Slavonic: are a group of Christian martyred saints. Their mother is said to have been Sophia ; Sapientia is also mentioned in some accounts, though not as their mother. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, these were, in fact, two groups bearing the...
Fausta
Fausta and Evilasius
Saint Fausta, also known as Saint Fausta of Cyzicus , was a fourth-century girl who was arrested, tortured and executed for being a Christian. Evilasius was responsible for torturing and executing her, who was 13 years old at that time. Evilasius was converted to Christianity after watching her...
Faustino Pérez-Manglano Magro
Fina
Saint Fina
Saint Fina , or Saint Serafina, was an Italian Roman Catholic girl who is venerated in the Tuscan town of San Gimignano.-Life:Finadei Ciardi was born in San Gimignano on 1238...
Francesco Maria Castelli
Francisco Marto
Fusca of Ravenna
Fusca of Ravenna
Saint Fusca of Ravenna is a child martyr killed ca. 250 AD in Ravenna, Italy under the persecutions of Decius. Her nurse, Marura, was martyred with her. She is venerated by the Roman Catholic Church....
Galileo Nicolini
Gavriil of Belostok
Giuseppe Ottone
Gustavo Maria Bruni
Gustavo Maria Bruni
Servant of God Gustavo Maria Bruni was an Italian boy who is being investigated for possible sainthood by the Roman Catholic Church. He was a pious child who expressed a desire to be a priest and exhibited unusual holiness for a small child. He died of typhus at the age of seven.-Notes:...
Guy de Fontgalland
Harold
Harold (martyr)
Saint Harold was a child martyr who was reported to have been slain by Jews in Gloucester, England, in 1168. He is one of a small group of 12th century English saints of strikingly similar characteristics: they were all young boys, all mysteriously found dead and all hailed as martyrs to alleged...
Holy Child of La Guardia
Holy Child of La Guardia
The Holy Child of La Guardia was the purported victim of a ritual murder by the Jews in the town of La Guardia in the central Spanish province of Toledo . On November 16, 1491 an auto-da-fé held outside of Ávila concluded the case with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects...
Holy Innocents
- Sicaire
Hope
Faith, Hope and Charity
Saints Faith, Hope and Charity , Church Slavonic: are a group of Christian martyred saints. Their mother is said to have been Sophia ; Sapientia is also mentioned in some accounts, though not as their mother. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, these were, in fact, two groups bearing the...
Hugh of Lincoln
Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln
Hugh of Lincoln was an English boy, whose death prompted a blood libel with ramifications that reach until today. Hugh is known as Little Saint Hugh to distinguish him from Saint Hugh, otherwise Hugh of Lincoln. The style is often corrupted to Little Sir Hugh...
Imelda Lambertini
Imelda Lambertini
Blessed Imelda Lambertini is the patroness of First Holy Communicants.- Early life :Imelda was born in 1322 in Bologna, the only child of Count Egano Lambertini and Castora Galuzzi. Her parents were devout Catholics and were known for their charity and generosity to the underprivileged of Bologna...
Isabel Cristina Mrad Campos
Isabella Chimienti
István Kaszap
Jacinta Marto
Jeanne-Germaine Castang (Marie-Céline of the Presentation)
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc
Saint Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" , is a national heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, which paved the way for the...
Josef Engling
Josefina Vilaseca Alsina
Juan Barrera Méndez
Justin of Paris
Justus
Justus and Pastor
Saints Justus and Pastor are venerated as Christian martyrs. According to their Acts, they were two schoolboys who were killed for their faith during the persecution of Christians by the Roman Emperor Diocletian...
Justus of Beauvais
Justus of Beauvais
Saint Justus of Beauvais is a semi-legendary saint of the Roman Catholic Church. He may have been a Gallo-Roman martyr, but his legend was confused with that of other saints, such as Justin of Paris....
Karolina Kózka
Karolina Kózka
- Young Life :Born on August 2, 1898, Karolina Kozka was one of eleven children, although sources conflict about her being the 4th, 7th, or 8th born. Her parents were Jan and Maria Borzecka Kozka of Poland. The family lived in the Wal-Ruda and was part of the Diocese of Tarnow...
Laura Vicuña
Laura Vicuña
Blessed Laura Vicuña is a blessed person in the Roman Catholic Church. She is the patron of abuse victims.-Escape from Chile:...
Lorena d’Alessandro
Lorenzino Sossio da Marostica
Luigi Pistoni
Maggiorino Vigolungo
Majoricus
Denise, Dativa, Leontia, Tertius, Emilianus, Boniface, Majoricus, and Servus
Saints Denise , Dativa, Leontia, Tertius, Emilianus, Boniface, Majoricus, and Servus are venerated as martyrs by the Catholic Church. They were killed in the late 5th century during the persecution of Trinitarian Christians in Proconsular Africa by the Arian Vandals, according to Victor of Vita. ...
Margaret of Louvain
Margaret of Louvain
Blessed Margaret of Louvain is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church. She was a servant from Louvain, Brabant, Belgium who witnessed robbers kill her employers. She fled the scene, but was murdered herself when they caught up to her on the banks of the Deel River. She had planned to enter a...
Maria Carmelina Leone
Maria Cristina Ogier
Maria da Conceição Froes Gil Ferrão de Pimentel Teixeira
María del Carmen González-Valerio
María del Carmen González-Valerio
Venerable Maria del Carmen González-Valerio y Sáenz de Heredia was a Spanish girl who is venerated by the Roman Catholic Church and is being considered for sainthood...
María del Pilar Cimadevilla López-Dóriga
María del Pilar Cimadevilla López-Dóriga
Servant of God María del Pilar Cimadevilla López-Dóriga, called Pilina, was a Spanish girl who is being considered for sainthood by the Roman Catholic Church. The Congregation for the Causes of Saints declared her "heroic virtues" on April 19, 2004...
Maria Goretti
Maria Goretti
Maria Goretti is an Italian virgin-martyr of the Roman Catholic Church, and is one of its youngest canonized saints. She died from multiple stab wounds inflicted by her attempted rapist after she refused him...
Maria Lichtenegger
Maria Nikolaevna Romanova
Maria Orsola Bussone
Maria Orsola Bussone
- Life :Maria Orsola Bussone came from a family of blue collar workers. Her father owned a car repair office and her mother was a basic tailor . Since her childhood she attended with great participation to the activities in her parish and could be present to several meetings of young Italian people...
Maria Vieira da Silva
Mario Giuseppe Restivo
Martialis
Martyrs of China
Martyr Saints of China
The Martyr Saints of China, or Augustine Zhao Rong and his 119 companions, are saints of the Roman Catholic Church. The 87 Chinese Catholics and 33 Western missionaries, from the mid-17th century to 1930, were martyred because of their ministry and, in some cases, for their refusal to apostatize...
- Andreas Wang Tianqing
- Anna Wang
- Anna Zhao Shangniuzhe
- Ioannes Baptista Wu Mantang
- Ioannes Baptista Zhu Wurui
- John the New Martyr of China
  Metrophanes, Chi Sung
  Metrophanes, Chi Sung or Mitrophan was the first Chinese Eastern Orthodox priest to be martyred. He was killed with his family members and church followers in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion...
- Lucia Wang Cheng
- Magdalene Du Fengju
- Maria Chi Yu
- Maria Fan
- Maria Fan Kun
- Maria Zhao
- Maria Zheng Xu
- Paulus Lang Fu
- Paulus Wu Wanshu
- Petrus Hou Zhanou
- Petrus Zhu Rixin
- Simon Qin Chunfu
- Zhuze Chi
Martyrs of Eastern Europe Under Communist Regimes
Persecution of Christians in Warsaw Pact countries
Before and after the October Revolution of November 7, 1917 there was a movement within the Soviet Union to unite all of the people of the world under Communist rule . This included the Eastern European bloc countries as well as the Balkan States...
- Franček Pen
- Janez Pavčič
- Małgorzata Wiewiorra
Martyrs of Japan
Martyrs of Japan
The refers to a group of Christians who were executed by crucifixion on February 5, 1597 at Nagasaki. Their martyrdom is especially significant in the history of Roman Catholicism in Japan....
- Daughter of Shichizaemon and Magdalena (name unknown, age 3)
- Daughter of Shichizaemon and Magdalena (name unknown, age 5)
- Andreas Yakichi
- Antonius
  Antonius
  Antonius is the nomen of the gens Antonia, one of the most important plebeian families at Rome. It is also the source of the English personal name Anthony, as well as a number of similar names in various European languages....
- Antonius Banzai Orusu
- Antonio of Saint Dominic
- Antonius Ono
- Antonius Uchibori
- Benedictus
  Benedictus
  -Music:* Benedictus , the canticle sung at Lauds, also called the Canticle of Zachary.* The second part of the Sanctus, part of the eucharistic prayer* Benedictus , a song by Simon and Garfunkel...
- Candidus
  Candidus
  In Latin, candidus/candida means "clear and white". Candidus became a common Roman cognomen. Candidus may also refer to:- Pen names :*Pen name of Alexander Campbell, Restoration Movement Leader*Pen-name of Loyalist Lt. Col...
  
  ‘’bōzu’’
- Catharina Hashimoto
- Didacus Hayashida
- Dominicus Nihachi
- Dominicus of Saint Francis
- Dominicus Tomachi
- Elisabeth Sato
- Franciscus Hashimoto
- Franciscus Nihachi
- Franciscus Takeya
- Franciscus Yakichi
- Gabriel
  Gabriel
  In Abrahamic religions, Gabriel is an Archangel who typically serves as a messenger to humans from God.He first appears in the Book of Daniel, delivering explanations of Daniel's visions. In the Gospel of Luke Gabriel foretells the births of both John the Baptist and of Jesus...
- Iacobus
- Ignatius
  Ignatius
  Ignatius is a male given name of presumed Latin or Etruscan origin, believed to mean "fiery one".It may refer to:-Given name:*Ignatius Kutu Acheampong , Ghanaian military ruler*Ignatius Bonomi , British architect...
- Ignatius Jorge-Fernandes
- Ignatius Uchibori
- Ioannes Hamanomachi
- Ioannes Mukunō Chōzaburō
- Iusta Amagasu
- Jacobus Hayashida
- John of Goto
- Laurentius Yamada
- Louis Ibaraki
- Lucia
  Lucia
  - Surname :* Bruno Lucia, Australian stand-up comedian and performer* Fernando de Lucia, Italian tenor- Given name :* Lucia Cifarelli, member of industrial band KMFDM* Lucía Etxebarria de Asteinza, Spanish writer* Lucia Galeazzi Galvani, Italian scientist...
- Lucia Kurogane
- Ludovica Hashimoto
- Ludovicus Ibaraki
- Ludovicus Minami
- Ludovicus Onizuka
- Luis Hashimoto
- Magdalena Hayashida
- Martha
  Martha
  Martha of Bethany is a biblical figure described in the Gospels of Luke and John. Together with her siblings Lazarus and Mary, she is described as living in the village of Bethany near Jerusalem...
  
  (last name unknown, age 1)
- Martha
  Martha
  Martha of Bethany is a biblical figure described in the Gospels of Luke and John. Together with her siblings Lazarus and Mary, she is described as living in the village of Bethany near Jerusalem...
  
  (last name unknown, age 7)
- Michaël Anazawa Osamu
- Michaël Tanda
- Michaël Tomachi
- Monica
  Monica
  Monica may refer to:*Monica , R&B singer and actress*Monica , the given name Monica*Saint Monica*Monica *Monica *Monica *Monica tail warning radar*Monicagate, a term for the Monica Lewinsky scandal...
- Paulus
  Paulus
  - Roman and Byzantine empire :*Paul or Julius Paulus , Roman jurist*Paulus Catena , Roman notary*Lucius Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus , Roman general*Paulus , short-time ruler over the Domain of Soissons...
- Paulus Tomachi
- Petrus Hamanomachi
- Petrus Hashimoto
- Petrus Hattori
- Petrus Kawano
- Petrus Nagaishi
- Regina
- Romanus Anazawa Matsujiro
- Sixtus
  Sixtus
  Sixtus was a Roman name, a corruption of the Greek name "," meaning "polished," and originally Latinized "Xystus." It is not to be confused with the common Roman name "Sextus," meaning "sixth," though not necessarily denoting a sixth child....
- Thecla Kurogane
- Thecla Takahashi
- Thomas Hashimoto
- Thomas Kajiya Yoemon
- Thomas Kozaki
- Thomas Mitsuishi
- Thomas Tomachi
- Ursula Yamamoto
Martyrs of Korea
- Agatha Kwŏn Chin-i
- Agatha Yi
- Anastasia Yi Bong-geum
- Barbara Sim A-gi
- Barbara Yi
- Iacobus Oh Jong-rye
- Ioannes Yu Mun-seok
- Iosephus Cho Yun-ho
- Joseph Cho Yun-ho
- Lutgarda Yi Sun-i
- Matthaeus Yu Jung-seong
- Petrus Yu Tae-ch’ŏl
  Peter Yu Tae-chol
  Saint Peter Yu Tae-chol was one of the 103 Korean Martyrs and a son of a government interpreter named Augustine Nyou Tjin-kil, also a martyr. Peter's mother and sisters were enemies of Catholicism and ill-treated Peter...
- Petrus Chŏng Wŏn-ji
Martyrs of Kosheh
Kosheh Martyrs
21 Coptic Christians were the victims of a massacre in el-Kosheh village in Upper Egypt, located 450 kilometres south of Cairo, on Sunday 2 January 2000. The Coptic Christians killed in this incident were considered martyrs of the Coptic Orthodox Church by Pope Shenouda III.-Kosheh:Kosheh is...
- Al-Amir Helmy Fahmy
- Maysoon Ghatas Fahmy
- Refaat Fayez Awad Fahmy
- Wael El-Dabai Mikhail
Martyrs of Laos
Roman Catholicism in Laos
The Roman Catholic Church in Laos is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome.The Roman Catholic Church is officially recognized by the LFNC...
- Thoj Xyooj Paj Lug
- Thomas Khampheuane Inthirath
Martyrs of Nag Hammadi
Nag Hammadi massacre
The Nag Hammadi massacre was a massacre of Coptic Christians carried out on the eve of January 7, 2010, in the Egyptian city of Nag Hammadi. The massacre occurred at the hands of Muslim gunmen in front of the Nag Hammadi cathedral, as Coptic Christians were leaving the church after celebrating the...
- Mina Helmy Said
- Bishoy Farid Labib
- Dina Hamalni
- Boula Atef Yassa
- Abanoub Kamal Nashed
Martyrs of the Nazi Regime
- Antoni Ulma
  Józef and Wiktoria Ulma
  Józef and Wiktoria Ulma, a Polish husband and wife, living in Markowa near Rzeszów in south-eastern Poland during the Nazi German occupation in World War II, were the Righteous who attempted to rescue Polish Jewish families by hiding them in their own home during the Holocaust...
- Barbara Ulma
  Józef and Wiktoria Ulma
  Józef and Wiktoria Ulma, a Polish husband and wife, living in Markowa near Rzeszów in south-eastern Poland during the Nazi German occupation in World War II, were the Righteous who attempted to rescue Polish Jewish families by hiding them in their own home during the Holocaust...
- Franciszek Ulma
  Józef and Wiktoria Ulma
  Józef and Wiktoria Ulma, a Polish husband and wife, living in Markowa near Rzeszów in south-eastern Poland during the Nazi German occupation in World War II, were the Righteous who attempted to rescue Polish Jewish families by hiding them in their own home during the Holocaust...
- Jarogniew Wojciechowski
- Jean Mestre
- Maria Ulma
  Józef and Wiktoria Ulma
  Józef and Wiktoria Ulma, a Polish husband and wife, living in Markowa near Rzeszów in south-eastern Poland during the Nazi German occupation in World War II, were the Righteous who attempted to rescue Polish Jewish families by hiding them in their own home during the Holocaust...
- Stanisława Ulma
  Józef and Wiktoria Ulma
  Józef and Wiktoria Ulma, a Polish husband and wife, living in Markowa near Rzeszów in south-eastern Poland during the Nazi German occupation in World War II, were the Righteous who attempted to rescue Polish Jewish families by hiding them in their own home during the Holocaust...
- Władysław Ulma
  Józef and Wiktoria Ulma
  Józef and Wiktoria Ulma, a Polish husband and wife, living in Markowa near Rzeszów in south-eastern Poland during the Nazi German occupation in World War II, were the Righteous who attempted to rescue Polish Jewish families by hiding them in their own home during the Holocaust...
Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War
Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War
Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War is the name given by the Catholic Church to the people who were killed by Republicans during the war because of their faith. As of July 2008, almost one thousand Spanish martyrs have been beatified or canonized...
- Agustín López Hernández
- Agustín Villar Peña
- Alfredo Carrasco Herrero
- Andrés Pérez Fernández
- Ángel Martínez Somolinos
- Àngel Piquer Pellicer
- Antonio Ferrer Rodrigo
- Antonio Leblic Gómez-Lanzas
- Antonio Noguera Martínez
- Antonio Vicente Vaquero Prisuelos
- Bernabé de la Hoz Castillejos
- Emilia Revert Pla
- Emilio Huidobro Corrales
- Emilio Solanes Escrihuela
- Florentino de la Hoz Castillejos
- Francisco Alfredo
- Francisco Luis Pérez-Miravete y Pascual de Riquelme
- Gerardo Pinero Díaz
- Gregorio Urbano Güil Canfrán
- Helí González Navarro
- Ignasi Trias Bertran
- Jesús Brazales Salcedo
- Joan Gamissans Comellas
- Joan Roig Diggle
- José Rodríguez Fernández
- José Villacastín Sánchez
- Josep Borràs García
- Juan García-Pulgar García-Ochoa
- Juan Moya Collado
- Julián Mellado Noblejas
- Ladislao Luis
- Lluís Arbós Batista
- Luis Gonzaga Valentín Fernández
- Luis Quintas Durán
- Luis Villar Peña
- María del Carmen Candinas Medina
- Miguel Lloris Miralles
- Nadal Salort Caselles
- Pere Boix Folguera
- Pere Magí
- Rafael Lluch Garín
- Santiago Mosquera Suárez de Figueroa
- Ventura Martín Tejerizo
Martyrs of Thailand
Martyrs of Thailand
The Martyrs of Thailand are seven Roman Catholic Thais executed in Songkhon, Thailand in December 1940 by local police forces...
- Bibiana Khampai
- Maria Phon
- Cecilia Butsi
Martyrs of Tlaxcala
Tlaxcala
Tlaxcala officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Tlaxcala is one of the 31 states which along with the Federal District comprise the 32 federative entities of Mexico. It is divided into 60 municipalities and its capital city is Tlaxcala....
- Antonio
  Antonio
  Antonio is a Greek, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish first name. In the English language it is translated as Anthony, and has some female derivatives: Antonia, Antónia, Antonieta, Antonietta, and Antonella...
- Cristobal
  Cristóbal
  Cristóbal or Cristobal may refer to:Dominican Republic*Cristóbal provincePanama*Cristóbal, ColónSpain*Cristóbal, SalamancaChristopher Columbus...
- Juan
  Juan
  Juan is a given name, the Spanish language version of John. It is very common in Spain and in Spanish-speaking communities around the world. The feminine form is Juana, or Juanita on its diminutive....
Martyrs of Uganda
Martyrs of Uganda
The Uganda Martyrs were Christian converts who were murdered for their faith in the historical kingdom of Buganda, now part of Uganda.-Charles Lwanga and his companions:...
- Achileo Kewanuka
  Achilleus Kewanuka
  Saint Achilleus Kewanuka, also known as Achileo Kiwanuka or Achilles Kiwanuka , was a Ugandan Roman Catholic revered as a saint in his church. He served as a clerk in the court of King Mwanga II of Buganda, and converted to the Christian faith under the missionary group known as the White Fathers...
- Ambrosius Kibuuka
- Anatoli Kiriggwajjo
- Antanansio Bazzekuketta
- Daudi Okelo
- Denis Ssebuggwawo Wasswa
- Gyavira Musoke
- Jildo Irwa
- Kizito
  Kizito
  Saint Kizito was one of the Martyrs of Uganda. The youngest martyr slain by the King Mwanga II of Buganda, he was burned alive in 1886. He was canonized on 18 October 1964 by Pope Paul VI at Rome. His feast day is on June 3....
- Mbaga Tuzinde
- Mugagga Lubowa
Martyrs of Vietnam
- Andrew Trong Van Tram
- Anê Dần
- Anrê Phú Yên
- Giuse Túc
- Thomas Thien Tran
Matrona of Barcelona
Matrona of Barcelona
Matrona of Barcelona or Matrona of Thessalonica is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. She was recognized as a saint pre-congregation....
Montserrat Grases
Montserrat Grases
María Montserrat Grases García was a Spanish Opus Dei member and is a candidate for beatification in the Roman Catholic Church.-Life and Faith:...
Nunzio Sulprizio
Olive
Panacea de'Muzzi of Quarona
Pancras of Rome
Paola Renata Carboni
Paola Renata Carboni
Venerable Paola Renata Carboni was an Italian teenager who is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church.Carboni was the fourth of eight children of a physician who refused to permit his children to attend church or be instructed in religion. An aunt secretly had the girl baptized and taught her the...
Pastor
Justus and Pastor
Saints Justus and Pastor are venerated as Christian martyrs. According to their Acts, they were two schoolboys who were killed for their faith during the persecution of Christians by the Roman Emperor Diocletian...
Pedro Calungsod
Pedro Calungsod
Blessed Pedro Calungsod is a Filipino Roman Catholic martyr who was killed while doing missionary work in Guam in 1672. He was beatified on March 5, 2000, by Pope John Paul II. As a skilled sacristan and teacher of cathecism, he was a companion of Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores to the Marianas...
Pelagius of Constance
Pelagius of Constance
Saint Pelagius of Constance was, according to unverifiable legends, a child martyr put to death in Pannonia during the persecution of Roman Emperor Numerian...
Pelagius of Cordova
Pelagius of Cordova
Saint Pelagius of Cordova is said to have been a Christian boy left by his uncle at the age of ten as a hostage with the Caliph Abd-ar-Rahman III of al-Andalus, in trade for a clerical relative previously captured by the Moors, the bishop Hermoygius. The exchange never occurred and Pelagius...
Peter the Aleut
Peter the Aleut
Cungagnaq is venerated as a martyr and saint by some jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodox Church. He was allegedly a native of Kodiak Island , and is said to have received the Christian name of Peter when he was baptized into the Orthodox faith by the monks of St...
Philomena
Philomena
Saint Philomena is venerated as a virgin martyr saint of the Catholic Church, said to have been a young Greek princess martyred in the 4th century. Her veneration began in the early 19th century after the archaeological discovery in the Catacombs of Priscilla of the bones of a young woman, which...
Ponticus
Saint Ponticus
Ponticus was a fifteen-year-old boy martyred in 177 AD during the persecution in Lyons with a group of other Christians, including Saint Pothinus and Saint Blandina. He is venerated by the Roman Catholic Church as a martyr.-Notes:...
Prisca
Saint Prisca
Saint Prisca was a Roman young woman allegedly tortured and executed for her Christian faith. Her dates are unknown. She is revered as a saint and a martyr by the Roman Catholic Church...
Quiricus (Cyr, Cyricus)
Rachele Noceti
Rachelina Ambrosini
Rachelina Ambrosini
Servant of God Rachelina Ambrosini was an Italian teenager who is venerated by the Roman Catholic Church.Rachelina Ambrosini was distinguished by her great piety from an early age. She was outgoing, intelligent, gentle and obedient and was educated in Catholic schools and in a devout Catholic family...
Rais
Ramón Montero Navarro
Rebeca Rocamora Nadal
Reparata
Saint Reparata
Saint Reparata was a third century Christian virgin and martyr, possibly mythical, of Caesarea in Palestine. Sources vary as to her age - from 11 to 20-years old - though the Sainte-Réparte cathedral in Nice gives it as 15 . She was arrested for her faith and tortured during the persecution of...
Richard of Pontoise
Robert of Bury
Rose of Viterbo
Rose of Viterbo
Saint Rose of Viterbo, T.O.S.F., was a virgin saint, born at Viterbo, Italy.The chronology of her life must always remain uncertain, as the Acts of her canonization, the chief historical sources, record no dates...
Rudolph of Berne
Rumwold
Saints of the Cristero War
Saints of the Cristero War
On May 21, 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized a group of 25 saints and martyrs arising from the Mexican Cristero War. The vast majority are Roman Catholic priests who were executed for carrying out their ministry despite the suppression under the anti-clerical laws of Plutarco Elías Calles. Priests...
- David Roldán-Lara
- José Sánchez del Río
  José Sánchez del Río
  Blessed José Luis Sánchez del Río was a young Mexican Cristero who was put to death by government officials because he refused to renounce his Catholic faith. He has been declared a martyr and was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI on November 20, 2005.-Life:José Luis Sánchez del Río was born on March...
Santos Franco Sánchez
Santos Franco Sánchez
Santos Franco Sánchez was a Spanish boy who is being considered for sainthood by the Roman Catholic Church.The child was born into a devout Catholic family and attended Catholic schools. He was an ordinary child who got into his share of mischief, but his family remembered that he was also...
Silvio Dissegna
Simon of Trent
Simon of Trent
Simon of Trent ; also known as Simeon; was a boy from the city of Trento, Italy whose disappearance was blamed on the leaders of the city's Jewish community based on their confessions under torture, causing a major blood libel in Europe.-Background:Shortly before Simon went missing, Bernardine of...
Solange of Bourges
Solange
Solange was a Frankish shepherdess and a locally-venerated Christian saint, whose cult is restricted to Sainte Solange, Cher...
Stanislaus Kostka
Stanislaus Kostka
Stanisław Kostka S.J. was a Polish novice of the Society of Jesus. In the Catholic Church as Saint Stanislaus Kostka....
Tarcisius
Teresa Bracco
Teresa of the Andes
Theresa of Jesus
Tremorus of Brittany
Tremorus of Brittany
Saint Tremorus of Brittany is a sixth century child martyr venerated by the Roman Catholic Church. He was murdered by his stepfather Count Conmore while being educated at a monastery in Carhaix, Brittany. Conmore killed the boy because he hated Christianity. He was the son of Saint Triphena, who...
Triantafyllos
Triantafyllos
Triantafyllos is a martyr of the Greek Orthodox Church. He was born in Volos, in then Ottoman-controlled Greece, and was taken captive by the Turks one day while he was working as a fisherman. He was tortured when he refused to renounce his Christian faith and convert to Islam and was eventually...
Ulrico Sarti
Vasilissa
Vibiana
Saint Vibiana
Saint Vibiana is a third century virgin martyr of the Roman Catholic Church. She is the patroness of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles where she is honored with a memorial feast on September 1....
Victalicus
Victalicus
Victalicus was a child martyr who was killed sometime prior to the in Ancyra, Galatia in what is now modern-day Turkey. He is venerated by the Roman Catholic Church. No more is known about him....
Vitus
Vitus
Saint Vitus was a Christian saint from Sicily. He died as a martyr during the persecution of Christians by co-ruling Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian in 303. Vitus is counted as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers of the Roman Catholic Church....
Walter Elías Chango Rondeau
Werner of Oberwesel
Werner of Oberwesel
Werner of Oberwesel ; b. 1271 in Womrath, Hunsrück; d. 1287) was a 16-year-old boy whose unexplained death was blamed on Jews, leading to revenge killings of Jews across Europe. He was long worshipped as a Catholic saint, and his memorial day was 19 April...
William of Norwich
William of Norwich
William of Norwich was an English boy whose death was, at the time, attributed to the Jewish community of Norwich. It is the first known medieval accusation of ritual murder against Jews....

External links

Hagiography Circle
Saints.SQPN.com Partial list of saints who died as children.
Child Saints, Martyrs and the Heroes of Orthodoxy
Asian Saints Photostream Flickr
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page containing the images of some Asian child saints.

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List of child saints

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