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Martyrs

“Massacre of the Innocents,” by Giovan Cristoforo Storer, in San Eustorgio Church. (Renata Sedmakova/Shutterstock)

Saint of the Day

Feast of the Holy Innocents

Angelus Staff|Dec 28, 2025|1 Min Read

Relics of Father Maurice Rondeau, who was killed by German Nazis, are seen displayed as Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg presides over the beatification Mass of 50 Catholic victims of German Nazis at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris Dec. 13, 2025. The French martyrs, who were either priests and committed lay Christians, all died in Germany between 1944 and 1945. (OSV News photo/Yannick Boschat, courtesy Notre Dame Cathedral)

World

50 young French martyrs murdered by Nazis beatified in Notre Dame Cathedral

Walter Sanchez Silva|Dec 16, 2025|5 Min Read

Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, addresses Pope Leo XIV in this file photo from June 13, 2025. Pope Leo approved several decrees advancing other sainthood causes June 20 at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope Leo XIV declares 174 new martyrs from Nazi camps and Spanish Civil War

Courtney Mares|Jun 20, 2025|5 Min Read

St. Robert Southwell (from left), Servant of God Willi Graf, and Servant of God Stefania Łącka. (Wikimedia Commons)

The Catholics who died rather than betray their friends

Heather King|Jun 20, 2025|4 Min Read

Five Spanish Franciscan missionaries, Father Pedro de Corpa, Father Blas Rodríguez, Father Miguel de Añon, Brother Antonio de Badajóz, and Father Francisco de Veráscola were martyred in 1597 in the present-day state of Georgia. (Diocese of Savannah via Wikimedia Commons)

Faith

Marriage: The one thing worth dying over for these martyrs

Mike Aquilina|Feb 27, 2025|5 Min Read

Deborah Amell touches a statue of St. Kateri Tekakwitha in 2012 at Our Lady of the Martyrs Shrine in Auriesville, New York. (OSV News/Jason Greene, Reuters)

Site where St. Kateri was born named a national shrine

OSV News|Jan 31, 2025|3 Min Read

Martyrdom of Paul Miki and Companions in Nagasaki, 1597. (Wikimedia Commons)

This All Saints’ Day, a tribute to Catholicism’s ‘nameless companions’

Elise Ureneck|Oct 30, 2024|4 Min Read

Mission

Being a missionary in our own lives

Robert Brennan|Feb 6, 2024|4 Min Read

Wiktoria Ulma is pictured in an undated photo with three of her children and the children of relatives outside the Ulma home in Markowa, a village in southeastern Poland. Wikotria, her husband, Józef, and their seven children were executed March 24, 1944, by Nazis who discovered that the family had been sheltering eight Jews who had escaped internment by German occupying forces. Ulma girls Stasia and Basia are pictured in the middle near their mother, who is holding son Wlodzimierz. (CNS photo courtesy National Remembrance Institute)

Vatican clarifies martyrdom of child born during World War II massacre

Carol Glatz|Sep 5, 2023|3 Min Read

Coptic martyrs

Pope’s gesture with Copts marks recognition of an ‘ecumenism of blood’

John L. Allen Jr.|May 11, 2023|5 Min Read

Martyrs

Memorial to modern Christian martyrs opens at Roman basilica

Cindy Wooden|Mar 24, 2023|3 Min Read

Blessed Stanley Rother during a carnival (Courtesy of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Archives)

Can anything good come from Oklahoma?

Father Ronald Rolheiser, OMI|Dec 1, 2022|4 Min Read

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