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Martyrs

A scene from "Dialogues of the Carmélites." (©The Metropolitan Opera)

Opera captures the spiritual triumph of martyr nuns in the French Revolution

Heather King|Sep 3, 2021|4 Min Read

Pope Francis venerates a statue of Mary and Jesus with incense Aug. 16, 2014, as he celebrates the beatification Mass of Paul Yun Ji-chung and 123 martyred companions in Seoul, South Korea. The mortal remains of Yun and two others have been recovered, the Diocese of Jeonju announced Sept. 1, 2021. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Faith

South Korean diocese says remains of first Catholic martyrs recovered

Catholic News Service|Sep 2, 2021|3 Min Read

People hold a banner with a picture of French priest Father Jacques Hamel, which reads, "Where there is hatred, let me sow love," after a 2016 Mass at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Father Jacques Hamel was killed in an attack on a church at Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen by assailants linked to Islamic State groups. (CNS/Benoit Tessier, Reuters)

The murder of a priest at the altar

Msgr. Richard Antall|Aug 10, 2021|4 Min Read

Octavia Iglesias Blanco, a Red Cross nurse who was raped and killed in 1936 in Spain, will be beatified May 29 in Astorga, Spain, along with two other nurses who were murdered. The nurses, who were killed during Spain's Civil War, refused to renounce their Catholic faith and shouted "Viva Cristo Rey" ("Long live Christ the King,") when they were stripped and shot. (CNS photo/courtesy Diocese of Astorga)

Faith

Lay volunteer nurses to be beatified as martyrs in Spain

Jonathan Luxmoore|May 20, 2021|4 Min Read

Pope Francis arrives to bless a mosaic of St. Pedro Calungsod during a meeting with the Philippine community in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this Nov. 21, 2013, file photo. St. Calungsod was a lay catechist from the Philippines who was martyred in Guam in 1672. Instituting the ministry of catechist, Pope Francis pointed to the number of lay catechists declared martyrs, blesseds or saints by the church. (CNS photo/Alessandro Bianchi, Reuters)

Faith

'A long line' of holy catechists have served the church, pope notes

Cindy Wooden|May 12, 2021|2 Min Read

Skulls identified as those of the Welsh Catholic martyrs Philip Evans and John Lloyd. (Stonyhurst College)

World

Catholic martyrs’ bones identified almost 150 years after discovery in an attic

Catholic News Agency|Apr 8, 2021|5 Min Read

“Portrait of Max Jacob,” 1934, by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress)

A saint for sinners? The messy conversion story of Max Jacob

Msgr. Richard Antall|Mar 25, 2021|5 Min Read

Pope Francis signs a book with a message for Syriac Catholics at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Deliverance in Baghdad March 5, 2021. Also pictured, from left: Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, Syriac Catholic Archbishop Ephrem Yousif Mansoor Abba of Baghdad and Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad. (CNS photo/Vatican Media via Reuters)

World

Pope: Honor martyrs by remaining faithful, working for a better Iraq

Cindy Wooden|Mar 5, 2021|4 Min Read

(Stock image via CNA)

How a former heroin addict unearthed a book of Irish martyrs

Catholic News Agency|Feb 27, 2021|7 Min Read

Pope Francis speaks in a video message released Feb. 15, 2021, to mark the "Day of Contemporary Martyrs." In the message, the pope honored the 21 Coptic Christians beheaded on a beach in Libya by members of the Islamic State Feb. 15, 2015. (CNS photo/Holy See Press Office)

World

Pope marks anniversary of Christians martyred in Libya

Junno Arocho Esteves|Feb 16, 2021|2 Min Read

Worshipers pray during a March 22, 2020, Mass at St. Gabriel Church in Abuja, Nigeria. (Catholic News Service/Afolabi Sotunde, Reuters)

Why is it so dangerous to be a Christian in Nigeria?

John L. Allen Jr.|Jan 21, 2021|5 Min Read

Capuchin Fathers Leonard Melki, top left, and Thomas Saleh, bottom right, are Lebanese priests who were martyred by the Ottoman Turks in 1915 and 1917 respectively. (CNS photo/Archives of the Vice Province of the Capuchins in the Middle East, Mteyleb, Lebanon)

Faith

Lebanese man's decades of research helps great-uncle's sainthood cause

Doreen Abi Raad|Jan 4, 2021|4 Min Read

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