•
Lawrence of Rome, executed in the
Diocletianic persecution after distributing church valuables among the poor instead of to the Emperor. •
Father Damien, contracted leprosy from his patients at
Kalaupapa; canonized in 2009 •
Maximilian Kolbe, volunteered for fatal
collective punishment in
Auschwitz; canonized in 1982 •
Everard Mercurian, died ministering in an
influenza epidemic in 1580. •
Edward Metcalfe, died ministering in an epidemic in
Leeds in 1847. •
Benjamin Petit, died travelling as a
missionary to the
Potawatomi in 1839 •
Bernardo Tolomei, died ministering in a
plague epidemic in 1348; canonized in 2009 •
Sára Salkaházi, executed for sheltering Jews from
The Holocaust; beatified in 2006 •
Aloysius Gonzaga, died while ministering to victims of a
plague in Rome in 1591.
Canonized in 1726. •
Ezechiele Ramin, died in 1985 while defending the rights of the farmers and the
Paiter people of the
Rondônia area (
Brazil). •
Cassandra Martyrs of Charity, a group of religious nuns and priests who died in 1983 while saving victims in a shipwreck in the
Philippines. ==References==