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In the [[Catholic church]], a '''martyr of charity''' is someone who dies as a result of administering [[charity (virtue)|Christian charity]]. While a [[martyr of the faith]] dies through being [[Persecution|persecuted for being a Catholic or Christian]], a martyr of charity dies through practising charity motivated by Christianity. This is a form of [[Christian martyr|martyrdom]] recognised for [[canonization]] since [[Pope John Paul II]]'s canonization of [[Maximilian Kolbe]] in 1982. Earlier martyrs of charity who were canonized were recognized as [[Confessor of the Faith]] rather than martyrs.
In the [[Catholic Church]], a '''martyr of charity''' is someone who dies as a result of a charitable act or of administering [[charity (virtue)|Christian charity]]. While a [[martyr of the faith]], which is what is usually meant by the word "martyr" (both in [[canon law]] and in lay terms), dies through being persecuted [[Anti-Catholicism|for being a Catholic]] or [[Persecution of Christians|for being a Christian]], a martyr of charity dies through practicing charity motivated by Christianity.<ref>
{{cite web |url=http://www.eppc.org/programs/catholicstudies/publications/pubID.3410,programID.16/pub_detail.asp |title=Navy SEAL, "Martyr of Charity?" |last=Weigel |first= George |date=30 May 2008|work=The Catholic Difference|publisher=Ethics and Public Policy Center |access-date=2009-10-12}}
</ref> This is an unofficial form of [[Christian martyr|martyrdom]]; when [[Pope Paul VI]] beatified [[Maximilian Kolbe]] he gave him that honorary title (in 1982, when Kolbe was canonized by [[Pope John Paul II]] that title was still not given official canonical recognition; instead, John Paul II overruled his advisory commission, which had said Kolbe was a Confessor, not a Martyr, ruling that the systematic hatred of the Nazis as a group toward the rest of humanity was in itself a form of hatred of the faith).{{fact|date=September 2023}}
 
==List of martyrs of charity==
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* [[Lawrence of Rome]],<ref>
{{cite web|url=httphttps://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cclergy/documents/jub_deacons_20000219_nieves_en.html |title=The Permanent Diaconate: its Identity, Functions, and Prospects.|last=González Nieves|first=Roberto O. |authorlinkauthor-link=Roberto González Nieves |date=19 February 2000|publisher=Vatican|accessdateaccess-date=2009-10-12}}
</ref> 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 Leprosy Settlement and National Historical Park|Kalaupapa]]; canonized in 2009
* [[Maximilian Kolbe]],<ref name="Peterson">
{{cite book |last=Peterson |first=Anna Lisa |title=Martyrdom and the politics of religion: progressive Catholicism in El Salvador's civil war |publisher=[[SUNY Press]] |year=1997 |pages=94 |isbn=0-7914-3181-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4w1S4Fr7w6UC&q=%22martyr+of+charity%22&pg=PA94}}
{{cite web |url=http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/angelus/2001/documents/hf_jp-ii_ang_20010815_en.html |author=[[Pope John Paul II|John Paul II]] |title=Angelus: Solemnity of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary |date=15 August 2001 |publisher=Vatican|accessdate=2009-10-12}}▼
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▲{{cite web |url=httphttps://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/angelus/2001/documents/hf_jp-ii_ang_20010815_en.html |author=[[Pope John Paul II|John Paul II]] |title=Angelus: Solemnity of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary |date=15 August 2001 |publisher=Vatican|accessdateaccess-date=2009-10-12 |author-link=Pope John Paul II}}
</ref> volunteered for fatal [[collective punishment]] in [[Auschwitz concentration camp|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.<ref>
{{cite book |chapterurlchapter-url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10234b.htm |chapter=Edward Metcalfe |last=MacErlean |first=A. |year=1911 |title=The Catholic Encyclopedia |location=New York |publisher=Robert Appleton Company |accessdateaccess-date=11 October 2009 }}
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* [[Benjamin Petit]], died travelling as a [[Catholic missions|missionary]] to the [[Potawatomi]] in 1839
* [[Bernardo Tolomei]], died ministering in a [[Black Death|plague]] epidemic in 1348; canonized in 2009<ref>
{{cite web|url=httphttps://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/2009/ns_lit_doc_20090426_tolomei_en.html |title=Bernardo Tolomei (1272-13481272–1348) |publisher=Vatican|accessdateaccess-date=2009-10-12 }}
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* [[Sára Salkaházi]], executed for sheltering Jews from the [[The Holocaust]]; beatified in 2006
* [[Aloysius Gonzaga]], died while ministering to victims of a [[pandemic|plague]] in Rome in 1591. [[Canonization|Canonized]] in 1726.
* [[Ezechiele Ramin]], died in 1985 while defending the rights of the farmers and the [[Paiter people]] of the [[Rondônia]] area ([[Brazil]]).
* [[Martyrs of Charity aboard M/V Cassandra|Cassandra Martyrs of Charity]], a group of religious nuns and priests who died in 1983 while saving victims in a shipwreck in the [[Philippines]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://newsaints.faithweb.com/new_martyrs/martyrs_charity.htm |title=Martyrs of Charity |website=newsaints.faithweb.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130914015005/http://newsaints.faithweb.com/new_martyrs/martyrs_charity.htm |archive-date=2013-09-14}} </ref>
 
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