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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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