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Line 1: {{Unreferenced\|date=January 2009}} 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 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]] by recent popes, beginning with [[Pope John XXIII\|John XXIII]]. A '''Martyr of charity''' is a [[martyr]] who dies while succoring, coming to the aid of, someone else in the name of his or her religion. Within [[Catholicism]], Popes [[Pope John XXIII\|John XXIII]], [[Pope Paul VI\|Paul VI]], [[Pope John Paul II\|John Paul II]], and [[Pope Benedict XVI\|Benedict XVI]] have, besides [[martyrs of the faith]], now begun to declare martyrs of charity. ==List of martyrs of charity== {{Expand list\|date=August 2008}} * [[Father Damien]], contracted leprosy from his patients at [[Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement and National Historical Park\|Kalaupapa]]; canonized in 2009 Reverend Father [[Jan-Nicolaas Bakker]] [[Maximilian Kolbe]], volunteered for fatal [[collective punishment]] in [[Auschwitz concentration camp\|Auschwitz]]; canonized in 1982 [[Father Damien]] de Veuster [[Everard Mercurian]], died ministering in an [[influenza]] epidemic in 1580. [[Saint John Grande]] [[Edward Metcalfe]], died ministering in an epidemic in [[Leeds]] in 1847.<ref> Reverend Father [[Christian Hoecken]], of the Society of Jesus [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10234b.htm Edward Metcalfe] MacErlean, A. (1911). In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved October 11, 2009 [[Saint Lawrence]], archdeacon of Rome </ref> [[Father Patrick Lea]] of Kilkenny [[Benjamin Petit]], died as a [[Catholic missions\|missionary]] to the [[Potawatomi]] in 1839 [[St. Maximilian Kolbe]] [[Bernardo Tolomei]], died ministering in a [[plague]] epidemic in 1348; canonized in 2009 Father [[Anthony Kohlmann]] [[Sára Salkaházi]], executed for sheltering Jews from the [[Holocaust]]; beatified in 2006 [[Everard Mercurian]] [[Edward Metcalfe]] [[St. Philip Neri]] [[Benjamin Petit]] [[Saint Philip]] [[Bernardo Tolomei\|Saint Bernard Ptolomei]] [[Sara Salkahazi]] [[Adorers of the Blood of Christ\|Sisters Barbara Ann Muttra, Shirley Kolmer, Mary Joel Kolmer, Agnes Muller, Kathleen McGuire]] *Sister [[Leonella Sgorbati]] ==References== {{reflist}} {{RC-stub}}

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