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* [[Lawrence of Rome]],<ref>
{{cite web|url=http://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. |date=19 February 2000|publisher=Vatican|accessdate=2009-10-12}}
</ref> executed in the [[Diocletianic persecution]] refusing to surrender the church's valuables.
* [[Father Damien]], contracted leprosy from his patients at [[Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement and National Historical Park|Kalaupapa]]; canonized in 2009
* [[Maximilian Kolbe]],<ref>
* [[Maximilian Kolbe]], volunteered for fatal [[collective punishment]] in [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]]; canonized in 1982▼
{{cite web |url=http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/angelus/2001/documents/hf_jp-ii_ang_20010815_en.html |title=Angelus: Solemnity of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary |first=JOHN PAUL II |date=15 August 2001 |publisher=Vatican|accessdate=2009-10-12}}
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* [[Everard Mercurian]], died ministering in an [[influenza]] epidemic in 1580.
* [[Edward Metcalfe]], died ministering in an epidemic in [[Leeds]] in 1847.<ref>
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* [[Benjamin Petit]], died as a [[Catholic missions|missionary]] to the [[Potawatomi]] in 1839
* [[Bernardo Tolomei]], died ministering in a [[plague]] epidemic in 1348; canonized in 2009
{{cite web|url=http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/2009/ns_lit_doc_20090426_tolomei_en.html |title=Bernardo Tolomei (1272-1348) |publisher=Vatican|accessdate=2009-10-12 }}
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* [[Sára Salkaházi]], executed for sheltering Jews from the [[Holocaust]]; beatified in 2006
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