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In the Catholic church, a martyr of charity is someone who dies as a result of administering 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 martyrdom recognised for canonization by recent popes, beginning with John XXIII.
List of martyrs of charity
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- 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.[1]
- Benjamin Petit, died 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
References
- ^ Edward Metcalfe MacErlean, A. (1911). In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved October 11, 2009
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