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    Irish Catholic Martyrs (Irish: Mairtírigh Chaitliceacha na hÉireann) were 24 Irish men and women who have been beatified or canonized for dying for their...
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  • 1680, and recognised as martyrs by the Catholic Church. Though consequences of the English Reformation were felt in Ireland and Scotland as well, this...
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  • 17 Irish martyrs whom John Paul II named among the blessed. Irish Catholic Martyrs McNeill, Charles (2012) [1910]. "Irish Confessors and Martyrs". The...
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  • The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales or Cuthbert Mayne and Thirty-Nine Companion Martyrs are a group of Catholic, lay and religious, men and women, executed...
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    the 26 martyrs  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Japanese Martyrs". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. The Japanese Martyrs Nagasaki...
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    Oliver Plunkett (category 24 Irish Catholic Martyrs)
    Oliver Plunket; Irish: Oilibhéar Pluincéid; 1 November 1625 – 1 July 1681) was the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland and the last...
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    an Irish nun who died in the 2016 Ecuador earthquake. Irish Catholic Martyrs List of Catholic saints List of Anglo-Saxon saints List of Cornish saints...
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  • recently abolished monarchy. The Catholic Church venerates them as martyrs. More than 6,800 clerics and other Catholic people were killed in what has been...
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    The 26 Martyrs of Japan (Japanese: 日本二十六聖人, Hepburn: Nihon Nijūroku Seijin) were a group of Catholics who were executed by crucifixion on February 5, 1597...
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  • Concobhar Ó Duibheannaigh (category 24 Irish Catholic Martyrs)
    Cornelius O'Devany) is a formally beatified Irish Catholic Martyrs who was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop and martyr. Conor O'Devany was born in Malin Head...
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  • The martyrs of Turon is the name given by the Catholic church to a group of eight members of the Catholic, religious-teaching congregation Institute of...
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  • 1992, as part of a group of 17 Irish Catholic Martyrs who were victims of religious persecution due to their Catholic faith during that era. A statue...
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  • Muiris Mac Ionrachtaigh (category 24 Irish Catholic Martyrs)
    Church in Ireland by Queen Elizabeth I and her officials. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II, along with 16 other Irish Catholic Martyrs, on 27 September...
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  • Seventeen Catholic martyrs from this period were beatified in 1992. Much of this legislation was rescinded after the Restoration in Ireland by Charles...
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    of Irish Catholic Martyrs who died in defence of the Catholic faith under Anglo-Protestant rule. Closely related to this were the Catholic Martyrs of...
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    to a Catholic and the ecumenical movement has contributed to reducing sectarian tensions between Christians in the country. Notable early martyrs include...
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    Dermot O'Hurley (category 24 Irish Catholic Martyrs)
    O'Hurley, Irish: Diarmaid Ó hUrthuile—was an Irish Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Cashel during the Tudor conquest of Ireland. After being...
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    Margaret Ball (category 24 Irish Catholic Martyrs)
    She was declared a martyr for the faith by the Catholic Church and beatified in 1992, one of a group of 17 Irish Catholic Martyrs. She was born Margaret...
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    Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "The Sixteen Blessed Teresian Martyrs of Compiègne" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Collins, p...
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    Canadian Martyrs (French: Martyrs canadiens), also known as the North American Martyrs (French: Saints martyrs canadiens, Holy Canadian Martyrs), were eight...
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    Dominic Collins (category 24 Irish Catholic Martyrs)
    faith. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II, along with 16 other Irish Catholic Martyrs, on 27 September 1993. Dominic Collins was born in 1566 into a prominent...
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    part of the Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War. The Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War were clergy, religious and lay persons of the Roman Catholic church who...
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  • Church of the Irish Martyrs is a Catholic church in the parish of Aughaninshin in the Ballyraine area of Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland. In 1990 plans...
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    who published accounts of the suffering of English, Welsh, and Irish Catholic Martyrs under the Protestant monarchy of England. To the fury of the English...
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  • 1640 – 12 August 1679) was an Irish Franciscan friar who is honoured as a Catholic martyr, one of the Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales beatified...
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    The Catholic Church in Ireland (Irish: An Eaglais Chaitliceach in Éireann, Ulster Scots: Catholic Kirk in Airlann) or Irish Catholic Church, is part of...
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    by Irish Catholics were confiscated and given to Protestant settlers. Under the Penal Laws, no Irish Catholic could sit in the Parliament of Ireland, even...
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    The 108 Martyrs of World War II, known also as the 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs (Polish: 108 błogosławionych męczenników), were Catholics from Poland killed...
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    groups of martyrs and individual martyrs were later canonised and venerated as saints in the Church's liturgical calendar. Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan...
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  • Theobald Stapleton (category 24 Irish Catholic Martyrs)
    John Paul II as one of the 17 Irish Catholic Martyrs in 1992. Theobald Stapleton was born in County Tipperary, Ireland. He was born into a family of mixed...
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