Historical Information

 Modern Era Martyrs—17th to 21st centuries- Wikipaedia

• Martyrs of Japan
• Kakure Kirishitan
• Francis Taylor, 1621
• Vietnamese Martyrs 1625 - 1886
• Magdalene of Nagasaki 1634
• Lorenzo Ruiz, 1637
• Canadian Martyrs, North American Martyrs, 1642–1649
• Arthur Bell, 1643
• Isaac Jogues, 1646 (French Jesuit in New York killed by Indians)
• John de Britto, 1647-1693, born in Portugal and beheaded in India
• Francis Ferdinand de Capillas (Dominican missionary to China), 1648
• King Charles I, beheaded after the Second Civil War - 1649
• Diego Luis de San Vitores and Pedro Calungsod, 1672
• Feodosia Morozova (Old Believer), 1675
• Oliver Plunkett, 1681
• Felipe Songsong, 1685
• Devasahayam Pillai, 1712-1752, Indian martyr.
• Constantin Brâncoveanu, 1714
• Vicente Liem de la Paz (Tonkinese Dominican), 1773
• Luís Jayme, Spanish missionary to Alta California, 1775
• Cosmas of Aetolia, 1779
• Francisco Garcés, Spanish missionary to Alta California, 1781
• Martyrs of Compiegne, 1794
• Andrés Quintana, Spanish missionary to Alta California, 1812
• Chinese Martyrs (various Christian denominations), 19th and 20th centuries
• Andrew Dung-Lac (Vietnamese Catholic), 1839
• Hyrum Smith, 1844
• Joseph Smith, Jr., 1844
• Korean Martyrs 1839, 1846, 1866
• Peter Chanel (Catholic priest), 1841
• Andrew Kim Taegon, 1846
• Marcus Whitman, 1847
• Narcissa Whitman, 1847
• Martyrs of India 1857
• Lucy Yi Zhenmei, one of the 19th century Chinese Catholic Martyrs, 1862
• Thomas Baker, 1867, English missionary killed and eaten, Fiji
• Martyrs of Uganda, 1885–1887
• Esther John 1929-1960, Found Killed in Chichawatni commemorated at Westminster Abbey.
• Maria Goretti (virgin martyr), 1902
• Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna, 1918
• Nun Barbara (Yakovleva), 1918
• Saints of the Cristero War 1926-1927
• Miguel Pro, 1927
• Toribio Romo González, 1928
• Manche Masemola, (1913–1928)
• José Sánchez del Río 1928
• Innocencio of Mary Immaculate 1934
• Bartolome Blanco Marquez, 1936
• Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War 1934, 1936–1939
• Paul Schneider (pastor)1939
• Maximilian Kolbe (Polish Franciscan, died at Auschwitz), 1941
• Edith Stein (Carmelite nun, died at Auschwitz), 1942
• Lucian Tapiedi (1942)
• Franz Jägerstätter, 1943
• Dusty Miller (Martyr), 1945, a Methodist layman killed as a P.O.W. of the Japanese in Thailand during WWII.
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, (April 9, 1945) Lutheran Pastor and member of the German Resistance
• Theodore Romzha, 1947
• Beda Chang, 1951
• Zdenka Cecilia Schelingová, 1955
• Jim Elliot, 1956
• Nate Saint, 1956, killed while attempting to evangelize the Waodani people
• Ed McCully, 1956
• Pete Fleming, 1956
• Roger Youderian, 1956
• Wang Zhiming (1907 - December 29, 1973) Chinese pastor, publicly executed
• Janani Jakaliya Luwum (1922 – 17 February 1977), Archbishop of Uganda.
• Óscar Romero (August 15, 1917 – March 24, 1980), Archbishop of San Salvador
• Martyrs of Atlas, 1996
• Kosheh Martyrs, Egypt 1998–2000
• Martin Burnham, 2002
• Nag Hammadi martyrs, Egypt 2010 (3)