List of child saints

Saint Tsarevich Dmitry of Uglich (1582–1591), 1899 painting by Mikhail Nesterov

Child saints have been venerated in Christianity since the early second century. The earliest example of child saints are the Holy Innocents, recorded in Matthew 2 in the New Testament; Bethlehemite children under the age of 2 who were killed by King Herod I in his attempt to kill Baby Jesus.

This list contains Christian children under the age of 18 who are venerated as saints in at least one Christian confession.

Pre-Schism saints

Image	Name	Age	Born (Year)	Died (Year)	Notes
	Abanoub of Nehis	12		303–311	Martyr
	Agapitus of Palestrina	16	0251 c. 251 / 0258 c. 258	0267 c. 267 / 0274 c. 274	Martyr
	Agnes of Rome	13	0291 c. 291	21 January 304	Virgin Martyr
	Aquilina of Byblos	11–12	281	13 June 293	Martyr
	Barulas	7	295 / 296	303	Martyr
	Celsus	9	1st century	1st century	Martyr
	Cessianus	8	0295 c. 295	303	Martyr
	Crescentius of Rome	11	0292 c. 292	0303 c. 303	Martyr
	Cyricus of Antioch	3	0301 c. 301	0304 c. 304	Martyr, son of St. Julitta
	Dentelin of Mons	7	0649 c. 649	16 March 656	Son of Saints Vincent Madelgarius and Waltrude [1]
	Dymphna of Ireland	15	7th century	7th century	Virgin Martyr, who was decapitated by her own father for refusing to marry him [1]
	Eulalia of Barcelona	13	0291 c. 291	0304 c. 304	Virgin Martyr [2]
	Eulalia of Mérida	12–14		0304 c. 304	Virgin Martyr [2]
	Faith, Hope, and Charity	12, 10, and 9	2nd century	2nd century	Martyrs and daughters of St. Sophia of Rome [3]
	Fausta of Cyzicus	13	0298 c. 298	0311 c. 311	Martyr
	Fusca of Ravenna	15	0235 c. 235	0250 c. 250	Martyr
	Justin of Paris
	Justus and Pastor	13 and 9	0290 c. 290 – c. 295	0304 c. 304	Martyrs [4]
	Justus of Beauvais	9	277 / 278	287	Martyr [4]
	Leonidas of Constantinople		unknown	unknown	Martyr [5]
	Majoricus		unknown	484	Martyr
	Martialis			165	Martyr, son of St. Felicitas of Rome
	Matrona of Thessalonica				Virgin Martyr [6]
	Olivia of Palermo	14/15	448	10 June 463	Virgin Martyr [7]
	Pancras of Rome	14	0289 c. 289	12 May 303 / 304	Martyr [8]
	Pelagius of Constance	13–20	0270 c. 270	0283 c. 283	Hieromartyr, deacon [8]
	Pelagius of Córdoba				[8]
	Philomena of Rome
	Ponticus
	Prisca	13
	Rais			303	Virgin Martyr
	Reparata	11–20			Virgin Martyr
	Richard of Pontoise
	Rudolph of Berne
	Rumbold of Buckingham
	Sicarius of Brantôme
	Solange of Bourges			880	Martyr
	Tarcisius		3rd century	3rd century	Martyr
	Tremorus of Brittany		6th century	6th century	Martyr, son of St. Tryphine; beheaded by his own stepfather
	Vasilissa	9	300	309	Martyr
	Vibiana		3rd century	3rd century	Virgin Martyr
	Victalicus				Martyr

Eastern Orthodox Church

Name	Born	Died	Age	Country	Church	Cause	Notes
Saints
Demetrius of Uglich	October 19, 1582	May 15, 1591	8	Russia	Russian Orthodox Church	Martyr	Tsarevich of All Russia
Bogolep of Chorny Yar	May 2, 1647	August 1, 1654	7			Venerable
Gabriel of Białystok	April 2, 1684	April 20, 1690	6	Poland		Martyr
Peter the Aleut	1800 c. 1800	September 24, 1815	15	United States
Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova	June 18, 1901	July 17, 1918	17	Russia			Part of the Romanov Martyrs
Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov	August 12, 1904		13
Candidates for glorification
Tereza Luiz Rosa	1972/1973 c. 1972/1973	4 April 1986	13	Brazil	Ukrainian Orthodox Church	Innocents	Students who died in a school fire along with their teacher Maria Beruski [9] [10]
Carlos Luiz Rosa			11
Amaury M. de Queiroz			9
Lucélia Glomba	1977/1978 c. 1977/1978		8
Lucimeire Borandelik
Salomão Bachtich
Laert Luiz Rosa	1978/1979 c. 1978/1979		7
Alexandra Marim

Episcopal Church

Name	Born	Died	Age	Country	Religion	Cause	Notes
Models of Faith
Tārore	1824 c. 1824	October 1836	12	New Zealand	Anglicanism	Martyrs	Lay Evangelist, Church Mission Society
Manche Masemola	1913	4 February 1928	15	South Africa
Anne Frank	June 12, 1929	February 1945		Germany	Judaism
148 Student Martyrs of Garissa	Various	2 April 2015	Various	Kenya	Protestantism
Arasalan Masih	2000/2001	9 October 2017	16	Pakistan

Catholic Church

Name	Born	Died	Age	Country	Diocese	Cause	Notes
Saints
Fina	1238	12 March 1253	15	Italy	Siena	Heroic virtue
Cristobal, Juan and Antonio	1514 c. 1514 – c. 1517	1527 and 1529	12–13	Mexico	Tlaxcala	Martyrs in odium fidei
Stanisław Kostka	28 October 1550	15 August 1568	17	Poland Italy	Rome	Heroic virtue	Novice, Jesuits
Pedro Calungsod	1654 c. 1654	2 April 1672		Philippines	Cebu	Martyr in odium fidei
Domenico Savio	2 April 1842	9 March 1857	14	Italy	Turin	Heroic virtue
Maria Goretti	16 October 1890	6 July 1902	11		Albano	Martyr in defensum castitatis
Francisco Marto	11 July 1908	4 April 1919	10	Portugal	Leiria-Fátima	Heroic virtue
Jacinta Marto	11 March 1910	20 February 1920	9
José Sánchez del Río	March 28, 1913	February 10, 1928	14	Mexico	Zamora	Martyr in odium fidei
Blesseds
Marguerite la Fière	1207	1220	12–13	France	Antwerp	Martyr in defensum castitatis
Imelda Lambertini	1320 c. 1320	May 12, 1333	11	Italy	Bologna	Heroic virtue	Member, Lay Dominicans
Panacea De' Muzzi	1378	1383	5		Novara	Martyr in odium fidei
Pierre de Luxembourg	1369	1387	17	France	Metz	Heroic virtue	Bishop of Metz
Lorenzino Sossio	?	April 1485	7–9	Italy	Padua and Vicenza	Martyr in odium fidei
Laura Vicuña	April 5, 1891	January 22, 1904	12	Chile Argentina	Viedma	Heroic virtue
Karolina Kózka	August 2, 1898	November 18, 1914	16	Poland	Tarnów	Martyr in defensum castitatis
Daudi Okelo	1902 c. 1902	October 18, 1918		Uganda	Gulu	Martyr in odium fidei
Jildo Irwa	1906 c. 1906	October 18, 1918	12
Adílio Daronch	October 25, 1908	May 21, 1924	15	Brazil	Frederico Westphalen
Albertina Berkenbrock	April 11, 1919	June 15, 1931	12		Tubarão	Martyr in defensum castitatis
Antonia Mesina	June 21, 1919	May 17, 1935	15	Italy	Nuoro
Sesilia Butsi	December 16, 1924	December 26, 1940	16	Thailand	Thare and Nonseng	Martyrs in odium fidei
Bibiana Khampai	November 4, 1925		15
Maria Phon	January 6, 1929		11
Benigna Cardoso da Silva	October 15, 1928	October 24, 1941	13	Brazil	Crato	Martyr in defensum castitatis
Stanisława Ulma	July 18, 1936	March 24, 1944	7	Poland	Przemyśl	Martyrs in odium fidei	Killed by the Nazis [11]
Barbara Ulma	October 6, 1937		6
Władysław Ulma	December 5, 1938		5
Franciszek Ulma	April 3, 1940		4
Antoni Ulma	June 6, 1941		2
Maria Ulma
Unnamed baby Ulma	March 24, 1944		0 (stillbirth)				Killed by the Nazis; the first baby in formation with the title of blessed [11]
Anna Kolesárová	July 14, 1928	November 22, 1944	16	Slovakia	Košice	Martyr in defensum castitatis
Rolando Rivi	January 7, 1931	April 13, 1945	14	Italy	Reggio Emilia-Guastalla	Martyr in odium fidei	Diocesan seminarian
Thomas Khampheuane Inthirath	May 1952	May 12, 1968	16	Laos	Pakse
Nelson Rutilio Lemus Chávez	November 10, 1960	March 12, 1977		El Salvador	San Salvador
Juan Barrera Méndez	August 4, 1967	January 8, 1980	12	Guatemala	Quiché
Carlo Acutis	May 3, 1991	October 11, 2006	15	United Kingdom Italy	Milan	Heroic virtue
Venerables
Galileo Nicolini (Gabriele of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart)	June 17, 1882	May 13, 1897	14	Italy	Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello	Heroic virtue	Novice, Passionists
Maggiorino Vigolungo	May 6, 1904	July 27, 1918			Alba		Seminarian, Society of Saint Paul
Anne de Guigné	April 25, 1911	January 14, 1922	10	France	Annecy and Nice
Pasquale Canzii	November 6, 1914	January 26, 1930	15	Italy	Pescara-Penne		Diocesan seminarian
Antonietta Meo	December 15, 1930	July 3, 1937	6		Rome
María del Carmen González-Valerio Sáenz de Heredia	March 14, 1930	July 17, 1939	9	Spain	Madrid
Odette Vidal Cardoso de Oliveira	September 15, 1930	November 25, 1939		Brazil	São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
Maria Carmelina Leone	July 11, 1923	October 1, 1940	17	Italy	Palermo
Rachelina Ambrosini	July 2, 1925	March 10, 1941	15		Benevento
Bernhard Lehner	January 4, 1930	January 24, 1944	14	Germany	Regensburg
María Montserrat Grases García	July 10, 1941	March 26, 1959	17	Spain	Barcelona		Member, Opus Dei Movement
María del Pilar Cimadevilla López-Dóriga	February 17, 1952	March 6, 1962	10		Madrid
Angelo [Angiolino] Bonetta	September 18, 1948	January 28, 1963	14	Italy	Brescia		Member, Silent Workers of the Cross
Faustino Pérez-Manglano Magro	August 4, 1946	March 3, 1963	16	Spain	Valencia		Postulant, Society of Mary (Marianists)
Nelson [Nelsinho] Santana	July 31, 1955	December 24, 1964	9	Brazil	São Carlos
Maria Orsola Bussone	October 2, 1954	July 10, 1970	15	Italy	Turin		Member, Focolare Movement
Silvio Dissegna	July 1, 1967	September 24, 1979	12
Alexia González-Barros González	March 7, 1971	December 5, 1985	14	Spain	Madrid		Member, Opus Dei Movement
Servants of God
Arcangela Filippelli	March 17, 1853	February 7, 1869	12	Italy	Cosenza-Bisignano	Martyr in defensum castitatis
Catharina Iwanaga Mori	1865	September 4, 1871	5	Japan	Hiroshima	Martyr in odium fidei	[12]
Maria Lichtenegger	August 4, 1906	July 8, 1923	16	Austria	Graz-Seckau	Heroic virtue
Guy Pierre de Fontgalland	November 30, 1913	January 24, 1925	11	France	Paris
Gaetana [Agata Tanina] Nastasi	March 2, 1914	April 4, 1926	12	Italy	Acireale
Antônio [Antoninho] da Rocha Marmo	October 19, 1918	December 21, 1930		Brazil	São Paulo
Anfronsina Berardi	December 6, 1920	March 13, 1933		Italy	L'Aquila
Aldo Blundo	January 23, 1919	December 5, 1934	15		Naples
Maria Vieira da Silva	November 11, 1926	June 4, 1940	13	Portugal	Angra	Martyr in defensum castitatis
Maria da Conceição [Sãozinha] Froes Gil Ferrão de Pimentel Teixeira	February 1, 1923	June 6, 1940	17		Lisbon	Heroic virtue
Giuseppe Ottone	March 18, 1928	February 8, 1941	12	Italy	Naples
Hermann Wijns	March 15, 1931	May 26, 1941	10	Belgium	Antwerp
Anna Marie Zelíková	July 19, 1924	September 11, 1941	17	Czech Republic	Olomouc		Member, Lay Carmelites
Margherita Candia	August 24, 1924	May 24, 1942		Italy	Sorrento-Castellammare di Stabia
Ulrico Sarti	July 1, 1930	July 31, 1942	11		Ravenna-Cervia
Ramón Montero Navarro	January 7, 1930	February 2, 1944	14	Spain	Ciudad Real		Member, Lay Carmelites
Domenico Zamberletti	August 24, 1936	May 29, 1950	13	Italy	Milan
Josefina Vilaseca Alsina	March 9, 1940	December 25, 1952	12	Spain	Vic	Martyr in defensum castitatis
Santos Franco Sánchez	July 6, 1942	February 6, 1954	11		Córdoba	Heroic virtue
María Isabel de Jesús [Marisa] Acuña Arias	March 5, 1941	August 15, 1954	13	Costa Rica	San José de Costa Rica
Charlene Marie Richard	January 13, 1947	August 11, 1959	12	United States	Lafayette
Angela Iacobellis	October 16, 1948	March 27, 1961		Italy	Naples
Paola Adamo	October 24, 1963	June 28, 1978	14		Taranto
María Sagrario Fernández Jiménez	May 26, 1966	February 22, 1979	12	Spain	Toledo
Lorena d’Alessandro	November 20, 1964	April 3, 1981	16	Italy	Rome
Pietrino di Natale	December 10, 1966	August 20, 1984	17		Teramo-Atri
Niña Ruiz Abad	October 31, 1979	August 16, 1993	13	Philippines	Laoag
Clara Maria Segura	May 15, 1978	March 7, 1995	16	Argentina	Buenos Aires
Amanda Gilseth [Amandita] Ruiz Suarez	May 11, 1999	September 21, 2005	6	Venezuela	San Cristóbal de Venezuela
Pierangelo Capuzzimati	June 28, 1990	April 30, 2008	17	Italy	Taranto
Vivian Uchechi Ogu	April 1, 1995	November 15, 2009	14	Nigeria	Benin City	Martyr in defensum castitatis	[13]
Anne-Gabrielle Caron	January 29, 2002	July 23, 2010	8	France	Fréjus-Toulon	Heroic virtue
Adam Adi Zuhayr Marzina Arab	June 12, 2007	October 31, 2010	3	Iraq	Baghdad of the Syrians	Martyr in odium fidei	Killed in the Baghdad massacre
Sandru Yan Yunan al-Sa'ur	August 3, 2010		2 months
Unnamed unborn child			0
Giulia Gabrieli	March 3, 1997	August 19, 2011	14	Italy	Bergamo	Heroic virtue
Darwin Ramos	December 17, 1994	September 23, 2012	17	Philippines	Cubao
Candidates for sainthood
Agnes of Bavaria	1335	November 11, 1352	17	Germany	Munich	Heroic virtue	Nun, Poor Clares [14] [15]
Miguel de Ayatumo	1593 c. 1593	November 19, 1609	16	Philippines	Tagbilaran		Seminarian, Jesuits
Michele Magone	September 19, 1845	January 21, 1859	13	Italy	Turin
Alessandrino Mazzucchi	April 26, 1878	June 21, 1890	12		Como
Cäcilia Baumann	August 24, 1892	May 25, 1905		Germany	Freiburg im Breisgau	Martyr in defensum castitatis
Ellen Organ	August 24, 1903	February 2, 1908	4	Ireland	Cork and Ross	Heroic virtue
Laura Klinkenberg	January 9, 1892	April 30, 1908	16	Belgium Germany	Aachen	Martyr in defensum castitatis
Gustavo Maria Bruni	May 6, 1903	February 10, 1911	7	Italy	Turin	Heroic virtue
Maria Izilda de Castro Ribeiro	June 17, 1897	May 24, 1911	13	Portugal Brazil	Braga		[16]
Angelina Zampieri	December 28, 1898	July 24, 1913	14	Italy	Belluno-Feltre	Martyr in defensum castitatis
Vincenza Carminati	January 7, 1907	January 9, 1920	12		Bergamo	Heroic virtue
Maria Grimm	April 17, 1909	July 3, 1922	13	Germany	Rottenburg-Stuttgart	Martyr in defensum castitatis
Maria Vanderlinden	November 26, 1912	January 10, 1924	11	Belgium	Antwerp	Heroic virtue
Manuel Melgarejo Nápoles	October 17, 1908	September 12, 1926	17	Mexico	Mexico City	Martyr in odium fidei
José Natividad Herrera Delgado	September 9, 1911	November 7, 1926	15		San Juan de los Lagos
Albert Patin	February 25, 1915	May 14, 1928	13	France	Dijon	Heroic virtue
Aldo Marcozzi	July 25, 1914	November 24, 1928	14	Italy	Milan
Zenaida Llerenas Torres	June 7, 1913	November 27, 1928	15	Mexico	Colima	Martyr in odium fidei
Vittorio Tannozzini	April 19, 1926	May 26, 1935	9	Italy	Acquapendente	Heroic virtue
Nicolino Di Meo	March 5, 1920	July 2, 1936	16		Trani-Barletta-Bisceglie		Seminarian, Rogationists of the Heart of Jesus
Silvio Cirielli	January 3, 1930	June 30, 1941	11		Bari-Bitonto
Maria Regina Kramer	August 1, 1928	September 2, 1945	17	Germany	Feldkirch	Martyr in defensum castitatis
Klara Wendehals	January 23, 1936	March 12, 1952	16		Paderborn
Tarcisio Cavara	May 7, 1940	January 15, 1954	13	Italy	Bologna	Heroic virtue
Brigitte Irrgang	February 10, 1943	July 4, 1954	11	Germany	Berlin	Martyr in defensum castitatis
Alessandro Poletti	May 1, 1947	February 4, 1956	8	Italy	Turin	Heroic virtue
Nancy Hamilton	June 20, 1942	June 7, 1956	13	United States	Monterey (California)
Vanilda Sanches Beber	August 3, 1943	October 6, 1958	15	Brazil	Santo André		[17]
Marisa Porcellana	December 1, 1946	July 4, 1960	13	Italy	Turin	Martyr in defensum castitatis
Marisa Morini	1951 c. 1951	March 1, 1964	12		Ferrara-Comacchio
Maria Elizabeth de Oliveira	February 6, 1951	November 28, 1965	14	Brazil	Passo Fundo	Heroic virtue	[18]
Delphine de Fosseux	March 5, 1959	April 23, 1969	15	France	Nevers
Marilena Mottini	April 3, 1954	September 15, 1969		Italy	Bergamo	Martyr in defensum castitatis
Paolo Sempreboni	September 17, 1958	August 25, 1971	12		Verona	Heroic virtue
Daniel Croteau	May 27, 1959	April 14–15, 1972		United States	Springfield, Massachusetts	Martyr in defensum castitatis	Altar boy abused and murdered by Father Richard R. Lavigne [19] [20]
Ninni Di Leo	April 4, 1957	January 23, 1974	16	Italy	Palermo	Heroic virtue
Maurilio Coccio	April 19, 1961	April 2, 1974	12		Alba Pompeia
Luis Alfredo [Luisito] Torres	October 3, 1962	May 11, 1977	14	El Salvador	San Salvador	Martyr in odium fidei
Roderick Flores	1969	August 18, 1984	15	Philippines	Manila	Offer of life
Stefano Bovo	August 10, 1975	November 20, 1984	9	Italy	Rome	Heroic virtue	Associate, Focolare Movement
Sara Matteucci	May 6, 1978	January 27, 1986	7		Urbino-Urbania-Sant'Angelo in Vado
Santino Calabrò	1917	August 27, 1986	15		Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela
Silvia Dall'Olio	May 7, 1973	April 3, 1988	14		Bologna
Celina Maricet Lozano Ramos	February 27, 1973	November 18, 1989	16	El Salvador	San Salvador	Martyr in odium fidei
Sonia Cutrona	April 17, 1973	June 18, 1990	17	Italy	Caltagirone	Heroic virtue
Audrey Stevenson	March 22, 1983	August 22, 1991	8	United States France	Paris
Annamaria Vasta	June 12, 1975	March 29, 1992	16	Italy	Cuneo
Jeanne-Marie Kegelin	July 18, 1994	June 18, 2002	7	France	Strasbourg	Martyr in defensum castitatis
Melania Russo	May 31, 1988	December 13, 2003	15	Italy	Oria	Heroic virtue
Mattie Stepanek	July 17, 1990	June 22, 2004	14	United States	Baltimore
Sara Mariucci	December 31, 2002	August 6, 2006	3	Italy	Gubbio
Sara Colagiovanni	January 19, 1998	April 14, 2008	10		Viterbo
Vivian Uchechi Ogu	April 1, 1995	November 15, 2009	14	Nigeria	Benin City	Martyr in defensum castitatis
Yara Gambirasio	May 21, 1997	November 26, 2010	13	Italy	Bergamo
Ivan Rolfe Banaag	March 22, 2000	February 18, 2013	12	Philippines	Kalookan	Heroic virtue	Member, Ave Maria Community
Antonio Terranova	July 14, 2004	February 23, 2013	8	Italy	Palermo
Brendan Joseph Kelly	May 12, 1997	April 27, 2013	15	United States	Arlington
Filippo Bataloni		November 20, 2014	8	Italy	Rome
Misho Samaan	September 7, 1998	April 10, 2015	17	Syria	Aleppo of the Syrians		Member, Salesian Cooperators
Teresa Ruocco	March 26, 2004	July 29, 2015	11	Italy	Caserta
Nicola Perin	February 2, 1998	December 24, 2015	17		Adria-Rovigo
David Buggi	November 6, 1999	June 18, 2017			Rome		Member, Neocatechumenal Way
Sandor Manuel Pineda Dolmus		June 14, 2018	15	Nicaragua	León (Nicaragua)	Martyr in odium fidei
Axl Jan Rose Juni	September 19, 2002	October 20, 2019	17	Philippines	Parañaque	Heroic virtue
Teresita Castillo de Diego		March 7, 2021	10	Spain	Madrid
Karoline Verri Alves	October 7, 2005	June 19, 2023	17	Brazil	Londrina		[21] [22]
Luan Augusto da Silva	October 5, 2006	June 20, 2023	16
Indi Gregory	February 24, 2023	November 13, 2023	8 months	United Kingdom	Nottingham		[23]

Groups of martyrs

Name	Born	Died	Age	Country	Diocese	Status	Notes
Martyrs of the French Revolution (1792–1796)
110 Infant and Child Martyrs of Luçon	Various	February 28, 1794	15 days–7 yrs	France	Luçon	Servants of God
Martyrs of Uganda (1885–1887)
Denis Ssebuggwawo Wasswa	1870 c. 1870	May 25, 1886	16	Uganda	Kampala	Saints
Achilleus Kiwanuka	1869 c. 1869	June 3, 1886	17
Gyaviira Musoke
Mbaga Tuzinde	1869 c. 1869 – c. 1870		17–18
Mugagga Lubowa
Kizito	1872 c. 1872		14
Martyrs of Eastern Europe under Communist Regimes
Margaretha Wiewiorra	October 15, 1928	March 9, 1945	16	Poland	Warmia	Servant of God
Martyrs of Korea (1901–1974)
Eun-Cheol Patricius	May 18, 1933	May 14, 1949	15	North Korea	Pyongyang	Servant of God
Gim Un-sam Iosephus	June 29, 1934	December 1949

Martyrs of China

• Andreas Wang Tianqing
• Anna Wang
• Anna Zhao Shangniuzhe
• Ioannes Baptista Wu Mantang ^[24]
• Ioannes Baptista Zhu Wurui
• John the New Martyr of China
• Lucia Wang Cheng ^[24]
• Magdalene Du Fengju
• Maria Chi Yu ^[24]
• Maria Fan ^[25]
• Maria Fan Kun ^[24]
• Maria Zhao ^[24]
• Maria Zheng Xu
• Paulus Lang Fu
• Paulus Wu Wanshu ^[24]
• Petrus Hou Zhanou ^[25]
• Petrus Zhu Rixin ^[24]
• Simon Qin Chunfu
• Zhuze Chi ^[24]

Martyrs of Japan

• Daughter of Shichizaemon and Magdalena (name unknown, age 3) ^{[26] [27]}
• Daughter of Shichizaemon and Magdalena (name unknown, age 5) ^{[26] [27]}
• Andreas Yakichi ^[28]
• Antonius ^{[26] [29]}
• Antonius Banzai Orusu ^[27]
• Antonio of Saint Dominic ^[28]
• Antonius Ono ^[28]
• Antonius Uchibori ^{[26] [27]}
• Benedictus ^{[26] [27]}
• Candidus ‘’bōzu’’ ^{[26] [27]}
• Catharina Hashimoto ^{[26] [27]}
• Didacus Hayashida ^[27]
• Dominicus Nihachi ^[28]
• Dominicus of Saint Francis ^[28]
• Dominicus Tomachi ^[28]
• Elisabeth Sato ^{[26] [27]}
• Franciscus Hashimoto ^{[26] [27]}
• Franciscus Nihachi ^[28]
• Franciscus Takeya ^[28]
• Franciscus Yakichi ^[28]
• Gabriel ^{[26] [29]}
• Iacobus ^[27]
• Ignatius ^[26]
• Ignatius Jorge-Fernandes ^[28]
• Ignatius Uchibori ^{[26] [27]}
• Ioannes Hamanomachi ^[28]
• Ioannes Mukunō Chōzaburō ^[28]
• Iusta Amagasu ^{[26] [27]}
• Jacobus Hayashida ^[26]
• John of Goto ^[26]
• Laurentius Yamada ^[28]
• Louis Ibaraki ^[26]
• Lucia ^[26]
• Lucia Kurogane ^[26]
• Ludovica Hashimoto ^[27]
• Ludovicus Ibaraki ^[29]
• Ludovicus Minami ^[26]
• Ludovicus Onizuka ^[28]
• Luis Hashimoto ^[26]
• Magdalena Hayashida ^[26]
• Martha (last name unknown, age 1) ^{[26] [27]}
• Martha (last name unknown, age 7) ^[26]
• Michaël Anazawa Osamu ^{[26] [27]}
• Michaël Tanda ^[28]
• Michaël Tomachi ^[28]
• Monica ^[26]
• Paulus ^[26]
• Paulus Tomachi ^[28]
• Petrus Hamanomachi ^[28]
• Petrus Hashimoto ^{[26] [27]}
• Petrus Hattori ^[26]
• Petrus Kawano ^[28]
• Petrus Nagaishi ^[28]
• Regina ^[26]
• Romanus Anazawa Matsujiro ^{[26] [27]}
• Sixtus ^{[26] [27]}
• Thecla Kurogane ^[27]
• Thecla Takahashi ^[26]
• Thomas Hashimoto ^{[26] [27]}
• Thomas Kajiya Yoemon ^[27]
• Thomas Kozaki ^{[26] [29]}
• Thomas Mitsuishi ^[26]
• Thomas Tomachi ^[28]
• Ursula Yamamoto ^[26]

Martyrs of Korea

• Agatha Kwŏn Chin-i ^[30]
• Agatha Yi ^[31]
• Anastasia Yi Bong-geum ^[32]
• Barbara Sim A-gi ^[32]
• Barbara Yi ^[31]
• Iacobus Oh Jong-rye ^[32]
• Ioannes Yu Mun-seok ^[32]
• Iosephus Cho Yun-ho ^[30]
• Joseph Cho Yun-ho ^[31]
• Lutgarda Yi Sun-i ^[32]
• Matthaeus Yu Jung-seong ^[32]
• Petrus Yu Tae-ch’ŏl ^[30]
• Petrus Chŏng Wŏn-ji ^[30]

Martyrs of Kosheh

• Al-Amir Helmy Fahmy
• Maysoon Ghatas Fahmy
• Refaat Fayez Awad Fahmy
• Wael El-Dabai Mikhail

Martyrs of Nag Hammadi

• Mina Helmy Said
• Bishoy Farid Labib
• Dina Hamalni
• Boula Atef Yassa
• Abanoub Kamal Nashed

Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War

• Agustín López Hernández ^[33]
• Agustín Villar Peña ^[34]
• Alfredo Carrasco Herrero ^[35]
• Andrés Pérez Fernández ^[36]
• Ángel Martínez Somolinos ^[34]
• Àngel Piquer Pellicer ^[37]
• Antonio Ferrer Rodrigo ^[35]
• Antonio Leblic Gómez-Lanzas ^[36]
• Antonio Noguera Martínez ^[38]
• Antonio Vicente Vaquero Prisuelos ^[34]
• Bernabé de la Hoz Castillejos ^[36]
• Emilia Revert Pla ^[35]
• Emilio Huidobro Corrales ^[39]
• Emilio Solanes Escrihuela ^[35]
• Florentino de la Hoz Castillejos ^[36]
• Francisco Alfredo ^{[31] [40]}
• Francisco Luis Pérez-Miravete y Pascual de Riquelme ^[33]
• Gerardo Pinero Díaz ^[36]
• Gregorio Urbano Güil Canfrán ^[34]
• Helí González Navarro ^[34]
• Ignasi Trias Bertran ^[37]
• Jesús Brazales Salcedo ^[36]
• Joan Gamissans Comellas ^[37]
• Joan Roig Diggle ^[41]
• José Rodríguez Fernández ^[34]
• José Sánchez Rodríguez ^[42]
• José Villacastín Sánchez ^[34]
• Josep Borràs García ^[43]
• Juan García-Pulgar García-Ochoa ^[36]
• Juan Moya Collado ^[44]
• Julián Mellado Noblejas ^[34]
• Ladislao Luis ^{[31] [45]}
• Lluís Arbós Batista ^[37]
• Luis Gonzaga Valentín Fernández ^[36]
• Luis Quintas Durán ^[44]
• Luis Villar Peña ^[34]
• María del Carmen Candinas Medina ^[36]
• Miguel Lloris Miralles ^[35]
• Nadal Salort Caselles ^[35]
• Pere Boix Folguera ^[43]
• Pere Magí ^{[31] [46]}
• Rafael Lluch Garín ^[37]
• Santiago Mosquera Suárez de Figueroa ^[36]
• Ventura Martín Tejerizo ^[34]

Martyrs of Vietnam

• Andrew Trong Van Tram ^[31]
• Anê Dần ^[47]
• Giuse Túc ^[48]
• Thomas Thien Tran

Other Catholic Martyrs

Name	Born	Died	Age	Country	Diocese	Cause	Notes
Martyrs of Nazism (1939–1945)
Anna Maria Henrica Hamburger	November 8, 1928	August 9, 1942	13	Germany	's-Hertogenbosch	Martyrs in odium fidei
Joachim Albertus Maria Hamburger	September 2, 1930		11
Magdalena Joanna Maria Hamburger	February 5, 1932		10
Petrus Christianus Maria Hamburger	May 19, 1933		9
Czesława Kwoka	August 15, 1928	March 12, 1943	14	Poland	Zamość-Lubaczów
Juraj František Munk	April 16, 1930	March–April 1940	10	Slovakia	Bratislava

Dubious or fictitious

Main article: Blood libel

William of Norwich was a twelve year old English boy whose unsolved murder was, at the time, attributed to the Jewish community of Norwich. It is the first known medieval accusation against Jews of ritual murder. E. M. Rose points out that road robberies and kidnappings gone wrong were a frequent cause of death in the region during the period of the Anarchy when the Crown struggled to safeguard the roads. ^[49] This was followed by a similar allegation regarding the unexplained death of Harold of Gloucester. An attempt to establish a cult of Harold seems to have been unsuccessful. It was never officially supported and died out long before the Reformation. ^[50] However, it established a pattern. Any unexplained child death occurring near the Easter festival was arbitrarily linked to Jews in the vicinity. ^[50] In some instances promotion of a cult may have been influenced by the interest of local clergy to enhance the prestige of their church with a shrine. Anthony Bale suggests this, and local politics, may have been contributing factors to the cult of Robert of Bury. ^[51] Simon of Trent and Werner of Oberwesel ^{[52] [53]} are other examples of individuals who died under unknown circumstances, but whose deaths were nonetheless attributed to the Jews.

Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln was never actually canonised, making the moniker "Little Saint Hugh" a misnomer. He was for a short while acclaimed by local people as a saint but never officially recognised as one. ^[54] Over time, the issue of the rush to sainthood was raised, and Hugh was never canonised, ^[55] nor included in Catholic martyrology.

In the case of Dominguito del Val, ^[56] and Andreas Oxner, ^[57] and the Holy Child of La Guardia it is not clear that the alleged victim ever existed in the first place.

See also

• 498 Spanish Martyrs
• Chinese Martyrs
• Consecrated virgin
• List of Servants of God
• Lists of venerable people (disambiguation)
• List of blesseds
• List of saints
• Persecution of Christians
• Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan

References

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2. "Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome". www.orthodoxengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
3. "Martyr Sophia and her three daughters at Rome". www.oca.org. Retrieved 2025-07-25.
4. "Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome". www.orthodoxengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
5. "Martyrs Eleutherius and Leonidas of Constantinople, and many infants martyred with them". www.oca.org. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
6. "Martyr Matrona of Thessalonica". www.oca.org. Retrieved 2025-07-26.
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9. "Bujão explode no Paraná e mata oito alunos e professora". Jornal do Brasil (in Portuguese). April 5, 1986. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
10. "IGREJA ORTODOXA - Paranaense pode ser 1 santa da América Latina". Folha de Londrina (in Portuguese). June 30, 2007. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
11. Coppen, Luke (2023-09-05). "Here's what's special about the Ulma family beatification". The Pillar. Retrieved 2023-09-10.
12. Martyrs of Japan († 1868-72)
13. "Catholic archbishop move for beatification, canonization of late teenager". October 6, 2023.
14. Dunbar, Agnes Bell Cunninghame (1904). A Dictionary of Saintly Women. Bell. p. 37. ISBN   978-0-7222-1729-0.
15. Index ac status causarum beatificationis servorum dei et canonizationis beatorum (in Latin). Typis polyglottis vaticanis. January 1953. p. 3.
16. "A Portuguese "Saint", Venerated in São Paulo". June 20, 2018.
17. "Church investigates whether dancer can become saint". October 11, 2009.
18. "Maria Elizabeth: The young woman from Passo Fundo who predicted her own death". April 5, 2021.
19. Barry, Stephanie (May 24, 2021). "'Danny Croteau died at the hands of Richard Lavigne,' DA says in closing 50-year-old case". Mass Live. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
20. Cullen, Kevin (October 28, 2021). "After visiting Canada, Pope Francis might want to stop off in Springfield". Boston Globe. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
21. "Jovens Karoline e Luan" (in Portuguese). June 20, 2023.
22. "School shooting victims are "intercessors and inspiration"". June 1, 2023.
23. "Bishops of England and Wales deeply saddened by death of Indi Gregory". November 13, 2023.
24. ~ Martyrs of China (1) ~ Canonized Martyrs († 1648–1930)
25. ~ Martyrs of China (3) ~ Boxer Rebellion († 1900)
26. Twenty-Six Martyrs Museum Home Page Names are according to known records.
27. ~ Martyrs of Japan (3) ~ († 1603–39)
28. Martyrs of Japan († 1597–1637) (II) The Romanization of Japanese names are taken from Juan Ruiz de Medina’s El Martirologio del Japón (Rome: Institutum Historicum S.I., 1999). The author used the Modified Hepburn System (Hebon-shiki) in the transliteration. The names in Japanese characters (using katakana for the Christian name and kanji for the surname) are enclosed in brackets.
29. Martyrs of Japan († 1597–1637) (I)
30. MARTYRS OF KOREA († 1791–1888) (I)
31. Ball, Ann (2004). Young Faces of Holiness: Modern Saints in Photos and Words. Our Sunday Visitor, Inc. p. 236. ISBN   1-931709-55-6.
32. Martyrs of Korea († 1791–1888) (II)
33. MARTYRS OF THE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR († 1934, 36-39) (LVIII)
34. ~ Martyrs of the Religious Persecution during the Spanish Civil War (50) ~ (†1934, 1936–39)
35. ~ Martyrs of the Religious Persecution during the Spanish Civil War (54) ~ (†1934, 1936–39)
36. ~ Martyrs of the Religious Persecution during the Spanish Civil War (49) ~ (†1934, 1936–39)
37. MARTYRS OF THE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR († 1934, 36-39) (LI)
38. MARTYRS OF THE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR († 1934, 36-39) (XLVI)
39. ~ Martyrs of the Religious Persecution during the Spanish Civil War (36) ~ (†1934, 1936–39)
40. ~ Martyrs of the Religious Persecution during the Spanish Civil War (22) ~ (†1934, 1936–39)
41. MARTYRS OF THE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR († 1934, 36-39) (XXXIX)
42. ~ Martyrs of the Religious Persecution during the Spanish Civil War (1) ~ (†1934, 1936–39)
43. MARTYRS OF THE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR († 1934, 36-39) (LII)
44. MARTYRS OF THE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR († 1934, 36-39) (XLII)
45. MARTYRS OF THE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR († 1934, 36-39) (XXVI)
46. ~ Martyrs of the Religious Persecution during the Spanish Civil War (10) ~ (†1934, 1936–39)
47. ~ Martyrs of Vietnam (2) ~ († 1745–1862)
48. ~ Martyrs of Vietnam (1) ~ († 1745–1862)
49. Oxford University Press: The Murder of William of Norwich retrieved October 4, 2016
50. Hillaby, Joe, "The ritual-child-murder accusation: its dissemination and Harold of Gloucester", Jewish Historical Studies, vol. 34, (1994-1996), pp. 69-109.
51. Bale, A. "House Devil, Town Saint", in Delany, Sheila, Chaucer and the Jews, Routledge, 2013, p.185 ff.
52. The Attitude of the Catholic Church towards Jewish Ritual Murder
53. (in German) Werner von Oberwesel
54. Sagovsky, Nicholas. "What makes a saint? A Lincoln case study in the communion of the local and the universal Church", International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, Volume 17, 2017 - Issue 3
55. "Hugh of Lincoln", The British Museum
56. Gil, Sergio Martinez. "The Martyrdom of Santo Domenguito de Val", Historia de Aragon
57. (in Italian) Blessed Andreas (Oxner) of Rinn

Further reading

• Guiley, Rosemary Ellen (2001). The Encyclopedia of Saints . Facts On File. ISBN   0-8160-4133-4.
• Bunson, Matthew, Margaret Bunson and Stephen Bunson (2003). Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints. Our Sunday Visitor, Inc. ISBN   1-931709-75-0.
• Ball, Ann (2004). Young Faces of Holiness: Modern Saints in Photos and Words. Our Sunday Visitor, Inc. ISBN   1-931709-55-6.
• Cruz, Joan Carroll (2006). Saintly Youth of Modern Times. Our Sunday Visitor, Inc. ISBN   1-59276-004-X.
• Paul, Tessa (2009). The Illustrated World Encyclopedia of Saints: An authoritative visual guide to the lives and works of over 500 saints, with expert commentary and over 500 beautiful paintings, statues & icons. Lorenz Books. ISBN   978-0-7548-1854-0.

External links

• Hagiography Circle
• Saints.SQPN.com Partial list of saints who died as children.
• Child Saints, Martyrs and the Heroes of Orthodoxy
• Asian Saints Photostream Flickr page containing the images of some Asian child saints.