Pope Felix I was the bishop of Rome from 5 January 269 to his death on 30 December 274.
A martyr is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, refusing to renounce, or refusing to advocate a religious belief or cause as demanded by an external party. In the martyrdom narrative of the remembering community, this refusal to comply with the presented demands results in the punishment or execution of an actor by an alleged oppressor. Accordingly, the status of the 'martyr' can be considered a posthumous title as a reward for those who are considered worthy of the concept of martyrdom by the living, regardless of any attempts by the deceased to control how they will be remembered in advance. Insofar, the martyr is a relational figure of a society's boundary work that is produced by collective memory. Originally applied only to those who suffered for their religious beliefs, the term has come to be used in connection with people killed for a political cause.
Edmund the Martyr was king of East Anglia from about 855 until his death.
Oswine, Oswin or Osuine was a King of Deira in northern England.
Dionysius the Areopagite was a judge at the Areopagus Court in Athens, who lived in the first century. A convert to Christianity, he is venerated as a saint by multiple denominations.
The Theban Legion figures in Christian hagiography as an entire Roman legion — of "six thousand six hundred and sixty-six men" — who had converted en masse to Christianity and were martyred together, in 286, according to the hagiographies of Saint Maurice, the chief among the Legion's saints. Their feast day is held on September 22.
The seventy disciples or seventy-two disciples were early emissaries of Jesus mentioned in the Gospel of Luke. According to Luke, the only gospel in which they appear, Jesus appointed them and sent them out in pairs on a specific mission which is detailed in the text.
June 27 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 29
July 2 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 4
August 11 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 13
Saint Pantaleon, counted in the West among the late-medieval Fourteen Holy Helpers and in the East as one of the Holy Unmercenary Healers, was a martyr of Nicomedia in Bithynia during the Diocletianic Persecution of 305 AD.
October 17 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 19
January 13 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 15
Holy Wisdom is a concept in Christian theology.
Paul and Juliana were brother and sister who suffered martyrdom, at the hands of Aurelian, in 270.
Mysterii Paschalis is an apostolic letter issued motu proprio by Pope Paul VI on 14 February 1969. It reorganized the liturgical year of the Roman Rite and revised the liturgical celebrations of Jesus Christ and the saints in the General Roman Calendar.
Saint Demiana and the 40 Virgins was a Coptic martyr of the early fourth century.
In Christian theology and ecclesiology, apostles, particularly the Twelve Apostles, were the primary disciples of Jesus according to the New Testament. During the life and ministry of Jesus in the 1st century AD, the apostles were his closest followers and became the primary teachers of the gospel message of Jesus.
December 28 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 30
During the Age of Discovery, Catholic missionaries in Ceylon attributed the baptism, martyrdom and intercession of Mannar Martyrs for the rapid conversion and growth of Catholicism in Ceylon. In a letter found in the Archives of the Society of Jesus (S.J.) dated December 19, 1561, Anrique Anriquez the first Mannar parish priest (1561-1564) gives details to how rapidly the island was converted, and churches and hospital built all around the island. The Christians of the island of Mannar were held up as a model. He wrote since their arrival, over a thousand people converted to Christianity.