Events Tagged: "martyrs"

St. Anterus becomes nineteenth pope - collects acts of martyrs, shortest pontificate of 43 days

St. Eutychian becomes twenty-seventh pope - personally buries 342 martyrs, peaceful pontificate

St. Ignatius has vision of coming Jesuit martyrs - 'I see God preparing a great harvest, but through much blood' - Spiritual Exercises officially approved

Tokugawa Ieyasu bans Christianity throughout Japan, beginning severe persecution

Sinyu Persecution - hundreds of Korean Catholics martyred including Chinese priest Zhou Wenmo

Great Persecution of 1866 - 8,000 Korean Catholics killed including French missionaries

Persecution intensifies worldwide - Nicaragua imprisons bishops - China controls Church