List of protomartyrs

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Martyrdom of Saint Stephen San Esteban Ilocos Sur Philippines

A protomartyr (Koine Greek, πρότος prótos "first" + μάρτυρας mártyras "martyr") is the first Christian martyr in a country or among a particular group, such as a religious order. Similarly, the phrase the Protomartyr (with no other qualification of country or region) can mean Saint Stephen, the first martyr of the Christian church. Saint Thecla the Protomartyr, the first female martyr of the Christian church, is known as "apostle and protomartyr among women".[1]

Name Year Place first...
Stephen c. 34 Jerusalem —
First Martyrs of the Church of Rome 64 Rome in Rome
Saint Alban[2] 3rd/4th c. St Albans in Great Britain
Vincent of Saragossa 304 Valencia in Spain
Rajden the First-Martyr[3] 457 Tsromi from Georgia / under the Sassanid Empire
Odran 5th c. Ireland in Ireland
Adalbert of Prague 997 Prussia Duchy of Poland
The Franciscan protomartyrs 1220 Morocco of the Franciscan order
Child Martyrs of Tlaxcala[4] 1527 Mexico in the Americas
Juan de Padilla 1542 Kansas in what is now the United States
Luis Cáncer 1549 Tampa Bay, Florida in Florida
Peter Baptist and companions 1627 Nagasaki in Japan
Philip of Jesus 1627 Nagasaki from Mexico[5]
St. Lorenzo Ruiz 1637 Nagasaki from the Philippines
Blessed Andrew of Phu Yen[6] 1641 Kẻ Chàm, Vietnam in Vietnam
André de Soveral 1645 Canguaretama in Brazil[7]
Francis Ferdinand de Capillas 1648 Fujian, China in the Chinese Empire
Pedro Calungsod 1672 Tumon, Guam in Guam
Juvenaly[8] 1796 Kuinerrak, Alaska in Alaska
Andrew Kim Taegon 1846 Seoul in Korea
James Hannington 1885 Uganda in Eastern Equatorial Africa
Peter Chanel 1841 Futuna in Oceania
St. Vladimir Bogoyavlensky 1918 Moscow under the Soviet Union
Stanley Rother 1981 Guatemala U.S. native-born citizen to be considered a martyr and beatified by the Catholic Church[9]

References[]

  1. ^ Michael F. Bird, Scott Harrower, The Cambridge Companion to the Apostolic Fathers, Cambridge University Press (2021), p. 183; see also St. Thekla, Protomartyr and Equal to the Apostles (antiochian.org).
  2. ^ Thurston, Herbert. "St. Alban." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907.
  3. ^ Machitadze, Archpriest Zakaria (2006), "St. Razhden, Protomartyr of the Georgian Church (†457)", in The Lives of the Georgian Saints Archived 2008-06-14 at the Wayback Machine. pravoslavie.ru. Retrieved on 2011-12-18.
  4. ^ Proto-martyrs of the Americas
  5. ^ Philip of Jesus, one of the companions of Peter Baptist, was long known as the first Mexican saint. This has technically no longer been the case since the canonization of the Child Martyrs of Tlaxcala by Pope Francis in 2017.
  6. ^ "WYD02 Saints: Blessed Andrew of Phu Yen – Protomartyr of Vietnam". Archived from the original on 2010-11-28. Retrieved 2009-12-28.
  7. ^ Protomartyrs of Brazil
  8. ^ Juvenaly of Alaska
  9. ^ EWTN (27 September 2017). Beatification of Venerable Father Stanley Rother (video). Retrieved 6 May 2020 – via YouTube.
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