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By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

VATICAN CITY (CNS) \u2014 In a Jubilee year dedicated to hope, Pope Leo XIV and Christian leaders will commemorate \u201cnew martyrs and witnesses of the faith\u201d \u2014 people whose lives were signs of hope to the people around them and who died firm in the hope of being welcomed into God\u2019s presence, said the secretary of the Vatican Dicastery for the Causes of Saints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Archbishop Fabio Fabene, dicastery<\/a> secretary, told reporters Sept. 8, \u201cPope Leo<\/a> hopes the blood of these martyrs will be seeds of peace, reconciliation, fraternity and love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like St. John Paul II did during the Holy Year 2000, Pope Leo will preside over an ecumenical prayer service<\/a> for the Jubilee 2025 commemorating Catholics, Orthodox, Anglicans and Protestants who died for their faith between 2000 and 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pope Francis had established a commission in 2023 to compile \u201ca catalogue of all those whose blood was shed to confess Christ and witness to his Gospel\u201d in the 25 years since the last Holy Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those martyrs \u2014 Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant \u2014 will be remembered Sept. 14, the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, during a prayer service at Rome\u2019s Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, a frequent site for ecumenical prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a news conference Sept. 8, Andrea Riccardi, a historian and vice president of the commission<\/a>, said the catalogue includes 1,624 Christians whose names were submitted by bishops\u2019 conferences, religious orders and nunciatures from all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Riccardi, who also is founder of the lay Community of Sant\u2019Egidio, also gave a continental break down of those slain: 643 people in Africa; 357 in Asia and Oceania; 304 in North and South America; 277 in the Middle East and North Africa; and 43 in Europe, although 110 of the total killed on other continents were missionaries<\/a> from Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Holy See created a commission to catalogue contemporary martyrs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Archbishop Fabene said the Vatican still was studying how, when and if to publish the names in the catalogue, taking into consideration the possibility that doing so could endanger other Christians living and ministering in the same geographical areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey set the anchor of their hope in God, not in the world,\u201d the archbishop said; \u201cthey hoped in the Lord and their reward will be eternal life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, said Msgr. Marco Gnavi, secretary of the commission, \u201cThe hope that was the motif of their lives before their deaths brought hope\u201d in contexts where their brothers and sisters often were the victims of ethnic conflict, religious persecution, organized crime or the deadly denial of their rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, the commission members said, the list includes Sister Dorothy Stang<\/a>, a U.S. member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, who was shot and killed in the Brazilian Amazon in 2005 for defending the land rights of the Indigenous and poor farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Father Angelo Romano, a member of the commission and official at the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, told Catholic News Service the catalogue is not part of the official Catholic process for recognizing the martyrdom of a potential saint, however, some of the people included already have a sainthood cause underway, and other causes could begin in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ecumenical commemoration St. John Paul presided over in 2000 was held at Rome\u2019s Colosseum, a symbol of Christian persecution and martyrdom. Father Romano said the Vatican<\/a> \u201cwould have loved\u201d to do the 2025 prayer service there, but the city of Rome has new archaeological digs just outside the Colosseum, which severely limits the space available for participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe martyr witnesses to nonviolent hope,\u201d says dicastery official\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Knowing that, as Pope Francis often said, the number of Christians martyred today is more than in the first centuries of Christianity should not lead Catholics to feel under attack but should motivate solidarity, Father Romano said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA society that may even be aggressive toward the Christian faith is one thing; being persecuted<\/a> is another,\u201d he said. \u201cPersecution means that going to Mass is a risk, that praying is a risk, that being a Christian is a risk, that practicing charity in the name of faith is a serious risk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnother mistake that I think we must avoid when talking about martyrdom \u2014 a mistake in the strictly theological sense \u2014 is trying to understand martyrdom<\/a> only in quantitative terms: how many there are,\u201d the priest said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The numbers help people understand the scale of the phenomenon, he said, \u201cbut theologically we must be careful not to focus too much on quantity, because even one martyr is immense, enormous \u2014 a reason for reflection for the whole Church.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn a world where there is so much to worry about, including increased violence at all levels, the martyr witnesses to nonviolent hope,\u201d Father Romano said. \u201cA martyr<\/a> chooses not to respond to evil with evil, not to respond to hatred with hatred, but with love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several of the groups of new martyrs mentioned at the news conference were Christians killed in church during terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Archbishop Fabene was asked if Fletcher Merkel, 8, and Harper Moyski, 10, who were shot and killed during a school Mass at Annunciation Catholic Church<\/a> in Minneapolis Aug. 27 could be considered martyrs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf a diocese or other local ecclesial realties present these figures to us as witnesses of the faith, we will examine them and will see if they can be included in the list,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featured image:<\/em> Sister Dorothy Stang, a member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, is seen in this 2004 photo. Feb. 12, 2025, was the 20th anniversary of the killing of Sister Dorothy, a citizen of Brazil and the United States, who spent nearly four decades defending the rights of poor settlers as well as working to save the rainforest from powerful ranchers bent on destroying it. (OSV News\/Courtesy Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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