List of child saints

Child saints are children and adolescents who died or were martyred and have been declared saints or martyrs of the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Anglican, Episcopalian, or Lutheran Churches or have been beatified or venerated by those churches.

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List of child saints
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110 infant and child martyrs of the French Revolution
  • André Minaud
  • Anne Morilleau
  • Catherine Renaud
  • Céleste Morilleau
  • Céleste-Agathe-Aimée Arnaud
  • Céleste-Victoire Boisseleau
  • Etienne Bériau
  • François Bossis
  • Henri Soret
  • Jacques Fournier
  • Jacques Simoneau
  • Jacques Sorin
  • Jean Boisseleau
  • Jean Charrier
  • Jean Girard
  • Jean Malidin
  • Jean Mignen
  • Jean Minaud
  • Jean Perrocheau
  • Jean Pogu
  • Jean Rousseau
  • Jean Simoneau
  • Jean Sorin
  • Jean-Baptiste Vrignaud
  • Jean-François Erceau
  • Jeanne Bériau
  • Jeanne Daviaud
  • Jeanne Fêvre
  • Jeanne Gralepois
  • Jeanne Gris
  • Jeanne Malidin
  • Jeanne Minaud
  • Jeanne Renaud
  • Jeanne Robin
  • Jeanne Rousseau (age 23 months)
  • Jeanne Rousseau (age 4 years)
  • Jeanne Savariau
  • Joseph Archambaud
  • Joseph Jean-Baptiste Bossis
  • Joseph Mandin
  • Joseph-Jacques Simoneau
  • Louis Bossis
  • Louis Bouron
  • Louis Epiard
  • Louis Gralepois
  • Louis Hiou
  • Louis Mandin
  • Louis Vrignaud
  • Louis-Augustin Rousseau
  • Louise Martin (martyr)
  • Louise Minaud (age 15 days)
  • Louise Minaud (age 2 years and 9 months)
  • Louise-Anne Martin
  • Louise-Marie Minaud
  • Lubin-Louis Guillet
  • Madeleine Bouron
  • Madeleine Tenet
  • Marie Bernard
  • Marie Charuau
  • Marie Daviaud
  • Marie Garreau
  • Marie Guitet
  • Marie Hermouet
  • Marie Malard
  • Marie Malidin
  • Marie Remaud
  • Marie Ricouleau
  • Marie-Anne Fournier
  • Marie-Anne Gautret
  • Marie-Anne Joli
  • Marie-Anne Minaud
  • Marie-Anne Prévit
  • Marie-Anne Renaud
  • Marie-Anne Rortais
  • Marie-Françoise Martin (martyr)
  • Marie-Jeanne Girard
  • Marie-Jeanne Vrignaud
  • Marie-Madeleine Bériau
  • Marie-Madeleine Charuau
  • Marie-Modeste Airiau
  • N. Fétivau
  • Perrine Simoneau
  • Pierre Boisseleau
  • Pierre Bouet
  • Pierre Daviaud
  • Pierre Fétivau
  • Pierre Geai
  • Pierre Girard
  • Pierre Gouin
  • Pierre Graton
  • Pierre Gris
  • Pierre Minaud (age 4 years and 2 months)
  • Pierre Minaud (age 6 years and 11 months)
  • Pierre Pogu
  • Pierre Renaud (age 1 year and 6 months)
  • Pierre Renaud (age 6 years and 7 months)
  • Pierre Simoneau
  • Pierre-Jean Daviaud
  • Pierre-René Fort
  • Rosalie Martin
  • Rosalie Martineau
  • Rose Malidin
  • Rose Prévit
  • Rose Remaud
  • Rose-Aimée Fort
  • Suzanne Forgeau
  • Thomas Airiau
  • Véronique Martin
  • Véronique Minaud
  • Victoire-Céleste-Flore Rousseau[61]

Martyrs of China

Martyrs of Eastern Europe under communist regimes
  • Franček Pen[64]
  • Janez Pavčič (Martyr)[64]
  • Małgorzata Wiewiorra[65]

Martyrs of Japan

Martyrs of Korea

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

Martyrs of Laos
  • Thoj Xyooj Paj Lug
  • Thomas Khampheuane Inthirath[72]

Martyrs of Nag Hammadi
  • Mina Helmy Said
  • Bishoy Farid Labib
  • Dina Hamalni
  • Boula Atef Yassa
  • Abanoub Kamal Nashed

Martyrs of the Nazi regime

Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War
  • Agustín López Hernández[77]
  • Agustín Villar Peña[78]
  • Alfredo Carrasco Herrero[79]
  • Andrés Pérez Fernández[80]
  • Ángel Martínez Somolinos[78]
  • Àngel Piquer Pellicer[81]
  • Antonio Ferrer Rodrigo[79]
  • Antonio Leblic Gómez-Lanzas[80]
  • Antonio Noguera Martínez[82]
  • Antonio Vicente Vaquero Prisuelos[78]
  • Bernabé de la Hoz Castillejos[80]
  • Emilia Revert Pla[79]
  • Emilio Huidobro Corrales[83]
  • Emilio Solanes Escrihuela[79]
  • Florentino de la Hoz Castillejos[80]
  • Francisco Alfredo[19][84]
  • Francisco Luis Pérez-Miravete y Pascual de Riquelme[77]
  • Gerardo Pinero Díaz[80]
  • Gregorio Urbano Güil Canfrán[78]
  • Helí González Navarro[78]
  • Ignasi Trias Bertran[81]
  • Jesús Brazales Salcedo[80]
  • Joan Gamissans Comellas[81]
  • Joan Roig Diggle[85]
  • José Rodríguez Fernández[78]
  • José Sánchez Rodríguez[86]
  • José Villacastín Sánchez[78]
  • Josep Borràs García[87]
  • Juan García-Pulgar García-Ochoa[80]
  • Juan Moya Collado[88]
  • Julián Mellado Noblejas[78]
  • Ladislao Luis[19][89]
  • Lluís Arbós Batista[81]
  • Luis Gonzaga Valentín Fernández[80]
  • Luis Quintas Durán[88]
  • Luis Villar Peña[78]
  • María del Carmen Candinas Medina[80]
  • Miguel Lloris Miralles[79]
  • Nadal Salort Caselles[79]
  • Pere Boix Folguera[87]
  • Pere Magí[19][90]
  • Rafael Lluch Garín[81]
  • Santiago Mosquera Suárez de Figueroa[80]
  • Ventura Martín Tejerizo[78]

Martyrs of Thailand
  • Bibiana Khampai
  • Maria Phon
  • Cecilia Butsi

Martyrs of Tlaxcala

Martyrs of Uganda

Martyrs of Vietnam

Saints of the Cristero War

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.[96] 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.[97] However, it established a pattern. Any unexplained child death occurring near the Easter festival was arbitrarily linked to Jews in the vicinity.[98] 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.[99] Simon of Trent and Werner of Oberwesel[53][100] 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 never appeared in Butler's Lives of the Saints, the Vatican never included the child Hugh in Catholic martyrology, and his traditional English feast day is not celebrated.[101]

In the case of Dominguito del Val,[102] and Andreas Oxner,[103] Gabriel of Białystok, and the Holy Child of La Guardia it is not clear that the alleged victim ever existed in the first place.

See also

References
  1. ~ 1924 ~
  2. (in Italian) Saint Agatha
  3. (in Italian) Venerable Agnes of Bavaria
  4. Cruz, Joan Carroll. Saintly Youth of Modern Times. Our Sunday Visitor, Inc. p. 222. ISBN 1-59276-004-X.
  5. (in Italian) Servant of God Aldo Blundo
  6. (in Italian) Servant of God Aldo Marcozzi
  7. ~1943~
  8. ~ 1911 ~
  9. ~1963~
  10. ~ 1944 ~
  11. ~ 1941 ~
  12. ~ 1930 ~
  13. ~ 1869 ~
  14. ~ 1648 ~
  15. ~1980~
  16. (in Italian) Servant of God Carlo Grisolia
  17. ~1928~
  18. (in Italian) Venerable Cecilia Eusepi
  19. Ball, Ann. Young Faces of Holiness: Modern Saints in Photos and Words. Our Sunday Visitor, Inc. p. 236. ISBN 1-931709-55-6.
  20. ~1995~
  21. ~ 1917 ~
  22. Catholic.net – May 29 -- Saint Cyril of Caesarea
  23. Saint Dentlin of Soignies
  24. Venerable Domenico Blasucci
  25. (in Italian) Venerable Domenico Blasucci
  26. Venerable Faustino Pérez-Manglano Magro at Web Católico de Javier
  27. (in Italian) Venerable Francesco Maria Castelli
  28. Saint Fusca of Ravenna
  29. ~1897~
  30. (in Italian) Venerable Galileo Nicolini
  31. (in Italian) Servant of God Gustavo Maria Bruni
  32. Religion: Saintly Children from Time Magazine, January 20, 1936. Retrieved on January 7, 2010.
  33. Wasyliw, Patricia Healy (2008). Martyrdom, Murder, and Magic: Child Saints and Their Cults in Medieval Europe. 2. Peter Lang. p. 46. ISBN 0-8204-2764-0.
  34. ~1903~
  35. ~1903~
  36. (in Italian) Blessed Marie-Céline of the Presentation
  37. ~ 1918 ~
  38. ~ Martyrs of Guatemala ~ (†1980-91)
  39. Saint Justin of Paris
  40. ~1981~
  41. (in Italian) Blessed Lorenzino Sossio da Marostica
  42. Saint Margaret of Louvain
  43. ~1940~
  44. ~1982~
  45. Saint Martialis Archived 2008-06-17 at the Wayback Machine
  46. Saint Matrona of Barcelona
  47. ~ 1836 ~
  48. Blessed Panacea de'Muzzi of Quarona
  49. St. Pothinus
  50. History: 2nd Century – Phatmass Phorum – Catholic Forum and Community
  51. ~1996~
  52. (in Italian) Saint Richard of Pontoise
  53. The Attitude of the Catholic Church towards Jewish Ritual Murder
  54. (in Italian) Blessed Rudolph of Berne
  55. Saint Solange of Bourges
  56. (in Italian) Blessed Theresa of Jesus
  57. Saint Tremorus of Brittany
  58. ~ 1942 ~
  59. Saint Victalicus
  60. ~ 1939 ~
  61. ~ Martyrs during the French Revolution (5) ~ († 1792–1799): Louise Minaud and 109 Infant and Child Companions from Les Lucs in the Diocese of Luçon
  62. ~ Martyrs of China (1) ~ Canonized Martyrs († 1648–1930)
  63. ~ Martyrs of China (3) ~ Boxer Rebellion († 1900)
  64. ~ Martyrs Killed In Odium Fidei under Communist Regimes ~ in Eastern Europe (6)
  65. ~ Martyrs Killed In Odium Fidei under Communist Regimes ~ in Eastern Europe (5)
  66. Twenty-Six Martyrs Museum Home Page Names are according to known records.
  67. ~ Martyrs of Japan (3) ~ († 1603–39)
  68. 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.
  69. Martyrs of Japan († 1597–1637) (I)
  70. MARTYRS OF KOREA († 1791–1888) (I)
  71. Martyrs of Korea († 1791–1888) (II)
  72. ~ Martyrs of Laos ~ (†1954-70)
  73. Martyrs Killed In Odium Fidei by the Nazis During the Second World War (III)
  74. (in Italian) Servants of God Józef and Wiktoria Ulma and their children
  75. ~ Martyrs Killed In Odium Fidei by the Nazis (1) ~ (†1939-45)
  76. ~ Martyrs Killed In Odium Fidei by the Nazis (2) ~ (†1939-45)
  77. MARTYRS OF THE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR († 1934, 36-39) (LVIII)
  78. ~ Martyrs of the Religious Persecution during the Spanish Civil War (50) ~ (†1934, 1936–39)
  79. ~ Martyrs of the Religious Persecution during the Spanish Civil War (54) ~ (†1934, 1936–39)
  80. ~ Martyrs of the Religious Persecution during the Spanish Civil War (49) ~ (†1934, 1936–39)
  81. MARTYRS OF THE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR († 1934, 36-39) (LI)
  82. MARTYRS OF THE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR († 1934, 36-39) (XLVI)
  83. ~ Martyrs of the Religious Persecution during the Spanish Civil War (36) ~ (†1934, 1936–39)
  84. ~ Martyrs of the Religious Persecution during the Spanish Civil War (22) ~ (†1934, 1936–39)
  85. MARTYRS OF THE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR († 1934, 36-39) (XXXIX)
  86. ~ Martyrs of the Religious Persecution during the Spanish Civil War (1) ~ (†1934, 1936–39)
  87. MARTYRS OF THE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR († 1934, 36-39) (LII)
  88. MARTYRS OF THE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR († 1934, 36-39) (XLII)
  89. MARTYRS OF THE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR († 1934, 36-39) (XXVI)
  90. ~ Martyrs of the Religious Persecution during the Spanish Civil War (10) ~ (†1934, 1936–39)
  91. Blessed Antonio of Tlaxcala
  92. Cristobal and Two Companion Child Martyrs of Tlaxcala
  93. Martyrs of Uganda († 1885–87)
  94. ~ Martyrs of Vietnam (2) ~ († 1745–1862)
  95. ~ Martyrs of Vietnam (1) ~ († 1745–1862)
  96. Oxford University Press: The Murder of William of Norwich retrieved October 4, 2016
  97. Hillaby, Joe, "The ritual-child-murder accusation: its dissemination and Harold of Gloucester", Jewish Historical Studies, vol. 34, (1994-1996), pp. 69-109.
  98. Hillaby, Joe, "The ritual-child-murder accusation: its dissemination and Harold of Gloucester", Jewish Historical Studies, vol. 34, (1994-1996), pp. 69-109.
  99. Bale, A. "House Devil, Town Saint", in Delany, Sheila, Chaucer and the Jews, Routledge, 2013, p.185 ff.
  100. (in German) Werner von Oberwesel
  101. Editors, Catholic Saints 2013, Butler 1910
  102. Gil, Sergio Martinez. "The Martyrdom of Santo Domenguito de Val", Historia de Aragon
  103. (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.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • 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 0-7548-1854-3.
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