They were a part of a group of 498 Spanish martyrs. The following text is a report about the Beatification. The 498 Spanish martyrs proclaimed blessed today marked the largest number to be beatified ...

So far 2,127 martyrs from the Spanish Civil War have been beatified. Pope John Paul II beatified 233 martyrs in 2001, bringing the number of Civil War martyrs beatified in his pontificate to 473.

A protracted cause for the Georgia Martyrs Spanish colonial authorities pursued an investigation into the death of the five Franciscans when they returned to reestablish the missions. However ...

On Palm Sunday, suicide bombers detonated themselves at two Coptic Christian churches in Egypt, killing 44 and wounding 126. Undoubtedly, the volunteer “martyrs” thought they were on a mission so ...

exposed the abuses of the Spanish colonial regime and earned him the charge of sedition that sent him before the firing squad at Bagumbayan. He dedicated the "Fili" to the Gomburza martyrs.

Pope Francis has formally recognized that five Franciscan missionaries ministering in what is now the state of Georgia were ...