Among the martyrs approved are Vladimir Ghika, a Romanian priest killed in 1954, as well as numerous priests murdered during the Spanish Civil War. There was also a Dominican priest murdered at the Dachau concentration camp.

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Martin, born in Italy, was the last Pope of Rome to be martyred. He met his end, due to starvation and sickness, in what is now the Crimean region of Ukraine.

During the first decade of the millenium, some 255 priests and other missionaries and religious met violent deaths.

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St. Edmund Campion is celebrated for his defense of conscience as martyr of the Catholic Church. Another Englishman, Henry Walpole, was transformed as he witnessed Campions bloody death.

Nowadays, when we face an aggressive secularistic and relativistic society, Saint Edmund reminds us that our relationship with the Lord should shape and enlighten our words and actions, not only in chapel but in the marketplace too.