Passionist Martyrs

Twenty eight Passionist martyrs have been raised to the honours of the altars. Saint Innocencio Canoura was martyred in Spain with a group of eight Brothers of the Christian Schools (De la Salle Brothers) in 1934 during the so-called ‘Revolution of Asturias’. Blessed Niceforo Diez Tejerina and his twenty-five beatified companions, all members of the Passionist community at Daimiel, were martyred during the Spanish Civil War. Blessed Eugene Bossilkov, Passionist Bishop of Nicopolis, was martyred at Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1952.

On a page entitled Passionist Martyrology , the Vatican website lists a total of fifty-five Passionist priests and brothers who have given their lives for the faith. As well as our canonised and beatified martyrs, there are others who were killed out of hatred for the Catholic Faith in the concentration camps of Dachau and Soldau (Dzialdowo), in Spain and Italy, in China and the Philippines, in the Congo and in Brazil.