More than 300 Jesuits died during the 20th century for love of God and their fellow human bings. Some of them were murdered; others died as a result of maltreatment; others were simply made to "disappear" by terrorist regimes who regularly hide their victims. All of them form part of our martyrology for the twentieth century.
The Second Vatican Council declared that the excellence of martyrdom was rooted in the degree of identificaton with Jesus Christ which motiviated a person to give his life for others.
At the end of the millennium Pope John Paul II commissioned a Martyrology for the 20th century, so that we might not forget the witness of love of God and neighbor which so many men and women of our time have given with their lives and with their deaths.
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Victims of racial and xenophobic hatred
Murdered during the Boxers' Revolution in China
Armenia
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Victims of anti-religious persecutions |
Mexico
China
Spain
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Victims of Nazism and their allies |
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Died in Concentration camps |
Indonesia
Micronesia
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Victims of post-World War II Communist regimes |
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Victims of dictatorial regimes or social movements |
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