Any Lay Saints?

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St. Jose Sanchez del Río is a Mexican Christero martyr. He fought for Our Lord against the communist government of Mexico at the time. The soldiers tortured him and flayed the soles of his feet, but he refused to deny Our Lord and Lady. He was forced to walk on the fresh exposed flesh over gravel roads towards a cementery where he was forced to dig his own grave. There they gave him the chance to deny the faith again. They told him “ What will we tell your mom and dad when they see that you are dead?” ( they were trying to change his mind).” Tell then I’ll see them in heaven” he said then he cried out “ Viva Christo Rey! ( Long live Christ the King!” And he was stabbed then shot. He was 13

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Yes I did read that St. Rose was a 3rd order Dominican I believe. So I assumed 3rd order meant a lay person. Saw the word tertiary but it left the mind as soon as it came. I’ll have to check on that to see what it means. I guess I’m 0 for 2 🙂 as I reread the op and it seems that St. Dymphna doesn’t fit the bill due to being royalty.
 
Technically, St. Catherine of Siena was a lay person. She was a third order Dominican, which makes her a lay member of the order.
 
St. Isidore the Farmer (aka St. Isidore the Laborer) is a prominent otherwise “average Joe” saint, along with his wife Bl. Maria Torribia (they had one son, that died young).

EDIT: just realized Tis_Bearself beat me to this one.
 
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Here’s some more I thought of:
St. Lorenzo Ruiz - the first Filipino martyr. He was a sacristan and a clerk who was trained by the Dominicans, and was a married husband and father. He was accused of homicide and to escape the legal consequences, he left the country with some Dominicans, but ended up in Japan where he and the priests he was traveling with were all martyred.

St. Benezet - a shepherd who, instructed by a vision, single-handedly built a bridge over the Rhone River at Avignon

St. Homobonus - a married merchant from Italy who donated a lot of his profit to the poor and is now the patron saint of business people

St. Prosper of Aquitaine - a lay theologian who helped propagate and defend the teachings of St. Augustine

St. Rocco - at age 20, when his parents died, he gave away all his worldly goods and spent the rest of his life as a mendicant pilgrim who tended sick people in the public hospitals

St. William of Rochester - a baker (or fisherman depending on source) who helped the poor and adopted an abandoned baby as his son; when the son grew up, the two of them went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the son killed him on the way.
 
The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, the Korean Martyrs, the Martyrs of Japan and virtually all other large groups of martyrs contain a lot of laypeople who were killed for refusing to renounce their faith, for hiding priests, etc.
 
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