Hero saints or Martyr

[beckers]

Favorite Martyr or saint who you believe is a Hero.

I am going on a retreat and our theme is Heroes. I am trying to find saints or martyrs that people believe are heroes by their actions.

Here is my list so far

St. Edith Stein
St. Maximilian Kolbe
St. Laurence
St. Peter
St. Valentine

Thanks!

 

[AquinaSavio]

St. Agnes
St. Maria Goretti

 

[puzzleannie]

Damien the leper priest of Molokai
Mother Mary Ann Cope of Molokai
Francis Xavier
the Japanese Martyrs
the Jesuit Maryrs of North America
the Cristeros–Mexican martyrs
Charles Foucauld
the Carmelites martyred by the French Revolution
martyrs of the Spanish Civil War
Oscar Romero

 

[stanmaxkolbe]

St. Maximilian Kolbe

My name should tell you a lot. I had six relatives murdered at Auschwitz five men and one women.

His love for Mary Immaculate was indeed the center of his spiritual life, the fruitful inspiring principle of his apostolic activity.
—Pope John Paul II, Dec 8 1982
Homily at St. Mary Major