Martyrs for the Eucharist

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Hi. This was posted in the forum Liturgy and Sacraments almost a week ago but received no responses, so I am re-posting here for help:
I am looking for stories of people martyred for their faith in the Eucharist, either because they would not deny it or while trying to protect the Eucharist from sacrilege. So far I picked up St Tarcisius and the young Chinese girl who was such an inspriation to Bishop Sheen, and also Margaret Midleton. If you could point me to others and where to find the story I would be appreciative.
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texrec said:
Hi. This was posted in the forum Liturgy and Sacraments almost a week ago but received no responses, so I am re-posting here for help:
I am looking for stories of people martyred for their faith in the Eucharist, either because they would not deny it or while trying to protect the Eucharist from sacrilege. So far I picked up St Tarcisius and the young Chinese girl who was such an inspriation to Bishop Sheen, and also Margaret Midleton. If you could point me to others and where to find the story I would be appreciative.
Many thanks!
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A couple more are cited in “The Year of the Eucharist”.
vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20041014_anno-eucaristia_en.html#1.
(To access the below paragraph, click on “1. Reference Chart”. Then scroll down to the last paragraph in section 6.)
**The Saints as Witnesses of Eucharistic life
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A few of them lived this dimension with a particular intensity and with special gifts from the Spirit, communicating to their brothers this same fervor of love for the Eucharist. (cf. Mane nobiscum Domine, 31). There are innumerable examples: St. Ignatius of Antioch and St. Ambrose, St. Bernard and St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Pasquale Baylón and St. Alphonsus Liguori, St. Catherine of Siena and St. Theresa of Avila, St. Peter Julian Eymard and St. Pio of Pietrelcina. There are even “martyrs of the Eucharist”, ancient and modern, from St. Tarsicius to St. Nicolas Pieck and companions, and St. Peter Maldonado. ** Only info I would know about is what you can pull up by googling their names.
 
Yes I found this document and these references as well, that’s how I identified the few I did.

The question arises because I have heard it said in various posts in these forums and elsewhere when defending the True Presence doctrine that one of the evidences is that saints have died defending the Eucharist from sacrilege since the earliest days, so I am just trying to dig up details of that assertion.
 
  1. At the beginning of the fourth century, Christian worship was still forbidden by the imperial authorities. Some Christians in North Africa, who felt bound to celebrate the Lord’s Day, defied the prohibition. They were martyred after declaring that it was not possible for them to live without the Eucharist, the food of the Lord: sine dominico non possumus. (252) May these martyrs of Abitinae, in union with all those saints and beati who made the Eucharist the centre of their lives, intercede for us and teach us to be faithful to our encounter with the risen Christ. We too cannot live without partaking of the sacrament of our salvation; we too desire to be iuxta dominicam viventes, to reflect in our lives what we celebrate on the Lord’s Day. That day is the day of our definitive deliverance. Is it surprising, then, that we should wish to live every day in that newness of life which Christ has brought us in the mystery of the Eucharist?
Pope Benedict XVI

vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_ben-xvi_exh_20070222_sacramentum-caritatis_en.html
 
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