List of protomartyrs

A protomartyr (Koine Greek, πρῶτος prôtos 'first' + μάρτυς mártus 'martyr') is the first Christian martyr in a country or among a particular group, such as a religious order. Similarly, the phrase the Protomartyr (with no other qualification of country or region) can mean Saint Stephen, the first martyr of the Christian church. Saint Thecla the Protomartyr, the first female martyr of the Christian church, is known as "apostle and protomartyr among women".^[1]

Name	Year	Place	first...
Stephen	c. 34	Jerusalem	—
First Martyrs of the Church of Rome	64	Rome	in Rome
Sandukht	1st century	Armenia	in Armenia
Saint Alban^[2]	3rd/4th c.	St Albans	in Great Britain
Vincent of Saragossa	304	Valencia	in Spain
Rajden the First-Martyr^[3]	457	Tsromi	from Georgia / under the Sassanid Empire
Odran	5th c.	Ireland	in Ireland
Adalbert of Prague	997	Prussia	in the Duchy of Poland
Martyrs Theodore and his son, John, of Kiev	10th c.	Kiev	in all Rus lands
The Franciscan protomartyrs	1220	Morocco	of the Franciscan order
Child Martyrs of Tlaxcala^[4]	1527	Mexico	in the Americas
Juan de Padilla	1542	Kansas	in what is now the United States
Luis Cáncer	1549	Tampa Bay, Florida	in Florida
Antonio de Valdivieso	1549	León	in Nicaragua
Peter Baptist and companions	1627	Nagasaki	in Japan
Philip of Jesus	1627	Nagasaki	from Mexico^[5]
St. Lorenzo Ruiz	1637	Nagasaki	from the Philippines
Blessed Andrew of Phu Yen^[6]	1641	Kẻ Chàm, Vietnam	in Vietnam
André de Soveral	1645	Canguaretama	in Brazil^[7]
Francis Ferdinand de Capillas	1648	Fujian, China	in the Chinese Empire
Pedro Calungsod	1672	Tumon, Guam	in Guam
Juvenaly^{[citation needed]}	1796	Quinhagak, Alaska	in Alaska
Andrew Kim Taegon	1846	Seoul	in Korea
James Hannington	1885	Uganda	in Eastern Equatorial Africa
Peter Chanel	1841	Futuna	in Oceania
St. Vladimir Bogoyavlensky	1918	Moscow	under the Soviet Union
Marcello Maruzzo and Luis Navarro	1981	Los Amates	in Guatemala

References

^ Michael F. Bird, Scott Harrower, The Cambridge Companion to the Apostolic Fathers, Cambridge University Press (2021), p. 183; see also St. Thekla, Protomartyr and Equal to the Apostles (antiochian.org).
^ Thurston, Herbert. "St. Alban." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907.
^ Machitadze, Archpriest Zakaria (2006), "St. Razhden, Protomartyr of the Georgian Church (†457)", in The Lives of the Georgian Saints Archived 2008-06-14 at the Wayback Machine. pravoslavie.ru. Retrieved on 2011-12-18.
^ Proto-martyrs of the Americas
^ Philip of Jesus, one of the companions of Peter Baptist, was long known as the first Mexican saint. This has technically no longer been the case since the canonization of the Child Martyrs of Tlaxcala by Pope Francis in 2017.
^ "WYD02 Saints: Blessed Andrew of Phu Yen – Protomartyr of Vietnam". Archived from the original on 2010-11-28. Retrieved 2009-12-28.
^ Protomartyrs of Brazil

[1] Michael F. Bird, Scott Harrower, The Cambridge Companion to the Apostolic Fathers, Cambridge University Press (2021), p. 183; see also St. Thekla, Protomartyr and Equal to the Apostles (antiochian.org).

[thurston-2] Thurston, Herbert. "St. Alban." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907.

[Machitadze-3] Machitadze, Archpriest Zakaria (2006), "St. Razhden, Protomartyr of the Georgian Church (†457)", in The Lives of the Georgian Saints Archived 2008-06-14 at the Wayback Machine. pravoslavie.ru. Retrieved on 2011-12-18.

[4] Proto-martyrs of the Americas

[5] Philip of Jesus, one of the companions of Peter Baptist, was long known as the first Mexican saint. This has technically no longer been the case since the canonization of the Child Martyrs of Tlaxcala by Pope Francis in 2017.

[6] "WYD02 Saints: Blessed Andrew of Phu Yen – Protomartyr of Vietnam". Archived from the original on 2010-11-28. Retrieved 2009-12-28.

[7] Protomartyrs of Brazil

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