Roman Catholic martyr

C14992
concept

A Roman Catholic martyr is a person who is killed or suffers death rather than renounce their Roman Catholic faith or its moral teachings, and is venerated by the Church as a witness to Christ.

All labels observed (7)

Label Occurrences
Catholic martyr 10
Roman Catholic martyr canonical 5
Catholic martyrs 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: Roman Catholic martyr
Generated description
A Roman Catholic martyr is a person who is killed or suffers death rather than renounce their Roman Catholic faith or its moral teachings, and is venerated by the Church as a witness to Christ.

Instances (20)

Instance Via concept surface
Franz Jägerstätter Catholic martyr
Saint Sebastian martyr of the Diocletianic Persecution
Thomas More Catholic martyr
John Southworth
linked to: Southworth
Catholic martyr
Ferdinand the Holy Prince Christian martyr figure
Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel Catholic martyr
Martyrs of Otranto Catholic martyrs
Jean de Lalande —
North American Martyrs Roman Catholic martyrs
Gabriel Lalemant Catholic martyr
Charles Garnier —
René Goupil Catholic martyr
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury Catholic martyr
Antoine Daniel —
Edmund Campion Catholic martyr
Alojzije Stepinac Catholic martyr
Józef Kowalski Polish Roman Catholic martyr
Hermenegild Catholic martyr
Joan of Arc —
St. René Goupil —