- Nuns
Maria Goretti 16
October 1890 6 July 1902 11 Italy
Albano Martyr in
defensum castitatis Francisco Marto 11 July 1908 4
April 1919 10 Portugal Leiria-Fátima...
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virginity for the sake of heaven.
Other virgin martyrs lost
their lives in
defensum castitatis ('in
defense of chastity'). A
group of
virgin martyrs of the...
- (11
April 1919 – 15 June 1931) was a
Brazilian Catholic girl
killed "in
defensum castitatis" in 1931
after she
resisted her attacker's rape attempts. Berkenbrock...
- on 6
March 2018
after Pope
Francis confirmed both that she had died in
defensum castitatis ("in
defense of chastity") and her
forthcoming beatification...
- cōnstitūtum "to establish, decide,
cause to stand" dēfendō, dēfendere, dēfendī,
dēfēnsum "to defend" expellō, expellere, expulī,
expulsum "to
drive out, expel"...
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Professed Religious,
School Sisters of
Notre Dame
Baltimore Martyr in
defensum castitatis 1971
Renaud Bouffard 14 June 1931 Augusta,
Maine 25 May 1971...
- See also Marcian,
Digest 1.8.8: "sanctum" est quod ab
iniuria hominum defensum atque munitum est ("it is
sanctum that
which is
defended and protected...
- the
approval of Pope
Benedict XVI who
determined that she was
killed in
defensum castitatis (in
defense of chastity). She was
beatified on 2
December 2007...
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Professed Religious of the
Carmelites of
Mother Candelaria;
Martyr in
defensum castitatis (Colombia – Venezuela)
Devasya Kaniyarakath (rel. name: Bruno)...
-
March 1985. Pope John Paul II
approved the fact that
Mesina had died "in
defensum castitatis" on 8 May 1987 and
therefore of
approved her beatification....
