{"id":586,"date":"2023-07-07T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=586"},"modified":"2025-09-28T00:56:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:56:29","slug":"vatican-commission-will-catalogue-non-catholic-christian-martyrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Vatican commission will catalogue non-Catholic Christian martyrs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202c1a6ccccd3200b-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Coptic martyrs 6\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e202c1a6ccccd3200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202c1a6ccccd3200b-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Coptic martyrs 6\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love it! Very worth hitting the link for the whole article and not just the excerpts below the link. Only takes five minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aleteia.org\/2023\/07\/05\/vatican-commission-will-catalogue-non-catholic-christian-martyrs\/?utm_campaign=EM-EN-Newsletter-Daily-&amp;utm_content=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=sendgrid&amp;utm_term=20230705\">Just weeks after Pope Francis included Coptic martyrs in the Catholic Roman martyrology, he has established a working commission in the Dicastery for Saints\u2019 Causes to catalogue all Christian martyrs, including non-Catholic Christians.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twenty-one Christian martyrs, including 20 Copts killed by Daech in 2015 in Libya, were included in the Roman martyrology, Pope Francis announced on May 11, 2023, in front of Patriarch Tawadros II, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church, who was present in Rome. <a href=\"https:\/\/aleteia.org\/2023\/05\/11\/not-since-5th-century-catholic-and-coptic-churches-will-share-saints\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"This is historic\">This is historic<\/a>: The Catholic Church and the Coptic Church have saints of the first centuries in common, but these will be the first saints recognized by both Churches since the split of the fifth century.<\/p>\n<p>**********************<\/p>\n<p>Saint John Paul II had already stated in his Letter&#0160;<em>Tertio millennio adveniente<\/em>&#0160;that everything must be done to ensure that the legacy of the \u201cunknown soldiers of God\u2019s great cause\u201d is not lost.<\/p>\n<p>On May 7, 2000, these very martyrs were remembered during an ecumenical celebration, which saw gathered at the Colosseum, together with the Bishop of Rome, representatives of Churches and ecclesial communities from all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis has repeatedly called this shared testimony to Christ an \u201cecumenism of blood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>********************<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a world where at times it seems that evil prevails,\u201d the Pope concluded, \u201cI am certain that the elaboration of this Catalogue, also in the context of the approaching Jubilee, will help believers to read the reasons for life and good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love it! Very worth hitting the link for the whole article and not just the excerpts below the link. Only takes five minutes. Just weeks after Pope Francis included Coptic martyrs in the Catholic Roman martyrology, he has established a working commission in the Dicastery for Saints\u2019 Causes to catalogue all Christian martyrs, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5120,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/5120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}