The New Martyrs

The Church first gave the title of New Martyr to those who died for Christ under heretical rulers, as the first martyrs had died under pagans. Later it was given to the Church's martyrs under Islamic rule and under the atheist regimes of modern times, above all Communist ones. Here are the 25 lives of those the calendar names as New Martyrs or New Confessors, by the day of their feast.

• 2JanuarySt George the Georgian
• 7JanuarySt Athanasius of Attalia
• 5FebruarySt Antony of Athens
• 7AprilSt Tikhon of Moscow
• 10AprilSt Gregory V of Constantinople
• 21MaySt Pachomius the New Martyr
• 26MaySt Alexander of Thessalonica
• 27MaySt John the Russian
• 2JuneSt Constantine the Hagarene of Mytilene
• 10JuneSt Metrophanes, first Chinese priest
• 11JulyNikodemos and Nektarios
• 24AugustSt Kosmas of Aitolia
• 28AugustSt Chrysostom of Smyrna
• 1SeptemberSt Angelis
• 4SeptemberSt Gorazd of Slovakia
• 8SeptemberSt Athanasius of Thessalonika
• 14SeptemberSt Macarius of Thessalonica
• 23SeptemberSt John of Epirus
• 27SeptemberSt Aquilina the New Martyr
• 21OctoberSt John of Monembasia
• 31OctoberSt Nicholas of Chios
• 1NovemberSt Helen of Sinope
• 18NovemberSt Anastasius of Epirus
• 26NovemberSt George of Chios
• 6DecemberSt Nicolas Karamos of Smyrna

See all the martyrs or the saints of the 20th century.