List of child saints


Child saints are children and adolescents who died or were martyred and have been declared saints or martyrs of the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Anglican, Episcopalian, or Lutheran Churches or have been beatified or venerated by those churches.

List of child saints

110 infant and child martyrs of the French Revolution

Martyrs of China">Martyr Saints of China">Martyrs of China

[Persecution of Christians in [Warsaw Pact countries|Martyrs of Eastern Europe under communist regimes]]

[Martyrs of Korea]

Martyrs of Kosheh">Kosheh Martyrs">Martyrs of Kosheh

[Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War]

[Martyrs of Thailand]

Martyrs of Vietnam

was a twelve year old English boy whose unsolved murder was, at the time, attributed to the Jewish community of Norwich. It is the first known medieval accusation against Jews of ritual murder. E. M. Rose points out that road robberies and kidnappings gone wrong were a frequent cause of death in the region during the period of The Anarchy when the Crown struggled to safeguard the roads. This was followed by a similar allegation regarding the unexplained death of Harold of Gloucester. An attempt to establish a cult of Harold seems to have been unsuccessful. It was never officially supported and died out long before the Reformation. However, it established a pattern. Any unexplained child death occurring near the Easter festival was arbitrarily linked to Jews in the vicinity. In some instances promotion of a cult may have been influenced by the interest of local clergy to enhance the prestige of their church with a shrine. Anthony Bale suggests this, and local politics, may have been contributing factors to the cult of Robert of Bury. Simon of Trent and Werner of Oberwesel are other examples of individuals who died under unknown circumstances, but whose deaths were nonetheless attributed to the Jews.
Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln was never actually canonised, making the moniker "Little Saint Hugh" a misnomer. He never appeared in Butler's Lives of the Saints, the Vatican never included the child Hugh in Catholic martyrology, and his traditional English feast day is not celebrated.
In the case of Dominguito del Val, and Andreas Oxner, Gabriel of Białystok, and the Holy Child of La Guardia it is not clear that the alleged victim ever existed in the first place.