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"You see this vessel-water pot or whatever it may be? . . . Can it be called by any other name than what it is?...So also I cannot call myself by any other name than what I am-a Christian."
- Perpetua's response to her Father when he urged her to renounce her faith in order to avoid martyrdom with her unborn baby "Viva Christo Rey!" (Long live Christ the King!)
- The last words of St. Salvador Lara Puente, age 21, St. Miguel Pro, a priest, and many, many other Mexican Catholics who were executed for their Catholic faith by the Mexican government in the early 1900's "Tell [my parents]…I will see them in heaven. Viva Christo Rey!" (Long live Christ the King!)
- The last words of Blessed Jose Sanchez del Rio, age 15, before execution during the persecution of Catholics in Mexico in the early 1900's "Viva Christo Rey!" (Long Live Christ the King!)
- the last words of Jorge and Ramon Vargas Gonzalez, brothers martyred during the persecution of Catholics in Mexico "You know that our mission as mothers is to raise our children to heaven."
- Dona Elvira, comforting relatives at their funeral. "It is in vain that you attack me. I am between Jesus and Mary. I have finished my course: All is over. I will sin no more"
- St. Louis De Montfort's last words, apparently addressing the devil Cardinal Saldarini to Servant of God Chiara Badano (who died at age 18, 10/7/90):
"The light in your eyes is splendid. Where does it come from?"
Chiara's reply: "I try to love Jesus as much as I can."
"When you're getting me ready, Mum, you have to keep saying to yourself, 'Chiara Luce is now seeing Jesus'."
- Chiara to her mom - shortly before her death "Goodbye. Be happy because I'm happy."
- Chiara's final words "I am a Polish Catholic priest; I am old; I want to take his place because he has a wife and children."
- St. Maximillian Kolbe to a prison guard at Auschwitz, offering his life in exchange for another prisoner who went on to survive the holocaust. "I give my soul to Jesus Christ!".
- Venerable Solanus Casey's last words
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