Saints who committed Crimes Against Humanity is intended as a listing of persons who have been recognized as Saints by an organized religion and who, based on reliable historical evidence, committed acts which, by modern standards, would be considered Crimes against humanity or War Crimes. This listing is intended to include political leaders who have been declared to be saints. The listing does not include common criminals who committed criminal acts but later repented and entered the path to sainthood. The list includes:

• Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621). As Inquisitor, had Giordano Bruno burned alive. Persecuted Galileo Galilei.

• Constantine the Great (272-337) was the Roman Emperor who legalized Christianity. Although he clearly created a kinder, gentler Roman Empire, he was involved in crimes against humanity and war crimes on a daily basis.

• Louis IX of France (1214-1270). While king of France, St. Louis persecuted Jews on account of their religion. He led the Albigensian Crusade against Christian "heretics" in France, resulting in massacres of heretics, as well as persons not involved in the dispute,
  
  
  
  and created an Inquisition to question and torture persons about religious matters.

• Pope Pius V (1504-1572). Prior to election as Pope, St. Pius V led inquisitions to question and torture persons about religious matters. Involved in the persecution of Jews and Huguenots.

• St. Thomas More (1478-1535), who, while serving as Lord Chancellor of England, had six Christians burned alive for distributing Bibles written in English.

• Charles I of England (1600-1649), who made extensive use of the Court of Star Chamber to torture innocent people on account of their religious beliefs.

Other Saints who Killed People

• Athanasius of Alexandria (298-373). Athanasius may have invented murder in the name of Christ, but his crimes do not seem to rise to the level of war crimes or crimes against humanity.

• Nicholas II of Russia (1868-1918) was the leader of Russia during World War I and the beginnings of the Russian Revolution. Many war crimes were committed by all sides in these conflicts. The current article, however, does not list any acts that could be considered war crimes attributable to the czar.