Nineteen Catholics suffer martyrdom for their beliefs, in the Dutch town of Gorkum.

The Martyrs of Gorkum were a group of 19 Dutch Catholic clerics, secular and religious, who were hanged on 9 July 1572 in the town of Brielle by militant Dutch Calvinists during the 16th-century religious wars—specifically, the Dutch Revolt against Spanish rule, which developed into the Eighty Years' War.

Gorinchem, also spelled Gorkum, is a city and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of 21.93 km² (8.47 sq mi) of which 3.10 km² (1.20 sq mi) is water. It had a population of 37,410 in 2021.