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1. Martyrs are regarded as dying in the service of the Lord, and confessors are people who died natural deaths. (Web site)
2. Martyrs were the first to be honored.
3. The martyrs are heroes who discredit the enemies of the faith with their lives. (Web site)
4. The martyrs were subsequently canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1930. (Web site)
5. These martyrs are known worldwide and continue to be an encouragement for many missionaries. (Web site)

Jews

1. It is little known that John Foxe's Book of Martyrs included stories of Jews.

Author

1. John Foxe (1516 - April 8, 1587) is remembered as the author of the famous Foxe's Book of Martyrs. (Web site)

Ten Thousand Martyrs

1. References in Art and Literature The mountain was the setting for the legend of the ten thousand martyrs of Mount Ararat.

Rosenbergs

1. Other historians have suggested that Bloch purposely botched the trial in an effort to make martyrs of the Rosenbergs as part of a larger socialist agenda.

Sons Mohammad

1. Muslim Ibn Aqeel two sons Mohammad and Ibrahim also became martyrs in Kufa.

Famous Martyrs

1. The blood of numerous and often famous martyrs became the mortar binding the structure of the Church together. (Web site)

English Martyrs

1. To them should be added, as Law remarks in his "Calendar of English Martyrs" (London, 1870), thirty-two Franciscans who were starved to death. (Web site)

John Fisher

1. It was under this act that saints Thomas More and John Fisher were executed and became martyrs to the Catholic faith. (Web site)
2. There are also two letters to Pope Leo XIII petitioning him for the canonization of John Fisher, Thomas More, and the English Martyrs.

Martyrs Square

1. In Martyrs Square, a statue honors heroes executed in 1915 for fighting for independence from Ottoman Turkey.

Catholic Martyrs

1. There were many Catholic martyrs killed for resisting Hitler or who died in concentration camps for helping the Jews. (Web site)

Eusebius

1. Eusebius tells us that at the same time they enclosed letters which had been written in prison by the martyrs on the question of the Montanists. (Web site)

Martyrs Marinus

1. Martyrs Marinus the soldier and Asterius the senator at Caesaria in Palestine.

Sikh Martyrs

1. They have been included among the Sikh martyrs and their memory preserved in the daily set congregational prayer of the Sikhs.

Stade Des Martyrs

1. Description: Stade des Martyrs is a multi-use national stadium in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Web site)

Forty Martyrs

1. Other martyrs, such as the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, have also been canonised.

John Foxe

1. This work became the basic source for John Foxe 's account of the Marian period in his famous Book of Martyrs. (Web site)
2. JOHN FOXE (1516-1587), the author of the famous Book of Martyrs, was born at Boston, in Lincolnshire, in 1516. (Web site)
3. John Foxe (1517-1587) was a Puritan most famous for his book Foxe's Book of Martyrs which chronicled the Marian Persecutions.

Holy Martyrs

1. IX. 5. The Greek church has also shown great attention to preserve the memory of the holy martyrs and saints.
2. Under Pope Paschal I (817-824) all the spoils of the holy martyrs were transferred into the walls.

North American Martyrs

1. Five of the eight North American martyrs were put to death in what is now Canada, and three of them in New York State. (Web site)

Canadian Martyrs

1. To read about the Canadian Martyrs, click the picture of the martyrs. (Web site)
2. There is a shrine to the Canadian martyrs at Fort Saint Mary near Midland, Ontario. (Web site)

Christian Martyrs

1. Saints Antonia and Alexander were Christian martyrs of 313, and they are saints whose acta are legendary.
2. Heroic virtue is a phrase coined by Augustine of Hippo to describe the virtue of early Christian martyrs.
3. An 8 page paper which discusses two women, Blandina and Perpetua, and illustrates how they stand to represent the prototype for Christian martyrs.

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades

1. Arafat apparently has enough influence with the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades to get them to release a governor, but not to stop terrorism. (Web site)

Life

1. He spent his life in seclusion, weeping over the martyrs at Karbala, for which he was named 'as-Sajjad (the prostrator). (Web site)
2. Our eyes are shedding tears, our hearts are burning, and our martyrs cannot come to life by our reprimanding and reproaching you. (Web site)

Haymarket Martyrs

1. As with Emma Goldman, the hanging of the Haymarket martyrs made a profound impression on Voltairine and was the major impetus in her turn toward anarchism.
2. It is likely that Winn, like many other anarchists of the time, became politicized by the execution of the Haymarket martyrs.

Day

1. This is why to this day the witness of the martyrs continues to arouse such interest, to draw agreement, to win such a hearing and to invite emulation. (Web site)

Homage

1. At one minute past midnight on 21 February, the President of Bangladesh arrives at the Shaheed Minar to pay homage to the language martyrs. (Web site)

Attack

1. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a group linked to Arafat's Fatah, claimed credit for the attack.

Responsibility

1. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. (Web site)

List

1. In general, the List of Catholic martyrs of the English Reformation was extensive.

Feast

1. The feast of these two martyrs was included in the Roman calendar of saints by Pope Vigilius in 555. (Web site)
2. The feast of St. Valentine among a host of unknown martyrs was first declared February 14 by Pope Gelasius I in 496. (Web site)

Saint John

1. The oldest of the eight North American martyrs, Saint John de Brebeuf, was fifty-six when the Indians killed him. (Web site)

Baptist

1. At first only martyrs and Saint John the Baptist were honoured by a special day. (Web site)

Philosophers

1. Mystics and martyrs, philosophers and theologians, poets and prose writers are quoted at length and in depth. (Web site)
2. Mystics, martyrs, philosophers, and Church Fathers are quoted at length as Fr.

Battle

1. During this battle the Protestant rebels killed the catholic Martyrs of Gorkum and Brielle has become a pilgrimage location since then.

Victims

1. When the Muslims went about searching for their victims and their martyrs, they found Salim in the last thro es of death. (Web site)
2. A fter the Gurus, came, in terms of popularity, themes that depict Sikh martyrs who became victims of mughal bigotry.

Deaths

1. Gandhi has come under fire in particular for statements to the effect that the Jews would win God's love if they willingly went to their deaths as martyrs. (Web site)

Men

1. These men came to be referred to as "fluorine martyrs". (Web site)
2. These men were in their own generation successors to the Haymarket martyrs and Joe Hill. (Web site)

Companions

1. After the battle, the Prophet and his companions went through the battlefield, bidding farewell to the martyrs. (Web site)

Members

1. The attack was apparently carried out by two members of the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, with the help of the Islamic Jihad. (Web site)

Griffith

1. D.W. Griffith also made one of the first - if not the first - fictional movies of the Alamo story, The Martyrs of the Alamo. (Web site)

War

1. It was built to commemorate the martyrs of the war of independence, Jahangirnagar University and its sprawling campus is also located nearby.

Revolutionaries

1. At Karbala clouds of blood rained and generations of martyrs and revolutionaries took root and sprouted.
2. Khudiram and Prafulla became revered martyrs among the mass of Bengalis and inspired more youth to join the revolutionaries.

Basilica

1. The crypt houses the remains of martyrs found in the Basilica of San Saturno (see below).

Rome

1. Martyrs Marinus and Martha, and their children, Audifax and Abbacum (Habbakuk), and those with them at Rome: Cyrinus, Valentine, and Asterius the presbyter.

Women

1. By that time, three hundred and sixty three (363) Bishnois, young and old, men and women, married and unmarried, rich and poor had already become martyrs. (Web site)
2. Women and children formed 75 percent of the martyrs and wounded of the bloody Friday of Halabja. (Web site)
3. Some martyrs, men and women, are then mentioned by name. (Web site)

Lives

1. Anarchism was the cause for which the Haymarket martyrs gave their lives, and the movement for which Lucy Parsons dedicated much of her life. (Web site)
2. In the language of Latin Americans who remember the martyrs with the cry " presente!" Helder Camara, although dead, still lives.

Bishop

1. Joseph Hoang Xuan Tieu, bishop of Long Xuyen, South Vietnam, during celebrations (pictured) for the 150th anniversary of the two martyrs. (Web site)

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