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Martyrdom See also Sacrifice. Agatha, St. tortured for resisting advances of Quintianus. [Christian Hagiog.: Daniel, 21]
traditionally, first British martyr. [Christian Hagiog: NCE, 49] apostle and missionary; condemned to be scourged and crucified. [Christian Hagiog.: Brewster, 4] symbol of martyrdom of St. Sebastian. [Christian Iconog.: Attwater, 304] (1800–1859) abolitionist leader; died for antislavery cause. [Am. Hist.: Hart, 111] beautiful Greek convert; executed and later canonized. [Br. Lit.: Callista] harassed and tortured by Anglicans, hanged on a false charge of treason. [Br. Lit.: Edmund Campion in Magill I, 237] symbol of St. Sebastian. [Christian Hagiog.: Brewer Handbook, I, 411] patron saint of sailors; intestines wound on windlass. [Christian Hagiog.: Attwater, 117] place of martyrdom or of torment; after site of Christ’s crucifixion. [Western Folklore: Espy, 79] male infants slaughtered by Herod. [Christian Hagiog.: Attwater, 179; N.T.: Matthew 2:16–18] cut to pieces for belief in Christianity. [Christian Hagiog.: Brewster, 2] crucified at demand of Jewish authorities. [N.T.: Matthew 27:24–61; Mark 15:15–47; Luke 23:13–56; John 19:13–42] (1412–1431) burned at stake for witchcraft (1431). [Fr. Hist.: NCE, 1417; Br. Lit.: I Henry VI] Jewish prophet; beheaded at instigation of Salome. [N.T.: Matthew 11:1–19; 17:11–13] (1478–1535) statesman and humanist; be-headed for opposition to Henry VIII’s Act of Supremacy [Br. Hist.: NCE, 1830] oil- and tar-smeared Christians implanted and set aflame. [Christian Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 614] appeared on martyrs’ graves. [Christian Symbolism: Appleton, 73] gored by wild beasts; slain with swords. [Christian Hagiog.: Attwater, 273] apostle crucified upside down in Rome. [Christian Hagiog.: Brewster, 310]
(Nicola, 1891–1927) (Bartolomeo, 1888–1927) perhaps executed more for radicalism than murder (August 22, 1927). [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 311] Roman soldier; shot with arrows and struck with clubs. [Christian Hagiog.: Brewster, 75] first martyr; stoned as blasphemer. [Christian Hagiog.: Attwater, 313] instrument of decapitation of early saints. [Christian Symbolism: Appleton, 14] first woman martyr. [Christian Hagiog.: Brewer Dictionary, 1072] (1118–1170) brutally slain in Canterbury cathedral by king’s knights. [Br. Hist.: NCE, 2735–2736] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Martyrdom made a saint of the trivial and foolish Marie Antoinette, and her biographers still keep her fragrant with the odor of sanctity to this day, while unconsciously proving upon almost every page they write that the only calamitous instinct which her husband lacked, she supplied--the instinct to root out and get rid of an honest, able, and loyal official, wherever she found him.
Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Aunt Jane six months later mitigated this martyrdom by making her a ruffled dimity pinafore, artfully shaped to conceal all the spots. |
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