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Ten Thousand Saints is a 2015 American drama film written and directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. [4] It is based on the novel of the same name by Eleanor Henderson. The film stars Asa Butterfield as Jude Keffy-Horn, the protagonist of the story. [5] The film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2015. [6]
His book Ten Thousand Saints was a virtuoso performance, concluding with a theory that the apparently absurd legends of Irish prehistory and theology could provide evidence of the migration of Iron-age tribes around Europe. He illustrated the point by reference to local history and scholarship.
Ten thousand martyrs may refer to the ten thousand martyred Fathers in the Deserts and caves of Scete by Theophilus of Alexandria or to the ten thousand martyrs of Mount Ararat who were, according to a medieval legend, Roman soldiers who, led by Saint Acacius, converted to Christianity and were crucified on Mount Ararat by order of the Roman emperor.
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The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand is an oil painting by Albrecht Dürer, dating to 1508 and now at the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna, Austria. It is signed on a cartouche which hangs from the artist's self-portrait in the center, saying Iste faciebat Ano Domini 1508 Albertus Dürer Aleman .
The Ten Thousand Martyrs (c. 1529–1530) by Pontormo. The Ten Thousand Martyrs is an oil on panel painting by Pontormo, executed c. 1529–1530, produced for the monks of Florence's Spedale degli Innocenti and now in the city's Galleria Palatina. [1] It shows the martyrdom of the eponymous martyrs alongside Saint Maurice.
Route of Xenophon and the Ten Thousand (red line) in the Achaemenid Empire.The satrapy of Cyrus the Younger is delineated in green.. The Ten Thousand (Ancient Greek: οἱ Μύριοι, hoi Myrioi) were a force of mercenary units, mainly Greeks, employed by Cyrus the Younger to attempt to wrest the throne of the Persian Empire from his brother, Artaxerxes II.
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