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A martyr (Greek: μάρτυς, mártys, 'witness' stem μαρτυρ-, martyr-) is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external party. In colloquial usage, the term can also refer to any person who suffers a significant ...
Madonna and Child with St Peter Martyr, by Lorenzo Lotto Joan of Arc being burned at the stake, by Jules-Eugène Lenepveu. Tewdrig, 6th c. [61] Boethius, 6th c. [62] Sigismund of Burgundy, 524 [63] Edwin of Northumbria, 633 in the Battle of Hatfield Chase [64] Oswald of Northumbria, 642 in the Battle of Maserfield [65] Projectus of Clermont, 676
In Christianity, a martyr is a person who was killed for their testimony for Jesus or faith in Jesus. [1] In the years of the early church , stories depict this often occurring through death by sawing , stoning , crucifixion , burning at the stake , or other forms of torture and capital punishment .
This page is an index of lists of people considered martyrs. A martyr is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, refusing to renounce, or refusing to advocate a belief or cause as demanded by an external party. This refusal to comply with the presented demands results in the punishment or execution of the martyr by ...
Gildas gives a short account of Alban's martyrdom in his De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae (c. 570), [4] and Bede gives a much fuller account in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People (c. 730). [3] Gildas calls Alban a martyr of Verulamium but says he crossed the river Thames prior to his execution, during the persecution of Diocletian.
As a reporter for The Guardian notes in an article written during the Second Intifada in August 2001, the Muslim world celebrates "martyr-bombers" as heroes defending the things held sacred. Polls in the Middle East in August 2001 showed that 75% of people had been in favor of martyr-bombings. [103]
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s attempted assassination, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has clarified prior comments he made wishing that the former president was an “actual martyr ...
Martyrs are people who suffer persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, refusing to renounce, or refusing to advocate a belief or cause as demanded by an external party. The ideological motivation of martyrs are their religious beliefs and political causes.