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The Fool's Cap Map of the World is an artistic presentation of a world map created by an unknown artist sometime between 1580 and 1590 CE. The engraving takes the form of a court jester with the face replaced by cordiform (heart-shaped or leaf-shaped) world map based on the designs of cartographers such as Oronce Finé , Gerardus Mercator , and ...
The eschatology of the book is rather unusual. The end time described by the author does not manifest itself in the normal culmination of a battle, judgment or catastrophe, but rather as "a steady increase of light, [through which] darkness is made to disappear or in which iniquity dissolves and just as the smoke rising into the air eventually dissipates". [5]
The Peter Martyr map is a Spanish woodcut map composed in 1511 or 1514 and included in most or some copies of the 1511 edition of Decades of the New World by Peter Martyr d'Anghiera. The map depicts the insular and continental Caribbean coastlines and soundings as understood in the early 1510s by Iberian authorities. It is deemed the first ...
After six months, the martyr's body was found to be incorrupt, but his head and left arm were separated from his body. The body parts were then placed into two reliquaries , one sent to the Cathedral of Coire , at the behest of the bishop, and laid under the High Altar ; the other was placed in the Capuchin church at Weltkirchen, Feldkirch ...
These were placed respectively in the three altars of the new church, which was thus dedicated to Saint Arsenios of Cappadocia (November 10), to Saint Paisios of Mount Athos , and to the holy Martyrs Barachisius and Jonah , given that the church in Pharasa, Cappadocia, which was Arsenios' and Paisios' village and place of birth, was dedicated ...
martyr's palm, crucifix, chalice, Eucharist, holding a rope or noose, book or bible, sometimes depicted in a Franciscan habit John Wall, (aliases John Marsh, Francis Johnson or Dormore or Webb, religious name "Joachim of St. Ann") (1620 – 22 August 1679) was an English Franciscan friar , who is honoured as a martyr by the Catholic Church .
Millais' illustration of Wilson's martyrdom, published in Once A Week, July 1862. The Covenanter movement to maintain the reforms of the Scottish Reformation came to the fore with signing of the National Covenant of 1638 in opposition to royal control of the church, promoting Presbyterianism as a form of church government instead of an Episcopal polity governed by bishops appointed by the Crown.
In some cases, this results from the belief that the martyr has been singled out for persecution because of exceptional ability or integrity. [1] Other martyr complexes involve willful suffering in the name of love or duty. This has been observed especially in poor families, as well as in codependent or abusive relationships.