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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]
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.
Ten Thousand Saints: A Study in Irish and European Origins, Wellbrook Press (1972) Ten Thousand Saints: A Study in Irish and European Origins, a new edition, amplified and updated, Lilliput Press (2011) The Sub-Prefect Should Have Held His Tongue, and Other Essays, ed. R.F. Foster, Allen Lane The Penguin Press (London 1990)
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.
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.
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 .
Pages in category "Paintings of saints" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total. ... The Ten Thousand Martyrs (painting) The Thebaid (painting) ...
Ten thousand martyrs: 4th century Terentian: 2nd century Terenzio of Pesaro: c. 250 Tertius of Iconium: 1st century Thalassius of Syria: 5th century Thamel (martyr) 2nd century Theban Legion: 3rd century Thecla of Iconium: c. 1st century Theoclia: 4th century Theodora (Roman martyr) 2nd century Theodora and Didymus: 3rd or 4th century Theodore ...