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Thomas Becket, 1170 - The most famous martyr of the Middle Ages. [74] Berard of Carbio and companions, 1220; Serapion of Algiers, 1240; Buzád Hahót, 1241; Peter of Verona, 1252 by Cathars - Canonized 11 months after his death; the fastest in history. Martyrs of Sandomierz, 1260; Antonio Pavoni, 1374 by Waldensians; Tsar Lazar, 1389 [75 ...
The Welsh Martyrs are the priests Philip Evans and John Lloyd, John Jones, David Lewis, John Roberts, and the teacher Richard Gwyn. [9] The companions are the 34 English Martyrs listed above. Wales continues to keep 4 May as a separate feast for the beatified martyrs of England and Wales. [10]
Edmund Arrowsmith, SJ (c. 1585 – 28 August 1628) was one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales of the Catholic Church.The main source of information on Arrowsmith is a contemporary account written by an eyewitness and published a short time after his death.
painter, also an Ely Martyr Oxford Martyrs 71. Hugh Latimer (or Latymer) Baxterley, Warwickshire [103] clergyman – chaplain to King Edward VI burnt 16 October 1555 outside Balliol College, Oxford [7] [104] 72. Nicholas Ridley: Fulham Palace: clergyman – Bishop of London under Edward VI Canterbury Martyrs of November 1555 73. John Webbe (or ...
John Jones O.F.M (c. 1530 - 12 July 1598), also known as John Buckley, John Griffith, Godfrey Maurice (in religion), [1] or Griffith Jones, was a Franciscan priest and martyr. He was born at Clynnog Fawr, Caernarfonshire , Wales, and was executed 12 July 1598 at Southwark, England. He is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
— William Tyndale, English scholar and Bible translator (c. 6 October 1536), before being strangled and burned at the stake for heresy "None but Christ! None but Christ!" [15]: 144 [17] [88] — John Lambert, English Protestant martyr (22 November 1538), while being burned at the stake "May an avenger arise from my bones." [11]: 160
Carthusian martyrs of London, Nottingham and Axholme Martyrdom of Humphrey Middlemore, William Exmew and Sebastian Newdigate As well as those listed below, John Fisher and Thomas More were beatified on this date, as were 11 members [ a ] of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales , making a total of 54.
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 ...