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  2. List of Christian martyrs - Wikipedia

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    Dirk Willems etching from Martyrs Mirror "Death of Cranmer", from the 1887 Foxe's Book of Martyrs. Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos, 1523, burned at the stake, early Lutheran martyrs; Jan de Bakker, 1525, burned at the stake; Martyrs of Tlaxcala, 1527-1529; Felix Manz, 1527; Patrick Hamilton, 1528, burned at the stake, early Lutheran martyr ...

  3. Blandina - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the story of the martyrs of Lyon, Blandina is portrayed as mother who sends her children to become martyrs for God before becoming a martyr herself, "Blandina herself passed through all the ordeals of her children." [9] Blandina's relationship to the youngest of the martyrs, Ponticus, is also compared to the mother in 4 Maccabees. [10]

  4. Martyrs Mirror - Wikipedia

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    The full title of the book is The Bloody Theater or Martyrs Mirror of the Defenseless Christians who baptized only upon confession of faith, and who suffered and died for the testimony of Jesus, their Saviour, from the time of Christ to the year A.D. 1660.

  5. Christian martyr - Wikipedia

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    The stoning to death of Stephen, the first Christian martyr, in a painting by the 16th-century Spanish artist Juan Correa de Vivar. In Christianity, a martyr is a person who was killed for their testimony for Jesus or faith in Jesus. [1]

  6. Perpetua and Felicity - Wikipedia

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    Perpetua and Felicity (Latin: Perpetua et Felicitas; c. 182 [6] – c. 203) were Christian martyrs of the third century. Vibia Perpetua was a recently married, well-educated noblewoman, said to have been 22 years old at the time of her death, and mother of an infant son she was nursing. [7]

  7. Acts of the Martyrs - Wikipedia

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    The scarcity of official records and direct documentation has been controversial. The old Christian communities had a great interest in maintaining the memory of their martyrs, as proven by the news referenced in the story of the martyrdom of Polycarp (m. 156), [3] whose memory was venerated annually in İzmir.

  8. Tarcisius - Wikipedia

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    The only positive information concerning this Roman martyr is found in a poem composed in his honour by Pope Damasus (366–384), who compares him to the deacon Saint Stephen and says that, as Stephen was stoned by a crowd, so Tarcisius, carrying the Blessed Sacrament, was attacked by a group and beaten to death.

  9. Category:Christian martyrs - Wikipedia

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    Most articles should be placed in a sub-category covering a specific time period. In the case of the later periods, the article should also be placed in a denominational sub-category. Note that the denominational categories are not used to identify which churches honour a particular martyr, but rather the church to which the m