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Pope St. Fabian and Saint Sebastian, Giovanni di Paolo The martyrdom of St. Alban, from a 13th-century manuscript, now in the Trinity College Library, Dublin. Note the executioner's eyes falling out of his head
The church was also called the titulus Pammachii after Byzantius's son, the pious friend of St. Jerome. [1] In the ancient apartments on the ground-floor of the house of Byzantius, which were still retained under the basilica, the tomb of two Roman martyrs, John and Paul, was the object of veneration as early as the fifth century. [1]
Paul and Juliana were brother and sister who suffered martyrdom, [1] at the hands of Aurelian, in 270. [2] Juliana is one of the 140 Colonnade saints which adorn St. Peter's Square. The Holy Martyrs Paul and his sister Juliania were executed under the emperor Aurelian 273 in the Phoenician city of Ptolemaida.
The subsequent martyrs are associated with this patronage. The feast day was formerly occupied with a Commemoration of St. Paul, and fell in the Octave of SS Peter and Paul. The church of Santi Protomartiri a Via Aurelia Antica in Rome is dedicated to these first martyrs. [4]
Martyrdom of Paul Miki and Companions in Nagasaki St. Francisco Blanco. In the aftermath of the San Felipe incident of 1596, [3] 26 Catholics – four Spaniards, one Mexican, one Portuguese from India (all of whom were Franciscan missionaries), three Japanese Jesuits, and 17 Japanese members of the Third Order of St. Francis, including three young boys who served as altar boys for the ...
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]
Martyrdom of Paul by Pieter Coecke van Aelst. Martyrdom of Paul may refer to: Martyrdom of the Holy Apostle Paul, a section of the Acts of Paul; The death of Paul the Apostle; Martyrdom of St. Paul, a 1556 painting by Jacopo Tintoretto; Martyrdom of Paul, a c. 1529-1535 drawing by Pieter Coecke van Aelst
The Roman liturgical calendar for the following day now remembers all Christians martyred in these early persecutions; formerly, 30 June was the feast day for St. Paul. [223] Persons or religious orders with a special affinity for St. Paul can still celebrate their patron on 30 June.