Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In 1585, a new decree made it a crime punishable by death to go overseas to receive the sacrament of Ordination to the Roman Catholic priesthood. Nicholas Devereux (who went by the alias of Nicholas Woodfen) and Edward Barber (see below Edward Stransham) were both put to death in 1586 under this law.
Sherman attended the Catholic Church until the outbreak of the Civil War, which destroyed his faith. His wife and children were Catholic and one son, Thomas Ewing Sherman, became a Jesuit priest. Ralph Sherwin: one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales [343] Frederick Charles Shrady: American religious artist, primarily of sculpture [344]
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 [77] Nicholas Tavelic, 1391; John of Nepomuk, 1393 [78] Jan Huss (1415) and Jerome of Prague (1416) - executed for heresy by the Roman Catholic Council of Constance
Local Protestant ministers often held anti-Catholic lectures and sermons to ward the people away from Barberi and the Catholics. Wilson records how one of these ministers followed Barberi along a street shouting out various arguments against transubstantiation , Barberi was silent, but as the man was about to turn off, Barberi retorted: "Jesus ...
The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales [1] or Cuthbert Mayne and Thirty-Nine Companion Martyrs are a group of Catholic, lay and religious, men and women, executed between 1535 and 1679 for treason and related offences under various laws enacted by Parliament during the English Reformation.
Gertrude Agnes Barber was an American educator and administrator who founded the Barber Center in 1952 to serve disabled children, adults, and families. [ 1 ] Born in 1911, she was the child of an Irish immigrant mother and first-generation Irish-American father.
Freed in 1807 after the death of his mistress, Pierre took the surname of "Toussaint" in honor of Toussaint Louverture, a leader of the Haitian Revolution and devout Catholic. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Toussaint also became a successful barber and used his wealth for various philanthropic causes.
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Death, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Death on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. Death Wikipedia:WikiProject Death Template:WikiProject Death Death: Low