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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. 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]

  4. Martyrs Mirror - Wikipedia

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    Martyrs Mirror or The Bloody Theater, first published in Holland in 1660 in Dutch by Thieleman J. van Braght, documents the stories and testimonies of Christian martyrs, especially Anabaptists.

  5. Category:Lists of Christian martyrs - Wikipedia

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    Christian martyrs executed by decapitation. Eastern Orthodox martyrs. Latter Day Saint martyrs. Lists of Christian martyrs. Oriental Orthodox martyrs. Protestant martyrs.

  6. List of Protestant martyrs of the English Reformation

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    Most were executed in the short reign of Mary I in what is called the Marian persecutions. Protestant theologian and activist John Foxe described "the great persecutions & horrible troubles, the suffering of martyrs , and other such thinges" in his contemporaneously -published Book of Martyrs .

  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. Manche Masemola - Wikipedia

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    Masemola was born in Marishane, a small village near Jane Furse, in South Africa.She lived with her parents, two older brothers, a sister, and a cousin. German and then English missionaries had worked in the Transvaal Colony for several decades and by the early twentieth century there was a small Christian community among the Pedi people which was widely viewed with distrust by the remainder ...

  9. Forty Martyrs of Sebaste - Wikipedia

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    The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste or the Holy Forty (Ancient/Katharevousa Greek Ἅγιοι Τεσσαράκοντα; Demotic: Άγιοι Σαράντα) were a group of Roman soldiers in the Legio XII Fulminata (Armed with Lightning) whose martyrdom in the year 320 AD for the Christian faith is recounted in traditional martyrologies.

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