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Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales: 85 men executed as part of the Protestant purge and beatified by Pope John Paul II. Forty Martyrs of England and Wales: 40 Catholic men and women executed for treason and related offences between 1535 and 1679. Ipswich Martyrs: 9 people burnt at the stake for Lollard or Protestant beliefs around 1515 ...
Thomas Hawkes on Market Hill; he is saying "O Lord receive my Spirit" Thomas Hawkes was an English protestant martyr who burned to death in 1555 during the Marian Persecutions rather than allow his son to be baptised into the Roman Catholic Church.
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This category lists Christian martyrs who were killed for their Protestant witness or beliefs from the Reformation era to the present day. This category is one of a group that makes a hierarchy of sub-categories according to the main branches of Christianity within historical eras.
On the day of her death she was reported to have held hands with her twin brother as she walked to her pyre. Waste was accompanied to church by Anthony Draycot who gave a final sermon, Thomas Powthread, Sir John Port, [1] Henry Vernon and Master John Dethick of Newhall. [2] The public execution took place at Windmill Pit [6] on the Burton Road ...
The persecution of al-Hakim and the demolition of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre prompted Pope Sergius IV to issue a call for soldiers to expel the Muslims from the Holy Land, while European Christians engaged in a retaliatory persecution of Jews, whom they conjectured were in some way responsible for al-Hakim's actions. [124]
During the Civil War, Franco's regime persecuted the country's 30,000 [10] Protestants, and forced many Protestant pastors to leave the country and various Protestant leaders were executed. [11] Once authoritarian rule was established, non-Catholic Bibles were confiscated by police and Protestant schools were closed. [ 12 ]