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Designed by George Gilbert Scott, the monument was completed in 1843 after two years' work, having replaced "a picturesque but tottering old house".The Victorian Gothic memorial, whose design dates from 1838, has been likened to the steeple of a cathedral, though it was consciously patterned on the Eleanor crosses erected by King Edward I between 1290 and 1294 to the memory of his wife, Queen ...
The Oxford Martyrs were Protestants tried for heresy in 1555 and burnt at the stake in Oxford, England, for their religious beliefs and teachings, during the Marian persecution in England. [ 1 ] The three martyrs were the Church of England bishops Hugh Latimer , Nicholas Ridley and Thomas Cranmer , the Archbishop of Canterbury .
Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument, Jackson, Mississippi; Haymarket Martyrs' Monument, Forest Park, Illinois; List of memorials to Martin Luther King Jr. Martyrs Monument in Midway, Kentucky; Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument, Brooklyn, New York City; Thompson and Powell Martyrs Monument, Saint Joseph, Kentucky
The martyrs were imprisoned at the former Bocardo Prison near St Michael at the Northgate in Cornmarket Street and subsequently burnt at the stake just outside the city walls to the north. A cross set into the road marks that location on what is now Broad Street ; the nearby Martyrs' Memorial , at the south end of St Giles' Street ...
Nicholas Ridley (c. 1500 – 16 October 1555) was an English Bishop of London (the only bishop called "Bishop of London and Westminster" [1]).Ridley was one of the Oxford Martyrs burned at the stake during the Marian Persecutions, for his teachings and his support of Lady Jane Grey.
Martyrs Monument in Midway; Martyrs' Mausoleum; Martyrs' Memorial, Oxford; Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument; Mersin Martyrs' Memorial; Museum of Martyrdom of the Blessed Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Hugh Latimer (c. 1487 – 16 October 1555) was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and Bishop of Worcester during the Reformation, and later Church of England chaplain to King Edward VI.
In 1893 the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument by Albert Weinert was unveiled in the German Waldheim Cemetery, where the four men executed, August Spies, Adolph Fischer, Albert Parsons, and George Engel, and Louis Lingg who committed suicide the day before the hanging, are buried. On September 14, 2004, another monument was unveiled, this one by Mary ...