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Perpetua (Saint & Martyr) c. 182 – 203 CE Carthage: Christian martyr from Carthage, was persecuted under Septimius Severus. Her prison diary, The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, is one of the earliest Christian writings by a woman. Venerated as a saint, her story of resistance and devotion has profoundly influenced Christian literature.
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 ...
Perpetua and Felicity (Latin: Perpetua et Felicitas; c. 182 [6] – c. 203) were Christian martyrs of the third century. Vibia Perpetua was a recently married, well-educated noblewoman, said to have been 22 years old at the time of her death, and mother of an infant son she was nursing. [7]
[9] Blandina's relationship to the youngest of the martyrs, Ponticus, is also compared to the mother in 4 Maccabees. [10] Through these sections Blandina is given a maternal role and serves as one example of motherhood for other Christian women to look to. [10] Blandina, as with many early Christian martyrs, is also represented as an athlete ...
All the details of her life are the conventional ones associated with female martyrs of the early fourth century. John Henry Blunt views her story as a Christian romance similar to the Acts of other virgin martyrs. [6] According to the traditional story, Lucy was born to rich and noble parents in 283.
Ipswich Martyrs († 1515–1558) Jean Vallière († 1523), Paris, France; Jan de Bakker († 1525), 1st martyr in the Northern Netherland; Wendelmoet Claesdochter († 1527), 1st Dutch woman charged and burned for the accusation of heresy; Michael Sattler († 1527), Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany; Patrick Hamilton († 1528), St Andrews, Scotland
[a] In Catholic tradition, older editions of the Roman Martyrology list a martyr named Photina of Samaria on March 20, whom commentators have identified with the woman at the well. [18] [19] In Eastern Christian tradition, the woman's name at the time of her meeting Jesus is unknown, though she was later baptized "Photine".
Lucy Yi Zhenmei [a] (December 9, 1815 – February 19, 1862) was a Sichuanese Catholic saint from Mianyang, Sichuan Province, China.She is the lone woman of the five Guizhou Martyrs, a subset of the much larger Martyr Saints of China.