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Acts of the Martyrs (Latin Acta Martyrum) are accounts of the suffering and death of a Christian martyr or group of martyrs. These accounts were collected...22 KB (3,167 words) - 18:50, 29 August 2024- to an earlier pagan and anti-Christian work also known as the Acts of Pilate. It can be shown that the work behind the Christian Acts of Pilate must have...10 KB (1,173 words) - 13:27, 15 August 2024
- the Eddessian governor Mysianus on why the two martyrs refused to worship the sun. They were killed after that. The Acts of Shmona and Gurya and the Martyrdom...12 KB (1,352 words) - 04:07, 20 August 2024
killed for their faith. The early Christian period before Constantine I was the "Age of Martyrs". "Early Christians venerated martyrs as powerful intercessors...37 KB (4,415 words) - 12:06, 22 August 2024
a Greek original Acts of Mar Mari, 600–650 CE in Syriac Acts of the Martyrs, term for a group of writings describing the martyrdom of various apostles...14 KB (1,590 words) - 02:26, 28 August 2024
are not at all a reliable index of the sufferings of the Christians as a whole". Acts of the Martyrs Christian martyrs Damnatio ad bestias Hellenistic...112 KB (14,513 words) - 22:51, 23 August 2024- discovered by the pagan authority of the city and put to death by them. The date of the text is disputed amongst biblical scholars. Either from the second century...6 KB (671 words) - 01:40, 17 June 2023
- The Acts of Sharbel or the Hypomnemata of Sharbel is a Syriac Christian martyrdom text pertaining to a pagan high priest who was martyred for converting...8 KB (915 words) - 09:10, 30 March 2024
Tokyo, Japan: Prohibition of Christian religion by Hideyoshi and the 26 martyrs Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Japanese Martyrs". Catholic Encyclopedia...11 KB (1,015 words) - 21:43, 26 July 2024
(being feared of the unclean spirit) had she not herself so willed it" (xix). The text ends as the editor extols the acts of the martyrs. Scholars generally...26 KB (3,466 words) - 16:27, 5 March 2024
Felicitas of Rome (c. 101 – 165), also anglicized as Felicity, is a saint numbered among the Christian martyrs. Apart from her name, the only thing known...11 KB (1,330 words) - 23:44, 26 August 2024
University Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-4008-6318-1. JUSTIN MARTYR (150) Born soon after 100 of a pagan Greek family at Flavia Neapolis (modern Nablus, cf. No...97 KB (13,226 words) - 23:19, 2 September 2024- narratives in the canonical and apocryphal Acts of the Apostles. University of Groningen. Retrieved 19 July 2018. 27. Mark, the Evangelist The Martyrs Mirror:...4 KB (455 words) - 10:12, 20 November 2023
Saint Afra (redirect from Afra (martyr))the pagan gods. She refused and was condemned to death by fire. Although many different accounts of her life exist, the most widely known is The Acts...7 KB (703 words) - 20:46, 7 September 2024
Saint Mercurius (redirect from Marcorios, the martyr of the Lord)the war finally ended, he went back to his city and joined his family, but died shortly after. After the death of Mercurius' father Noah, the pagan Roman...13 KB (1,387 words) - 06:36, 10 August 2024
Christianity and paganism (redirect from Pagan influences on Christianity)contact with the dominant Pagan religions. Acts 19 recounts a riot that occurred in Ephesus, instigated by silversmiths who crafted images of Artemis, and...90 KB (11,638 words) - 14:41, 7 September 2024- the real nature of Christian life” and refute the slanderous claims of pagan critics. Justin Martyr Second Apology of Justin Martyr Parvis, Paul (2008)...12 KB (1,416 words) - 10:06, 13 March 2024
Diocletianic Persecution (redirect from Persecution of Diocletian)Tilley, Martyr Stories, 25–49; Clarke, 652 n.153. Clarke, 652 n.153. Clarke, 652 n.153. Acts of the Abitinian Martyrs 20 (= Tilley, Martyr Stories, 44–46);...131 KB (17,592 words) - 20:01, 3 July 2024- Saints Rufinus (category Ante-Nicene Christian martyrs)On 7 April, an African martyr, Rufinus with two companions; their names are mentioned under 6 April in a list of martyrs in the "Martyrologium Hieronymianum"...3 KB (476 words) - 08:37, 28 March 2023
upon Babylas and the Acts of the Martyrs report the following story, that Babylas once refused the visiting pagan emperor, on account of his sinful ways...7 KB (757 words) - 13:45, 23 August 2024
- Japanese Martyrs 101993Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) — Japanese Martyrs There is not in the whole history of the Church a single people who can offer to the admiration
- the memory of these martyrdoms and the relics of the martyrs themselves – only stirred the fires of true belief and inspired ever greater acts of zealotry
- Christians too faced the same, their persecution in the Roman society led to deaths; these Christians were forced to profess Pagan Religions at that time