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  • is really a miracle play, dealing with the martyrdom of Dorothea in the time of Diocletian, and the supernatural element is freely used. Caution ...
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  • Prophet. They celebrate the anniversaries of his martyrdom and birth. The Shi'a version of the confession of faith (shahada) also includes an explicit ...
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  • suicide and killed their own children in acts of martyrdom rather than be subjected to forced conversions. (The Zealots on Masada and their reported ...
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  • does not mention Peter's presence or martyrdom in Rome, ancient tradition holds that his tomb is below the baldachin (a permanent ornamental ...
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  • by Plato, is remembered in human history as the martyrdom of a just man. ==Philosophy== [[Image:Socrates_Louvre.jpg|thumb|left|Portrait of Socrates ...
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  • [[Image:Ignatius.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Martyrdom of [[Ignatius of Antioch|St. Ignatius]], bishop of Antioch appointed by Saint Peter.]] ...
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  • man and ranted about government conspiracies and martyrdom. At some point in the evening, two Peoples Temple members, Vernon Gosney and Monica Bagby ...
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  • * truancy and martyrdom together replace discipleship by the creative minority. He argues that in this environment, people resort to archaism ...
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  • record the belief that Bartholomew's martyrdom occurred at the bottom of the Maiden Tower within the Old City, where a Christian church ...
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  • guilty, the press fitted the defendant for martyrdom and created an onslaught of ridicule. Time's initial coverage of the trial focused on Dayton ...
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  • That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to the living spirit of man as expressed ...
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  • homeland on the nine-hundredth anniversary of the martyrdom of Saint Stanislaus of Krakow—made in spite of the resistance of the Polish Communist regime—were ...
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  • [[Image:Ignatius.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Martyrdom of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, often erroneously said to have taken place in the Colosseum. Note ...
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  • evil deeds. This account of Jeremiah's martyrdom, however, may have come originally from Jewish sources. From the same source comes another story ...
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  • Armenian sources he is identified with the martyrdom of Thaddeus. Professor Nina Garsoian, Emerita of Columbia University, states that there is no explicit ...
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  • among Jacobins, as a cult of martyrdom emerged around Marat. Corday believed Marat's assassination would rid the Girondins of their greatest ...
    32 KB (4,786 words) - 22:20, 25 June 2022
  • Kyongju preserves a stone monument honoring his martyrdom. During the next reign, King Chinhung encouraged the growth of Buddhism, leading to ...
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  • February or March. A Shiite holy day honoring the martyrdom of Mohammed's grandson * Ugadi, Telugu New Year, held state wide in March ...
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  • Steven, there was an attraction to death as martyrdom and there was an understanding that death at the hands of evil could benefit the cause of salvation ...
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  • In September 1220, receiving a report of the martyrdom of five brothers in Morocco, Francis returned to Italy via Venice. Cardinal Ugolino di ...
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