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  • include suicide-homicide bombing, martyrdom operations, and predatory ... word shahid (martyr) for the bomber or martyrdom operation for the bombing ...
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  • recognized as mistakenly attributed. His martyrdom, by drowning while weighted ... ==Martyrdom== [[File:Saintclementmartyr.png|thumb|left|250px|Martyrdom ...
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  • believed where legend places St. Thomas martyrdom in 72 C.E. A gateway stands ... celebrated on July 3, commemorates his martyrdom. During the Easter season ...
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  • to secure her dishonor before her martyrdom, but that her virginity ... The legend of Agnes' martyrdom was embellished over the years ...
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  • that the priest himself did not escape martyrdom, being stoned to death ... John Morris suggested that Alban's martyrdom actually took place during ...
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  • that Eusebius believed he did not suffer martyrdom, in which case a different ... incense to the gods rather than face martyrdom. The Liber Pontificalis ...
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  • personally carrying out Stanislaus' martyrdom by hacking him to pieces. ... ===Martyrdom=== Some accounts indicate that King Bolesław sent his ...
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  • that an ancient tradition about the martyrdom of several unnamed virgins ... in honor of the virgins who had suffered martyrdom on that spot. ...
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  • Felicissimus and Agapitus, suffered martyrdom on the same day. The order ... poet Prudentius that Sixtus II suffered martyrdom by crucifixion. ...
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  • " Saint Peter, after Peter's martyrdom. Modern scholarship, however, holds that Rome did not yet have a single ruling bishop at this ...
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  • *Martyrdom of Polycarp—An account of Polycarp's glorious martyrdom at the age of 86, this work is the first known description of a martyrdom ...
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  • Letter of the Smyrnaeans recounting the martyrdom of St. Polycarp." ... ===Martyrdom=== After decades of serving the Christian community through ...
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  • late work, 1650), now in the Louvre; the Martyrdom of St Bartholomew in the ... In 1990 his 1634 painting, The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, was ...
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  • [[Image:Martyrdom of Pope Caius.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The martyrdom ... death. Thus, the report of Caius' martyrdom is today treated as unfounded. ...
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  • more adamant confessors (willing to face martyrdom rather than deny their ... of the Lord and confirmed in glorious martyrdom, judged that pardon ought ...
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  • After his martyrdom in (present day) Azerbaijan or Armenia, sometime ... * [https://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-08/anf08-102.htm The Martyrdom ...
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  • as his successor in 254, just before his own martyrdom. ... claim that he ended his pontificate by martyrdom, since it claims this for ...
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  • drawn from 2 Maccabees, principally, the martyrdom of the priest Eleazar followed ... held to be immortal. The suffering and martyrdom of the pious Maccabees ...
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  • hair. Tradition holds that he suffered martyrdom during the reign of the ... Anicetus' martyrdom cannot be accepted without question, since ...
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  • the Seventy. He is reported as suffering martyrdom together with Simon the ... According to the Armenian tradition, Saint Jude suffered martyrdom ...
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  • After Alphege's martyrdom at the hands of Danish invaders, his ... to mark the spot of the saint's martyrdom); Saint Alphege's ...
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  • Trajan's time rather than Domitian's, martyrdom would be unlikely. He is not listed as a martyr in current Catholic tradition. ...
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  • culture. The site of his eventual martyrdom would be his own villa ... and his successor, Sixtus II, suffered martyrdom at Rome. In Africa, Cyprian ...
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  • exist concerning Matthew's supposed martyrdom. He is often depicted in ... sources as to the place of Matthew's martyrdom and the manner of his death ...
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  • Muslim belief. In Shi'a Islam, the martyrdom of Husayn is mourned by ... casualties. Because of the centrality of martyrdom to Shi'a Islam and ...
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  • tower, palm, chalice, lightning, a crown of martyrdom |patronage=Artillery ... a full three centuries after her supposed martyrdom. Her cult did not spread ...
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  • from 193-211. Origen wished to follow in martyrdom, but was prevented by his ... the works, still extant, On Prayer, On Martyrdom, and Against Celsus. The ...
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  • III.3.3), he suffered a "glorious" martyrdom. Although all early popes are called martyrs by sources such as the Liber Ponificalis, Telesphorus ...
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  • characterized by a determination to face martyrdom rather than cooperate with ... their death as a result. Some—eager for martyrdom—willingly informed authorities ...
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  • Bhagat Singh had been known to have an appreciation of martyrdom. ... #039;s book entitled, Some Hidden Facts: Martyrdom of Shaheed Bhagat Singh—Secrets ...
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  • two Christian prisoners who were awaiting martyrdom. The captain's words ... * Williamson, Mark A. The Martyrdom Paintings of Jusepe de Ribera: ...
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  • of a martyr's death at the place of martyrdom. Sometimes groups of martyrs suffered death together on the same day. This gave rise to larger ...
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  • killed but seems to have deliberately chosen martyrdom. ... historian John Harvey believes "The martyrdom of Thomas Becket was a ...
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  • ===Cloister and martyrdom=== |left|250px|Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was born Edith Stein, a Jew, and died in the Auschwitz concentration camp ...
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  • of Parma, include The Lamentation and The Martyrdom of Four Saints. The Lamentation ... The Martyrdom of Four Saints depicts the martyrdom of Placidus and ...
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  • Liber Pontificalis also reports that Alexander suffered martyrdom by beheading, probably under the Roman Emperor Trajan (or possibly Hadrian ...
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  • scholarship, his ascetic piety, and his martyrdom at the hands of the Roman ... of Caesarea (c. 263 – 339?), noted his martyrdom (Ecclesiastical History ...
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  • The Acts of Thomas is is one of the New Testament apocrypha, describing the adventures and martyrdom of the Apostle Thomas, whom it portrays ...
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  • Tradition holds that Peter met martyrdom in Rome, probably at the ... written c. 80-98, speaks of Peter's martyrdom in the following terms: ...
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  • |feast_day= January 30 (martyrdom), August 13 |venerated_in= Eastern ... |image=Hippolytus martyrdom.jpg |imagesize=220px |caption=Martyrdom ...
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  • kept, is said to be erected over the place of his martyrdom]] ... different sources, like the Usaard's Martyrdom written between 845-865, ...
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  • signs including several dramatic rescues from martyrdom by fire and wild beasts. One of the writings of the New Testament Apocrypha, the Acts ...
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  • Donghak Bible compiled by his disciples after his martyrdom. ... in which an estimated 10,000 Christians suffered martyrdom. ...
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  • spiritual being. Moreover, to undergo martyrdom in imitating Christ is ... those Christians who believed that martyrdom brought them closer to Jesus. ...
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  • at the time as an act of national martyrdom. Fourteen states have a Warren County named after Joseph Warren. Towns such as Warren, New Jersey ...
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  • fasting, and willingness to face martyrdom rather than flee or pay ... With regard to martyrdom, Montanus is quoted as saying: "Seek ...
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  • months after their engagement and his subsequent martyrdom. ... Twisted Cross: The Life, Convictions and Martyrdom of Dietrich Bonhoeffer ...
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  • killed, there is no biblical evidence of his martyrdom. The source of the tradition regarding Amos' martyrdom is the ...
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  • === His martyrdom === [[Image:Expulsion of the Jews in the Reign of ... Akiva's martyrdom gave rise to many legends. One story relates ...
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  • the “no longer attainable ideal” of martyrdom; a statement that is made ... was morally preferable to seeking martyrdom: "Such is also the ...
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