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include suicide-homicide bombing, martyrdom operations, and predatory ... word shahid (martyr) for the bomber or martyrdom operation for the bombing ...

recognized as mistakenly attributed. His martyrdom, by drowning while weighted ... ==Martyrdom== [[File:Saintclementmartyr.png|thumb|left|250px|Martyrdom ...

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 ...

to secure her dishonor before her martyrdom, but that her virginity ... The legend of Agnes' martyrdom was embellished over the years ...

that the priest himself did not escape martyrdom, being stoned to death ... John Morris suggested that Alban's martyrdom actually took place during ...

that Eusebius believed he did not suffer martyrdom, in which case a different ... incense to the gods rather than face martyrdom. The Liber Pontificalis ...

personally carrying out Stanislaus' martyrdom by hacking him to pieces. ... ===Martyrdom=== Some accounts indicate that King Bolesław sent his ...

that an ancient tradition about the martyrdom of several unnamed virgins ... in honor of the virgins who had suffered martyrdom on that spot. ...

Felicissimus and Agapitus, suffered martyrdom on the same day. The order ... poet Prudentius that Sixtus II suffered martyrdom by crucifixion. ...

" Saint Peter, after Peter's martyrdom. Modern scholarship, however, holds that Rome did not yet have a single ruling bishop at this ...

*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 ...

Letter of the Smyrnaeans recounting the martyrdom of St. Polycarp." ... ===Martyrdom=== After decades of serving the Christian community through ...

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 ...

[[Image:Martyrdom of Pope Caius.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The martyrdom ... death. Thus, the report of Caius' martyrdom is today treated as unfounded. ...

more adamant confessors (willing to face martyrdom rather than deny their ... of the Lord and confirmed in glorious martyrdom, judged that pardon ought ...

After his martyrdom in (present day) Azerbaijan or Armenia, sometime ... * [https://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-08/anf08-102.htm The Martyrdom ...

as his successor in 254, just before his own martyrdom. ... claim that he ended his pontificate by martyrdom, since it claims this for ...

drawn from 2 Maccabees, principally, the martyrdom of the priest Eleazar followed ... held to be immortal. The suffering and martyrdom of the pious Maccabees ...

hair. Tradition holds that he suffered martyrdom during the reign of the ... Anicetus' martyrdom cannot be accepted without question, since ...

the Seventy. He is reported as suffering martyrdom together with Simon the ... According to the Armenian tradition, Saint Jude suffered martyrdom ...

After Alphege's martyrdom at the hands of Danish invaders, his ... to mark the spot of the saint's martyrdom); Saint Alphege's ...

Trajan's time rather than Domitian's, martyrdom would be unlikely. He is not listed as a martyr in current Catholic tradition. ...

culture. The site of his eventual martyrdom would be his own villa ... and his successor, Sixtus II, suffered martyrdom at Rome. In Africa, Cyprian ...

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 ...

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 ...

tower, palm, chalice, lightning, a crown of martyrdom |patronage=Artillery ... a full three centuries after her supposed martyrdom. Her cult did not spread ...

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 ...

III.3.3), he suffered a "glorious" martyrdom. Although all early popes are called martyrs by sources such as the Liber Ponificalis, Telesphorus ...

characterized by a determination to face martyrdom rather than cooperate with ... their death as a result. Some—eager for martyrdom—willingly informed authorities ...

Bhagat Singh had been known to have an appreciation of martyrdom. ... #039;s book entitled, Some Hidden Facts: Martyrdom of Shaheed Bhagat Singh—Secrets ...

two Christian prisoners who were awaiting martyrdom. The captain's words ... * Williamson, Mark A. The Martyrdom Paintings of Jusepe de Ribera: ...

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 ...

killed but seems to have deliberately chosen martyrdom. ... historian John Harvey believes "The martyrdom of Thomas Becket was a ...

===Cloister and martyrdom=== |left|250px|Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was born Edith Stein, a Jew, and died in the Auschwitz concentration camp ...

of Parma, include The Lamentation and The Martyrdom of Four Saints. The Lamentation ... The Martyrdom of Four Saints depicts the martyrdom of Placidus and ...

Liber Pontificalis also reports that Alexander suffered martyrdom by beheading, probably under the Roman Emperor Trajan (or possibly Hadrian ...

scholarship, his ascetic piety, and his martyrdom at the hands of the Roman ... of Caesarea (c. 263 – 339?), noted his martyrdom (Ecclesiastical History ...

The Acts of Thomas is is one of the New Testament apocrypha, describing the adventures and martyrdom of the Apostle Thomas, whom it portrays ...

Tradition holds that Peter met martyrdom in Rome, probably at the ... written c. 80-98, speaks of Peter's martyrdom in the following terms: ...

|feast_day= January 30 (martyrdom), August 13 |venerated_in= Eastern ... |image=Hippolytus martyrdom.jpg |imagesize=220px |caption=Martyrdom ...

kept, is said to be erected over the place of his martyrdom]] ... different sources, like the Usaard's Martyrdom written between 845-865, ...

signs including several dramatic rescues from martyrdom by fire and wild beasts. One of the writings of the New Testament Apocrypha, the Acts ...

Donghak Bible compiled by his disciples after his martyrdom. ... in which an estimated 10,000 Christians suffered martyrdom. ...

spiritual being. Moreover, to undergo martyrdom in imitating Christ is ... those Christians who believed that martyrdom brought them closer to Jesus. ...

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 ...

fasting, and willingness to face martyrdom rather than flee or pay ... With regard to martyrdom, Montanus is quoted as saying: "Seek ...

months after their engagement and his subsequent martyrdom. ... Twisted Cross: The Life, Convictions and Martyrdom of Dietrich Bonhoeffer ...

killed, there is no biblical evidence of his martyrdom. The source of the tradition regarding Amos' martyrdom is the ...

=== His martyrdom === [[Image:Expulsion of the Jews in the Reign of ... Akiva's martyrdom gave rise to many legends. One story relates ...

the “no longer attainable ideal” of martyrdom; a statement that is made ... was morally preferable to seeking martyrdom: "Such is also the ...

[http://www.stormfront.org/truth_at_last/archives/julius.htm The Martyrdom of Julius Streicher] Retrieved January 10, 2008. He worked as an elementary ...

depicted with lions due to the method of his martyrdom.]] ... of the Apostle John. En route to his martyrdom in Rome, Ignatius wrote ...

and the next in the best way until their martyrdom or occultation. ... commemorates Imam Husayn bin Ali's martyrdom. It is a day of deep mourning ...

by God to save his people from mass martyrdom by causing the Greek ruler to change his attitude, while in 1 and 2 Maccabees, deliverance comes ...

gospels are the birth of Jesus in a cave, the martyrdom of John the Baptist's father Zachariah during the slaughter of the infants, and Joseph& ...

his own fate, Paul does not fear martyrdom, "for to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain." He encourages the Philippians to "conduct ...

was included in the legendary story of the martyrdom of Saint Cyriacus. This tradition, which was adopted by the Liber Pontificalis, gives a different ...

likely that the symbol actually represents the martyrdom of St Paul, London's patron saint. There is now a country park next to the Thames ...

J. Foakes Jackson. "Evidence for the Martyrdom of Peter and Paul in Rome ... * Jackson, F. J. Foakes. "Evidence for the Martyrdom of Peter ...

II, 59). The tradition of Fabian's martyrdom is thus accepted as historical, in contrast to the traditional martyrdoms of most of the earlier ...

that was perhaps motivated by the martyrdom of the Studite monk Thaddaios. ... of salvation: Theodore of Stoudios on martyrdom (martyrion) and speaking ...

Bakst for D'Annunzio's play The Martyrdom of St Sebastian.]] ... play Le martyre de Saint Sébastien (The Martyrdom of St Sebastian, 1911, ...

* Martyrdom of St. Lawrence (1614-1615) - Marble, 66 x 108 cm, Contini Bonacossi Collection, Florence * The Goat Amalthea with the Infant Jupiter ...

thumb|left|Stained glass window depicting martyrdom of Archbishop Cranmer and ... [[Image:Cranmer burning foxe.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Cranmer’s martyrdom ...

regret was that he had not been found worthy of martyrdom. Finally having achieved a measure of success, Ansgar eventually returned to Bremen ...

in them a faith that led many to accept martyrdom. Although condemned in most histories as "barbarians," the Gothic tribes who overtook ...

would suffer persecution, torture and eventual martyrdom under the repressive Korean monarchy, as it desperately tried to preserve itself and Korea ...

closeup.jpg|thumb|400px|Franz Joseph Hermann: The martyrdom of the seven Maccabean brothers and their mother (1771)]] 2 Maccabees is a deuterocanonical ...

. An account of Justin's trial and martyrdom are preserved in the Acts ... they were beheaded and consummated their martyrdom confessing their Saviour." ...

a strong desire for baptism) or baptism of blood (martyrdom) in Roman Catholic theology gave rise to the argument that the unbaptized are not eligible ...

to God. One side represented the martyrdom of a saint, presumably ... around the year 1180, ten years after the martyrdom of St. Thomas, describes ...

different means. War, crime, revenge, martyrdom, suicide, and many other ... ===Martyrdom=== Martyr [[Image:Caravaggio-Crucifixion of Peter.jpg ...

where James was residing before his martyrdom in 62 C.E. The letter speaks of persecutions in the present tense (2:6), and this is consistent ...

it was St. Sava who enabled the Serbs to endure martyrdom on the battlefield of Kosovo. [http://www.kosovo.net/sava.html Life of our Holy Father ...

process of killing the enemy is an act of martyrdom and brings a special place ... However, some argue martyrdom is never automatic because it is within ...

only exacerbated the schism caused the virtual martyrdom of such anti-Monothelite figures as Pope Martin I and Saint Maximus the Confessor, who refused ...

by associating the desire for sanctity and martyrdom with hysteria and masochism (besides denying the perversity of homosexuals). Some years later ...

as a martyr, there is no evidence of his martyrdom in the historical records. Indeed, he seems to have been the first pope to have enjoyed close ...

as well, and so they joined George in martyrdom. His body was returned ... date that had become associated with his martyrdom, April 23. There was wide ...

Majesty, a work of immense power, as well as the Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence. Saint Lawrence is shown lying upon the gridiron, which is directly parallel ...

The martyrdom of the Patriarch of Antioch in 602 C.E. left the Maronites without a leader, a situation which continued because of the devastating ...

because of his swashbuckling adventures and his martyrdom at the hand of King James. In this regard he is still one of the most memorable writers of ...

general design and personally executed the Martyrdom of St. Lawrence and the Deposition from the Cross; he worked on the reliefs of Christ before Pilate ...

two works making up the commission, the Martyrdom of Saint Matthew and The ... the Baptist, and, his last picture, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula. His style ...

in Japanese emperor-worship and suffered martyrdom, while those who complied ... thousands of Catholics suffered martyrdom. The Confucianist establishment ...

traditionally meant to commemorate the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain ... * Marsia (مرثیہ) An elegiac poem written to commemorate the martyrdom ...

and sentenced him to execution. His martyrdom only helped to solidify the newly born Cheondogyo religion. Choe Sihyeong, a distant relative of ...

Other important Sikh religious days include the martyrdom day of Guru Teg Bahadur and birthday of Guru Nanak. Similarly Diwali stands out as one of ...

Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale - Life, Mission, and Martyrdom." Sikh Educational and Religious Foundation. 1997-05 [http://www.sikhcoalition.org/SantJarnailSingh ...

The devotees constituted a class that sought martyrdom and followed orders with unquestioned devotion, orders which included assassination. ...

drawing on the spiritual strength and martyrdom of Jan Hus. Led by the ... in neighboring countries. His life and martyrdom were written into numerous ...

*"The Martyrdom of Shushanik" *"The Tresures of Mount Ararat" *"Intermezzo" *"Demon" *"Miracle of ...

*The Martyrdom of Jesus of Nazareth: a Historico-Critical Treatise on the Last Chapter of the Gospel, 1874 *The Cosmic God, 1876 *History of the ...

the pope has only to make a declaration of martyrdom, which then allows beatification, yielding the title Blessed and a feast day in the Blessed ...

and Hosea, the crucifixion of Jesus, and the martyrdom of numerous Christian saints for refusing to recant their faith. However, when ancient Jewish ...

as a heavenly reward or incentive to encourage martyrdom operations (for example, suicide bombings). It is misleading, however, to depict Houri in ...

pain of death. Some, like Rabbi Akiva, suffered martyrdom as a result. Nevertheless, in the sixth century there were 43 Jewish communities in ...

intended to represent the redeeming martyrdom of Jesus when he was crucified ... #The cross of the savior Jesus Christ in red, the sign of martyrdom ...

monarchy determined to adopt the faith by the martyrdom of the Silla court noble Ichadon, executed for his Buddhist faith by the Silla king in 527. Legend ...

and the bitterness which his self-imposed martyrdom produced in him, made him peculiarly adapted to express the mood of Austria in the epoch ...

bitterly contested schism, giving rise to the martyrdom of the orthodox figures Pope Martin I and Saint Maximus the Confessor, among others. ...

of native Korean Catholics suffered gruesome martyrdom. Korean Catholics estimate the number of martyred at 10,000, which is the number for infinity ...

[[Image:Stephen-martyred.jpg|thumb|The martyrdom of Saint Stephen]] ... as in the case of Stephen's martyrdom, Peter's imprisonments ...

I will not leave Iraq until victory or martyrdom'" she quoted ... Zarqawi's death: "We herald the martyrdom of our mujahed Sheikh Abu ...

Catholic and Anglican faiths, which led to the martyrdom of many, including 22 Catholics burned to death near Kampala in 1886. These martyrs were later ...

Cannes is a French commune located in the department of Alpes-Maritimes and the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. It is is one of the ...

return to bury their bodies and revenge their martyrdom. When only Roland, Turpin, and Gualter de Hum are still alive, Roland slices off the right hand ...

Ignatius of Antioch, the Shepherd of Hermas, the Martyrdom of Polycarp, and the Epistle of Barnabas. [[Image:Sainta15.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The ...

visible remnant. This area became the site of martyrdom of many Christians after the great fire of Rome in 64. Ancient tradition holds that it was in ...

com/text/ascension.html Martyrdom of Isaiah], a composite work combining several earlier apocryphal writings regarding Isaiah together with Christian ...

and the preaching center and the place of martyrdom of Saint Mark the Evangelist and Apostle. The leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria ...

. Satan rules over an entire host of angels (Martyrdom of Isaiah 2:2; Life of Adam and Eve 16). It was Mastema, another name for Satan (Book of Jubilees ...

founded by Jesus Christ), and baptism of blood (martyrdom). The liturgy of baptism in the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, Anglican, and Methodist ...

finger in the side of Christ, spear (means of martyrdom), square (his profession, a builder) |patronage=Architects, India, and others, see [http://www ...

is shown holding the knife of his martyrdom and his flayed skin. The face of the skin is recognizable as Michelangelo.]] In 1527, the Florentine ...

Mylapore, Chennai in 72 C.E. where he attained martyrdom. Most of the sources of information on the arrival of Christianity in India come from the Acts ...

Syed Akbar Hyder, Reliving Karbala: Martyrdom in South Asian Memory ... * Hyder, Syed Akbar. Reliving Karbala: Martyrdom in South Asian Memory ...

the Twin") to India. It ends with his "martyrdom" in which he dies pierced with spears because he earned the ire of the monarch Misdaeus ...

The Epistle of Barnabas, The Epistles and the Martyrdom of St. Polycarp, The Fragments of Papias, The Epistle to Diognetus (Ancient Christian Writers ...

xvii. For example, dhimmis rarely faced martyrdom or exile, or forced compulsion ... 40. Although some deliberately sought martyrdom, many blasphemers were ...

is really a miracle play, dealing with the martyrdom of Dorothea in the time of Diocletian, and the supernatural element is freely used. Caution ...

Prophet. They celebrate the anniversaries of his martyrdom and birth. The Shi'a version of the confession of faith (shahada) also includes an explicit ...

suicide and killed their own children in acts of martyrdom rather than be subjected to forced conversions. (The Zealots on Masada and their reported ...

does not mention Peter's presence or martyrdom in Rome, ancient tradition holds that his tomb is below the baldachin (a permanent ornamental ...

by Plato, is remembered in human history as the martyrdom of a just man. ==Philosophy== [[Image:Socrates_Louvre.jpg|thumb|left|Portrait of Socrates ...

[[Image:Ignatius.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Martyrdom of [[Ignatius of Antioch|St. Ignatius]], bishop of Antioch appointed by Saint Peter.]] ...

man and ranted about government conspiracies and martyrdom. At some point in the evening, two Peoples Temple members, Vernon Gosney and Monica Bagby ...

* truancy and martyrdom together replace discipleship by the creative minority. He argues that in this environment, people resort to archaism ...

record the belief that Bartholomew's martyrdom occurred at the bottom of the Maiden Tower within the Old City, where a Christian church ...

guilty, the press fitted the defendant for martyrdom and created an onslaught of ridicule. Time's initial coverage of the trial focused on Dayton ...

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 ...

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 ...

[[Image:Ignatius.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Martyrdom of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, often erroneously said to have taken place in the Colosseum. Note ...

evil deeds. This account of Jeremiah's martyrdom, however, may have come originally from Jewish sources. From the same source comes another story ...

Armenian sources he is identified with the martyrdom of Thaddeus. Professor Nina Garsoian, Emerita of Columbia University, states that there is no explicit ...

among Jacobins, as a cult of martyrdom emerged around Marat. Corday believed Marat's assassination would rid the Girondins of their greatest ...

Kyongju preserves a stone monument honoring his martyrdom. During the next reign, King Chinhung encouraged the growth of Buddhism, leading to ...

February or March. A Shiite holy day honoring the martyrdom of Mohammed's grandson * Ugadi, Telugu New Year, held state wide in March ...

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 ...

In September 1220, receiving a report of the martyrdom of five brothers in Morocco, Francis returned to Italy via Venice. Cardinal Ugolino di ...

who go to war and patriots who take the path of martyrdom feel the same way: They find it the highest honor and greatest value to suffer and die to ...

which many Christians suffered martyrdom to avoid. [[Image:Byzantinischer Mosaizist um 1000 002.jpg|thumb|225px|[[Constantine I|Constantine the ...

warrior life, but also as indignity to his martyrdom being slighted. Achilles was worshipped as a sea-god in many of the Greek colonies on the Black ...

Acts does not mention Paul’s martyrdom, which occurred some time in the 60s, nor the fulfillment of Jesus’ prophecies concerning the destruction ...

to be either birthdays or celebrations of Sikh martyrdom. * Vaisakhi normally occurs on April 13 and marks the beginning of the new spring year ...

with Rome even to the point of martyrdom and predicting the imminent return of Christ to judge the world. The Didache, also called the Teaching ...

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (January 5, 1928 - April 4, 1979) was a Pakistani politician who served as the President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973, and ...

in gold color to reflect the belief that "martyrdom" in war would allow their entry into heaven. Female students were known to knit winter ...

began to develop in Sicily, and along with it, martyrdom occurred. By 313 C.E. Emperor Constantine ceased the prohibition of Christianity, and it developed ...

highly controversial. Gibbon attacked Christian martyrdom as a myth by deconstructing official Church history that had been perpetuated for centuries ...

Many women went on Crusade seeking martyrdom to receive instant redemption so as to join the saints in Heaven while others went seeking penance ...

as "the most conspicuous act of martyrdom yet committed in the service of the transatlantic muses." Bayless, 90 Even so, the book was ...

of witness), and baptism by blood (either martyrdom or the practice of strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline ...

They believed that their voluntary martyrdom would hasten the coming of the End. ===The Jewish Experience=== The Jews called Andalus Sefarad. ...

30 in commemoration of Charles's "martyrdom," and the reinstatement of his feast day in the Book of Common Prayer. King Charles is ...

" and is seen as an ordination and a martyrdom. In marriage, Christians see a picture of the relationship between Jesus and the Church. ...

them the atrocities of Mughals from the time of martyrdom of Guru Arjan to the laying of the siege of Anandpur. He rebuked them for their behavior and ...

library.com/theses/dying/ “Dying for God: Martyrdom in the Shii and Babi Religions,”] Master of Arts Thesis, University of Toronto, 1997. Retrieved ...

direct succession the heroic endeavours and martyrdom of a long line of revolutionary generations from Babeuf." last1=O'Callaghan |first1 ...

amp;hl=en#PPA239,M1 Mexican Martyrdom], (Kessinger Publishing, 2003), 238. Although both Hitler and Mussolini were anticlerical, they both understood ...

Mormons view Smith's violent death as martyrdom. Smith and his brother were both interred below the Smith Homestead in Nauvoo, and later excavations ...

the King Mirian by Abyatar (fourth century), The Martyrdom of Queen Shushanik by Iakob Tsurtaveli (fifth century), Corpus Areopagiticum, a philosophical ...

The popular Passio SS. Perpetuae et Felicitatis (Martyrdom of SS. Perpetua and Felicitas), much of it presented as the personal diary of St. ...

the lowest with a quatrefoil depicting the Martyrdom of St Peter, the largest central stage dominated by the crucifixion and the upper stage showing ...

Germans called Passchendaele "the greatest martyrdom of the War." It is one of the two battles (the other is the Battle of the Somme) which ...

The armatoloi considered concepts of sacrifice and martyrdom honorable when fighting on the field of battle. Sacrifices from individuals such ...

quot;Abd ar-Rahman and many of his men found martyrdom on the balat ash-Shuhada'i ("the path of the martyrs)." Antonio Santosuosso points ...

and 10-day dramatic depictions of the martyrdom. Also revered is Imam Reza, the eighth leader of Shi'a Muslims, who is buried in the northeastern ...