Sentences with phrase «first martyrs»

Bilney's experience led to his becoming an evangelist and eventually one of the first martyrs of the English Reformation.

The first martyrs of the Christian church in Uganda were young pages at the court of the king.

Of the terrorists he says, «We hope that they are the first martyrs in Islam's battle in this era against the new crusade and Jewish campaign led by the big crusader Bush under the flag of the cross.»

And so too with the particular election of these baby boys, which, according to the Church's tradition, at least, was an election to heaven as the first martyrs for Christ.

Requiescat in pace, Father Jacques HamelMartyred at the church of St. Étienne, Named for the first martyr.

[26] Again, while being stoned to death, St. Stephen the first martyr offered himself up to Christ and prayed to God for his persecutors to be forgiven.

The principle was extended to those non-believers who stoned to death the first martyr for the faith, Stephen.

Those who describe Stephen as the first martyr for the cause of Jesus and the in - breaking kingdom of God should not forget this forerunner from the desert whose actions echo those of Nathan and the prophets of Israel, and whose death foreshadows the death of truth incarnate and love crucified.

Both the first martyr and the first missionary come from the diaconate, not the apostolate.

By his death, he became the first martyr of the Christian church.

What implications for ministry can be drawn from the fact that both the first martyr (Stephen) and the first missionary (Philip) were members of the diaconate, not apostles?

Not exact matches

one only need look at the Church ih China today and it's growth under Communist persecution to get a mirror image of what it was like for first through third century Christian's as well as Revelation 6:9 - 11 then 14 - 17 nine through elven are the martyrs and 14 through 17 is a glimpse of judgment for men of war!

If the first Christians pictured themselves as waging war against the world, the martyrs were their version of the Navy SEALs.

When the Church in the early 1990s began canonizing the new martyrs of the Soviet period, Elizabeth was among the first.

The twenty - first - century Church owes a lot to twentieth - century German Catholicism: for its generosity to Catholics in the Third World; for the witness of martyrs like Alfred Delp, Bernhard Lichtenberg, and Edith Stein; for its contributions to Biblical studies, systematic and moral theology, liturgical renewal, and Catholic social doctrine, through which German Catholicism played a leading role in Vatican II's efforts to renew Catholic witness for the third millennium.

However, would you say that, each one of the 11 martyred men, who really had stolen the body of Jesus in the first place, would be willing to die for a belief they themselves knew to be false?

Otherwise, Justin Martyr's appeal to the Acts of Pilate in his First Apology would have lacked credibility.

The existence of the Acts of Pontius Pilate is strongly supported by Epiphanius (Heresies 50.1), Justin Martyr (First Apology, A.D. 150) and Tertullian (Apology, A.D. 200).

By the second century, Roman soldiers were bringing their new faith to Britain, and in the middle of the third century St. Alban became Britain's first known Christian martyr, but we don't know much more about who these Christians were, and it is here that Malcolm Lambert begins in Pagans and Christians: The Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede, producing a captivating narrative by squeezing what he can» but no more» from archeological evidence (mostly from burial sites) and the limited historical record.

Hmm — when I think charlatanism, I must confess, what comes to mind is this ridiculous excuse by early Christian apologists (Justin Martyr and others) that the devil was able to perform plagiarism in reverse time order (to fool people into thinking that other similar stories before the Gospels came first).

Thus the Book of Revelation speaks of the first resurrection of those who have been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus» referring to the Neronian martyrs, many of whom were, in fact, burned or crucified.

Had Judas been confronted with the challenge «Deny the Messiah or die» only a few weeks earlier, while still hoping Jesus was the real messiah, he would probably have been the first Christian martyr.

For a year I shall serve purely as a deacon, an office set up by the first apostles to serve the community, as recounted in chapter 6 of the Acts of the Apostles; read on and you'll learn how the first deacon, Stephen, quickly also became the first Christian martyr.

St. Alban, the first English martyr, may have died under Emperor Septimius Severus (c. 209), although some scholars date his death to the persecutions under the Emperor Diocletian (c305).

While this claim can not be historically proven beyond doubt, it is certain that we are looking here at the mortal remains of an early martyr whose burial site was a place of reverence and pilgrimage from the first days of the Christian era.

The first Christian martyr was «Stephen, a man full of faith».

(Judges 16:28) Between this petition and the prayer of the dying Stephen, the first Christian martyr, «Lord, lay not this sin to their charge,» (Acts 7:60) lies a long road of ethical ascent.

The Catholic Church began compiling «martyrologies» — lists of saints, typically martyrs — during the first centuries after Constantine.

Discussing some sermons of St. Augustine (first preached probably in the year 397 but newly discovered in only 1990), Peter Brown notes that Augustine was often required to preach at festivals of the martyrs.

Because Milk was the first outspokenly gay elected official in California, he is a martyr to the cause of gay rights, and the film (with Sean Penn) emphasizes Milk's struggle against homophobia.

Later, he was among the first to see the menace of National Socialism in Germany, tirelessly spoke for those persecuted there when this was an unfashionable and awkward cause, and became a close friend of the martyred Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

000s of Christians died martyrs» deaths to uphold this belief in the first 3 centuries.

«Taking turns» refers to antiphonal recitations Justin Martyr, a pagan converted to Christianity in the second century, composed the First Apology and sent it to his Emperor, Antonius Pius.

After Stephen is martyred in Acts 7, God sets the nation of Israel aside (temporarily) and the gospel begins to move out first to the Samaritans and then the gentiles.

This belief, shared, it appears, by Jesus and his disciples, would have led the disciples in any case to the conviction that Jesus, as a martyr, would be among the first to be raised at the end - time.

A man becomes a martyr because he is first a witness.

Should Stephen, the first Christian martyr, have shut his mouth when he saw the Lord in His glory?

In the first resurrection only the martyrs will participate.

Watch Saul of Tarsus holding the clothes of Stephen, the first Christian martyr, while the crowd stones him to death.

Ironically, they are guaranteed the martyr's crown from the lips of Our Lord, but at the expense of all the vainglory they no doubt entertained when trying to establish their claim: «Anyone who wants to be great among you must be your servant, and anyone who wants to be first among you must be slave to all» (Mk 10, 44).

Great saints and martyrs showed true love for their closest relatives by putting eternal life with Christ first.

Recall the opening words of the First Epistle of John: «We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life» this life was revealed, and we have seen it and testify to it, and declare to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us...» First John states the primal truth that Christian faith rests on witness to what has happened in history, hence the honored place of the martyrs (witnesses) in Christian memory.

The martyrs of the first part of the 20th century witnessed to the freedom of heart and spirit, and they were and defenders of human dignity.

The tomb of the first Christian martyr may have been located in an excavation just west of Ramallah.

What Hasan characterizes as fatalism, however, might better be explained as perseverance in suffering, for the Copts have long praised the examples of their martyrs; indeed, the accession in 284 of the Emperor Diocletian, who staged the most thoroughgoing Roman persecution of the Christian church, marks the first year of the Coptic calendar.

«The brutality of the first - century Roman persecution was real and those early martyrs should be honored,» he wrote for Charisma.

The group patronized outstanding preachers like Bernard Ochino and Peter Martyr Vermigli who later seceded to Protestantism, and was responsible for the distribution of tens of thousands of copies of the notorious tract Beneficio di Cristo, written by a Cassinese protégé of Pole's, and which incorporated without acknowledgment swathes from the first version of Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion.

A bishop (long dead) who fancied himself as something of a historian used to say that it was the religious orders which were the first to capitulate at the time of the Henrician Reformation in England, the Carthusian martyrs being the outstanding exception which proved the rule.

When Peter first penned the words «always be ready with an answer,» he was writing to the persecuted church during the time of the emperor Nero... This was not advice for a debate team; it was advice for martyrs!

Stephen, the first Christian martyr, was a deacon.