Sentences with phrase «martyrs at»

And if they did they'd lose a lot of supporters, and so PR would mean little to them, unless they're political martyrs at the same time?

Among the martyrs at Lyons in 177, was the domestic slave, Blandina, of whose death - being finally killed by having her throat cut, after surviving horrible tortures including ruthless scourging, being roasted on a red - hot griddle, and being gored bloody by a bull while bound in a net - it stands recorded that even the pagans themselves admitted that none of their women had ever endured so many terrible tortures.

The article did NOT say that there were no martyrs at all, just that there were not as many as you would like... And to even TRY an equate Christianity in America as the kind of persecutions early Christians experienced makes you look quite childish and hysterical.

He mentions that Thomas even went to Burma, and after returning to India he was martyred at Mylapore.

This is an enormous step for a pope to take, and if the leader of the world's Catholics can take it, surely Protestants can acknowledge their own sins and the fact that Catholics have been martyred at the hands of Protestants.

I'm not feeling like a martyr at all.

She was an actual martyr at Autun, France.

This also explains why Rowling flinched at the prospect of Harry martyring himself at the end, something the entire series leads up to.

Not exact matches

Andrew Heyward, president of CBS News at the time of the scandal, told the Times, «It takes people responsible for the worst embarrassment in the history of CBS News, and what was at the time a grievous blow to the credibility of a proud news organization, and turns them into martyrs and heroes.

The office martyr considers themselves a victim, taking on extra work, staying late at the office, and giving nearly everything for their career, all the while complaining about the extra burden they supposedly have to bear.

A memorial service is held at the Labor Lyceum on Spadina Avenue, but she is buried with the Haymarket martyrs in Chicago.

The six million martyrs of the Holocaust lost their Jewish identity at gunpoint.

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!

Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.

Thus we read, for example, of martyrs under the Communists, of martyrs in the African church of the twentieth century, and of the Anglican missionary Vivian Redlich, who died at the hands of the Japanese in Papua in 1942.

Some estimates place the number of Christian martyrs in the 20th century at 100 million.

* sigh * people have known for decades if not centuries at least that the numbers of Christians martyred was exaggerated.

No one's asking you to be the martyr who surrenders his precious gun to tyranny, Reasonable people are simply asking for a few common sense tools to keep a few less weapons of mass destruction off the streets and make buying an assault rifle at least as tough as buying Advil Cold and Sinus.

By TINA AKANNAM, Dutse The Bishop of Kano / Jigawa Diocese, Bishop John Namaza Niyiring has declared that the 10 Catholics who were killed in cold blood by a terrorist group during last Sunday Mass at St. Stephen chaplaincy, Bayero University Kano are martyrs.

the sheikh is one of the new faces to world religion, they willfully attempt at being a martyr by saying things that the rest of world agrees with but the culture that bore the said creature doesn't!!

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

Tracing the historical story of underground Christians in Japan in the mid-17th century, Endo offers a stark look at the realities of following Christ under persecution, and the intense psychological struggle of a particular priest to know whether it would be better for him to be martyred for his faith or to recant.

It turned out to be essentially a continuation of what had already been revealed — a plea for prayer and penance, but with an added series of images: a ruined city, a rugged Cross, a Pope shot at with arrows, bishops, clergy and faithful people martyred.

I have stood at the sink and confessed it to Mama: It's a Messy Circus Cycle, passive Mud Swallowing, blaming Mud Slinging, martyred Mud Running, and the circus becomes my circus and the cycle becomes my own kinda painful crazy.

'» The historical Ferreira, upon whom Endō's Ferreira is based, wrote similar accounts of the Japanese martyrs, one of which is quoted at the beginning of the novel.

Looking at a modern day martyr (or a 10th century martyr, or a 6th century martyr, ect.)

We could have quoted St Irenaeus — who is indeed a saint, martyr and great teacher of the Church — at much greater length to exactly the same effect, but the succinctness of Tertullain's style serves well to express the thought no matter that the man unfortunately left the communion of the Church at the end of his life.

I was asked to review this beautifully produced 2006 edition at precisely the moment that I just finished rereading Caraman's biography of a later English Jesuit, the martyr St Henry Morse.

«He is considered the proto - martyr of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith,» only recently founded at that time, of which he was the head.

the blood of the martyrs fills the soil of our country from north to south and from east to west... many of the bodies are recovered and are broken between churches all over egypt and the rest of the world and by the way the movie was not made by Coptic Christians at least not orthodox anyway.

It was a long and sometimes terrible conflict, occasionally exacting a fearful price in martyrs» blood, but it was, by any just estimate, a victory: the temples of Zeus and Isis alike were finally deserted, both the paean and the dithyramb ceased to be sung, altars were bereft of their sacrifices, the sibyls fell silent, and ultimately all the glory, nobility, and cruelty of the ancient world lay supine at the feet of Christ the conqueror.

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.

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.

Ever since Bishop Polycarp of Smyrna (Izmir in modern Turkey) was bound and burned at the stake in the mid-second century, Christians have remembered the martyrs in a special way.

Don't forget Reality... the mythology promoted by the Romans was also urged by the Jewish pharisees at the time as a means of keeping the populace subservient to the Roman empire and thus by giving them a martyr.

When I used to attend (evangelical christian) church there was always a vocal strain of folks who wanted to think they were persecuted, they told made - up stories about christians being persecuted in various parts of the world (at the time a lot of them were set in the U.S.S.R.)... it was so obvious that they LOVED thinking of themselves as some small group of martyrs, that they NEEDED to imagine themselves to be a persecuted minority... holding on to some secret truth that the rest of the world had turned its back on.

In Hodges Chapel at Beeson Divinity School, we have busts of six 20th - century martyrs, one for each inhabited continent.

I love looking at these martyrs during worship because their smiles are a picture of the joy they know now.

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.

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

Bruno, it is true, lost his life in the conflict, but at a time when thousands were martyred or killed in religious wars for either the Catholic or Protestant cause, this was negligible in comparison.

As early as the second century, Christians gathered for worship at the tombs of the martyrs, celebrating the power of God's grace in the lives of these faithful men and women.

They were educated at convent schools, could rise to become prioresses or abbesses of great houses and were numbered amongst the scholars, Saints, mystics and martyrs of the church.

The Book of Mormon appears to be written by one man in the early 1800s by Joseph Smith who «martyred» while shooting back at his attackers in prison.

Look at the atheists playing the role of martyrs as though they have been thrown to the lions.

He invented much of the history of Christianity, especially the martyrs, and Constantine's vision at the Malvan Bridge.

If Jupiter can have, Justin Martyr seems to reason, half a dozen divine sons, why can not Jehovah have at least one?

But that a man can become a martyr, if he ought to be a witness to the end, can not be derived from a purely juridical reflection, for in a trial it is not the witness whose life is at stake but the accused.

Then they sought assurance that those sinners who seem to go through life without ever suffering at all for their misdeeds would eventually receive their due punishment, and that those, on the other hand, who had been martyred unjustly, would be given the opportunity to present their case before a higher court; these interests led to the second and third divisions.

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.