Sentences with phrase «martyrs from»

In the church next door to the graduation service, there was actually a plaque on the wall that listed the martyrs from previous classes.

Yet, as Dale Ahlquist told me, «we need to expand our ideas about sanctity, and recognize the saints among us in the ordinary world» — not just mystics and martyrs from centuries past.

Not exact matches

«I thought he would recover from his injury, I didn't expect his death, but God has chosen him as a martyr, thank God,» she said, sitting on the ground as mourners came to the house to pay their respects.

Justin Martyr is said to have quoted from some part of the Gospel of John.

People would also buy fruit from trees that grew in the vicinity of martyrs» graves.

In the twenty «four surviving letters written from his imprisonment in the tower in 1534 to his death a year and a half later, we are presented with More the Christian humanist and martyr in the richness of his spiritual and moral integrity.

They undoubtedly face widespread ridicule from the media (especially Hollywood) and an increasingly vocal minority who essentially call them stupid - heads (like Jacob) and mischaracterize their beliefs,, but this fact doesn't make them martyrs.

Then he also started receiving regular communications from God telling him to kill pagens, smite unbeilevers, take no prisoners, beat your wife if she steps out of line, be a martyr by fighting for Allah and receive 72 virgins in a beautiful garden, and my favorite... Allah said that Muhammed alone could have access to any woman he desired except wives of other Muslims — slave girls, prisoners, widows, NIECES, daughters, you name it, all fair game for the Prophet of Allah.

However, it also disallowed the extremists from creating a shrine of his burial site; or their ability to relocate his remains and take them to a «holy site» of their choosing; making a martyr out of him.

Justin the Martyr wrote, «And that these things did happen, you can ascertain from the Acts of Pontius Pilate.»

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.

The resulting book, Blood Letters: The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, a Martyr in Mao's China, draws from those prison writings, years of interviews and correspondence with those who knew Lin Zhao intimately, and extensive field research in Suzhou and Beijing.

But the church that grew from the blood of those martyrs knew what it was talking about.

Alexandru Stan of the Romanian Orthodox Church summarized some of the thinking of the Eastern Church, from the time of Justin Martyr, on the presence of God in all peoples, Christian and non-Christian alike; Metropolitan George Khodr of Beirut extended Orthodox thinking on the wide and restless work of the Holy Spirit; and Bishop Anastasios Yannoulatos of the Greek Orthodox Church offered a perspective shaped by his work as moderator of the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism.

A voice summons four horsemen, martyrs under the altar cry out for vindication, 144,000 from the tribes of Israel receive protective seals on their foreheads.

Japanese people are portrayed as somehow spiritually different from Western man, divided sharply into demonic persecutors and angelic martyrs.

This post brought me immediate flashback from couple if years ago when I read Saint Emmanuel the good, martyr by Miguel details Unamuno.

We have our link with the martyrs and can take courage from those great heroes who did not fail to pass on the Faith to us.

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.

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.

It means «a witness» to the faith (shahada), just as our word «martyr» is derived from the Greek word for witness to the faith.

their reasons for believing rely on what they have been taught by another, and that person from someone else, and so forth; so you just have to push it back, did the person who taught the martyr have good reason.

Speaking from his studio window overlooking St Peter's Square, the pontiff said: «May the Lord welcome these courageous witnesses, these martyrs, in his peace and convert the hearts of the violent ones.»

All the names of the martyrs indicate Greek of Asiatic origins and the fact that they addressed themselves to the churches of the provinces of Asia and Phrygia in their hour of need strengthens the Assumption that most of the martyrs were from Asia.

And so, Augustine points «away from the current popular ideology of the triumph of the martyrs to the smaller pains and triumphs of daily life.»

The essays in the Sigmund volume address both the challenge of religious pluralism in Latin America and the challenge of Hispanic immigrants coping with a very different religious circumstance in the U.S. Especially noteworthy in the Witte «Bourdeaux volume is an essay by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington on the vitality of Orthodoxy in Russia and what Christianity in the West has to receive from it, notably the witness of the martyrs.

Recent studies show that Islamist extremism is the church's greatest threat, with the number of Christian martyrs almost doubling from 4,344 in 2014 to more than 7,000 in 2015.

From the earliest Christians gathered the bones of the martyrs and buried them under their altars, as we see in Revelation 6:9.

Moreover, from St Alban to St Thomas More, the Church's martyrs have suffered because their beliefs were seen to threaten the political status quo.

This book is worth buying just for an appendix that gives various prayers: the dedication of England to the Mother of God and St Peter; the litany of intercession for England; prayer from the Mass of English martyrs; an old prayer for the Conversion of England; and a prayer to beg the prayers of the saints.

Resurrection is here closely associated with martyrdom; it is a «wonderful reward reserved for those who die a godly death».7 This kind of resurrection hope arose spontaneously, but perhaps irrationally, from those who, observing martyrdom, had no other way of expressing their conviction that the martyr had not died in vain.

Although the evolution of the myth in Judaism received particular stimulus from the concern for martyrs, it did not confine itself even to the Jewish people.

Number of god's creations who died horrible deaths from the following diseases: (or did they all die as martyrs?)

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.

According to a shocking new report from Crux — the Sunday religion magazine published by the Boston Globe — a Christian is martyred every hour every day.

Everything from playing the martyr or the victim, to playing the saviour and the hero.

What could have inspired these men to willingly die as martyrs preaching peace and forgiveness from God through Jesus Christ and preaching the invitation from Jesus Christ to call God «Our Father in Heaven» by means of the Holy Spirit among us other than the historical reality of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead — proof that Jesus is both God and Man?

And the blood of every martyr in every religious war since too cries from the ground.

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).

St Paul Miki, one twenty six Japanese martyrs who were executed in 1597, was from an aristocratic Japanese family but embraced the Jesuit vocation which eventually led him to crucifixion.

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.

A massive conglomeration of texts from the Hebrew scriptures is gathered and interpreted in light of the Christ - event in the «Dialogue of Justin, Philosopher and Martyr, with Trypho, a Jew.»

In this act of interrogation, lessons that one learns from a writer - bishop - martyr like Cyprian are indispensable, not only in demonstrating the hermeneutical principle that one must reach back in order to move forward, [27] but also to indicate that the ongoing task of attributed implicit theological disclosure is an essential, fundamental, and crucial activity of the theologians of the church.

In this act of interrogation, lessons that one learns from a writer - bishop - martyr like Cyprian are indispensable, not only in demonstrating the hermeneutical principle that one must reach back in order to move forward,

We now move on to a consideration of the seven letters that we have from Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, who was arrested in Antioch, and sent under guard to Rome where he was martyred during the reign of the emperor Trajan (98 - 117).

Commenting on the church's inauguration, Bishop Gregory Mansour from the Maronite Church in the US told the Catholic News Agency: «Any way that the Church of today can honour her martyrs is a blessing.

With stunning abruptness we're jostled from the Christmas Mass (the Christ Mass) to the feast of St. Stephen, proto - martyr.

It has been written of the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, with its close attention both to nature and to God, «Just as Christ is reborn to the world though the witness of one brave martyr, so the grandeur of God will «flame out», beautiful and awe - inspiring, from the imperfect «perfection» of one of his creatures.

Moreover, far from judging the major sufferers to be the major sinners, the supreme heroes of the race are in our eyes its martyrs and sacrificial servants who have drunk the hemlock or borne the cross.

One of the Palestinian «martyrs» was killed by a shot from there.