Sentences with phrase «of martyrs»

The rocket landed inside a civilian house in the city of #Doma yesterday, where more than 50 civilian casualties occurred in the chemical and dozens of martyrs were killed by the bombing of the city with various types of weapons».

So in this respect it isn't that unusual to think he would use the imagery of the martyrs that he studied in painting after painting in the Louvre.

In an effortless, all - encompassing maneuver, it moves from commercial token of love and seduction to emblem of martyrs.

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige's Faces series, which helps commemorate the lives of those martyrs who lost their lives in Lebanon's civil war, is also particularly vital.

Repurposing image, iconic symbols and craft from varied mythologies, American history and Modern Art, Jackson creates hybrid portraits of martyrs slain and sacrificed.

The design echoes black nationalist Marcus Garvey's flag, in which the red stood for the blood of martyrs, the black for the colour of their skin and the green for the land of Africa.

Sex I presents the same scene a number of weeks later: the bodies of the martyrs are in an advanced state of decomposition and covered with hand - painted bronze casts of toy flies and worms.

This note should describe story of one of the martyrs (male or female), and explain why he or she, ended up in hell.

The name means «mount of martyrs» in rememberance of the martydom of Saint Denis, the first bishop of Paris (late 3rd century) and his colleagues.

Forged in the fire and blood of martyrs, the Pentecost stones have been handed down through generations of Keepers who kept their power and locations secret.

What follows in both Gibson's film and Fulci's is a period fantasy leaking blood and viscera, scored with drama and shot in operatic slow - motion: tales of martyrs and heroes, of battles against the unclean (more suggested in Gibson's film as a steely - eyed, newly - risen saviour gets ready to rock), and, in their different / same ways, reduced to the barest elements of conflict - action - resolution, repeat.

Several groups of martyrs also called the Martyrs of Annam who were slain for the faith in Vietnam from 1798 until 1861.

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According to an article by Post in eJournal USA, Palestinian suicide bomb commanders have told their recruits: «You have a worthless life ahead of you, you can do something significant with your life, you will be enrolled in the hall of martyrs...» The bombers themselves then embrace the larger aims of their mission at great personal cost.

The Roman Curia — the Church's governing body — includes a network of 5 pontifical academies and 11 pontifical councils, each of them charged with tasks ranging from the promotion of Christian unity to the cataloging of martyrs.

When Bhan Singh protested, the major flew into a rage, tore away his turban and ordered him to either flee the scene or join the «array of martyrs».

«Mughal emperors and British governors alike tried military solutions to the Sikh problems and succeeded only in adding to the roll of martyrs cherished by the proud and prickly people.

Thus even in the middle of the third century the laity preserved their «1iturgy» of electing, of bringing the offerings or tithing, of identifying themselves with the prayers of their celebrants in antiphonal amens.97 Moreover, their consent was sought in dogmatic and moral formulations.98 Closely connected therewith was the people's prerogative in the recognition of martyrs which in the fourth century was to become the communal voice in the authoritative canonization of saints.99

Thus a new race of martyrs was born because the Church was too strong or too weak to allow that it had faults, although this aspect was highlighted in abundance by some who became martyrs and met with a violent death.

The Christian hope after death was very strong in the mind of the martyrs.

I am part of the story of martyrs, and of accounts of Gethsemane and Golgotha.

In the passion of the martyrs all Christians can see the universal Christian vocation, the call to love the Lord they met in baptism even unto death.

Add to this the often saccharine depiction of martyrs in Christian art and legend, and one has a situation in which martyrdom is seen as a pious, quaint idea from an earlier age.

It is no exaggeration to say that we will not know the full history of the twentieth century until we know the stories of its martyrs.

The Christian church may be divided, but the Christian faithful are united whenever they confess that Jesus is Lord — and there is no confession more radical than the confession of martyrs.

As the persecution of Christians continues in Sudan and East Timor and elsewhere — as people of faith continue to testify to the gospel of love and the truth about the human person — the continuing story of the martyrs will have to be told in the twenty - first century as well.

The Jubilee Year 2000, he wrote, marked the end of a millennium in which, as in its first centuries, «the Church has once again become a Church of martyrs.»

The ecumenism of the martyrs and of the witnesses to the faith is the most convincing of all; to the Christians of the twentieth century it shows the path to unity.»

However, Ineffabilis Deus says: «All our hope do we repose in the most Blessed Virgin» in the all fair and immaculate one who has crushed the poisonous head of the most cruel serpent and brought salvation to the world: in her who is the glory of the prophets and apostles, the honor of the martyrs, the crown and joy of all the saints; in her who, with her only - begotten Son, is the most powerful Mediatrix and Conciliatrix in the whole world; in her who is the most excellent glory, ornament, impregnable stronghold of the holy Church; in her who has destroyed all heresies and snatched the faithful people and nations from all kinds of direst calamities; in her do we hope who has delivered us from so many threatening dangers.»

All transformational movements in human history have gained strength from the blood of their martyrs.

But Aquinas was just about as far from the time of martyrs as Aristotle was from the time of heroes — about a thousand years.

Admittedly it is bizarre to think of martyrs» bodies being regurgitated at the time of resurrection by the beasts that devoured them — but is it any more bizarre than birth, when compared to the more decorous view that finds babies under cabbage leaves?

Soon after John witnesses the martyrs under the altar, he sees incense smoke rising to heaven mixed with the «prayers of the saints,» that is, the prayers of the martyrs for vindication and vengeance.

Why don't you read Foxes book of martyrs so that God might help you by humbling you under His mighty hand.

Please God, it will be our reward to rejoice with the harvest of our works in the presence of the martyrs and saints.

«The hocus - pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs.»

That feature film, End of the Spear, will open in theaters next January, the 50th anniversary of the death of the martyrs — Jim Elliot, Pete Fleming, Ed McCully, Nate Saint, and Roger Youderian.

Huebner grants to Elizabeth Castelli the point that remembrances of martyrs are always constructs, never able securely to capture truth.

One problem with extolling martyrs is that often Christians remember martyrs who were killed by other Christians: remembrance of the martyrs is thereby tied to a judgment on other Christian traditions.

That weighty tome tells the stories of martyrs, beginning with Jesus and the apostles, with special attention to the persecution and execution of Anabaptists in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries.

For, Huebner writes, «without such images as the triumph of the lamb and the heavenly banquet, along with the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity that give them a kind of material display, [the deaths of martyrs] are reduced to a crude occurrence of meaningless suffering, or at most a form of masochism.»

It also explains why in America appeals like Hovey's or York's to the exemplary nature of the martyrs don't make immediate sense; in most people's minds, the only people who die for their faith are delusional and suicidal figures like Jim Jones, founder of the People's Temple, and more than 900 of his followers.

He advances the church through the death of the martyrs.

To argue that radical Islam will, no matter what, «produce new generations of martyrs» is no justification for reciprocal lethal violence by anyone, especially by Christian believers.

There's lots of talk of martyrs in our culture.

Whoever not only says, but feels, «God's will be done,» is mailed against every weakness; and the whole historic array of martyrs, missionaries, and religious reformers is there to prove the tranquil - mindedness, under naturally agitating or distressing circumstances, which self - surrender brings.

[24] For the document chronicling the death of the martyrs of Lyons see «The Martyrs of Lyons,» in Herbert Musurillo, intro., texts and translations, The Acts of the Christian Martyrs op.

Evidence of their persecuted status is still visible in Rome, where the catacombs reveal thousands of martyrs» bones and rude stone caskets record hundreds of deaths in the faith.

[30] It is not for nothing that the description of the death of the martyrs is described as their passion («passio»).

Though we are tempted to hide behind barricades, guns and bombs, the stories of the martyrs remind us of the one who overcame evil not by defeating the enemy but by loving the enemy and thus defeating death itself.