Sentences with phrase «with martyred»

Connect with Martyred bishops of Africa who were driven out into the Sahara Desert by the Vandals» King Hunneric, an Arian.

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 myth of why we [in the West] are evil,» thus giving terrorists «gratuitous fuel for self - regeneration, fulfilling their prophecies by providing them with martyrs and justifications.»

All I hear about is how they got their pwecious widdle feewings hurt, and then they go around equating themselves with the martyrs or the victims of the Holocaust.

It means that we are in communion with the prophets who announced God's will and promise for humankind and society, with the martyrs who sealed their confession with suffering and death, and also with the doubtful who can only whisper their confession of the Name.»

Not exact matches

I don't want my employees to martyr themselves as they try to navigate the storm of stress that comes with balancing a newborn and a demanding tech job.

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

The references to the beloved disciple fit well with what we know of John in the other Gospels: that he was a member of Jesus» inner circle and a close comrade of Simon Peter in Acts; the other member of that inner circle — John's brother James — was martyred early on; Ac 12:2.

Accounts of 22 famous contemporary historians with references to the person of Jesus Christ; Cornelius Tacitus (Roman A.D. 60) Thallus (Roman A.D. 52) Mara Bar Seraphian (Hebrew A.D. 73) Lucian of Samosata (Greek A.D. 125) Flavius Josephus (Hebrew A.D. 37) Suetonius (Roman A.D. 120) Plinius Secundus (Roman A.D. 112) Tertullian (Roman A.D. 175) Pontius Pilate (Roman A.D. 33) Justin Martyr (Roman A.D. 150); Jesus is also mentioned in the Jewish Talmud (work finished cir 500 AD) which incorporates the Mishna completed in cir 200 AD.

With the raging of ISIS and other jihadi groups throughout the Middle East, Antioch is being martyred once again: Not only the faithful but also clergy are being persecuted and killed in the name of a radical form of Islam.

Books, movies and plays were disseminated and discussed with offense taken only by the so - called «wingnuts» of the right who, though disgusted, understood that these extravagant fantasies were simple, immature venting: in truth, the left knew that such a horrific event would martyr Bush, place Dick Cheney in the Oval Office and solidify, not weaken, Republican power.

REVELATION CHAPTER SIX And he open the fifth seal, and I saw under the altar the souls of those who were slain for the word of GOD and for the testimony they held and they cried out with a loud voice, how long O LORD holy and true do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth and white robes were given unto them and it was said unto them that they should rest a little season until their fellow servant and their brethren should be slain as they were should be fulfilled.Under racial profiling many BLACK AMERICANS were arrested and were either martyred within the prison system or were deported to AFRICA, where many of them were martyred there and were buried in mass graves in both the SUDAN and in the CONGO.

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.

The article says on 6 credible martyrs, then states Nero lighted his garden with Christians (I believe more than six died there, not counting the others whom he blamed for burning down Rome) Then we have 11 apostles who were martyred in the Roman empire (more than six there also).

She's undoubtedly comparing Perpetua's relatively straightforward story with the incredibly outlandish tales that many of her fellow martyrs command.

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.

It may have to do with Oregon's Death with Dignity, which has been more successful and much more ethical than the church's activities, but in general, it's just part of their martyr complex.

@april: And if they had died, they would be called martyrs for their Lord... or the Lord took them to be with him... or Satan did it, right?

I do have to agree with the idea that christians have a martyr complex.

If, say, a bishop wanted to denounce a rivals» theology, he spun a story in which a martyr denounced the same doctrine with his last breath, Moss says.

Towns competed with one another to draw rich pilgrims seeking martyr memorabilia, Moss says.

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!!

We recently spoke with author Eric Metaxas (Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy; Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery) about his new book Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life and what inspired him to explore the idea of supernatural phenomenon in an increasingly cynical world.

6 I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.

After being martyred, he found himself walking through heaven with Jesus, who tells Li Quan this:

In Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons, Thomas More, lord chancellor of England under Henry VIII, attempts to reassure his wife and daughter (who are rightly concerned for his safety) by pointing to himself with the words, «This is not the stuff of which martyrs are made.»

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.

The wandering, miracle performing teacher — the martyred and resurrected demi - god born of a virgin — these are not characteristics that originated with nor are unique to Jesus.

Some gentile Christians, confronted with persecution and possible death, became martyrs; others weakened and left the faith.

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.

Reminds me of what a college friend of mine, also named Linda, said 40 years ago and it's stuck with me all that time: «Manipulators and martyrs go together in matched pairs.»

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.

Ridicule and derision along with sympathy for the wronged or «martyred» is a most powerful weapon against these bigoted christians.

After Stephen is martyred God sets the nation of Israel aside and the gospel goes primarily to the Gentiles with individual Jews still getting saved.

The martyrs, along with the saints, then provide models of what it means to live in the shadow of the world to come.

Justin Martyr lifted up the Logos of God as the means, or bridge, by which an absolute and unchanging deity can have relations with the created order.

The backgrounds and situations of all the martyrs were very different: some were priests who travelled around, some like the monks whose abbeys were relied upon for medicine or respite; others were lay people with families, like Thomas More or Margaret Clitherow, and yet they stood firm.

Only by offering our «spiritual worship» and sufferings can we be united with Him on the cross and bring back to this country with its long Christian heritage, a society worthy of man and of our martyrs.

A martyr is someone who lives with a saint.

[54] St Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, 117.

Christ's life and sacrifice with which the Church started, its long history marred by failures but still contributing immeasurably to mankind's welfare, its prophets, saints, and martyrs — for all of this I am unpayably in debt.

And in these days when the sorrows of life appear in clearer outline against the glow of Christmas cheer, this celebration of the unwilling martyrs can become a permission for grief for those intimately acquainted with loss.

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.

Well, as the (supposedly) great Christian theologian / martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer said «the god who is with us, is the god who forsakes us», (Letters and Paper form Prison).

Who would deny, for example, that the prayer of a martyr in his lonely prison cell before his execution, in which he unites himself completely with the death of Christ has greater dignity and validity before God and for his Church than many liturgical prayers?

Threatening people with hell to get them to believe is like promising them virgins to martyr themselves.

That is how the papacy started: with a Galilean fisherman martyred by the imperial power of Rome.

Were Christianity what a man does with his solitude, there would be no martyrs.

More specifically, they called for a «Fortnight for Freedom» concluding with the Fourth of July when U.S. dioceses can celebrate both religious liberty and martyrs who have died for the Catholic cause.

The artist who created the busts chose to portray each martyr with a smile on his or her face.