The early tradition that expanded upon the Martyrdom to link Polycarp in competition and contrast with John the Apostle who, though many people had tried to kill him, was not martyred but died of old age after being exiled to the island of Patmos, is embodied in the Coptic language fragmentary papyri ( the " Harris fragments ") dating to the 3rd to 6th centuries.

In the Martyrdom, Polycarp is recorded as saying on the day of his death, " Eighty and six years I have served him ," which could indicate that he was then eighty-six years old or that he may have lived eighty-six years after his conversion.

Because the Smyrnaean letter known as the Martyrdom of Polycarp states that Polycarp was taken on the day of the Sabbath and killed on the Great Sabbath, some believe that this is evidence that the Smyrnaeans under Polycarp observed the seventh day Sabbath.

The thin-skinned artist was outraged, however, by the criticism of his ambitious canvas of the Martyrdom of Saint Symphorien ( cathedral of Autun ), shown in the Salon of 1834.

A pivotal moment in the history of Canterbury Cathedral was the murder of Thomas Becket in the north-west transept ( also known as the Martyrdom ) on Tuesday 29 December 1170 by knights of King Henry II.

The park was intended to undertake a teaching role to make people see war period at place and with applications .. With 57th Regiment Martyrdom Renewal Project, applied together with Gelibolu Peninsula Historical National Parks Directorate, was added again to historical values with a proper organization worth for our martyrs who fought heroically.

Peckham died on 8 December 1292 at Mortlake and was buried in the north transept, or the Martyrdom, of Canterbury Cathedral.

Martyrdom was intended to combine physical punishment with public humiliation and degradation, and understood in context, the resultant cruelty and celebration of imperial power were neither unusual nor extraordinary.

In 1569 the graduate Sancho Busto de Villegas, a member of the Supreme Council of the Inquisition and governor of the Archbishopric of Toledo ( afterwards Bishop of Avila ) wrote, based on the trial documents, which were stored in the Valladolid court archives, Relación autorizada del martirio del Santo Inocente ( Authorized Account of the Martyrdom of Saint Innocent ), which was deposited in the municipal archives of La Guardia town hall.

The panel on the left wall, the Martyrdom of Saint Catherine, was painted by Giuliano Bugiardini ( with possibly assistance by Michelangelo ).

At his death the collection was inherited by his nephew, who was pressured by Rudolf II, the very acquisitive Austrian Habsburg Emperor, to sell the finest pieces to him, which in 1597 he very reluctantly did, protesting that the price offered for thirty-three works was not enough even for six, and less than he had recently refused from Cardinal Farnese for Dürer's Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand alone.

From that moment, together with translations of the Bible, ecclesiastical literature in Georgian was produced in Kartli, most prominently biographies of saints, such as the " Martyrdom of the Holy Queen Shushanik " and the " Martyrdom of Saint Abo ".

An edition of the ESV with the Biblical apocrypha — the books of the Protestant apocrypha, called the deuterocanonical books or anagignoskomena of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Old Testaments, respectively, not to be confused with those books called " apocrypha " by Catholics and Orthodox, such as 1 Enoch, 4 Esdras, the Martyrdom and Ascension of Isaiah, etc., often called " pseudepigrapha " by Protestants — was developed by Oxford University Press and published in January, 2009.

* 2011 Martyrdom of Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistani politician and the only Christian elected member of the National Assembly, who was an outspoken critic of Pakistan's blasphemy laws.

The Martyrdom of St Sebastian by Benozzo Gozzoli ( 1465 ) honours the saint who was invoked in times of plague.

Martyrdom was ... solidly anchored in the civic life of the Graeco-Roman world of the Roman empire.

At the intercession of the Cardinal Ippolito de ' Medici, Baccio Bandinelli and Pietro Aretino, he was released, and set to work on his plate of the Martyrdom of St. Lawrence after Bandinelli.

He was opposed by sections of the Shia community for writings in the book “ Shaheed-E-Insaniyat ” which proclaimed the Presence of Water in the Tents of Hazrat Imam Hussain ( as ) during the Battle of Karbala in 61AH, and also throws doubt the Martyrdom of Hazrat Ali Asghar ( as ) by the Arrow of Hurmula.

In 1823 the " Re-erection of the Royal Tombs at St Denis ," the " Martyrdom of St Laurence " ( Nôtre Dame ) and several full-length portraits increased the painter's popularity ; and in 1824, when he exhibited his great canvas, the " Massacre of the Jews " ( Louvre ), Heim was rewarded with the Legion of Honour.

According to the Martyrdom of Oengus, Enda was a warrior, and the King of Oriel.

Two major commissions at this period resulted in Poussin's early masterwork, the Barberini Death of Germanicus ( 1628 ), partly inspired by the reliefs of the Meleager sarcophagus, and the commission for St. Peter's that amounted to a public debut, the Martyrdom of St. Erasmus ( 1629, Vatican Pinacoteca ), indebted to designs on the same subject by the contemporary Baroque painter, Pietro da Cortona.

1628, the Stadtholders and their Wives ( Amsterdam and Hague ), Charles Louis and Rupert, Charles I's nephews ( Louvre, St Petersburg, Combe Abbey and Willin ), and Lord Craven, ( National Portrait Gallery, London ). Honthorst's early style can be seen in the Lute-player ( 1614 ) at the Louvre, the Martyrdom of St John in Santa.

His early works were in the troubadour style of Richard Parkes Bonington, but he soon graduated to religious work, notably The Martyrdom of Thomas à Becket, commissioned by Daniel O ' Connell for Westland Row Church in Dublin.

It, and an account of The Martyrdom of Polycarp that takes the form of a circular letter from the church of Smyrna to the churches of Pontus, form part of the collection of writings Roman Catholics term " The Apostolic Fathers " to emphasize their particular closeness to the apostles in Church traditions.

Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church

* The Life, Miracles & Martyrdom of St. Timothy, Bishop of the Christian Church

* The Life, Miracles and Martyrdom of St. James the Great: Apostle and Martyr of the Christian Church

Its origins are entwined with the religious and beneficent brotherhoods ( irmandades ) organized by the Roman Catholic Church among ethnic Yoruba slaves, the Order of Our Lady of the Good Death ( Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte ), for women, and the Order of Our Lord of the Martyrdom ( Nosso Senhor dos Martírios ), for men.

Subsequently he undertook more important works, the principal being a fresco of the Crucifixion in St. Stephen's Church, for which he also executed a Martyrdom of St. Stephen and an Assumption of Mary.

glass windows for the Unitarian Memorial Church at Fairhaven, Mass .. Reid's “ The Martyrdom of St. Paul ” is located at the southwestern end of the nave of the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New York City.

The Martyrdom of Man ( 1872 ), is a secular history of the Western world.

The Martyrdom of Man had, ( by Victorian standards ) a relatively sympathetic account of African history, it was approvingly cited by W. E. B.

Martyrdom could also be seen as symbolic in its connections with the Eucharist and with baptism.

There is a tradition ( reported in both the Martyrdom of Isaiah and the Lives of the Prophets ) that he suffered martyrdom by Manasseh due to pagan reaction.

Martyrdom of St Clement by Fungai

This is home to some art, including the Martyrdom of St. Justine by Paolo Veronese.

Jean Fouquet: The Martyrdom of St. Appolonia ( 1460 ), depicting the staging of a mystery play, led by a theatre directorIn Medieval times, the complexity of vernacular religious drama, with its large scale mystery plays that often included crowd scenes, processions and elaborate effects, gave the role of director ( or stage manager or pageant master ) considerable importance.

The oldest surviving literary work in Georgian is the " Martyrdom of the Holy Queen Shushanik " ( Georgian: წამებაჲ წმიდისა შუშანიკისი დედოფლისაჲ, Tsamebay tsmidisa Shushanikisi dedoplisay ) by Iakob Tsurtaveli, from the 5th century AD.

They include an Incoronation of the Virgin by Andrea della Robbia, the Multiplication of Bread by Giovanni Battista Casoni and st. Bartholomew's Martyrdom by Luca Cambiaso.

Martyrdom of Saint Erasmus, by Nicolas Poussin.

" The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence " by Juan de León ( 1758 ) Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando | R. A. B. A. S. F.

Martyrdom of Saint Pedro de Arbués, by Franceso Cecchini

Like Velázquez, Ribera is represented by around 50 paintings, among them masterpieces such as Jacob and Esau and The Martyrdom of Saint Philip.

Last Communion and Martyrdom of Saint Denis, by Henri Bellechose, 1416, which shows the martyrdom of both Denis and his companions

* Martyrdom of the Holy Queen Shushanik by Iakob Tsurtaveli ( the oldest surviving work of the Georgian literature written between 476 and 483 )

* The Martyrdom of Abo Tbileli by Ioane Sabanisdze ( 8th century )