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.

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.

Outside of the Book of Acts which contains the death of Saint Stephen, the Martyrdom is considered one of the earliest genuine accounts of a Christian martyrdom, and is one of the very few genuine accounts from the actual age of the persecutions.

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 fifth of Epip is the commemoration of the Martyrdom of St. Peter and Paul.

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

Included in the Acts of Philip is an appendix, entitled " Of the Journey of Philip the Apostle: From the Fifteenth Act Until the End, and Among Them the Martyrdom.

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.

Also cited is the veneration of Polycarp's relics recorded in the Martyrdom of Polycarp ( written 150 – 160 AD ).

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

This incident is recounted at length in the 1973 novel Magnus by Orcadian author George Mackay Brown, and in the 1977 opera, The Martyrdom of St Magnus by Peter Maxwell Davies.

The writings of the Apostolic Fathers are in a number of genres, some, e. g. the writings of Clement of Rome are letters ( called epistles ), others relate historical events, e. g. the Martyrdom of Polycarp, and one ( the Didache ) is a guide for ethical and liturgical practice.

He also wrote the fragmentary Martirio de San Lorenzo ( the Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence, a Roman martyr of the third century ), which may be connected to a shrine of Saint Lawrence supposedly built by Aemilian himself, at the top of the mountain below which the monastery of San Millán is situated.

The house is said to contain two paintings by Rubens, The Marriage of St. Catherine and The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian.

San Pantalon is particularly well known for its immense ceiling painting, depicting The Martyrdom and Apotheosis of St Pantalon.

The earliest account of Vincent's martyrdom is in a carmen ( lyric poem ) written by the poet Prudentius, who wrote a series of lyric poems, Peristephanon (" Crowns of Martyrdom "), on Hispanic and Roman martyrs.

The Martyrdom of St James in Nôtre Dame is perhaps his finest work.

On the rear wall of the nave, beneath the Last Judgement is a fresco of the Martyrdom of St Sebastian painted by Benozzo Gozzoli in 1465.

Martyrdom for principle may be acceptable ; martyrdom to maintain a relationship is considered psychologically unhealthy.

The language is preserved in at least a hundred pages of documents, mostly of a religious nature, written using a modified form of the Coptic script ; the best known is The Martyrdom of Saint Menas.

Bonnat's vivid portrait-painting of contemporary celebrities is his most characteristic work, but his most important works are arguably his powerful religious paintings, such as his Christ on the Cross ( now in the collection of the Musée du Petit Palais in Paris, but not currently on display ), Job ( in the Musée Bonnat ), St Vincent Taking the Place of Two Galley Slaves ( at the church of Saint-Nicholas des Champs in Paris ), and the large Martyrdom of St Denis for the Pantheon in Paris.

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.

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

In the church there are also the Martyrdom of the Maccabees ( 1863 ) by Antonio Ciseri in the 3rd chapel on the right, the Meeting of St. Anne and St. Joachim, attributed to Michele Tosini, at the end of the right transept, the Assumption of the Virgin with Saints ( 1677 ), attributed to Baldassare Franceschini, at the end of the left transept.

Hayter also painted several large religious paintings including two depicting important Reformist events, ' Bishop Latimer Preaching at Paul's Cross ' and ' The Martyrdom of Bishops Ridley and Latimer ' ( exh.

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.

The Martyrdom of Polycarp is also the earliest of the martyr acts as a genre in the ancient Christian tradition.

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.

The remaining panels from the Last Judgment Altarpiece ( datable to 1468-70 ) and the Martyrdom of St. Erasmus Triptych ( before 1466 ) are also fairly secure attributions.

Between 1507 and 1511 Dürer worked on some of his most celebrated paintings: Adam and Eve ( 1507 ), The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand ( 1508, for Frederick of Saxony ), Virgin with the Iris ( 1508 ), the altarpiece Assumption of the Virgin ( 1509, for Jacob Heller of Frankfurt ), and Adoration of the Trinity ( 1511, for Matthaeus Landauer ).

" The Martyrdom of St Sebastian and the Epiphany " ( now Berlin, 1507 ), were painted for the market-church of Halle in Saxony.

Drawings made in preparation for paintings, such as the many nude studies for The Martyrdom of St. Symphorien and The Golden Age, are more varied in size and treatment than are the portrait drawings.

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.

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.

* A Candidate for Martyrdom

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.

Since June 2001 Bartoszewski has been the leader of the Council for the Protection of Memory of Combat and Martyrdom.

Working in conjunction with Mino da Fiesole, Rossellino executed the reliefs of the Assumption of Mary and the Martyrdom of St. Stephen for the pulpit at Prato.

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.

* Daniel Boyarin, Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999

In 1464 Gozzoli left Florence for San Gimignano, where he executed some extensive works ; in the church of Sant ' Agostino, a composition of St. Sebastian protecting the City from the Plague of this same year, 1464 ; over the entire choir of the church, a triple course of scenes from the legends of St Augustine, from the time of his entering the school of Tegaste on to his burial, seventeen chief subjects, with some accessories ; in the Pieve di San Gimignano, the Martyrdom of Sebastian, and other subjects, and some further works in the city and its vicinity.

" Martyrdom for the faith ... became a central feature in the Christian experience.

* A Declaration of the Sad and Great Persecution and Martyrdom of the People of God, called Quakers, in New-England, for the Worshipping of God ( 1661 ) online PDF edition

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.