When closed the altarpiece displayed the four panels of the legend of St. Sebastian ’ s Martyrdom, while the opened wings displayed the Stations of the Cross.

All of Origen's works written after 218 are dedicated to Ambrose, including his On Martyrdom, Contra Celsum, Commentary on St. John's Gospel, and On Prayer.

File: The Martyrdom of St Sebastian ( detail ). jpg | Stirrup

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

The song " All Things Dull and Ugly " and the parody scripture reading " Martyrdom of St. Victor " were performed on Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album ( 1980 ).

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

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

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.

Martyrdom of St Clement by Fungai

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

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.

Donatello provided the general design and personally executed the Martyrdom of St. Lawrence and the Deposition from the Cross ; he worked on the reliefs of Christ before Pilate and Christ before Caiphus, with Bellano.

Image: CatherineBeheadCitolanzo. jpg | Girolamo Citolanzo, " The Martyrdom of St. Catherine ," Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome

File: Flein-st-veit. jpg | Martyrdom of Saint Vitus Germany circa 1515, St. Vitus church, Flein

" She wrote a poem entitled The Martyrdom of St. Cyprian in two books, of which 800 lines survived, and an inscription of a poem on the baths at Hammat Gader.

In 1977 Peter Maxwell Davies wrote a one-act opera, The Martyrdom of St Magnus, based on Mackay Brown's novel.

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.

Martyrdom of Amphibalus from the Trinity College Life of St Alban.

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

* The Martyrdom of St Stephen ( 1603 – 1604 )

The altar on the left contained van Dyck's " St. Augustine in Ecstasy ", and finally Jordaens ' " The Martyrdom of St. Apollonia " hung over the altar located to the right.

* Martyrdom of St. Sebastian

* 1012 – Martyrdom of Ælfheah in Greenwich, London.

Martyrdom was identified early in Church history as " baptism by blood ", enabling martyrs who had not been baptized by water to be saved.

The Kuomintang used traditional Chinese religious ceremonies, and promoted Martyrdom in Chinese culture.

He burst upon the Rome art scene in 1600 with the success of his first public commissions, the Martyrdom of Saint Matthew and Calling of Saint Matthew.

* 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Barbara.

* Matt Samson, " The Martyrdom of Manuel Saquic.

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.

* 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.

According to the Martyrdom of Polycarp he died a martyr, bound and burned at the stake, then stabbed when the fire failed to touch him.

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.

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.

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.

However, a post-Eusebian addition to the Martyrdom of Polycarp dates his death to Saturday, February 23, in the proconsulship of Statius Quadratus — which works out to be 155 or 156.

However, the addition to the Martyrdom cannot be considered reliable on only its own merits.

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 Martyrdom of Polycarp: The contemporary account of his death in the letter to the Smyrnaeans.

Perpetuae et Felicitatis ( Martyrdom of SS.

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.

* Bronzino ( fresco of The Martyrdom of St Lawrence in the north aisle )

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.

Some of his religious scenes were more conventional, but his selection of the moment to depict, as in St Lawrence prepared for Martyrdom ( London ), is often unusual.