Thieleman J. van Braght's Martyrs Mirror is considered by modern Mennonites as second only in importance to the Bible in perpetuating their faith.

* John Weever – The Mirror of Martyrs, or The Life and Death of Sir John Oldcastle

Pelagius is depicted in the 1660 Martyrs Mirror.

The book, Martyrs Mirror, is a history of the deaths of Christian martyrs from the time of Christ until 1660.

In 1601 a narrative poem, The Mirror of Martyrs, by one John Weever, was published ; it praises Oldcastle has a " valiant captain and most godly martyr.

The Martyrs Mirror or The Bloody Theater, first published in 1660 in Dutch by Thieleman J. van Braght, documents the stories and testimonies of Christian martyrs, especially Anabaptists.

The full title of the book is The Bloody Theater or Martyrs Mirror of the Defenseless Christians who baptized only upon confession of faith, and who suffered and died for the testimony of Jesus, their Saviour, from the time of Christ to the year A. D. 1660.

Next to the Bible, the " Martyrs ' Mirror " held the most significant and prominent place in Amish and Mennonite homes.

In 1745, Jacob Gottschalk arranged with the Ephrata Cloister to have them translate the " Martyrs ' Mirror " from Dutch into German and to print it.

Thirty of these plates survive and are part of the Mirror of the Martyrs exhibit.

* Full text of Martyrs Mirror

* The 104 illustrations from the Martyrs Mirror

* Martyrs Mirror from Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online

* Martyrs Mirror

Arnold of Brescia burned at the stake at the hands of the Papal guards ; a much later print from Martyrs Mirror.

Dirk Willems saves his pursuer in this etching from the 1685 edition of Martyrs Mirror.

* Martyrs Mirror entry

* Martyrs Mirror ( 1660 ), by Thieleman J. van Braght

* Martyrs Mirror

In 1601 Weever also published two more serious works of a religious tone, The Mirror of Martyrs and An Agnus Dei.

The Mirror of Martyrs or The Life and Death of ... Sir John Oldcastle may have been part of a backlash.

The Mirror of Martyrs has been reprinted for the Roxburghe Club ( 1872 ).

From the Martyrs Mirror.

An effigy of Muammar Gaddafi hangs from a scaffold in Tripoli's Martyrs ' Square, Libya.

Icon of the Melanesian Brotherhood Martyrs at Canterbury Cathedral ( Anglican Communion ) With the Reformation, after an initial uncertainty among early Lutherans, who painted a few " icon "- like depictions of leading Reformers, and continued to paint scenes from Scripture, Protestants came down firmly against icon-like portraits, especially larger ones, even of Christ.

Burning Wycliffe's bones, from Foxe's Book of Martyrs ( 1563 )

* 1867 – The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody.

Founded under the title Collegium Cultorum Martyrum, in 1879, the Pontifical Academy of Martyrs promotes devotion to them, enhances and deepens the exact history of the witnesses of the faith, and monuments related to them, from the first centuries of Christianity.

Cranmer's death was immortalised in John Foxe's Book of Martyrs and his legacy lives on within the Church of England through the Book of Common Prayer and the Thirty-Nine Articles, an Anglican statement of faith derived from his work.

* November 23 – The so-called Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England for the murder of a policeman whilst attempting to rescue two Irish men from jail.

woodcut from John Foxe | Foxe's Book of Martyrs ( 1563 ).

Ælfthryth looks on as Edward is stabbed to death: from a Victorian edition of John Foxe | Foxe's Book of Martyrs

John Badby's death, burned in a barrel ( from Foxe's Book of Martyrs | John Foxe's Book of Martyrs ( 1563 ))

Several months later, he was indicted in civilian court on charges of murder and attempted murder stemming from attacks carried out by the al-Aqsa Martyrs ' Brigades on Israeli soldiers.

* The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades: A political tool with an edge, from Israel's Institute for Counter-Terrorism.

File: Foxe-martyrs-iconoclasm-1563. png | Woodcut of 1563 from Foxe's Book of Martyrs

In 1900 were beatified 64 Martyrs, from whose 54 the inmates ; only Society of Saint Dominic gave 26 Martyrs.

Marlowe also borrowed from John Foxe's Book of Martyrs, on the exchanges between Pope Adrian VI and a rival pope.

Beginning in the early 1970s he became a prolific illustrator for many anarchist, radical, alternative and mainstream publications, organisations, groups and individuals including Freedom Press, Undercurrents, Respect for Animals, BIT Newsletter, Arts Lab Newsletter, Idiot International, 1977 Firemans Strike, Libertarian Education, The Idler, Radical Community Medicine, Anarchy Magazine, Black Flag, Anarchy Comix, Common Ground, Industrial Worker, Aberlour Distillery, Country Life, Graphical Paper and Media Union, The Times Saturday Review, Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, New Scientist, Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, Times Educational Supplement, London Anarchist Bookfair, Public and Commercial Services Union, The Sunday Times Magazine, Catholic Worker, Soil Association, The Bodleian Library, New Statesman, Cienfeugos Anarchist Review, Headline Books, The Financial Times, Resurgence, Scotland on Sunday, Town and Country Planning Association, Movement Against A Monarchy, Nursing Times, John Hegarty, The Listener, Zero, McCallan Whisky, Solidarity, New Society, News from Neasden, House & Garden, The Tablet, Radical Science Journal, Royal Mail, The Co-ops Fairs, Picador Books, Pluto Press, Working Press, Anarchismo, Insurrection, Our Generation, Ogilvy & Mather, Vogue, Radio Times, National Union of Teachers, Faber & Faber, Pimlico, Trades Union Congress, Transport and General Workers Union, Serpents Tale, Compendium Books, Poison Girls, Yale University Press, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Elephant Editions, Intelligent Life, Landworker, Zounds, Honey, New Musical Express, Knockabout Comics, Trickett and Webb, The Times, See Sharp Press, Countryside Commission, Industrial Common Ownership Movement, BBC Worldwide, Stop the War Coalition, The Folio Society, Unison, Anarchist Studies, Country Standard, Fitzrovia News, Anarchist Black Cross and many others.

These priests and monks were brought to Brielle where they were hanged and were from then on known as the Martyrs of Gorkum.

The story of the Wigtown Martyrs was among those collected by Robert Wodrow and published in his History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution.

The quotation that follows is from Foxe's Book of Martyrs, Chapter 16.

" Barnes and his Fellow-Prisoners Seeking Forgiveness ", from an 1887 edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs, illustrated by Kronheim.

Some of the strongest and earliest support for the Legend came from two Protestants: the Englishman John Foxe, author of the Book of Martyrs ( 1554 ), and the Spaniard Reginaldo González de Montes, author of the Exposición de algunas mañas de la Santa Inquisición Española ( Exposition of some vices of the Spanish Inquisition, 1567 ).

* Stephen Theodore Cuenot, a bishop from France, see Vietnamese Martyrs

It has been renamed several times as well, from “ de la Constitución ,” “ de la República ” to the current official name of “ de los Mártires ” but popularly it retains the name of “ Plaza de Armas .” The alternate name, Plaza de los Mártires ( Plaza of the Martyrs ) is in honor of people like Mariano Matamoros, Guadalupe el Salto and others who were executed here during the Mexican War of Independence and later in 1830 during political unrest.