Among the Croatian female first names which are inherited from the names of female early Christian martyrs are: St. Catherine, St. Barbara, St. Margaret, St. Felicitas, St. Cecilia, St. Apollonia, St. Agatha, St. Violet, St. Valeria, St. Daria, St. Lucia, St. Agnes of Rome, St. ...
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Here the local church authorities systematically appropriated the Jewish literary tradition about the Maccabees, then developed the liturgical means to turn these traditions into a cult—the veneration of the bones of the martyrs—and finally appropriated [End Page 332] the synagogue that was ...
But the reports of St. Cyprian's trial have come down to us. The Acta were read in the Christian communities for the glory of the Martyr in order to strengthen others in the moment of their ordeal. We can therefore assume that the reports of the trial of the other martyrs just cited ...
one amassed the manifestation of saints in one’s palace: indeed,I was quite surprised to find all Barberini dwellings were positively stacked with reliquaries holding bits and pieces of a great many martyrs and saints. But precisely these relics often came from the same ‘subterranean Rome...
Now that it has been established everywhere, you see that it carries significance and substance about all the essential topics: the Mother of God, the Apostles, the Fathers, the Prophets, the Martyrs, repentance, and the dead."34 CONCLUSION Concerning the Old Testament typology, Ephrem was ...
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s persecution to receive a neutral press in Christian sources written after the eventual victory of their religion in the empire, and indeed it usually does not, because apart from anything else it has historically been an excellent period in which to situate the careers of martyrs whose lives ...
Since Diocletian persecuted Christians, the Copts refer to their era as the "Era of Martyrs" -- something that now again seems appropriate with attacks on the Copts in Egypt by Islamic radicals. The dates in the table are the fixed dates for the beginning of the months on the Julian ...
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