Peter of Alexandria “They came to the church of the most blessed Mother of God, and ever-virgin Mary, which, as we began to say, he had constructed in the western quarter, in a suburb, for a cemetery of the martyrs” (The Genuine Acts of Peter of Alexandria [A.D. 305]). “We...
and this was a clear indication of a new status for women in general. Justin and Athenagoras, Fathers of the second century, indicate that there were “many” women in the church who had consecrated themselves to lifelong virginity. St. Ignatius of Antioch, in his letter to St. Polycarp (...
Lives of the Early Martyrs quantity A 17th century account of the early martyrs from the Apostles to just after Constantine. SKU:N/ACategory:Saints and DevotionalsTags:apostles,Caesar,Catholic,Cyprian,Early Church,Fathers of the Church,Ignatius,martyrs,Perpetua and Felicity,Polycharp,Roman Emperor,...
From the martyrs of Queenston Heights to the veterans of Vimy Ridge, Canada has its fair share of war heroes who risked the ultimate sacrifice in service of Our Home and Native Land. Of the millions of Canadian soldiers who have fought for Queen and Country over the past two centuries, on...
Mandarins and Martyrs: The Church and the Nguyen Dynasty in Early Nineteenth-Century Vietnam.By Jacob Ramsay. Stanford,Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. xii þ 213 pp. $50.00 cloth.The early colonial history of French Indochina arguably startedwith the slowpushnby French Catholic ...
The Church counts them as martyrs no less than the others, even though their baptism was only by blood, and their faith was acquired only minutes before they departed this life. May the Sacred Heart of Jesus grant to you the gift of faith enlivened by hope and inspired by charity. In ...
“When Christianity was clearly identified as a distant religion, the new religion was considered by its members to be the fulfillment of Judaism rather than a new religion.” “Since Jesus was a Jew and preached to the Jews, Christianity was closely linked to Judaism.” The development of ...
20. From the community of martyrs to the church of the empire,Giulio Maspero(University of the Holy Cross, Italy) 21. Doctrine: Why were Christians obsessed with dogmas?Ilaria L. E. Ramelli(Catholic University, Italy) 22. Councils: The path towards an agreement in faith,Henryk Pietras(Ponti...
“Fixing their minds on the grace of Christ, [the martyrs] despised worldly tortures and purchased eternal life with but a single hour. To them, the fire of their cruel torturers was cold. They kept before their eyes their escape from the eternal and unquenchable fire” (Martyrdom of Polyca...
After all, these were Christianity’s first bishops, theologians, apologists, saints and martyrs. St Irenaeus, I learned, was the disciple of a man who himself had been a disciple of the apostles. The meaning of baptism As I began to read the Fathers, one of the first things that ...