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...
A 17th century account of the early martyrs from the Apostles to just after Constantine.SKU: N/A Category: Saints and Devotionals Tags: apostles, Caesar, Catholic, Cyprian, Early Church, Fathers of the Church, Ignatius, martyrs, Perpetua and Felicity, Polycharp, Roman Emperor, Rome, saints ...
“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...
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, o...
In 313 Constantine and Licinius agreed upon a policy of toleration of Christianity with the proclamation of the Edict of Milan; Constantine soon turned to active patronage of the church. Through nearly three centuries the martyrs had been the seed of the church, and now the accession of a ...
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 ...
Foxe's Book of Martyrs AND THE FACE OF ENGLAND. The article described the impact of John Foxe's "Acts and Monuments," which depicts the persecutions inflicted by the Roman Catholic church. A personal bac... Loades,David - 《History Today》 被引量: 1发表: 2005年 Religion and the Book...
(311) acknowledged the failure of this policy. In 313ConstantineandLiciniusagreed upon a policy of toleration of Christianity with the proclamation of theEdict of Milan; Constantine soon turned to activepatronageof the church. Through nearly three centuries themartyrshad been the seed of the church...
and finally ushering in the final great persecution and holocaust of Christ Jesus’ true and Faithful followers/ martyrs, and turning the entire known WORLD against the nation of Israel and the returning Jesus, their true and only Saviour and Messiah, in preparation for the final great Battle of...
“Then [during the Eucharistic prayer] we make mention also of those who have already fallen asleep: first, the patriarchs, prophets, apostles, and martyrs, that through their prayers and supplications God would receive our petition” (Catechetical Lectures 23:9 [A.D. 350]). Hilary of Poiti...