priesthood, and a massive edifice of superstition. This belief leads men into the worship of sepulchers and images of saints and martyrs; it helps to increase the influence and domination of the priest and monk; it keeps the people ignorant in the things divine; a dense cloud of the interme...
No, they would desecrate the revolution, the memory of the martyrs and they would cancel every trace of it, as they have already done in Ghouta. They would falsify everything that happened, as they have been doing, imprisoning those who have returned to the “lap of the motherland”, tor...
It would seem that the early Christian use of ekklesia was indeed meant to be a bit subversive, but not in the ordinary manner. The first followers of Jesus were not intending to overthrow the established ekklesia of their cities. They were not plotting political rebellion. Yet, the Christian...
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This shift recognized that not all saints were martyrs, so a broader commemoration was needed. In the Western Christian Church, Pope Gregory III (731-741) is often credited with establishing November 1st as the date for All Saints' Day. This date was chosen to coincide with the dedication ...
Are martyrs important to Christian theology? You'd better believe it. Considering how the religion was really kick started with the death of Christ (the most famous Christian martyr of them all), it would seem that martyrs play a major role in the development of the faith. ...
, but precisely because it has, properly, sought first the values to be found in the Living God, of which all other values are derivates. When the landlord’s values come first, the vineyard prospers, and likewise the laborers. This, even though they may suffer tortures and die martyrs....
(Hill) park. In the Hill Park, one may ascend theThree Crosses hillcrowned by a sculpture of three crosses by Anton Wiwulski (1916), reminding of the Christian martyrs killed here by the Pagans in the 14th century. Demolished by the Soviets in the 1950s, the crosses were hastily ...
Proclamation of saints was once based on popular approval. A formal canonization process did not begin until the fifteenth century. Many martyrs were proclaimed saints even though there was little historical evidence to document their holiness, or even that they existed at all. In 1969, the Church...
Chapter 5 gleanstheoretical insights from Salisbury's studies of early martyrs (1997: 165ff) and work byMandew (1997: 113ff) on the celebrations of the Israelites of the Bullhoek Massacre. The formeremphasized that for public commemoration physical remains and a text were important, the latter...