It is probably the finest of all the ancientmartyrdoms and should be read in its entirety.
This and the following martyrdoms illustrate the procedure of the courts in dealing with Christians.
The mass of martyrdoms that have been preserved refer to still others.
A few moremartyrdoms had been chronicled, but they had been isolated cases; and of Felsenburgh there had been no tidings at all.
The Order of Christ Crucified was doing excellent work, and the tales of not less than four hundred martyrdoms had reached Nazareth during the last two months, accomplished mostly at the hands of the mobs.
Because the martyrdoms of Vienne and Lyons took place ten years after A.
He contends that Eusebius did not know at what precise period thesemartyrdoms occurred.
The description there given of the sufferings endured by those of whom it speaks, supplies abundant evidence that the martyrdoms must have happened in the time of Marcus Aurelius.
Eusebius places the martyrdom of Polycarp and the martyrdoms of Vienne and Lyons after the seventh year of M.
Details are given of the martyrdoms of a number of Japanese, with the horrible tortures which were inflicted upon them.
Fagot and stake were desperately sincere: 520 Our cooler martyrdoms are done in types; And flames that shine in controversial eyes Burn out no brains but his who kindles them.
The sure supremeness of the Beautiful, By all the martyrdoms made doubly sure Of such as I am, this is my revenge, Which of my wrongs builds a triumphal arch, 150 Through which I see a sceptre and a throne.
The year following the martyrdoms of the before-mentioned persons, viz.
Modern martyrdoms fail even as demonstrations, because they do not prove even that the martyrs are completely serious.
The Secularists laboriously explain that martyrdoms do not prove a faith to be true, as if anybody was ever such a fool as to suppose that they did.
This letter relates the earliest Celtic martyrdoms of which we have any knowledge.
Sidenote: nor revive decaying heathenism,] Paganism was gradually dying away in the Roman world, notwithstanding all the craft and power of Satan, whilst no number of martyrdoms seemed to check the growth of the Body of Christ.
Our next evidence is the martyrdoms of Lyons and Vienne preserved in a letter quoted by Eusebius.
She also wrote several Passiones or accounts of the martyrdoms of saints, and the story of the Fall and Repentance of Theophilus, the oldest poetic version of a compact with the devil.
The martyrdoms of Vienne and Lyons described by Eusebius in the fifth book of his history are among the most celebrated in the whole history of the Church, and as such have been already referred to and used in this commentary.
These martyrdoms are an illustration of the same fact that the Christians were always exposed to peculiar danger at the annual pagan celebrations.
The people of Southwark needed not to cross the river in order to learn such lessons as the martyrdoms had to teach them.
Besides the Mysteries and Moralities, the 15th century had also Miracle Plays, properly so called, dealing with the lives, martyrdoms and miracles of saints.
Hitherto the aider and abettor of these martyrdoms had himself contrived to escape the penalty, which he had urged others to brave.
At the time when these martyrdoms took place, Eulogius was a priest, but for some reason he tried to abstain from officiating at the mass on the ground that he was himself a great sinner.
A letter also is mentioned of John Servus Dei, Bishop of Toledo, to the Muzarabes with regard to the late martyrdoms and apostasies, purporting to have been written in 937.
They might have added that such voluntary martyrdomshad been expressly condemned, (a.
He does not even mention the Christian martyrdoms in the ninth century.
To what extent is Marcus Aurelius to be condemned for themartyrdoms which took place in his reign?
She accepted this world-old religious belief, consecrated with all the tears and sacrifices and martyrdoms of the world, as a true expression of a want of the soul, as the poetic expression of emotions and aspirations which ever live in man.
The bloody persecutions in Japan have left few missionaries alive there; rumors regarding some have reached Manila, and the writer mentions the martyrdoms of several others.
Japan is closed to the Christian religion and to European trade, excepting with the Dutch; and several martyrdoms of missionaries have occurred there.
Chapter second is concerned with the order in Japan and the martyrdoms of some of the workers there.
As soon as the news of the martyrdomsreached Macan, there was a solemn tolling of bells; here, however, we have not made any demonstration, until the truth of this report shall be confirmed by new letters.
A silent woman, she was, a reverent woman, an angry woman, with the stuff of martyrdoms in her veins.
Peter Stock, reclining upon the bridge, and suffering martyrdoms from his burns, gave up his last hope that the guns of Pelee had been turned straight seaward, sparing the city or a portion of it.
The place Maubert was the scene of the martyrdomsin Paris.
If the martyrdoms of Ridley and Latimer lighted the torch, Cranmer's spread the conflagration which in the end burnt up the Romanist reaction and made England a Protestant nation.
Every now and then they were discovered, as in the incident of the Rue Saint Jacques in Paris, and wholesale arrests and martyrdoms followed.
Later there was, indeed, more persecution; but even then the martyrdoms afford no evidence of the truth of Christianity.
The total disregard of truth and probability in the representations of these primitive martyrdoms was occasioned by a very natural mistake.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "martyrdoms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
