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  • Saint Praxedes (Praxedis) and Saint Pudentiana mopping up the blood of a female martyr. Engraving.
  • Martyr saints of the Augustinian order and representations of the individual orders. Engraving by Oliviero Gatti, 1614.
  • Martyr saints of the Augustinian order and representations of the individual orders. Engraving by Oliviero Gatti, 1614.
  • Burial of Saint Stephen, the first martyr. Coloured lithograph by R. Amerigo after Masip (Juan de Juanes).
  • Saint Stephen, the first martyr. Engraving by E.E. Schäffer, 1850-51, after L. Kupelwieser after Fra Angelico.
  • Above, the martyr Dr. Taylor riding to the stake on horseback caresses and blesses his young son for the last time; below,the martyr Dr.Taylor is standing in a barrel filled with pitch while the pyre beneath him is lighted. Engraving with etching, 1813.
  • Martyrdom of Saint Stephen, the first martyr. Engraving by W.H.L. Grüner, 1867, after N. Consoni after Raphael.
  • Pembroke College, Oxford: with Martyr's Memorial in the background. Line engraving by H. Le Keux, 1837, after F. Mackenzie.
  • Novena que en charidad devemos hazer al glorioso martyr S. Bonifacio ... / compuesta por Joseph Manuel Garcia del Valla, y Araujo.
  • Festival of Muḥarram: a man praying to a replica of a martyr's tomb. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • St. Agatha martyred, engraving mid 16th century
  • Saint Peter Martyr and his companion attacked by an assassin with a sword. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.
  • Festival of Muḥarram: a procession of people carrying colourful pennants and replicas of the martyr's tomb. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • The martyrdom of Saint Agnes: she is stabbed, and an angel receives the martyr's palm from Christ for bestowal upon her. Engraving by G. Audran after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.
  • The martyrdom of Saint Agnes: she is stabbed, and an angel receives the martyr's palm from Christ for bestowal upon her. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.
  • Above, a bookseller is chained to the stake and burnt with books bound around his neck; below, the martyr John Calas, a French Protestant, is tortured on the wheel. Engraving with etching, 1812.
  • Above, the martyr Cuthbert Simpson is tortured on the rack in the Tower of London; below, Roger Holland, a Protestant priest, christens his child secretly in the Protestant faith. Engraving with etching, 1812.
  • The Virgin and Child with a female martyr saint, Saint Nicholas of Bari, Saint Peter, Saint Antony of Padua, Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Sebastian. Engraving by D. Cunego, 1773, after Titian.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child and Saint John the Baptist, Saint Geminianus, Saint Peter the Martyr, Saint George and angels. Lithograph by F.S. Hanfstaengl after A. Allegri, il Correggio.
  • The martyrdom of Saint Sebastian with the message in French "AIDS makes no martyr, but rather victims who suffer. Solidarity with AIDS patients"; an advertisement by [L'association] Maison des Homosexualités Rhône-Alpes. Colour lithograph.
  • Le Martyre de saint Vincent, Bas-relief du XI ou du XII siecle a la Basilique de Bale.
  • Above, the martyr Nicholas Burton is tied and suspended from a hook and tortured by men using pliers to tear flesh from his body; below, Richard Wilmot and Thomas Halifax are scourged in Drapers Hall, London. Engraving with etching.
  • Saint Catherine of Alexandria embraces the Christ child who sits on the Virgin Mary's lap; with Saint Dominic, Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Benedict (?), Saint Peter Martyr and Saint Petronius. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after P. Faccini.
  • Martyrdom of two male saints by burning at the stake with a martyred female. Etching by Ferrari [Cesare Ferreri?] after himself.
  • Above, the martyr Vincent is tortured by being placed on a gridiron with spikes over a fire and being prodded with pliers; below, Julitta is tortured on the rack and her child hurled to the ground and killed by governor Alexander. Engraving with etching.
  • A voyeur watches women taking a bath while above a monk is martyred; representing the sense of sight. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • A voyeur watches women taking a bath while above a monk is martyred; representing the sense of sight. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • Martyred saints of the Augustinian order, who died under persecution through the Vandals in Africa, bishops and saints of the order and representations of the individual Augustinian orders. Engraving by Oliviero Gatti, 1614.
  • Martyred saints of the Augustinian order, who died under persecution through the Vandals in Africa, bishops and saints of the order and representations of the individual Augustinian orders. Engraving by Oliviero Gatti, 1614.
  • Christ appears in the skies on the day of judgement. Engraving after M. Rota after Michelangelo.