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Book of martyrs. An account of holy men who died for the Christian religion.
Date: [1795]- Pictures
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Saint Cecilia: she enables the bodies of Christian martyrs to be buried. Engraving by G. Fabbri after D.M. Fratta after G. Cavedone.
Cavedone, Giacomo, 1577-1660.Date: 1776Reference: 4627i- Pictures
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Above, two martyrs, Dirick Carver and Margery Polley are burnt at the stake: below, two martyrs, John Denley and Thomas Iveson are burnt alive at the stake. Etching by G. Terry.
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Above, the martyrs Cicely Ormes and Margaret Thurston are burnt back to back at the stake in Colchester and the burning at a stake in Islington of the martyrs Ralph Alderton, Margery Austoo and R. Roth; below the burning of the martyr Cicely Ormes in Norwich. Etching by G. Terry.
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The lives and sufferings of the English martyrs, who were executed and burnt for their religion, from the reign of Henry the Ivth, to the end of the reign of Queen Mary I. and to the reformation of the Church of England. Published by Bishop Burnet, for the Use of all Christian Families.
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
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The book of martyrs; or, Christian martyrology: containing an authentic and historical account of many dreadful persecutions against the church of Christ in different parts of the world. Selected from the works of fox, cave, southwell, wright, &c. With accounts of very singular judgments against persecutors, a variety of anecdotes, and many curious memoirs. The whole forming an interesting history of persecutions, calculated to promote true religion.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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The new book of martyrs; or Complete Christian martyrology. Containing an authentic and genuine historical account of the many dreadful persecutions against the church of Christ, in all parts of the world, by pagans, Jews, Turks, Papists, and others. From the earliest ages of the church, to the present period. Including the life, sufferings, and martyrdom of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, with the martyrdom of the Apostles, Evangelists, and other primitive Christians. The ten great persecutions under the Roman emperors. The persecutions in Persia, under Sapores; and the persecutions under the Arian vandals. - The horrid persecutions under the Papacy; particularly the martyrdoms of the Waldenses and Albigenses in France; the persecutions in Germany and Poland; the cruelties exercised in Bohemia and Lusatia; and the martyrdoms in Italy ... A full account of all the English martyrdoms, particularly those in the times of King Henry VIII. and Queen Mary, wherein are amply displayed all the butcheries, barbarities, tortures, and cruelties, exercised by the Papists against the Protestants, in the reigns of that tyrannical King, and bloody Queen ... The late persecutions in France against the Calas Family, &c. With a sketch of the martyrdom of the faithful and virtuous in the first ages of the world; ... The whole interspersed with accounts of several singular judgments against persecutors, a great variety of original anecdotes, and many curious memoirs; forming, at once, a complete history of persecutions, and a biography of martyrs. ... By the reverend Henry Southwell, LL.D. late of Magdalen College, Cambridge; rector of Asterby in Lincolnshire, and author of the universal family Bible.
Southwell, Henry, 1729 or 1730-1779.Date: [1785?]- Books
Éfés dammîm. A series of conversations at Jerusalem between a patriarch of the Greek Church and a Chief Rabbi of the Jews, concerning the malicious charge against the Jews of using Christian blood ... / By J.B. Levinsohn. Translated from the Hebrew as a tribute to the memory of the martyrs at Damascus, by Dr. L. Loewe.
Levinsohn, Isaac Baer, 1788-1860.Date: 1841- Books
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The book of martyrs: or, the History of Paganism and Popery. Wherein is contained, I. An Account of the Sufferings and Crucifixion of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; with the Sufferings and Martyrdoms of the Apostles and Primitive Christians, under the Ten Heathen Persecutions: And also the Life of Constantine the Great, the first Christian Emperor. II. A Display of the horrid Persecutions and Cruelties, exercised upon Protestants by the Papists, for many Hundred Years past; as the Persecution of the Waldenses and Albigenses; the Massacre of the Protestants in Piedmont and France, with the Particulars of the bloody Massacre at Paris, the Siege of Rochel, &c. the Persecution of the Protestants in the Principality of Orange, Bohemia, Hungary, the Palatinate, Germany, Lithuania, Italy, Spain, with an Account of the bloody Inquisition; Portugal, and the Low-Countries. III. The English Martyrology; containing an Account of the Sufferings of the Protestant Martyrs in the Reigns of Henry IV. V. Viii. and that of Queen Mary; wherein is occasionally introduced some short Memorials of the Reformation. IV. A short Account of the Spanish Invasion, 1588. V. The Gun-Powder Treason, 1605. VI. The Fire of London, 1666. Vii. The horrid Popish-Plot in 1678. Viii. The Murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey. IX. The detestable Conspiracies of the Papists, and their Adherents, against King William III. X. The Romish Persecutions in Scotland. XI. The Romish Persecutions in Ireland. XII. God's Judgments upon Persecutors. Abstracted from the best authors, both antient and modern.
Date: M,DCC,LXIV. [1764]- Books
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The book of martyrs: or, the history of paganism and popery. Wherein IS Contained, I. An Account of the Sufferings and Crucifixion of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; with the Sufferings and Martyrdoms of the Apostles and Primitive Christians, under the Ten Heathen Persecutions: And also the Life of Constantine the Great, the first Christian Emperor. II. A Display of the horrid Persecutions and Cruelties, exercised upon Protestants by the Papists, for many Hundred Years past; as the Persecut on of the Waldenses and Albigenses; the Massacre of the Protestants in Piedmont and France, with the Particulars of the bloody Massacre at Paris, the Siege of Rochel, &c. the Persecution of the Protestants in the Principality of Orange, Bohemia, Hungary, the Palatinate, Germany, Lithuania, Italy, Spain, with an Account of the bloody Inquisition; Portugal and the Low-Countries. III. The English Martyrology; containing an Account of the Sufferings of the Protestant Martyrs in the Reigns of Henry IV. V. Viii. and that of Queen Mary; wherein is occasionally introduced some short Memorials of the Reformation. IV. The Romish Persecutions in Scotland. V. The Romish Persecution in Ireland. VI. A short Account of the Spanish Invasion, 1588. Vii. The Gun-Powder Treason, 1605. Viii. The Fire of London, 1666. IX. The horrid Popish-Plot in 1678. X. The Murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey. XI. The detestable Conspiracies of the Papists, and their Adherents, against King William III. XII. God's Judgments upon Persecutors. XIII. A short Account of the most material Errors now taught in the Romish Church. Abstracted from the best authors, both antient and modern.
Date: M,DCC,LXV. [1765]- Books
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A selection of remarkable events in the lives of the primitive fathers, eminent reformers, and martyrs, in the Christian Church: Including A Concise History of the Lives, Sufferings and Deaths, of the Noblemen, Bishops, and other distinguished Persons, who have valiantly defended the Protestant Religion; Several Striking Anecdotes; And, an Account of singular Judgments inflicted by Almighty God, upon many cruel Persecutors of his Church. The whole Calculated To inspire the Reader with sublime Sentiments of the Holy Scriptures, and to check the growing Infidelity of the Age. By S. Staughton.
Staughton, S.Date: M,DCC,XCI. [1791]- Books
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The history of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. With the lives of his apostles and evangelists, and other eminent persons and martyrs, Who first propagated the Christian Religion. Containing, The Whole Doctrine of Christianity, the Evidences on which it is founded, and the Manner of its Establishment in different Parts of the World. Together with Satisfactory Answers to the Objections made against our Holy Religion by the Jew, the Gentile, and the Deist, or Free-Thinker of he present Age. By the Rev. Thomas Stackhouse, A. M. Late Vicar of Beenham, in Berkshire.
Stackhouse, Thomas, approximately 1680-1752.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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A short account of the life and sufferings of Elias Neau, upon the gallies, and in the dungeons of Marseilles; for the constant profession of the Protestant religion. Newly translated from the French, by John Christian Jacobi, gent. This treatise was printed at the end o The new book of martyrs, lately published by the recommendation of the Rev. Mr. Bateman, Rector of St. Bartholomew the Great, in London; and Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Countess Dowager of Huntingdon.
Morin, J.Date: MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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The history of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. With the lives of his apostles and evangelists. And other eminent persons and martyrs, who first propagated the Christian religion. Containing the whole doctrine of Christianity, the Evidences on which it is founded, and the Manner of its Establishment in different Parts of the World. Together with satisfactory answer to the objections made against our holy religion by the Jew, the Gentile, and the Deist, or Free-Thinker, of the present Age. By S. Nelson, D.D. Author of the Universal Bible.
Nelson, S.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Pictures
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Above, four martyrs are chained to a post and burnt at the stake in Canterbury; below, a procession of twenty-two prisoners tied together and brought from Colchester to London, presumably for trial. Etching with engraving by G. Terry.
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Above, martyrs Woodman, Steves, Mainard, Hosman, Wood, Morris, Burges, Ashdon and Groves are burnt together at the stake in Lewes; below, the hand of Rose Allins is held over a flaming torch by Edmund Tyrill. Etching by G. Terry.
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There is no crime for those who have Christ : religious violence in the Christian Roman Empire / Michael Gaddis.
Gaddis, Michael, 1970-Date: [2005], ©2005- Pictures
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Frontispiece for Fox's Book of Martyrs, showing John Fox in a decorative panel. Engraving.
Date: 1811Reference: 43159i- Pictures
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Frontispiece for Fox's Book of Martyrs, showing the martyrdom of Jesus Christ, Saint Andrew, Saint Peter and Saint John. Engraving.
Date: 1811Reference: 43160i- Books
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Theatre des martyrs = Schau-Buhne der Martyrer : depuis la mort de J. Christ jusqu'à present, représenté en tres belles tailles-douces / par le celebre graveur Jean Luyken. Schau-Buhne der Martyrer, gezeichnet und in Kuppfer gestochen von Johann Luyken.
Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712.Date: [between 1698 and 1738]- Pictures
Martyr saints of the Augustinian order and representations of the individual orders. Engraving by Oliviero Gatti, 1614.
Gatti, Oliviero, 1579-approximately 1648?Date: 1614Reference: 32492iPart of: People and orders related to the Augustinian order. Engravings by Oliviero Gatti, 1614.- Books
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The Book of martyrs: or The history of paganism and popery, from the birth of Christ, to the last conspiracy against King William the third. Containing, I. An account of the sufferings and crucifixion of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; with the sufferings and martyrdoms of the apostles and primitive christians, under the ten heathen persecutions: and also the life of constantine the great, the first Christian emperor. II. A display of the horrid persecutions and cruelties, exercised upon protestants by the papists; as the persecution of the waddenses and albigenses; the massacre of the protestants in piedmont and France, with the particulars of the bloody massacre at Paris, the siege of Rochel, &c. the persecution of the protestants in the principality of Orange, Bohemia, Hungary, the Palatinate, Germany, Lithuania, Italy, Spain, (with an account of the bloody inquisition) portugal and the low countries. III. The English martyrology; containing an account of the sufferings of the protestant martyrs in the reigns of Henry IV. V. VIII. and that of Queen Mary; wherein is occasionally introduced some short Memorials of the reformation. IV. The Romish Persecutions in Scotland. V. The Romish Persecutions in Ireland. VI. A short account of the Spanish invasion, 1588. VII. The gun powder treason, 1605. VIII. The fire of London, 1666. IX. The horrid popish-plot in 1678. X. The Murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey. XI. The detestable co... papists, and their ... king William III. XII. God's judgment upon ...ors. XIII. A short account of the most material errors now taught in the Romish church. The whole designed as an antidote against the present dreadful Growth of Popery and to preserve to us the memoirs of those holy men and women, together with their histories, acts, sufferings, and their constant deaths, willingly and ... for the sake of Christ and his Gospel, and for refusing to comply with Popish doctrines and superstitions.
Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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St. Justin the philosopher and martyr, his exhortations to the Gentiles. Translated from the Greek by the Reverend Mr. Thomas Moses one of the Ministers of St. Paul's Chapel in Aberdeen.
Justin, Martyr, Saint.Date: M,DCC,LVII. [1757]- Pictures
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Martyrdom of Christian saints by being shut up to be bitten by mice or rats, crowded together like locusts, or trampled by horses. Woodcut.
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The book of martyrs: or, compleat history of martyrdom, from the crucifixion of our blessed Saviour, to the present times. ...
Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]