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• Early Church Writings Index
  * [[Martyrdom of Ignatius]] * [[Martyrdom of the Holy Martyrs]]
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• Text:EBD:Smyrna
  ...econd century a prominent leader in the church of Smyrna. Here he suffered martyrdom, A.D. 155.
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• Bible:Acts 6:9
  Verse 9 sets the scene for the martyrdom of Stephen.
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• Text:EBD:Candace
  ...also preached the gospel in Arabia Felix and in Ceylon, where he suffered martyrdom. (See PHILIP.)
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• Justin Martyr
  ...[[Jerusalem]] in [[70 AD]]. According to church tradition Justin suffered martyrdom at [[Rome]] under Marcus Aurelius when Rusticus was prefect of the city (be ...scens laid snares for him. [[Irenaeus]] (Haer. I., xxviii. 1) spoke of his martyrdom, and of Tatian as his disciple; he quoted him twice (IV., vi. 2, V., xxvi.
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• Text:EBD:Alexandria
  ...Jerusalem, where they had a synagogue (Acts 6:9), at the time of Stephen's martyrdom. At one time it is said that as many as 10,000 Jews resided in this city. I
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• St. Linus
  ...le. Nevertheless, his memorial (feast day) is September 23, the day of his martyrdom according to the ''Liber Pontificalis''. The same work also claims that Lin
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• Persecution of the early church
  ...esponse of early Christians ranged from seeking martyrdom to acceptance of martyrdom to hiding or fleeing persecution to apostatizing (renouncing their faith).
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• New Testament Apocrypha
  * [[Martyrdom of Polycarp]]
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• Text:EBD:Nero
  ...s first imprisonment at Rome, and the apostle is supposed to have suffered martyrdom during this persecution. He is repeatedly alluded to in Scripture (Acts 25:
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• Text:EBD:Apostle
  ...thing from authentic history of the rest of the original twelve. After the martyrdom of James the Greater (Acts 12:2), James the Less usually resided at Jerusal
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• Text:The Encyclical Epistle of the Church at Smyrna
  Concerning the Martyrdom of the Holy Polycarp: ...viously [to this one], took place that the Lord might show us from above a martyrdom becoming the Gospel. For he waited to be delivered up, even as the Lord had
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• A Biography of Saint Peter (Cpark)
  ...has a well developed story of his [[A Biography of Saint Peter#Martyrdom | martyrdom]]. ...estion of Peter's stay in Rome, and indeed for an explanation of Peter's [[martyrdom]] in general.
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• Encyclical Epistle of the Church at Smyrna
  ...ld, in order to give a succinct account of the circumstances attending the martyrdom of Polycarp. It is the earliest of all the Martyria, and has generally been
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• Foxe's Book of Martyrs
  ...the 1559 edition only has four illustrations, of which the third shows the martyrdom of Bishop Hooper in 1555 and the fourth shows Archbishop Cranmer, in 1556,
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• Text:EBD:Isaiah
  ...and manner of his death are unknown. There is a tradition that he suffered martyrdom in the heathen reaction in the time of Manasseh (q.v.).
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• Introductory Note to the Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians
  ...s been censured for his language to the Romans, in which he seems to crave martyrdom. But he was already condemned, in law a dead man, and felt himself at liber ...incipal source of information regarding him is found in the account of his martyrdom, to which the reader is referred. Polycarp alludes to him in his Epistle to
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• Text:God's Word to Women:Lesson 41
  ...tus and Nicopolis, and probably he was in Spain when he heard of the awful martyrdom of the Roman church under Nero in A.D. 64. ...secution female figures occupy many of the foremost places in the ranks of martyrdom, and pagan and Christian writers alike attest the alacrity with which women
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• The Christian Altar (Pilhet)
  ...r is quite clear. St. Ignatius, writing in 107-110 AD while on his way to martyrdom, refers to the Eucharist as a “gift of God,” the “medicine of immorta
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• First Epistle of Peter
  ...favor Petrine authorship date the epistle sometime shortly before Peter's martyrdom which could have taken place as lates as AD 68. The pro-Petrine group sets
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