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Christian Martyrs

Martyrs de l'Église catholique

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John Ingram (martyr) (1565 - 1594)
Not the same as John Ingram of Little Wolford John Ingram (1565 – 26 July 1594) was an English Jesuit and martyr from Stoke Edith, Herefordshire, who was executed in Gateshead on 26 July 1594, durin...
Thomas Harding (1448 - 1532)
Thomas Harding (born about 1470 died at Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, May 1532) was a sixteenth-century English religious dissident who, while waiting to be burnt at the stake as a Lollard in 1532...
Saint James the Greater (c.-5 - 44)
Wikipedia: English James the Great , also known as James, son of Zebedee and Salome, or as Saint James the Greater (Aramaic: ܝܥܩܘܒ ܒܪ ܙܒܕܝ; Arabic: يعقوب; Hebrew: בן זבדי יַעֲקֹב‎, Yaʿăqōḇ; Latin: I...
Saint Pexine (b. - c.726)
Sainte et martyr de l'Église catholique. ( Wikipédia )La commune de Sainte-Pezenne au Poitou, France serait nommée en son souvenir .
Illustration for Conquests of the Cross, A Record of Missionary Work throughout the World edited by Edwin Hodder (Cassell, c 1890). Artist English School (19th Century) Artwork medium engraving image source: http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/M170082/Death-of-Melchior-Nitschmann?img=29&search=Christian+death

Melchior Nitschmann (1702 - 1729)
Melchior Nitschmann (1702-1729), a weaver by trade, had, with his father, led a house church of the Bohemian Brethren/Ancient Unity. Melchior became on the first four elders of the Renewed Moravian Ch...

A Christian martyr is a person who is killed for following Christianity.

Donald 'the martyr' Cargill (1619 - 1681)
Saint Polycarp of Smyrna (80 - 167)
Saint Lawrence (210 - 258)
Anne Askew, Martyr (1521 - 1546)
Thomas Hobart, of Plumstead (1610 - 1681)
Saint Jacques Buteux, SJ (1599 - 1652)
Saint Emmeran de Ratisbonne ( - c652)
Saint Jean Pierron, S.J. (1631 - 1678)
Saint Gabriel Lalemant, S.J. (1610 - 1649)
Saint Jean de Lalande, S.J. (c1610 - 1646)
Saint René Goupil, S.J. (1608 - 1642)
Saint Charles Garnier, S.J. (1606 - 1649)
Saint Antoine Daniel, SJ (1601 - 1648)
Saint Noël Chabanel, SJ (1613 - 1649)
Saint Isaac Jogues, SJ (1607 - 1646)

List of Christian martyrs
Hassett, Maurice. "Martyr." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 20 Nov. 2015 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09736b.htm>.

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