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1. Korean Martyrs: by Pope John Paul II A religious martyr is a person who is killed as a result of maintaining and practicing religious faith. In the early years, of the Christian faith in Korea, several thousand Christians, most of them Roman ... [100%] 2023-02-04
2. Canadian Martyrs: The Canadian Martyrs (French: Martyrs canadiens), also known as the North American Martyrs (French: Saints martyrs canadiens, Holy Canadian Martyrs), were eight Jesuit missionaries from Sainte-Marie among the Hurons. They were ritually tortured and killed on various dates in ... (French Jesuit martyrs) [100%] 2024-02-10 [Jesuit martyrs] [Canadian Roman Catholic saints]...
3. Windsor Martyrs: The Windsor Martyrs were English Protestants martyred at Windsor in 1543. Their names were Robert Testwood, Anthony Pearson and Henry Filmer. (Three English Protestant martyrs) [100%] 2023-12-11 [16th-century Protestant martyrs] [People executed for heresy]...
4. Bulacan Martyrs: The Bulacan Martyrs of 1982 was a group of young activists who worked together to oppose the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship and restore democracy in the Philippines. They were meeting at a farmer's residence on June 21, 1982, when the ... (1982 killing of youth activists in the Philippines) [100%] 2023-12-11 [Bulacan Martyrs] [Filipino activists]...
5. Lewes Martyrs: The Lewes Martyrs were a group of 17 Protestants who were burned at the stake in Lewes, East Sussex, England, between 1555 and 1557. These executions were part of the Marian persecutions of Protestants during the reign of Mary I. (Protestants burned at the stake (1555–1557)) [100%] 2024-03-17 [People executed by the Kingdom of England by burning] [Executed British people]...
6. Irish Catholic Martyrs: Irish Catholic Martyrs (Irish: Mairtírigh Chaitliceacha na hÉireann) were 24 Irish men and women who have been beatified or canonized for dying for their Catholic faith between 1537 and 1681 in Ireland. The canonisation of Oliver Plunkett in 1975 brought ... (Irish Catholic men and women martyed by English monarch) [81%] 2023-12-11 [Victims of anti-Catholic violence in Ireland] [24 Irish Catholic Martyrs]...
7. Martyrs of Otranto: The Martyrs of Otranto, also known as Saints Antonio Primaldo and his Companions (Italian: I Santi Antonio Primaldo e compagni martiri), were 813 inhabitants of Otranto, Salento, Apulia, in southern Italy, who were killed on 14 August 1480 after the ... (15th-century Roman Catholic martyrs) [81%] 2023-12-11 [1480 deaths] [15th-century Roman Catholic martyrs]...
8. Martyrs of Algeria: The Martyrs of Algeria were a group of nineteen individuals slain in Algeria between 1994 and 1996 during the Algerian Civil War. They all were priests or professed religious belonging to religious congregations, including seven Trappist Cistercian monks; one was ... (Individuals slain during the Algerian Civil War) [81%] 2023-01-11 [20th-century Roman Catholic martyrs] [20th-century Spanish nuns]...
9. Stratford Martyrs Memorial: 51°32′30″N 0°00′09″E / 51.541561°N 0.002618°E / 51.541561; 0.002618 The Stratford Martyrs Memorial is a memorial that commemorates the group of 11 men and two women who were burned at the ... (Memorial in London) [81%] 2023-12-11 [Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Newham] [Grade II listed monuments and memorials]...
10. Betraying The Martyrs: Betraying the Martyrs BTM en su presentación en el Summerblast Festival 2014. com Miembros Aaron Matts Victor Guillet Baptiste Vigier Steeves Hostin Valentin Hauser Boris Le Gal Exmiembros Eddie Czaicki Fabien Clévy Antoine Salin Mark Mironov Lucas D'Angelo [editar ... [81%] 2023-06-01
11. Martyrs of Adrianople: The Martyrs of Adrianople, also known and venerated as the 377 Martyred Companions in Bulgaria, were three hundred and seventy seven Christians who were executed in martyrdom in 815. They are commemorated by the Eastern Orthodox Church on 22 January. [81%] 2023-12-19 [815 deaths] [Executed Byzantine people]...
12. Telangana Martyrs Memorial: Telangana Martyrs Memorial also called as Telangana Amara Jyothi or Amaraveerula Stupam is a monument built for 369 students who died during the 1969 agitation for a separate Telangana state. Telangana Martyrs Memorial day is observed on 2 June every ... (Monument for students who died in the 1969 Telangana agitation) [81%] 2023-11-27 [Monuments and memorials in Hyderabad, India] [History of Telangana]...
13. Tolpuddle Martyrs Tree: The Tolpuddle Martyrs' Tree is a sycamore tree in the village of Tolpuddle, Dorset. The tree is approximately 336 years old. (Sycamore tree locating Tolpuddle Martyrs) [81%] 2023-12-11 [History of England] [Trade unions in the United Kingdom]...
14. Martyrs of Iona: The martyrs of Iona were a group of 68 Celtic Christian monks who lived at Iona Abbey (on the island of Iona, Scotland) and were massacred there in the early ninth century. Viking raids of the British and Irish coasts ... (Defunct Group of Christian Monks) [81%] 2023-12-23 [9th-century Christian saints] [Scottish Roman Catholic saints]...
15. Betraying the Martyrs: Betraying the Martyrs were a French metalcore band formed in Paris in 2008. The band's final lineup consisted of vocalist Rui Martins, guitarists Steeves Hostin and Baptiste Vigier, bassist Valentin Hauser, drummer Boris le Gal, and keyboardist Victor Guillet. (French metalcore band) [81%] 2023-12-11 [French metalcore musical groups] [Deathcore musical groups]...
16. Martyrs of Kantara: The martyrs of Kantara are thirteen Orthodox monks from the Kantara monastery in Cyprus, persecuted and executed in May 1231 at the request of Pope Gregory IX and under the direction of his emissary, Andrew. After an inquisition trial for ... (Eastern Orthodox saints and martyrs) [81%] 2024-02-25 [1231 deaths] [Religion in Cyprus]...
17. Martyrs of Córdoba: The Martyrs of Córdoba were forty-eight Christian martyrs who were executed under the rule of Muslim administration in Al-Andalus (name of the Iberian Peninsula under the Islamic rule). The hagiographical treatise written by the Iberian Christian and Latinist ... (Christian martyrs in medieval Islamic Spain) [81%] 2024-03-19 [Lists of Christian martyrs] [Spanish Roman Catholic saints]...
18. Martyrs (2008 film): Martyrs is a 2008 psychological horror film written and directed by Pascal Laugier, and starring Mylène Jampanoï, Morjana Alaoui, and Catherine Bégin. It follows a young woman's quest to seek revenge against individuals who abducted and tortured her as a ... (2008 film) [81%] 2024-03-30 [2008 films] [2008 horror films]...
19. Martyrs of Nowogródek: The Martyrs of Nowogródek, also known as the Blessed Martyrs of Nowogródek, the Eleven Nuns of Nowogródek or Blessed Mary Stella and her Ten Companions, were a group of members of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, a ... (Roman Catholic martyrs) [81%] 2024-05-13 [1943 deaths] [20th-century Polish Roman Catholic nuns]...
20. Martyrs of Natal: The Martyrs of Natal were a group of 30 Roman Catholic people of Colonial Brazil – two of them priests – killed in the northern part of the colony in massacres that a large group of Dutch Calvinists led. One priest was ... (17th-century Catholic martyrs) [81%] 2024-06-22 [Jesuit saints] [Year of birth unknown]...
21. Mosque of the Martyrs: The Mosque of the Martyrs (Azerbaijani: Şəhidlər məscidi), also popularly known as the Turkish Mosque, is a mosque in Baku, Azerbaijan, near the Martyrs' Lane. The mosque was built in the beginning of the 1990s with assistance of the Turkish ... [70%] 2023-12-11 [Mosques in Baku] [Azerbaijan–Turkey relations]...
22. Martyrs of New Guinea: The Martyrs of New Guinea were Christians including clergy, teachers, and medical staff serving in New Guinea who were executed during the Japanese invasion during World War II in 1942 and 1943. A total of 333 church workers including Papuans ... (Papua New Guinea saint) [70%] 2024-01-20 [History of Papua New Guinea] [Papua New Guinea in World War II]...
23. Martyrs of La Florida: The Martyrs of La Florida (d. 1549–1706) were a group of Native American and Spanish Catholics killed in Florida during the Spanish Empire's colonial expansion into North America. [70%] 2023-12-11 [Venerated Catholics] [Servants of God]...
24. Acts of the Martyrs: Acts of the Martyrs (Latin Acta Martyrum) are accounts of the suffering and death of a Christian martyr or group of martyrs. These accounts were collected and used in church liturgies from early times as attested by Saint Augustine. (Set of early Christian texts) [70%] 2023-12-11 [Acts of the Apostles (genre)] [Christian hagiography]...
25. 16 Martyrs of Japan: The Martyrs of Japan (日本の殉教者, Nihon no junkyōsha) were Christians who were persecuted for their faith in Japan, mostly during the 17th century. Christian missionaries arrived with Francis Xavier and the Jesuits in the 1540s and briefly flourished, with over 100 ... [70%] 2023-12-15 [Catholic martyrs of the Early Modern era] [Roman Catholic child saints]...
26. Holy Vartanants Martyrs Church: St. Vartanants Martyrs Church (Armenian: Սրբոց Վարդանանց Նահատակաց եկեղեցի, romanized: Srbots Vardanants Nahatakats yekeghetsi) is the Armenian Apostolic Church in the Malatia-Sebastia District of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. [70%] 2023-12-11 [Armenian Apostolic church buildings in Yerevan] [Armenian Apostolic churches]...
27. Holy Martyrs Armenian School: Holy Martyrs Armenian School can refer to. [70%] 2023-12-11
28. Carmelite Martyrs of Guadalajara: The Carmelite martyrs of Guadalajara were three Spanish Carmelites, María Pilar de San Francisco de Borja, María Ángeles de San José and Teresa del Niño Jesús y de San Juan de la Cruz killed by Republican forces on 24 July 1936 ... [70%] 2023-12-11 [20th-century venerated Christians] [Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War]...
29. Martyrs Monument in Midway: Das Martyrs Monument in Midway auf dem Midway City Cemetery außerhalb von Midway, Kentucky ist ein Kriegerdenkmal, das am 17. Juli 1997 mit 60 weiteren Kriegerdenkmälern in Kentucky in das National Register of Historic Places eingetragen wurde. [70%] 2024-01-19
30. East Martyrs Park station: East Martyrs Park station (Chinese: 烈士公园东站; pinyin: Lièshì Gōngyuán Dōng zhàn) is an underground railway station in Kaifu District, Changsha, Hunan, China, operated by Changsha Metro. It entered revenue service on 28 June 2020. (Metro station in Changsha, China) [70%] 2023-12-11 [Railway stations in China opened in 2020]
31. Christian martyrs: A martyr is a person who is killed because of their testimony of Jesus and God. In years of the early church, this often occurred through death by sawing, stoning, crucifixion, burning at the stake or other forms of torture ... (Religion) [100%] 2023-12-19 [Christian terminology]
32. Les martyrs: Les martyrs (The Martyrs) is a four-act grand opera by Gaetano Donizetti set to a French libretto by Eugène Scribe. The libretto was based on one written by Salvadore Cammarano for an original Italian version known as Poliuto, which ... (1840 opera by Gaetano Donizetti) [100%] 2023-12-12 [Operas by Gaetano Donizetti] [Libretti by Eugène Scribe]...
33. Protestant martyrs: The martyrs to the faith are the Protestants who were executed by Roman Catholics during the Reformation of the 16th century. [100%] 2023-02-17 [Christian Terms] [Protestantism]...
34. Belfiore martyrs: 45°9′24″N 10°46′19″E / 45.15667°N 10.77194°E / 45.15667; 10.77194 The Belfiore martyrs were a group of pro-independence fighters condemned to death by hanging between 1852 and 1853 during the Italian ... (Group of pro-independence fighters during the Italian Risorgimento) [100%] 2023-12-11 [Italian unification] [1853 in Italy]...
35. Martyrs, The Ten: Among the numerous victims of the persecutions of Hadrian, tradition names ten great teachers who suffered martyrdom for having, in defiance of an edict of the Roman emperor, instructed their pupils in the Law. They are referred to in haggadic ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [81%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
36. Ten thousand martyrs: Ten thousand martyrs may refer to the ten thousand martyred Fathers of the deserts and caves of Scete by Theophilus of Alexandria or to the ten thousand martyrs of Mount Ararat who were, according to a medieval legend, Roman soldiers ... [81%] 2023-12-11 [People executed by crucifixion] [People executed by the Roman Empire]...
37. Ten thousand martyrs: U-864 — большая океанская немецкая подводная лодка типа IXD2 времён Второй мировой войны. Заказ на постройку субмарины был отдан 5 июня 1941 года. [81%] 2024-03-05 [People executed by crucifixion] [People executed by the Roman Empire]...