Jesus Christ is everything and through death we will never deny Him. When this happens people say how can they still be serving Him? Who is this Jesus guy? People who hear this will get saved because we glorify our Father in Heaven. We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. Vance Havner. What does the Bible say? Do not suffer for murder, theft, or any other crime, nor because you trouble other people. B ut if you suffer because you are a Christian, do not be ashamed.
Praise God because you wear that name. Matthew Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
All who want to live a God-like life who belong to Christ Jesus will suffer from others. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. John If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. John These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. Stephen was taken to the Sanhedrin, the supreme rabbinic court in Jerusalem. Instead of defending his innocence, he gave a speech about the history of Israel and the blessings that God has given upon his chosen people which was recorded in Acts Chapter 7 of the Bible.
The crowds watching the trial were furious after being rebuked. They dragged him out to the city and started stoning him to death. Stephen was buried by Christians but the exact location of his tomb was unknown. However, in AD, a priest named Lucian had a dream that revealed the gravesite where St.
His name was found inside, confirming it belonged to the martyred saint. The Roman Emperor Valerian persecuted St. Lawrence in AD. It was a difficult beginning for the First Christian Millennium because hostility against the early followers of God was growing. Lawrence was among the seven deacons tasked with helping the less privileged under Pope Sixtus II who was also persecuted by Valerian.
The soldiers of the emperor arrested Sixtus and beheaded him along with his deacons. Following the death of the pope, Lawrence started distributing the money and possessions of the Church to the poorest people in the city. Valerian heard the news about this, so he offered St. Lawrence clemency in exchange for bringing him the fortune hidden away by the church in three days. However, the saint went through the city, and instead of money or gold, he gathered all the poor and sick people the Catholic Church was supporting and presented them to Valerian.
The emperor was furious and condemned St. Lawrence to a slow and brutal death by grilling him on a gridiron. Lawrence was buried in a cemetery in Via Tiburtina. Constantine would later build a Basilica in that location. Today, St. Lawrence is hailed as the patron saint of the poor due to his legacy of helping the less privileged during his life.
Additionally, he is among the most highly venerated saints of the ancient Roman Church. His feast ranks next to the feasts of Saints Peter and Paul in the Roman sanctoral cycle. Margaret was born in Middleton, England in from protestant parents. In , she married a well off grazier and butcher named John Clitherow to whom she bore two children. A few years later, St. Margaret joined the Catholic Church converted by the wife of Dr. Thomas Vavasour, a prominent Catholic in York.
However, her husband was not only a fresh meat supplier, but he was also responsible for reporting Catholic worshippers to the authorities who were in line with the Elizabethan Settlement, Protestant.
First, St. But her recusancy non attendance to Church has caused her first imprisonment in After that, she was imprisoned again twice at York Castle. She took in priests in her home, hid their vestments along with the bread and wine for mass, but she was found and arrested and her house was raided.
At that time, harbouring priests was considered a criminal offence punishable by death. Having made no offence, I need no trial.
On March 25, , she was taken to the toll-booth on Ouse Bridge where was stretched out on the ground with a sharp rock on her back and her body was crushed under a door overladen with unbearable weights.
Her bones were broken, and she died within 15 minutes. Sebastian came from Southern France and was educated in Milan, Italy. He was appointed as the captain of the Praetorian Guard under Emperor Diocletian because they did not know he was a Christian. Two brothers, Marcus and Marcellian, were imprisoned for refusing to make public sacrifices to the Roman gods because they were deacons of the Christian Church. Their parents encouraged them to renounce Christianity while they were imprisoned, however, Sebastian convinced the parents to be converted into Christianity instead.
Sebastian was also able to convert other prominent individuals, including the Local Prefect, which led to his discovery. Diocletian accused Sebastian of betrayal and persecuted him to be bound to a stake at a field and be shot with arrows. They left him there to die, however, a woman named Irene found him, and brought him to her house where she nursed him back to health.
Diocletian encountered the emperor once again and harangued him. Diocletian ordered Sebastian to be beaten to death, and his body was thrown in a sewer. Sebastian was said to have appeared in an apparition to a widowed woman named Lucina and told her where his body was buried.
They retrieved the remains of the saint and buried it at the catacombs by the apostles. Nearly 80 years after his death, his remains were moved to a basilica in Rome which was built by Pope Damasus I. The martyrdom of St. Sebastian is one of the most prominent themes in Western religious art. He is commonly depicted in art and literature as being tied to a post and shot with arrows.
The arrows piercing him are used as a symbolic representation of the Black Death during the Middle Ages because Sebastian is the patron saint of plague victims. Dymphna was born in Ireland in the seventh century to a pagan father and a devout Christian mother. She consecrated herself to Christ when she was fourteen, and took a vow of chastity.
Her mother died afterward, and her father, who had loved his wife deeply, began to suffer mental stability. Damon, St. However, none was found, and his wicked advisers suggested he marry his daughter instead.
Together with a priest named Gerebran and two trusted servants, they sailed towards Belgium and hid in the town of Geel. Damon found the whereabouts of his daughter and traveled to Geel to capture them. He ordered Father Gerebran to be beheaded and attempted to convince his daughter to return to Ireland and marry him.
They claim that he died there when pierced through with the spears of four soldiers. In retaliation the proconsul had Philip arrested and cruelly put to death. Some of the oldest reports say he was not martyred, while others say he was stabbed to death in Ethiopia. There are various accounts of how he met his death as a martyr for the gospel. There is some confusion as to which is which, but this James is reckoned to have ministered in Syria.
The Jewish historian Josephus reported that he was stoned and then clubbed to death. The apostle chosen to replace Judas. Tradition sends him to Syria with Andrew and to death by burning. The only one of the apostles generally thought to have died a natural death from old age. He was the leader of the church in the Ephesus area and is said to have taken care of Mary the mother of Jesus in his home. During Domitian's persecution in the middle '90s, he was exiled to the island of Patmos.
There he is credited with writing the last book of the New Testament--the Revelation. An early Latin tradition has him escaping unhurt after being cast into boiling oil at Rome.
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