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Nate Saint, 1956, killed while attempting to evangelize the Waodani people; Ed McCully, 1956; Pete Fleming, 1956; Roger Youderian, 1956; Pierina Morosini, 1957; Veronica Antal, 1958; Esther John 1929–1960, Found Killed in Chichawatni commemorated at Westminster Abbey. Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta, 1964
In the late 1980s, the relics were discovered in Leningrad's Museum of Religion and Atheism, and on 16 September 1991, they were solemnly returned to the new Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord in Belgorod, in the presence of Patriarch Alexy II. [11] Saint Job of Pochayiv; Saint John Maximovitch of Shanghai and San Francisco
Christians were persecuted by local authorities on an intermittent and ad hoc basis. In addition, there were several periods of empire-wide persecution which were directed from the seat of government in Rome. Christians were the targets of persecution because they refused to worship the Roman gods or to pay homage to the emperor as divine.
Saints Chrysanthus and Daria (3rd century – 283 AD) were saints of the Early Christian period. Their names appear in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum , an early martyrs list, and a church in their honour was built over their reputed grave in Rome .
Saint George before Diocletian, in a 14th-century mural in Ubisi The reign of the emperor Diocletian (284−305) marked the final widespread persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire . The most intense period of violence came after Diocletian issued an edict in 303 more strictly enforcing adherence to the traditional religious practices of ...
There, they were arrested for their Christianity by Emperor Gallienus (260–268). Refusing to deny their faith, they were first scourged and then beheaded on 11 September 258. That Passion is now thought to be a novelistic creation to create a hagiography for two saints for whom none was yet known and to link them to Eugenia, thought to be ...
The Roman Martyrology places his commemoration on 25 March, together with the Feast of the Annunciation, because of the ancient Christian tradition [3] that Christ (and the penitent thief) were crucified and died exactly on the anniversary of Christ's incarnation.
Simeon the Holy Fool and his friend Ioann, Eastern Orthodox icon. Simeon the Holy Fool (Abba Simeon, Saint Simeon Salos or Saint Simeon Salus, Greek: Συμεών (ὁ διὰ τὸν Χριστόν) Σαλός) was a Christian monk, hermit and saint of Byzantine-Syrian origin, who lived in the sixth century AD.