KISSING THE STAKES

Kissing the Stakes On September 28, Latimer and Ridley were brought to trial again; when the priests demanded that Ridley recant, ...

SUNDAY AWODI REST IN PEACE

SUNDAY AWODI REST IN PEACE In the quietness of the hour When the birds of dawn slumbered In the stillness of the night When the world wa...

John Bradford

Bradford (John, a martyr of the Reformation),—1555. " Be of good comfort, brother, for we shall have a merry supper with the Lord this ...

Giordano Bruno

Bruno (Giordano, philosopher of an independent and speculative mind. He was burned at Rome in 1600 by the Inquisition on the charges of here...

Robert Bruce

Bruce (Robert, distinguished divine of the Scottish Church), about 1554-1631. " Now God be with you, my dear children; I have breakfast...

John Bradford

Bradford (John, a martyr of the Reformation),—1555. " Be of good comfort, brother, for we shall have a merry supper with the Lord this ...

Giordano Bruno

Bruno (Giordano, philosopher of an independent and speculative mind. He was burned at Rome in 1600 by the Inquisition on the charges of here...

Michael Angelo Buonarotti

Buonarotti (Michael Angelo), 1474-1564. " My soul I resign to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my relations; ad...

Godliness or Death

Theodora, a beautiful young lady of Antioch, on refusing to sacrifice to the Roman idols, was condemned to the stews, that her virtue might ...

Saints will Rather Die

Gallus, the emperor, having concluded his wars, a plague broke out in the empire: sacrifices to the pagan deities were ordered by the empero...

Bishop of Gortyna

Cyril, bishop of Gortyna, was seized by order of Lucius, the governor of that place, who, nevertheless, exhorted him to obey the imperial ma...

A Remarkable Persecution

Agatha, a Sicilian lady, was not more remarkable for her personal and acquired endowments, than her piety; her beauty was such, that Quintia...

Tortures of the Saints

Trypho and Respicius, two eminent men, were seized as Christians, and imprisoned at Nice. Their feet were pierced with nails; they were drag...

Great Origen

Origen, the celebrated presbyter and catechist of Alexandria, at the age of sixty-four, was seized, thrown into a loathsome prison, laden wi...

Butchered Babylas

Babylas, a Christian of a liberal education, became bishop of Antioch, A.D. 237, on the demise of Zebinus. He acted with inimitable zeal, an...

Distinct Denisa

Denisa, a young woman of only sixteen years of age, who beheld this terrible judgment, suddenly exclaimed, "O unhappy wretch, why would...

Saved and Martyred

Lucian and Marcian, two wicked pagans, though skilful magicians, becoming converts to Christianity, to make amends for their former errors, ...

Pious Nichomachus

Nichomachus, being brought before the proconsul as a Christian, was ordered to sacrifice to the pagan idols. Nichomachus replied, "I ca...

Soldiers Buried in a Hole

In the year of our Lord 251, the emperor Decius having erected a pagan temple at Ephesus, he commanded all who were in that city to sacrific...

Optimus the Tyrant

Julian , a native of Cilicia, as we are informed by St. Chrysostom, was seized upon for being a Christian. He was put into a leather bag, to...