Martyrologies

Word MARTYROLOGIES
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What do we mean by martyrologies?

A catalogue or list of martyrs (or, more precisely, of saints), arranged in the order of their anniversaries.

The story of the deaths of several famous Rabbis (including Rabbi Akiva) by Romans, read both on Yom Kippur and Tisha b'Av.

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The word "martyrologies" in example sentences

Many of his successors find a place in Irish martyrologies, including St. Mochua, St. Moling and St. Cillene. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

He was a Roman patrician and priest, and is mentioned with distinction in Latin martyrologies. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

This fact is mentioned in many ancient martyrologies calendars of feasts and in the sermons of various Fathers of the Church. ❋ Jennifer Gregory Miller (2009)

Here's the summary: At least three different Saint Valentines, all of them martyrs, are mentioned in the early martyrologies under date of 14 February. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A hundred tales of this sort are found in the martyrologies. ❋ Unknown (2007)

There are many (questionless) canonized on earth, that shall never be saints in heaven; and have their names in histories and martyrologies, who, in the eyes of God, are not so perfect martyrs as was that wise heathen Socrates, that suffered on a fundamental point of religion, — the unity of God. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For it is then that martyrologies grow long, and martyrs as a class are the most influential people in history. ❋ Mike L (2006)

However, despite the monolithic picture of early Christians 'willingness to die at the hands of the authorities that we have inherited from martyrologies and much other literature, not to mention such movies as The Sign of the Cross, martyrdom was in fact a controversial issue at the time. ❋ Iricinschi, Eduard (2006)

Internal evidence goes far to establish the credit which Eusebius lends to this specimen of the martyrologies, certainly not the earliest if we accept that of Ignatius as genuine. ❋ 1819-1893 (2001)

There is not, among all the martyrologies that ever were penned, so rueful a narrative as the lives of the poets. ❋ Kay Redfield Jamison (1993)

The Roman stories of the killing of heretics, are all martyrologies; thousands slain for heretics now lie under the altar, crying for vengeance, and shall one day sit upon thrones, judging their judges. ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)

The others, however, do not appear to have found a place in the martyrologies. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Chatillon, and died on the 10th of February, in 1157, on which day he is named in the Roman and other martyrologies. ❋ Alban Butler (N/A)

Her name occurs on this day in the ancient breviary of Autun, and in the martyrologies of Rabanus, Usuard, and Notker: also in the Roman. ❋ Alban Butler (N/A)

His name stands in the Belgi martyrologies, though no other act of public veneration has been paid to his memory, than the enshrining of his relics, which are carried in processions. ❋ Alban Butler (N/A)

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