protomartyrs

Peter and Paul were, by tradition, crucified upside down, and the larger group of "protomartyrs" were either burned alive as lampposts on Rome's streets or devoured by wild beasts in the Colosseum.

Archive 2006-06-01 Mike L 2006

Peter and Paul were, by tradition, crucified upside down, and the larger group of "protomartyrs" were either burned alive as lampposts on Rome's streets or devoured by wild beasts in the Colosseum.

Peter, Paul, and the martyrs of Rome Mike L 2006

The three Dominicans were the protomartyrs of the eastern United States, and the Dominican protomartyrs of North America.

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

Like the missionary saints and protomartyrs of the Franciscan order during the lifetime of St. Francis, Hassan preached the Gospel at the mosque.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

The infant protomartyrs were so closely identified with the moral state of innocence that, well before the twelfth century, it had literally become their defining characteristic.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

The polemicists drew a comparison between Christ and his protomartyrs, and some noted the resemblance also between the Innocents and contemporary (twelfth - and thirteenth-century) children.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

History has made but scant and infrequent mention of these first obscure heroes, who faced obloquy and even risked starvation in the midst of irate colonists, whose avarice and brutality they fearlessly rebuked in the name of religion and humanity: they sank, after lives of self-immolation, into nameless graves, sometimes falling victims to the blind violence of the very Indians whose cause they championed — protomartyrs of liberty in the new world.

Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt

The _Mirror for Magistrates_ was conceived when Mary's protomartyrs were burning at Smithfield, and it was not finished until James I. had been on the throne seven years.

Gossip in a Library Edmund Gosse 1888

Among the primitive Ligurian races, however, Why-Why and Verva must be held the inventors, and, alas! the protomartyrs of the passion.

In the Wrong Paradise Andrew Lang 1878

We revere in them the protomartyrs of co-operative industry and economic equality. "

Equality Edward Bellamy 1874