• The Ten Martyrs (Hebrew: עֲשֶׂרֶת הָרוּגֵי מַלְכוּת ʿAsereṯ hāRūgēy Malḵūṯ, "The Ten Royal Martyrs") were ten rabbis living during the era of the Mishnah...
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    heroism in the face of difficult circumstances. Martyrs play significant roles in religions. Similarly, martyrs have had notable effects in secular life, including...
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    Ten thousand martyrs may refer to the ten thousand martyred Fathers of the deserts and caves of Scete by Theophilus of Alexandria or to the ten thousand...
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    The Colchester Martyrs were 16th-century English Protestant martyrs. They were executed for heresy in Colchester, Essex, during the reigns of Henry VIII...
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  • martyred in the city of Caesarea Maritima. Four Crowned Martyrs: nine people venerated as martyrs and saints by the Catholic Church. Korean Martyrs:...
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  • to examine the validity of the decree regarding the execution of the Ten Martyrs; Maaseh Merkabah ("Account of the Chariot"), a collection of hymns recited...
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    recited include Avinu Malkeinu, Unetanneh Tokef, Ki Anu Amecha, the Ten Martyrs, HaAderet v'HaEmunah, and Mareh Kohen. If Yom Kippur falls on Shabbat...
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    Jewish people, some kinnot also recall events such as the murder of the Ten Martyrs by the Romans; expulsions from England, Spain, and elsewhere; massacres...
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    ("Day of Atonement"); by extension, the period of ten days including those holidays, known also as the Ten Days of Repentance (Aseret Yemei Teshuvah); or...
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    The Ten Commandments (Biblical Hebrew: עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים‎, ʿĂsereṯ haDəḇārīm, lit. 'The Ten Words'), or the Decalogue (from Latin decalogus, from Ancient...
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    Christian period before Constantine I was the "Age of Martyrs". "Early Christians venerated martyrs as powerful intercessors, and their utterances were...
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  • tens of thousands of Jews died in battle or were killed as martyrs, including some of the original Maccabees. Some of the best known Jewish martyrs of...
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    Judaea Simon bar Kokhba Yeshua ben Galgula Rabbi Akiva Eleazar of Modi'im Ten Martyrs Roman Empire Hadrian Quintus Tineius Rufus Sextus Julius Severus Gaius...
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  • except for the day of Tisha B'av. Rabbis that survived persecution (see Ten Martyrs) were allowed to continue their school in Javnia, as long as they paid...
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    horrible troubles, the suffering of martyrs, and other such thinges" in his contemporaneously-published Book of Martyrs. Protestants in England and Wales...
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    The Ten Thousand Martyrs is an oil on panel painting by Pontormo, executed c. 1529–1530, produced for the monks of Florence's Spedale degli Innocenti and...
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  • Barton, Steve (October 21, 2015). "Martyrs Premiere Images Strike a Pose". DreadCentral. "Martyrs". Rotten Tomatoes. "Martyrs Reviews". Metacritic. Corrigan...
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  • as martyrs. The red scarf worn by the 100+ million Young Pioneers honors their spilt blood. Jiang Zhuyun and Liu Hulan are notable female martyrs who...
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    et al., eds. (1901–1906). "10447-martyrs-the-ten". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. The fourth martyr was Hananiah ben Teradion, who...
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  • Sussex "Woodmancote Martyrs". Acutting.co.uk. 6 June 2010. Retrieved 1 September 2012. Foxe's Book of Martyrs: 343: Other Martyrs, June 1556. Exclassics...
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    " recounts the execution of ten famous teachers of the Mishnah in the time of the persecution by Hadrian (see Ten Martyrs). The same event is related...
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  • Shahid (redirect from Martyrs in Islam)
    house is the house of martyrs.' — Collected by Muhammad al-Bukhari, Sahih al-Bukhari There are at least five different kinds of martyrs according to hadith...
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    The Martyrs of Persia under Shapur II were Assyrian Christian martyrs who were put to death by Shapur II of Persia (r. 309–379) for failing to renounce...
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  • had its limits (see Titus Flavius Clemens (consul), Rabbi Akiva, and Ten Martyrs). From the reign of Nero onwards, who is said by Tacitus to have blamed...
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    found that the main tunnel hewing could have been completed within about ten weeks, with other hewers concurrently carving out the rooms in parallel,...
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    martyrs of Nicomedia" on June 23. Saints portal Forty Martyrs of Sebaste Ten thousand martyrs 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia Retrieved on 3 Feb 2018 Michael J....
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    in Paris on 17 July 1794, and are venerated as beatified martyrs of the Catholic Church. Ten days after their execution, Maximilien Robespierre himself...
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  • Simeon ben Gamliel (category Jewish martyrs)
    high priests Ḥanan ben Ḥanan and Yehoshua ben Gamla. He is one of the Ten Martyrs mentioned in Jewish liturgy. According to the Iggeret of Rabbi Sherira...
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    Judaea Simon bar Kokhba Yeshua ben Galgula Rabbi Akiva Eleazar of Modi'im Ten Martyrs Roman Empire Hadrian Quintus Tineius Rufus Sextus Julius Severus Gaius...
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  • the Divine Name" for theurgic-practical ascent, as in the story of the Ten Martyrs who enquired in Heaven of the decree. In the Hekhalot literature, angels...
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