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Martyr's Memorial A-Division League

League president, Ganesh Thapa, at one time revived ANFA (in 1995), but could not continue it for long.


18th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Horst Wessel

The Division was named after the SA or (Sturmabteilung) hero Horst Wessel, a German Nazi known for being the author of lyrics to the song "Die Fahne hoch" (Horst Wessel Lied) and for being glorified by the Nazi regime as a martyr of the early years of the Nazi party.

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Stephen, the first martyr of Christianity (stoned to death by Jewish leaders for preaching that Jesus was the Christ)

Antony Crockett

He is the son of John Crockett, (John Angus Basil) the artist, playwright and television and film director, grandson of Colonel Basil Crockett (Basil Edwin) DSO and William Joseph Stern OBE (civ.), nephew of Colonel Anthony John Stewart Crockett RM, OBE (Mil.), ADC, and descendant of the Blessed Ralph Crockett, English Martyr.

Asperen

Dirk Willems was a notable resident, as a sixteenth-century martyred Anabaptist - most famous for his act, after escaping from prison, of turning around to rescue his pursuer, who had fallen through thin ice while chasing Willems.

Basmanny District

In 1750s, they commissioned Dmitry Ukhtomsky to build the extant church of Martyr Nikita, the largest example of Baroque architecture in Moscow.

Bishop of Bristol

Though he took part in the trial of John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester, and served also on a commission to try Nicholas Ridley and Hugh Latimer, in general he took no active part in the proceedings on the score of heresy.

Catacombs of San Valentino

These excavations permitted to ascertain that the martyr Valentine was not buried into the catacomb, but directly into a pit outside it; on this subdial grave Pope Jiulius I (336–352) built a former basilical structure, which was modified and enlarged by popes Honorius I (625–638) and Theodore I (642–649) and further restored in the following centuries until the last works carried out by Pope Nicholas II in mid-11th century.

Cathedral of Chihuahua

Directly opposite, on the south side, inside the Chapel of Christ of Mapimí, is the tomb of St Peter of Jesus Maldonado, a priest and martyr who was ordained in the Cathedral Parish of Saint Patrick in El Paso, Texas, and canonised by Pope John Paul II in 2000.

Cathleen ni Houlihan

With little subtlety, she requests a blood sacrifice, declaring that "many a child will be born and there will be no father at the christening".

Chichagov

Seraphim Chichagov (b.? - 1937), martyr and Father Superior of the Monastery of Saint Euthymius

Deir Mimas

Saint Mamas became martyr after his examination in the persecutions of Aurelian.

Dewait

Martyr Sa'adaats are believed to have been migrated from the area of Babun Nahar Persian city of Iran.

Dharowali

The residents of the village (mainly Randhawa Jatts) are descendants of Baba Lachhman Singh Dharowali, a martyr of the Nankana Sahib Holocaust, where he was burnt alive after being hung upright from a jand tree.

Dorie

Pierre-Henri Dorie (1839–1866), French missionary and martyr in Korea

Emma Stansfield

She also guest starred in the fourth season of Showtime's show The Tudors as the Protestant martyr Anne Askew.

Eric Metaxas

He is best known for two biographies, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery about William Wilberforce and Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy about Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Étienne Dolet

Christie, Richard Copley, Étienne Dolet, the Martyr of the Renaissance (2nd ed., 1889), containing a full bibliography of works published by him as author or printer;

Fergushill

John Fergushill (1592–1644) was a covenanter minister and martyr who is remembered by a monument erected at Fenwick kirk.

Gennaro Arcucci

Count Gennaro Arcucci (died 1800) was an Italian physician, antiquarian and a hero of the island of Capri and Caprese martyr in the Bourbon Restoration.

Gertrude of Nivelles

The first miracle attributed of Gertrude in the Vita Sanctae Geretrudis takes place at the altar of St. Sixtus the martyr as Gertrude was standing in prayer.

Hafodunos

A book, entitled Hafodunos: Triumph of the Martyr was published by Mark Baker in 2005, detailing the history of the estate.

Henry Sacheverell

This was the decree of the state, and it had the effect of making him a martyr in the eyes of the populace and (along with heavy taxes on Londoners) bringing about the first Sacheverell riots that year in London and the rest of the country, which included attacks on Presbyterian and other Dissenter places of worship, with some being burned down.

Hermias

Saint Hermias of Comana, an early saint and martyr of the Eastern Orthodox Church

Ipswich Martyrs

It was unveiled by the Very Rev. Henry Wace, D.D., the Dean of Canterbury, on Wednesday December 16, 1903, in the presence of the deputy-Mayor, the M.P. Sir William Brampton Gurdon, K.C.M.G., the Rev Canon Samuel Garratt and many others, including a deputation from the Bury St Edmund's Martyr's Memorial Committee.

Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford

The album was released on September 23, 2008 on his own record label Martyr Inc, with distribution by Hickory Records/Sony/ATV Music Publishing.

Margaret Ball

Two generations later this pattern was repeated when Francis Taylor, who was Mayor of Dublin 1595–1596, was condemned to the dungeons after exposing fraud in the parliamentary elections to the Irish House of Commons.

Maugersbury

Maugersbury is located less than a mile from Stow-on-the-Wold, which was originally called Edwardstow after the town's patron saint Edward(prossibly Edward the Martyr).

Micaela Bastidas Puyucahua

Micaela Bastidas Puyucahua (born in Tamburco, 1745; died in Cusco, May 18, 1781), was an important indigenous leader against Spanish oppression in South America and a martyr for Peruvian independence.

Orentius

Orentius and Patientia (d. 240), Christian martyr and saint, father of St. Lawrence

Orleans, Ontario

Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) was a 15th-century martyr who led the French army to victory in Orléans, France.

Pompeo Ghitti

He painted two altarpieces, the Last Supper (1681, 2nd chapel to left) and Glory of St. Carlo Borromeo with the saints Stephen Martyr, Francis of Assisi, Anthony of Padua, & Rocco (1668, 2nd chapel right) for the parrochial church of Santa Maria Assunta in Ghedi.

Pontianus

Pontianus of Spoleto, martyr of the 2nd century and patron saint of that city

Pontifical Commission of Sacred Archaeology

In a vineyard on the Appian Way he discovered (1849) a fragment of a marble slab bearing part of an inscription, "NELIVS. MARTYR", which he recognized as belonging to the sepulchre of Pope Cornelius, slain in 253, whose remains were laid to rest in the Catacomb of St. Callixtus on the Appian Way.

Priscilla and Aquila

The fact that she is always mentioned with her husband, Aquila, disambiguates her from different women revered as saints in Catholicism, such as (1) Priscilla of the Roman Glabrio family, the wife of Quintus Cornelius Pudens, who according to some traditions hosted St. Peter circa AD 42, and (2) a third-century virgin martyr named Priscilla and also called Prisca.

Richard Chenevix Trench

While incumbent of Curdridge Chapel near Bishop's Waltham in Hampshire, he published (1835) The Story of Justin Martyr and Other Poems, which was favourably received, and was followed in 1838 by Sabbation, Honor Neale, and other Poems, and in 1842 by Poems from Eastern Sources.

Richard Shelley

This Richard Shelley must be distinguished from the Richard Shelley of Findon, Sussex, and All Cannings, Wiltshire (second son of Edward Shelley of Warminghurst, Sussex, and brother of Edward Shelley the martyr), who was committed to the Marshalsea for his religion, 13 August 1580.

Riyad-us Saliheen Brigade of Martyrs

Riyad-us Saliheen (Russian: Риядус-Салихийн, also transliterated as Riyadus-Salikhin, Riyad us-Saliheyn or Riyad us-Salihiin) is the name of a small "martyr" (shahid) force of Islamic suicide attackers.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Angoulême

St. Salvius, honoured as a martyr at Valenciennes, whom the Gallia Christiana makes a Bishop of Angoulême, was undoubtedly only a missionary bishop of the eighth century.

Saint Kuksha

Saint Kuksha of the Kiev Caves (died after 1114), monk and martyr from the Kiev Pechersk Lavra (Kiev Monastery of the Caves)

Saint Lydia

See Philetus, for Lydia, 2nd-century Illyrian Christian martyr

Saint Methodius

Saint Methodius of Olympus (d. 311), Christian bishop, church father, and martyr

Saint Ursicinus

Saint Ursicinus of Ravenna (d. 67), Italian physician and Roman Catholic martyr, feast June 19

Sharan Kaur Pabla

Sharan Kaur Pabla was a Sikh martyr who was slain in 1705 by Mughal soldiers while cremating the bodies two older sons of Guru Gobind Singh, the 10th Sikh Guru, after the battle of Chamkaur.

St Edmund, King and Martyr

:For the 9th-century King of East Anglia, Martyr and Saint, see Edmund the Martyr.

St. Salvator's Church

The highalter was also dedicated to Boniface, who had died as a martyr in 754 at Dokkum.

Sword of Saints Cosmas and Damian

It was a gift from Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor to the convent in Essen in 993 AD and symbolises the martyrdom of Saints Cosmas and Damian, the patron saints of that city.

The Young Martyr

The Young Martyr (French: La Jeune Martyre) is a painting by the French painter Paul Delaroche.

Vicente Liem de la Paz

Vicente Liem de la Paz (Vietnamese: Vinh Sơn Phạm Hiếu Liêm) (1732 – November 7, 1773) was a Tonkinese (present day northern Vietnam) Dominican friar venerated as a saint and martyr by the Roman Catholic Church.

William Flower

William Way (c. 1560–1588), Catholic martyr executed at Kingston upon Thames


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