Famous People who have Praised God and Died

[michaelsherlock]

Apostolic Age—1st century





"Martyrdom of St. Paul", from an 1887 edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs Saint Stephen, Protomartyr, was stoned c. 34 AD.
James the Great (Son of Zebedee) was beheaded in 44 AD.
Philip the Apostle was crucified in 54 AD.
Matthew the Evangelist killed with a halberd (a combination of battle axe and spear) in 60 AD.
James the Just, beaten to death with a club after being crucified and stoned.
Matthias was stoned and beheaded.
Saint Andrew, St. Peter's brother, was crucified.
Saint Mark the Evangelist, was dragged in the streets of Alexandria then beheaded
Saint Peter, crucified upside-down.
Apostle Paul, beheaded in Rome.
Saint Jude
Saint Bartholomew flayed alive and crucified.
Thomas the Apostle was killed by a spear in Mylapore, Madras, India in AD 72.
Luke the Evangelist was hanged.
Simon the Zealot was crucified in 74 AD.
Antipas of Pergamum, according to tradition, roasted to death in a brazen bull during the persecutions of Emperor Domitian, c. 92 A. D.

(Note: John the Evangelist according to legend was cooked in boiling hot oil but survived. He was the only one of the original twelve Apostles who was not martyred).

[edit] Age of Martyrdom—2nd to 4th centuries





The martyrdom of St. Alban, from a 13th century manuscript, now in the Trinity College Library, Dublin. Note the executioner's eyes falling out of his head. Saint Afra c.304 at Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany.
Ignatius of Antioch in 107 AD.
Saint Januarius of Naples, Italy in 305 AD.
Justin Martyr of Palestine in 165 AD.
Origen of Alexandria, about 250 AD.
Perpetua and Felicity of Carthage in 202 AD.
Saint Philomena of Corfu, Greece (died in Rome) about 305 AD.
Polycarp of Smyrna, probably around 160 AD.
The Martyrs of Scili (in North Africa, about 180 AD) The Passio Sanctorum Scilitanorum is regarded as the oldest Christian text in the Latin language.
Saint Alban, Britain in c.283 AD.
Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, died in what is now Armenia under the Roman Imperial persecutions of 320 AD.
Saint George, died in the Diocletianic Persecution in 303.
Saint Agnes, died in the Diocletianic Persecution in 304.
Saint Vincent of Saragossa, died in the Diocletianic Persecution in 304.
Saint Behnam of Assyria, Iraq
Saint Lucy/Lucia, martyred in Syracuse for refusing to marry a pagan suitor. Became the patron saint of the blind

[edit] Middle Ages—5th to 15th centuries
Valentine and Engratia, ca. 715, Hermit martyrs of Segovia
Ludmila of Bohemia, 921
King Edward the Martyr, 979
Jovan Vladimir, 1014
Stanislaus of Szczepanów, 1079
Thomas Becket, 1170
Tsar Lazar, 1389
John Huss (Jan Huss), 1415
Jerome of Prague, 1416
Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc), 1431, burned at the stake.

[edit] Reformation Era—16th century





Dirk Willems etching from Martyrs Mirror.




"Death of Cranmer", from the 1887 Foxe's Book of Martyrs Diego Botello, Spanish missionary in the Caribbean, 1516
Fernando Salzedo, Spanish missionary in the Caribbean, 1516
Jan de Bakker, 1525, burned at the stake.
Felix Manz, 1527
Patrick Hamilton, 1528
George Blaurock, 1529
St Thomas More, 1535, executed in Tower of London
St John Fisher, 1535
William Tyndale, 1535
Carthusian Martyrs, 1535–1537
St. Arthur of Glastonbury, 1539
Margaret Pole, 1541
Juan de la Cruz, Spanish missionary to New Mexico, 1542
Luis de Escalona, Spanish missionary to New Mexico, 1542
Juan de Padilla, Spanish missionary to New Mexico, 1542
Anne Askew, 1546
George Wishart, 1546
Matthew Hammond, 1549
Hugh Latimer, 1555
Nicholas Ridley , 1555
Rowland Taylor, 1555
John Hooper, 1555
John Rogers, 1555
William Hunter, 1555
Lawrence Saunders, 1555
Thomas Cranmer, 1556
Dirk Willems, 1569
St Edmund Campion, 1581
Margaret Ball, 1584
The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, various dates

[edit] Modern Era—17th to 21st centuries





Feodosia Morozova, an Old Believer being arrested by Czarist authorities.




An illustration depicts the brutal death of Father Luís Jayme by the hands of angry natives at Mission San Diego de Alcalá in Alta California, November 4, 1775. Martyrs of Japan
Kakure Kirishitan
Francis Taylor, 1621
Vietnamese Martyrs 1625 - 1886
Magdalene of Nagasaki 1634
Lorenzo Ruiz, 1637
Canadian Martyrs, North American Martyrs, 1642–1649
Arthur Bell, 1643
Isaac Jogues, 1646 (French Jesuit in New York killed by Indians)
John de Britto, 1647-1693, born in Portugal and beheaded in India
Francis Ferdinand de Capillas (Dominican missionary to China), 1648
King Charles I, beheaded after the Second Civil War - 1649
Diego Luis de San Vitores and Pedro Calungsod, 1672
Feodosia Morozova (Old Believer), 1675
Oliver Plunkett, 1681
Felipe Songsong, 1685
Devasahayam Pillai, 1712-1752, Indian martyr.
Constantin Brâncoveanu, 1714
Lorenzo Carranco, Spanish missionary to Baja California, 1734
Nicolás Tamarál, Spanish missionary to Baja California, 1734
Vicente Liem de la Paz (Tonkinese Dominican), 1773
Luís Jayme, Spanish missionary to Alta California, 1775
Cosmas of Aetolia, 1779
Francisco Garcés, Spanish missionary to Alta California, 1781
Martyrs of Compiegne, 1794
Andrés Quintana, Spanish missionary to Alta California, 1812
Chinese Martyrs (various Christian denominations), 19th and 20th centuries
Andrew Dung-Lac (Vietnamese Catholic), 1839
Korean Martyrs 1839, 1846, 1866
Peter Chanel (Catholic priest), 1841
Hyrum Smith, 1844
Joseph Smith, Jr., 1844
Andrew Kim Taegon, 1846
Marcus Whitman, 1847
Narcissa Whitman, 1847
Martyrs of India 1857
Lucy Yi Zhenmei, one of the 19th century Chinese Catholic Martyrs, 1862
Thomas Baker, 1867, English missionary killed and eaten, Fiji
Martyrs of Uganda, 1885–1887
Esther John 1929-1960, Found Killed in Chichawatni commemorated at Westminster Abbey.
Maria Goretti (virgin martyr), 1902
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna, 1918
Nun Barbara (Yakovleva), 1918
Saints of the Cristero War 1926-1927
Miguel Pro, 1927
Toribio Romo González, 1928
Manche Masemola, (1913–1928)
José Sánchez del Río 1928
Innocencio of Mary Immaculate 1934
Bartolome Blanco Marquez‎, 1936
Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War 1934, 1936–1939
Paul Schneider (pastor)1939
Maximilian Kolbe (Polish Franciscan, died at Auschwitz), 1941
Edith Stein (Carmelite nun, died at Auschwitz), 1942
Lucian Tapiedi (1942)
Franz Jägerstätter, 1943
Dusty Miller (Martyr), 1945, a Methodist layman killed as a P.O.W. of the Japanese in Thailand during WWII.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, (April 9, 1945) Lutheran Pastor and member of the German Resistance
Theodore Romzha, 1947
Beda Chang, 1951
Zdenka Cecilia Schelingová, 1955
Jim Elliot, 1956
Nate Saint, 1956, killed while attempting to evangelize the Waodani people
Ed McCully 1956
Pete Fleming 1956
Roger Youderian 1956
Alan Castillo, March 34, 1956
Wang Zhiming (1907 - December 29, 1973) Chinese pastor, publicly executed
Janani Jakaliya Luwum (1922 – 17 February 1977), Archbishop of Uganda.
Óscar Romero (August 15, 1917 – March 24, 1980), Archbishop of San Salvador
Martyrs of Atlas, 1996
Kosheh Martyrs, Egypt 1998–2000
Ri Hyon Ok, Executed in June 2009 in North Korea for distributing bibles.[1]
Nag Hammadi martyrs, Egypt 2010
Alufunzi Ziwa, 2011


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_martyrs