Category:Martyrdom (subject)

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Martyrdom / Martyrs

Overview

Pro-Martyrs

• Maccabean Martyrs
• John the Baptist
• Jesus of Nazareth

Early Jewish Martyrs

• Aquiva

Early Christian Martyrs

Christian traditions record a large number of "martyrs" of the new faith. The whereabouts, and even the existence, of many of them cannot be verified historically as narratives about their martyrdom often developed only in much later times. Here is a list of the major martyrs whom Christian traditions locate in the first two centuries of the Common Era.

• Stephen, the first Christian martyr.
• Andrew

Under Nero (54-68 CE)

• Aphrodisius
• Barnabas
• Caecilius of Elvira
• Clateus of Brescia
• Peter
• Paul of Tarsus
• Torpes of Pisa (San Torpete, Saint Tropez, Апо́стол Трофи́м)

Under Vespasian (69-79 CE)

• Apollinaris of Ravenna

Under Domitian

• Flavius Clement, husband of Flavia Domitilla

Under Trajan (98-117 CE)

• Augusta of Treviso (around 100 CE)
• Clement of Rome (around 100 CE)

References

• Martyrdom / Jan Willem van Henten / In: The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (2010 Collins / Harlow), edited volume, 917-919

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