Certainly the most prominent among these in the ancient church was Mary Magdalene. A series of spectacular 19th and 20th century discoveries of Christian ... prominent as martyrs and suffered ...

There's a great sense that anything that upsets this ancient contract ... But by and large the Christian leaders did not encourage people volunteering themselves as martyrs. We have a few notable ...

I have produced a recognizable body of scholarship on ancient Jewish and Christian prayers and hymns. During the formative period of biblical scholarship in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth ...

As Pope Francis put it in his homily at the shrine for Christian martyrs in Uganda during his recent visit: The witness of the martyrs shows to all who have heard their story, then and now ...