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List of Christian martyrs

List of Christian martyrs

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This is a list of reputed martyrs of Christianity; it includes only notable people with Wikipedia articles. Not all Christian denominations accept every figure on this list as a martyr or Christian—see the linked articles for fuller discussion. In many denominations of Christianity, martyrdom is considered a direct path to sainthood and many names on this list are viewed as saints in one or more denomination.

Martyrdom of St. Paul by Tintoretto
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Apostolic Age—1st century

Martyrdom of Saint Stephen by Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari (1598-1669)
The crucifixion of Saint Peter by Caravaggio (1601)

According to the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles

According to early sources

According to tradition

Age of Martyrdom—2nd to 4th centuries

Pope St Fabian and Saint Sebastian, Giovanni di Paolo
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

According to early Christian tradition

With some historical attestation within a hundred years of the event

With some historical attestation more than a hundred years after the event

Largely or wholly legendary

Middle Ages—5th to 15th-centuries

Madonna and Child with St Peter Martyr, by Lorenzo Lotto
Joan of Arc being burned at the stake, by Jules-Eugène Lenepveu

Reformation Era—16th century

Dirk Willems etching from Martyrs Mirror
"Death of Cranmer", from the 1887 Foxe's Book of Martyrs

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

See also

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