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    ‘All is well’: The Construction of Martyrdom in the Diary of Emily Hawley Gillespie (1838-1888) by Claire SORIN

    Published 2014-12-01
    “…This extraordinarily voluminous journal, kept over three decades, was not meant to be a mere record of life and work but an autobiographical legacy destined to testify to Emily Gillespie’s intellectual abilities and domestic martyrdom in her slowly disintegrating home. Hovering between revelation and secrecy, the diary seeks to immortalize its author as an ideal mother, patient wife and perfect invalid. …”
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    A Review of Dying for Freedom: Political Martyrdom in South Africa by Jacob Dlamini (Polity Press, 2024). by Taurayi Munemo

    Published 2025-01-01
    “…Following this, it is clear why Dlamini decides to explore necropolitics through the notion of political martyrdom in critiquing South Africa’s racialised perspective of the sacrifices made by most South Africans during apartheid. …”
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    Męczeństwo formą samobójstwa? by Marcin Cholewa

    Published 2012-07-01
    “…The article focuses on key elements of martyrdom (conscious and voluntary acceptance of death, dying for the faith, virtues pertaining to God, bearing witness to truth and love, patient endurance until death, externalised defending the truth of faith, a persecutor as opposed to the martyr, no pursuit of martyrdom, the pursuit of martyrdom not for its glory) and altruistic suicide (conscious and voluntary acceptance of death, death for the sake of others, society, bearing witness to the values, God, honour, friendship, freedom, desire for death without reward, death as a personal act, not harming innocent people, exceptions are acts of terrorism and suicide acts during wars). …”
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    Męczeństwo – chrześcijańska wyłączność? by Krzysztof Kościelniak

    Published 2012-07-01
    “…The main aim of this article is to show the principal acts of martyrdom that have been found in nearly all the world major religious traditions. …”
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    Święty Maksymilian Maria Kolbe – męczeństwo z miłości by Wiesław Bar

    Published 2012-07-01
    “…The modest texts in the number about martyrdom, reveal just the habitual readiness of Knight of the Immaculate, as evidenced by the intention of the Mass of April 30, 1918, celebrated the day after his ordination: “pro gratia et martyrii apostolate, pro me et confratribus in Collegio”. …”
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    Świadek męczeństwa i jego rola w świetle jurysprudencji Kongregacji Spraw Kanonizacyjnych by Zdzisław J. Kijas

    Published 2012-07-01
    “… In the legal understanding, martyrdom requires external recognition as well as external evaluation. …”
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    Public Transmission, and Religious Symbolism in the British Women’s Suffrage Movement: The Cases of Emily Wilding Davison’s Funeral and the Pilgrimage of the National Union of Wome... by Chloé Clément

    Published 2024-03-01
    “…Davison’s funeral brings forward the importance of suffragette martyrdom for the organisation’s propaganda and members’ understanding of militancy and martyrdom in light of their religious convictions. …”
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    Luke’s Divine Call of Jesus. Part One by Robert Lee Williams

    Published 2024-07-01
    “… Luke represents Jesus’ death as the martyrdom of a prophet. M. Dibelius has noted this in 1919. …”
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    Roma, León y Lisboa: variaciones memorísticas del culto medieval a San Adrián y Santa Natalia by José Alberto Moráis Morán

    Published 2017-06-01
    “…In this paper the different processes of medieval memory construction of Saints Adrian and Natalia are studied through the presence of their relics in the altars of some churches in Rome, León and Lisbon. Following the martyrdom of Saint Adrian in the East and the transference of his mortal remains by his wife to Byzantium, it was between the 7th and the 13rd centuries that their worship was developed in the Iberian Peninsula therefore creating significant worship strategies. …”
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    Les larmes et le sang des chiites : corps et pratiques rituelles lors des célébrations de ‘Âshûrâ’ (Liban, Syrie) by Sabrina Mervin

    Published 2006-11-01
    “…The ‘Âshûrâ’ rituals that the Shii observe to commemorate the martyrdom of their third Imam, Ḥusayn, at Kerbela, have gained more visibility these last years. …”
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    Uma outra representação da Rua Nova dos Mercadores, em Lisboa: a tábua do “martírio de S. Sebastião”, de Gregório Lopes by Luísa Trindade

    Published 2016-12-01
    “…From the empirical recognition of the connection between two urban representations – the depiction of the Rua Nova dos Mercadores (New Street of Merchants), in Lisbon, belonging to the Kelmscott Manor Collection (c. 1570) and the background architecture of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, painted by Gregório Lopes for the Convent of Christ in Tomar (1530s) – and its subsequent conclusions, this paper revisits some of the most iconic iconographic representations of the city, the arguments that supports their identification and their importance for the knowledge of the central areas of the 16th century Lisbon, city so often described and yet so poorly imagined.…”
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