Download or read book A Church and Her Martyrs Classic Reprint written by Daniel Van Pelt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Church and Her Martyrs This work is a compilation which was first issued in the eighteenth century, and which has been edited and re - edited several times since. The above name (great martyr's-book) is not its full, nor even its correct, title, but it is popularly known by this, and for convenience in an English book it has been thus referred to throughout these pages. Its record really embraces all the martyrs of the Chris tian Church from the Crucifixion down, so that the Dutch martyrology had to be gotten from it by a process of sifting. Occasionally, too, the historian Brandt furnishes the account of a martyrdom which has escaped the Martyr's - Book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Victories of the Martyrs written by St Alphonsus De Liguori and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Victories of the Martyrs: Or, the Lives of the Most Celebrated Martyrs of the Church This volume completes the first series of the Ascetical Works, comprising the volumes that are suitable for persons Of every age and every state of life. We began the series by the Preparation of Death, and we finish it by the Victories of the Martyrs, who are our principal models after Jesus and Mary, the King and the Queen Of martyrs. The other saints had only to follow them; it is thus that they have acquired the same glory. St. John beheld all the saints clothed in white, and with palms in their hands: Clot/zed wit/z w/zite robes, and palms in tkeir bands.1 The palm is the symbol of martyrs; and yet all the saints did not suffer martyrdom; - why, then. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Historic Martyrs of the Primitive Church Classic Reprint written by Arthur James Mason and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Historic Martyrs of the Primitive Church Tats book is not written for the learned world, but to introduce to the ordinary reader some of the most trustworthy of the records of the primitive martyrs and confessors. In accordance with this object, I have not judged it necessary or expedient to discuss questions which are of much interest to the historian, but which might be repellent to others, concerning the age and authenticity of some of the documents used, or with regard to the trustworthiness of the several narratives. It will, I hope, be enough to say, that no narrative has been inserted in this book which may not be considered historically true, though in some cases the portions here given have been disentangled from a good deal which is fictitious. This is particularly the case with the Roman martyrdoms, such as those of Caecilia and Sebastian; but it holds good also with regard to some of the Eastern martyrdoms, like that of Theodore the Tiro. It would probably be possible, by a similar process of sorting and sifting, to extract something like history out of a good many other Acts and Passions. Le Blant, amongst others, has shown how often material of real value is embedded in the midst of worthless and tire some legend. But I do not think that the book as a whole would gain by the insertion of a large number of doubtful reconstructions. Such narratives as those of Polycarp and the martyrs of Lyons, of Perpetua. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Madagascar written by Ebenezer Prout and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Madagascar: Its Mission and Its Martyrs Madagascar. It is my firm Opinion that it is impossible for any one to feel the full force of this impression, unless he has witnessed and studied it himself. The effect of Christian teaching in Madagascar struck me as possessing a most remarkable character. Of this work the present volume contains an outline, with numerous incidents which strikingly indicate its Divine origin. More than this it would have been unwise to attempt, within limits so restricted. The documents and details which belong to the history of the first twenty years of the Mission, must therefore be sought in the admirable works of the Rev. W. Ellis, and Messrs. Freeman and Johns. But although the following pages contain merely a concise sketch of the progress and effects of Christianity in Madagascar during the protracted period of persecution now so happily terminated, it is believed that such a narrative is urgently required; that, considering the previous condition of those whose faith and patience it describes, more mar vellons illustrations of the Operation of the word of truth and the power of God are not to be found in the history of the Church; and that no Christians present a stronger claim to confidence and love, and no Mission more deserves generous support. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs written by Antonio Gallonio and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both gruesomeness and evil creativity are captured in this intellectual examination of the tortures of Christian martyrs. Includes "On the Physical Death of Jesus," an article that describes the forensic realities of the crucifixion, which influenced Mel Gibson's film, "The Passion."

Download or read book A Book of Martyrs Classic Reprint written by Cornelia A. Pratt Comer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Book of Martyrs His friends speculated and investigated, curiously, eagerly, fearfully, but to no pur pose. What was the motive? Where had he gone? Had he committed suicide? Was he insane? The elders of the church em ployed a detective, and the friends of his wife took up the search, but Witherle was not found. He had left as little trace where by he could 'be followed as a meteor leaves when it rushes across the sky. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Ten Lectures on the Martyrs Classic Reprint written by Paul Allard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ten Lectures on the Martyrs The book which we have undertaken to present to the public, Ten Lectures on the Martyrs, is among the number of those which stand in no need of recommendation, because, on the one hand, they have nothing to fear, even from the most searching criticism, and on the other, they are bound to please on account of their sincere and convincing tone. Hence we are compelled to believe that when the writer asked us to introduce his work to the reading public he was thinking more of us than of himself, and that his real motive was to serve the interests of our Catholic University. He had already done it good service in attracting thither, last winter, a numerous audience, which followed with rapt attention his course of ten lectures, and doubtless he wished to do it a still greater service by putting this printed memento of his Lectures under the protection (whatever that may be worth) of its Rector, and thus adding yet another work to the already long list of books which have been produced by this centre of studies in defence of our holy faith. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Cross and Crown written by Mrs. Bryson and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cross and Crown: Stories of the Chinese Martyrs when I was at home on furlough, and met many of the young people who will, I hope, read these pages, the Rev. Arnold Thomas, of Bristol, and many other ministers and Christian workers, told me they thought the heroic deaths and sufferings, for Jesus sake, of so many Chinese converts ought to be put on record. The story, they said, was a legacy to the church universal, which should not be lost, but should be treasured right down the ages, like the record of the persecutions of pagan Rome. No costly memorials have been erected above their graves; many of the martyrs never even received burial, their ashes being thrown upon the winds; but their memory will never die in the land of their birth so long as the Christian Church grows and thrives in Chinese soil. I have only had space for a very few stories, though they could be multiplied more than ten times over. And I have written only of our London Mission Christians (with the exception of one or two cases which are specially mentioned in the chapter - "How the Youth of China Died for Jesus"), as I thought these would be specially interesting to the young people for whom this book is prepared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Female Martyrs of the English Reformation Classic Reprint written by Charlotte Elizabeth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-16 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Female Martyrs of the English Reformation Who does not love, at the calm still hour of even ing, to pace around some venerable church, marking the dents and fissures in its old grey stone-work, which tell how many an age it has withstood the shocks of time; to gaze upon the outline of its antique tower, or tapering spire, as they rise towards heaven - a lively type of hope resting on faith's foundation - and then to glance upon the neighboring yew or elm, coeval in date with its hallowed companion There is that in the fashion of our old church es, and the scenery generally surrounding them, which appeals alike to devotional and national feeling and could we withdraw from these venerable piles the oblivious veil. Cast over their history by the supine thanklessness of suc cessive generations, we should view in each of them an emphatic memorial, a victorious trophy of the war waged by Papery against the Lamb: of the might whereby He who is King \of kings and Lord of lords overcame his blasphemous assailant; and of the deeds of his called, and chosen, and faithful followers, whpse voice from within those walls sent forth the sound of the gospel trumpet, through the length and breadth of the land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book In the Homes of Martyrs Classic Reprint written by James A. Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from In the Homes of Martyrs The visits recorded in this volume Were made sev eral years ago and an account of them appeared shortly afterwards in the field afar, organ of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America. They are now published in book form, so as to reach a far wider circle of readers and to interest them in the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Foxe s Christian Martyrs written by John Foxe and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You’ll be inspired by the ultimate sacrifice of dozens of early followers of Jesus as recorded in the classic history Foxe’s Christian Martyrs. This sixteenth-century book, presented here in an abridged and updated edition, describes the faithful lives and untimely deaths of Christians from the early church era through the reign of Queen Elizabeth in England. Though man’s evil toward man is troubling, the martyrs’ God-given power to rise above their persecution is ultimately uplifting and inspiring. This is a book every Christian should be familiar with!

Download or read book The Principles of Church History written by David D. Van Antwerp and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Principles of Church History: Adapted to the Young Destruction of Jerusalem. Dispersion of the Jews. St. John. The Church enjoys a season of rest. The horrors of the siege of J eru salem. The compilation of the Sacred Scriptures. The name, Apostle, dropped. Other names substituted for the same ofiice. Eminent fathers edify the Church by their writings. The second general persecution. Distinguished martyrs. Death of St. John. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Mementoes of the English Martyrs and Confessors written by Henry Sebastian Bowden and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mementoes of the English Martyrs and Confessors: For Every Day in the Year Considering the ubiquity and cunning of both private informers and Government spies, it may seem strange how the missionaries found even a temporary shelter on landing in England, but this was supplied to them by the Catholic laity without thought Of personal risk. Harbouring priests was always regarded as felony and Often punished by death, yet the cottages and shops of the poorer classes and the country-houses of the gentry were ever open to the missioner. Without the welcome hospitality and services of the laity, the work of the Apostolate would have been practically impossible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Foxe s Book of Martyrs written by John Foxe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-28 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Foxe's Book of Martyrs: A Complete and Authentic Account of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive and Protestant Martyrs, in All Parts of the World; With Notes, Comments and Illustrations Let us, then, hold up the inhuman system to merited execration. Let parents teach their children, and children teach their children, to dread and to Oppose this abomination of desolation, and to shun this pestilence that walketh in darkness. By aiding to circulate this work they will be doing an essential good; and by the light issuing from the flames of the martyrs' funeral piles, they may help to scatter the darkness which is gathering around. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Spirit of the Martyrs Revived written by Ellis Hookes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Spirit of the Martyrs Revived: In a Brief Compendious Collection of the Most Remarkable Passages, and Living Testimonies of the True Church, Seed of God, and Faithful Martyrs in All Ages Receiver: And your Sacrament, as you ufe it, is an abominable Idol. George Bradbriolge faid, As (or your holy Bread and holy Water, and your Mafs, l utterly defie them. They were all five condemned and burnt at: Chamber] the Sixth Day of Auger/l Ifo About the middle of the-fame Month, Thoma; Hayward and john Caraway were both burnt at Lie/afield. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Seventeen Suffolk Martyrs Classic Reprint written by Nina Frances Layard and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Seventeen Suffolk Martyrs Neglect of the lessons of Ecclesiastical History is characteristic of the age in which we live. Never was the history itself so much studied, never were its lessons so little used as a guide for the present. Historical facts there are which it is thought convenient to ignore. For it is another characteristic of the day to find excuses for all the past however deserving of blame. As a necessary result of this condoning of evil is the oblivion which has fallen on sufferers for righteousness' sake. Who thinks now of the great army of martyrs, who, in our own land, have in time past laid down their lives for the truth? The oppressors are lauded, the oppressed are forgotten if not blamed. The persecutors are thought well of, the men and women whom they have trampled under foot and killed are forgotten. The following pages shew that, hidden from the eyes of the English nation, there are records of holy martyrs and confessors, suspected of what they called heresy, sometimes tracked out by spies, hunted, condemned, treated as the offscouring of all things by the body which laid claim to the title of the Catholic Church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Virgin Saints and Martyrs Classic Reprint written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Virgin Saints and Martyrs In the second century Lyons was the Rome of Gaul as it is now the second Paris of France. It was crowded with temples and public monuments. It was moreover the Athens of the West, a resort of scholars. Seated at the confluence of two great rivers, the Rhone and the Saone, it was a centre of trade. It is a stately city now. It was more so in the second century when it did not bristle with the chimneys of factories pouring forth their volumes of black smoke, which the atmosphere, moist from the mountains, carries down so as to envelop everything in soot. In the great palace, now represented by the hospital, the imbecile Claudius and the madman Caligula were born. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.