The Myth of Martyrdom. He cast himself in a dazzling array of roles, both on and off the page. Can history restore the full measure of Wilde’s complexity?
1854. [https://t.co/key6P2ksI0] via

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Studies for "The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorien" (Lictors, Stone Thrower, and Spectator), 1833 https://t.co/bTlWhnicVk

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The Martyrdom of Saint Philip, by Ribera

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" بھئیاسجادؑ میں شاید پیاس کی آخری منزل میں ہوں،میرے جسم نے ہڈیوں کا ساتھ چھوڑ دیاہےاور میں ان قریب اپنےباباؑ حسینؑ کےپاس جانےوالی ہوں" سکینہؑ بنت الحسینؑ "


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I'm pretty weak but I've got Martyrdom (Drop a Live Grenade When Killed)

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Acts of Worship: Martyrdom, 1965 by Yukio Mishima

this scene has been living rent free in my mind for a while, glad that I’m finally able to draw it out :]

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Today is the Feast of St. Jean-Gabriel Perboyre C.M., Lazarist missionary priest in China, serving the poverty-stricken people of the region. His suffered martyrdom on this day in 1840, strangled to death on a cross at Wuchang.
Ora pro nobis

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"'The Hanged Man' is the card of ultimate surrender, encapsulating martyrdom and the necessity of sacrifice for the greater good. Reversed, it means a revelation has suddenly revealed itself and can indicate a fear of change, an intentional stagnation; what are you running from?"

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KIMURA SHUN
- MY MANNNN
- got scarred by a molotov cocktail once
- i wrote him in 4 separate dr oc rps
- he survived 2
- moses expy gone wrong
- owns a clothing brand called the bottom line
- his sclera are slightly blue-tinted
- an expert in martyrdom

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The Martyrdom of the Seven Sons of Saint Felicity, 1709 https://t.co/LV6FF7UvWK

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Martyrdom of St. Catherine, 1615

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Saint Eulalia

Video about St. Eulalia: https://t.co/9bru0CrRnN

Lovely Pre-Raphaelite image of the martyrdom of the patroness of Barcelona, St. Eulalia: https://t.co/du8CnwMEAL

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Today is the feast of the beheading of John the Baptist, which commemorates the saint's martyrdom as depicted in these brutal "before and after" paintings by Caravaggio.
"The Beheading of SJTB" (1608, Valletta) "Salome with the Head of SJTB" (1610, London)

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The Beheading of St. John the Baptist

The Gospel recounts his martyrdom. St. John boldly reprimanded Herod for adultery. "It is against the law," he told the king, "for you to take the wife of your brother." Herodias and her daughter requested Herod to have St. John beheaded.

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Today we commemorate Bartholomew the Apostle. This image, from a 1710 edition of the Book of Common Prayer, depicts Bartholomew holding a knife next to a bowl containing his own flayed skin, symbols of his martyrdom. [**H5145.A4 1710]

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