October 15th is the feast of Saint Magdalena of Nagasaki, Virgin: 23-year-old Kirishitan noblewoman, Augustinian tertiary, catechist, interpreter, and martyr—tortured to death by tsurushi on this day in 1634, after refusing to apostatize throughout 13 days hanging upside-down.

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St. Placidus and his Companions, Martyrs

"St. Placidus was never seen angry. This is saying a great deal in few words; for there is hardly a passion which is so general, and which causes so many sins, as anger."

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Ah how unhappy ever
Wants me the ungrateful Dorilla
Ah, more and more ruthless,
She forces me to shed tears!
For me, no,
There is no rest
For me, no,
There is no hope
And the cruel martyrdom
And my sorrows
Only death
Can comfort

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Today the Church remembers Saints Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs. Pray for us.

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St Andrew Kim Taegon was first Korean born RC priest. He and 120 others were martyred in 1846 during heavy Christian persecution. We pray for the people of Korea and the church in those lands today

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Martyrdom bitch, I ain’t dropping you shit

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pictured in profile: the martyrdom of st maurice

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Two and a half hours until we go live on Kickstarter.
Cloak Division are on standby, Naga 7 are brimming with excitement and Stigmartyr are D-NOTICE!
Be there at 5pm (UK time) this evening. We'll be sure to hire a few Props to post the link EVERYWHERE!

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Mir Anees In Hyderabad :: Renowned Urdu poet known for his " Marsiya ( martyrdom )". In 1870 Nawab Tahwar Jung invited Anis to Hyderabad where he declined to be presented at the court of Mir Mahboob Ali Khan. The Nizam himself went to the Majlis where the poet was to recite.

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Being a martyr can lead to betrayal and backache

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I needed to relax this evening, so here’s a Lynne von Teppler

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Poetic lament (marthiyya) commemorating the martyrdom of al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī (d. 680) composed by the Andalusi litterateur Ṣafwān ibn Idrīs of Murcia (d. 1202) & preserved in the works of the Granadan scholar-statesman Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khaṭīb (d. 1374).

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Everybody hail the Defiled Mary
The afterthought of all male martyrdom.

Behind every good man's a messiah story.
I, for one, am as guilty as they come;
After all, I’m my mama’s son.

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Time to start a month of Here's St Apollonia, martyred in 249 by having her teeth pulled out/broken before throwing herself into a fire. Patron saint of dentists, she's invoked by toothache sufferers. Images from Barton Turf, Dersingham and Horsham St Faith 1/30

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"Mary was a martyr, not by the sword of the executioner, but by the bitter sorrow of heart."
----St. Bernard of Clairvaux

O Mary Most Sorrowful, pray for us!


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In 1904 the peril posed to society by the Rocketettes was met with an iron fist.
After being branded as terrorists by the government for demanding votes for women, most of the rocket-powered feminists took flight using suffrajetpacks.
But many others died as martyrs to the cause.

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