20 July: St Gerebern's relics were moved to Xanten, Germany. He was the elderly priest & friend of St Dymphna who had to flee from Ireland to Geel, Belgium. They were both beheaded by her father who tracked them down! 🎨Martyrdom of St Dymphna & St Gerebernus by Jacques de l'Ange

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Residents in Lone Khinn village tract of township, Kachin State, together with PDF comrades, staged an anti-military protest along with a commemoration ceremony on the 75th MYANMAR MARTYRS'DAY, July 19.


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75th anniversary of Myanmar Martyrs Day
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Myanmar on 19 July 2022 commemorates the 75th anniversary of Martyrs Day which marks the assassination of independence heroes, including deposed leader AungSanSuuKyi's father Burmese politician and revolutionary General Aung San. EPA-EFE

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The reason Dickens is unimpressed is "by reason of the hideous paintings with which its walls are covered. These represent the martyrdoms of saints and early Christians; and such a panorama of horror and butchery, no man could imagine in his sleep." How bad could they be? Oh. 21/

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UP AND COMING MARTYR

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I redrew my first chibi: !

Nekomom isn't angry, just disappointed

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Perhaps the most famous martyr of knowledge, Hypatia of Alexandria was one of the great thinkers of the city and the Great Library who were martyred by Christians ravaging the city in their zealotry; she was allegedly beaten, stoned, and flayed.

🖼: L. Figuirer

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The 2nd-century martyr Saint Quiteria was one of nine sisters imprisoned in a tower for refusing to marry Roman officers. Not only did they escape, they also liberated other Christian prisoners & went on to wage guerilla warfare against the Roman Empire.

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July 14 is the feast of Blessed Gäbrä-Mika’el: Ethiopian Orthodox monk, scholar, convert to Catholicism, priest, Vincentian postulant, writer, and martyr—tortured to death in 1855, by order of Abuna Salama III.

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

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Hail Mary, Queen of martyrs, who spent
Thy life for Heaven while on this earth.
Hail Mary, Queen of my heart, my sweetness,
my life and my entire hope.
Hail Mary, Mother most amiable.
Hail Mary, Mother most admirable.
Hail Mary, Mother of fair love.

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This was going to be a second tapestry, that one being Arbiter before the prophets, reading- “The martyr will be sacrificed and the worthy will soar to the heavens.”

The Sangheili text here reads “The Demon and His imps will be chained to the ground by Truth and perish.”

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GN! ¡BN! We're all willing to be martyrs for our art, but are we willing to do the dirty work to sustain it? If we need to find answers outside of art, to continue making art, that is a noble an endeavor. Fight wherever that battle takes you! Survive today to make art tomorrow.🔥

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Étienne Gantrel, Martyrdom of Saint Gervais and Saint Protais, 17th century https://t.co/Uv6mbWJBUb

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