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The Darker Side of Luca Signorelli
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The Darker Side of Luca Signorelli
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The Darker Side of Luca Signorelli
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Some Candidates (via Who´s Your Favorite Martyr?): Hartmann von Schedel, Felicitas und ihre Söhne/ Legend of Felicitas (Wikipedia)
Saint Felicitas (also known as Felicity) is said to have been a rich and pious Christian widow who had seven sons. She devoted herself to charitable work and converted many to the Christian faith by her example. This aroused the wrath of pagan priests who lodged a complaint against her with Emperor Marcus Aurelius. These priests asserted the fire of the gods and demanded sacrifice from Felicitas and her children. The Emperor acquiesced to their demand and Felicitas was brought before Publius, the Prefect of Rome. Taking Felicitas aside, he used various pleas and threats in an unsuccessful attempt to get her to worship the pagan gods. He was equally unsuccessful with her seven sons who followed their mother’s example.
Before the Prefect Publius they adhered firmly to their religion, and were delivered over to four judges, who condemned them to various modes of death. The division of the martyrs among four judges corresponds to the four places of their burial. She implored God only that she not to be killed before her sons, so that she might be able to encourage them during their torture and death in order that they would not deny Christ. According to God’s Providence, it so happened. With joy, this wonderful mother accompanied her sons one by one until she had witnessed the death of all seven sons. We are not entirely sure as to how each of them died, but it is said that Januarius, the eldest, was scourged to death; Felix and Philip were beaten with clubs until they expired; Silvanus was thrown headlong down a precipice; and the three youngest, Alexander, Vitalis and Martialis were beheaded. After each execution she was given the chance to denounce her faith. She refused to act against her conscience and so she too suffered martyrdom.
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Some Candidates (via Who´s Your Favorite Martyr?): St. John, painted by Meister von Attel, Anon, Tizian, Bellini
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Some Candidates: St. Margaret of Antioch, painted by Anon/Titian/ Brusasorci/ Raphael / Comment via Wikipedia
According to the version of the story in Golden Legend, she was a native of Antioch, and she was the daughter of a pagan named Aedesius. Her mother having died soon after her birth, Margaret was nursed by a pious woman five or six leagues from Antioch. Having embraced Christianity and consecrated her virginity to God, she was disowned by her father, adopted by her nurse and lived in the country keeping sheep with her foster mother (in what is now Turkey). Olybrius, Governor of the Roman Diocese of the East, asked to marry her but with the price of her renunciation of Christianity. Upon her refusal she was cruelly tortured, during which various miraculous incidents occurred. One of these involved being swallowed by Satan in the shape of a dragon, from which she escaped alive when the cross she carried irritated the dragon’s innards. The Golden Legend, in an atypical passage of skepticism, describes this last incident as “apocryphal and not to be taken seriously” (trans. Ryan, 1.369). She was put to death in A.D. 304.
St. Margaret was one of the voices that spoke to Joan of Arc.
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Some Candidates (via Who´s Your Favorite Martyr?): St. Ursula, painted by Meister der Magdalenenlegende/ Francisco Zurbaran
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Some Candidates (via Who´s Your Favorite Martyr?): St. Anthony, painted by Follower of Bosch/ Stefano di Giovanni Sassetta/ Antonio Francesco Peruzzini
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Some Candidates (via Who´s Your Favorite Martyr?): Saint Catherine of Alexandria, painted by Bernhard von Orley/ Bernardo Luini/ Tizian (Caterina Cornaro as St. Catherine)
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Some Candidates ( via Who´s Your Favorite Martyr?): Fra Filippo Lippi, Saint Mamas Thrown to the Lions
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Richard Burlet
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Richard Burlet
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Richard Burlet
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Richard Burlet
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Richard Burlet
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Richard Burlet
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Richard Burlet
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Time´s Flowing
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