He was the first protomartyr. From LearnThat.org.
Στέφανος is known as the protomartyr of Christianity and venerated by the Roman Catholic. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
How came they then to stone the protomartyr Stephen?. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
St. Alban's was founded, as its name implies, in honor of the English protomartyr, whose bones were said to have been discovered on that interesting site, and afterwards preserved with veneration in the abbey. From Wordnik.com. [Bibliomania in the Middle Ages] Reference
John Brown, the protomartyr of freedom, by his heroism, daring, intrepid perseverance, inspired, -- swallowed with one great idea, had stirred all Kansas and Missouri to fear, and carried off eleven slaves to Canada and set them free. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
"Oceanicæ protomartyr" is the official title given. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
She was called "Apostle and protomartyr among women". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
Why to the dying protomartyr was there granted that vision thus varied?. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark] Reference
Mayne (q. v.), the protomartyr of pontifical seminarists, was a native of Devon. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
The protomartyr of Propaganda is St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, a German Capuchin, missionary in. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
No historical pilgrimage to Paris would be complete without a visit to the Sanctuary of its protomartyr and the burial-place of its kings. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Paris] Reference
Among the Aryans of India, as we have already seen, Death has a protomartyr, Tama, 'the first of men who reached the river, spying out a path for many.'. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Mythology] Reference
Another great name from the Acts of the Apostles is that of the protomartyr Stephen, among the numerous derivatives of which we must include Stennett and. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
In 1899 the head of St. Stephen, protomartyr, was given by Pius X, then Patriarch of Venice, to the Franciscan Fulgentius Carey Bishop of Lesina and Archbishop of Uskup. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
There seems, however, to be some doubt whether this venerable protomartyr of philosophy was inclined to carry his own declaration of the rights of men more rigidly into practice than the. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12)] Reference
The honour and gallantry of the Earl of Lindsey is so illustrious a subject, that it is fit to adorn an heroic poem; for he was the protomartyr of the cause, and the type of his unfortunate royal master. From Wordnik.com. [All for Love Or, the World Well Lost A Tragedy] Reference
Being afraid of a Danish invasion, and thinking that the relics of the protomartyr, which had already been once carried away to Denmark, would not be safe in the shrine as it stood, he hid them under the altar of. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey] Reference
Another lesson which we may draw from the reticence in the case of the Apostle, and the expansiveness in the case of the protomartyr, is that of a wise indifference to the utterly insignificant accident of posthumous memory or oblivion of us and our deeds and sufferings. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts] Reference
Here were founded the oldest villages on our list; and here took place the first persecutions of our long-suffering predecessors, who had the glory of watering with their blood the country that they were evangelizing, the one that furnished to the province of San Nicolás their protomartyr. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
'Apostle and protomartyr among women'. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Miscellany] Reference
The protomartyr Stephen. From Wordnik.com. [Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete] Reference
Or, falling, protomartyr of our cause. From Wordnik.com. [Early Reviews of English Poets] Reference
(8) St. Alban, protomartyr of England, d. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
Hyphenation has been left as printed - inconsistencies are: bookloving, book-loving booklover, book-lover bookworms, book-worms goodwill, good-will halfpenny, half-penny protomartyr, proto-martyr reread, re-read. From Wordnik.com. [Bibliomania in the Middle Ages] Reference
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