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The concept of Martyrs Day centers around the idea that the United States is a nation birthed from protest.

This Fourth of July marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of The Declaration of Independence in 1776. In commemoration ...

On Jan. 12, the Church honors the feast days for several martyrs and groups of martyrs at a time in which Christians still face persecution and the threat of martyrdom at the hands of authoritarian ...

After a long period in which the persecutions of Christianity were really spasmodic, local, [and] involved very few people, suddenly in the middle of the 3rd century, the year 250, the Emperor Decius ...

The photo was taken in the middle of February 2015 along a beach in Libya. There are 21 men in identical orange jumpsuits being led to their place of execution. Behind each is a man dressed in black, ...

The Prison Ship Martyrs Monument offers chilling testimony that American independence was purchased by patriots at the price of hideous human suffering. The 150-foot-tall Doric column at Fort Greene ...

The martyr’s day is probably one of the most significant public holidays in our country. On this particular day, we commemorate lives whose blood rendered a sacrificial ransom for liberty and ...

In Rome, martyrs’ relics are nothing unusual. Bones of early Christians who were beheaded or thrown to lions seem to lie in or under every piazza. The relics at the Basilica of San Bartolomeo, however ...