Martyrs

Martyrs of Henry VIII: Repression, Defiance, Sacrifice eBooks & eLearning

Posted by First1 at Dec. 20, 2019

Tudor England was a place of religious upheaval and uncertainty, as the Catholic church was replaced by the Church of England, with Henry VIII at its head. When Henry VIII passed through Canterbury in 1532, a young woman named Elizabeth Barton, known as the Holy Maid of Kent and widely revered as a visionary, warned him that he was 'so abominable in the sight of God that he was not worthy to tread on hallowed ground'. Two years later she was executed as an enemy of the state, but she would not be the last to be punished for her faith – the summer of 1535 would see many others suffer the same fate.

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The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs eBooks & eLearning

Posted by roxul at Jan. 4, 2021

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The Era of the Martyrs eBooks & eLearning

Posted by arundhati at Sept. 5, 2023

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Martyrs of Marriage (2016) Movies

Posted by Tavaz at May 18, 2018

Misuse of IPC 498A or the anti dowry law has been decried in India for decades now. False cases under this section has caused extreme harassment and injustice to millions of people leading to suicide by many. Martyrs of Marriage …

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Martyrs of Marriage (2016) Movies

Posted by Tavaz at May 18, 2018

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Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sir Mark Elder - Donizetti: Les Martyrs (2015) Music

Posted by tirexiss at March 25, 2018

Coming in at a tidy three hours and eight minutes, Donizetti’s huge Les Martyrs, composed (or adapted) for Paris in 1840, is here presented in its fullest conceivable form, including ballet and many passages cut right after the first performances. The opera was a reworking of his 1838 Poliuto, composed for the San Carlo in Naples, which had been banned by the king himself, since Christian martyrdom under the Romans was found unpleasant by the censors and the king was devoutly religious.

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CH4 Unreported World - Social Media Martyrs (2019) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Nov. 23, 2019

Iraqi society has changed over the last five years and young Iraqis in particular want to look increasingly Western - even provocative. Influencing these trends are the social media stars who have garnered millions of followers, so reporter Sahar Zand heads to the troubled nation to meet a few of them. Huge nationwide protests against corruption have been making headlines, but these young millennials are taking on power in a different way - by celebrating beauty, fashion and rap. They have acquired much popularity but, as this programme reveals, fame can have deadly consequences.

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