#Christians martyred

[dramoor]

"Lord have mercy! Radical Islamists have in recent days murdered thousands of Christians in Syria and the rampage continues. Despite the danger, many are marching in the streets in brave protest against the violence aimed at Christians and other minority religious groups. Thousands of Syrian Christians have fled to a Russian airbase where they are being protected by Russian soldiers." #PrayforSyria

~Via Orthodox Faith, March 2025

[fairylando]

San Sebastiano (1474) di Sandro Botticelli

[garlandedspirits]

Saint Catherine of Siena by Francesco Vanni (1563 - 1610)

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Mattia Preti (Italian, 1613-1699) St. Sebastian, ca.1656-57 Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Napoli Sebastian was a Roman centurion, who was discovered to be a Christian and was sentenced to death by Emperor Diocletian. He was bound to a stake and shot with arrows. He was left for dead, although the arrows had not killed him and he was eventually stoned to death. The story is taken from the 'Golden Legend'.

[religious-extremist]

I love that you have to be crazy to be a real Christian, not some cultural Christian, or ethnic Christian, obligatorily Christian. But to truly be Christian, you have to be kinda wacky, you can’t seek the approval of the atheist or the secular man, you have to be a religious extremist.

It’s scary to stand in Noah’s Ark, to be amongst a bunch of other nutty animals, to look out the deck and behold the world in the midst of the storm, and to trust that the ship is cradled in God’s hands and Christ is the Captain. The waves batter against the hull and the winds whistle through the windows, but within the Church is a holy Mystery, a paschal joy. Outside is a tempest unending but within our souls and hearts is a peace only God can give!

Peace I leave with you! My peace I give to you! I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your heart be troubled and do not let it be afraid.

[valtsv]

minor incovenience: happens

the urge to say "this is my fault because i'm a bad person and you're being punished for being associated with me. you should take out your frustration on me for this thing that is definitely within my personal ability to control.":

[arrayed-in-purple]

𝐀𝐥𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐯𝐨𝐧 𝐊𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲𝐫 (𝐜𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐚 𝟏𝟖𝟗𝟐)

𝐎𝐢𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝 - 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

Christliche Märtyrin (1864/etching/cropped) - G. Pommer after Delaroche

[thinkingimages]

Saint Margaret of Antioch. French ca. 1475

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The legend of Saint Margaret, the Early Christian martyr also known as Marina, details the many painful ordeals she endured before her eventual death during the reign of Emperor Diocletian (r. 284–305). Having been swallowed by the devil in the guise of a dragon, the saint burst unharmed from its body after making the sign of the cross.

Dating from about 1475, this work is an outstanding example of the Languedoc style of the late fifteenth century, which was centered in medieval Toulouse. This work is remarkable for the contrast of the idealism and delicacy of the figure set against the scaly and coarse textures of the lizard-turned-dragon at the base of the composition.

[illustratus]

"Page and Monarch forth they went, Forth they went together, Through the rude wind's wild lament, and the bitter weather" — Good King Wenceslas

by George Sheridan Knowles

[napoleonyaoi]

Carlo Crivelli – Snippet of Saint Sebastian from The Virgin and Child with Saints Francis and Sebastian, 1491. National Gallery (London, UK)

[marbleluvrofliberty]

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE CHALLENGE [EXTREMELY DIFFICULT]

[gemsofgreece]

The picturesque chapel of the Holy Seven Martyrs in Sifnos island! 💙💦🇬🇷 Photo by Kostas Bouk. 

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Gerard van Honthorst (Dutch, 1592-1656) Saint Sebastian, ca.1623 Sebastian was a Roman centurion, who was discovered to be a Christian and was sentenced to death by Emperor Diocletian. He was bound to a stake and shot with arrows. He was left for dead, although the arrows had not killed him and he was eventually stoned to death. The story is taken from the 'Golden Legend'.

[rarely-online-olovelymoon]

December 28: Holy Innocents Martyrs

Each year, on December 28th, we remember the innocent children killed on the order of king Herod. Today, innocents are still killed because of the orders of people in power. On this day, I would like to bring your attention to people who are risking their lives. They are many, so for the moment I will list the ones who have reached out to me recently (or whose friends have done so):

@mohmad2 donation link IS SUFFERING FROM SEPSIS

@zinaanqar donation link

@safa33 donation link ONE YEAR OLD NEEDS URGENT SKIN TRANSPLANT

@samah-2 donation link

@noor509 donation link

@falestine-yousef donantion link

@ameinasworld paypal gofundme

Hamada Al-Mazloom donation link

@karemandohan1999 gofundme paypal

I also invite you to check my pinned post and its comments (I wasn't able to personally update the post).

Tagging for reach:

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[penmanshipeb]

Just want to set this right here . . . I used to have a subscription to the VOM magazine. VOM stands for The Voice of the Martyrs. It informed of the persecution of the saints across the world.

One cannot wholly serve God without having some sort of a global view.

- The counsel of the Lord stands forever, The plans of His heart to all generations. - Psalms 33:11

- And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. [19] Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, [20] teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen. - Matthew 28:18-20

- But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” - Acts 1:8

It is for us to reach the lost (not save the world) but to reach those who will be saved and communicate to the infirmities of others who are in Him. Salvation does not call for us to become humanitarians but to simply be God's servants

📖 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. [18] Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, [19] that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. [20] Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. - II Corinthians 5:17-20

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They’re K*lling the Last Christians in Syria—And No One Cares