Martyrdom
event · 4 works · 5 mentions · 7 anchored passages
also in the atlas: martyrdom the idea
martyrdom · martyrdoms · confession · one's own martyrdom · roasted, impaled, having their heads cut off · the crown and the prizes · the new martyrdom · witness
in the texts
Stromata
The violent deaths of Christian witnesses, presented as proof surpassing philosophical arguments about pain.
But to us there are ungrudging springs of witnesses, beheld every day before our eyes, roasted, impaled, having their heads cut off.
and for the tempter, that he has striven in vain against the man faithful through love;
So at once we call martyrdom "perfection," not because the man received the end of his life as the rest do, but because he displayed a perfect work of love.
De Carnis Resurrectione
The act of martyrdom, presented as the sole means of dwelling with the Lord immediately upon leaving the body.
You see how here too he refers the contempt of bodies to the excellence of martyrdoms.
De Fuga in Persecutione
The act of suffering death for confessing the Christian faith, presented as the honored outcome of persecution.
"Wish not to go forth on your couches, nor in miscarriages and soft fevers, but in martyrdoms, that He may be glorified who has suffered for you.
You read the edict of that contest in the Apocalypse—with what prizes He invites to victory, and especially those who shall have conquered properly in persecution, in conquering having wrestled truly not against flesand blood, but against the spiritual things of wickedness.
De Pudicitia
The act of dying for the faith, treated as sufficient to purge one's own sins but not another's.
Others flee to the mines, and thence return as communicants — where now another martyrdom is necessary for the new offences after the martyrdom.