christian martyrs

Provides brief biographical profiles of men who gave their life for God and were persecuted because of their beliefs.

"Graphic stories of the lives of five Catholic saints"--Provided by publisher.

"Graphic stories of the lives of five Catholic saints"--Provided by publisher.

"Graphic stories of the lives of five Catholic saints"--Provided by publisher.

"Graphic stories of the lives of five Catholic saints"--Provided by publisher.

A biography of sixteenth-century statesman and martyr Thomas More, discussing how he used his intellect and connections to rise to power, and providing insight into everyday life in late medieval Catholic England.

Looks at the Roman persecution of Christians in the early centuries of the Common Era, and places nearly three centuries of torture and martyrdom in the wider history of man's inhumanity to man.

"Bonhoeffer gives witness to one man's extraordinary faith and to the tortured fate of the nation he sought to deliver from the curse of Nazism. It brings the reader face to face with a man determined to do the will of God radically, courageously, and joyfully-even to the point of death." provided by publisher.