Kerygma · History & Traditions
Saints & Martyrs trivia, the witness across centuries.
The "great cloud of witnesses" — from Stephen the protomartyr through Polycarp, Perpetua, and Felicity, on to the modern witnesses Bonhoeffer, the Coptic twenty-one, the persecuted today. Kerygma's Saints & Martyrs category tests the lives, deaths, and testimonies of those who held faith at cost.
What's covered
- The first martyrs — Stephen, James the Just, the apostles' traditional deaths.
- Roman-era martyrs — Ignatius, Polycarp, Perpetua, Felicity.
- Medieval saints — Benedict, Francis of Assisi, Catherine of Siena, Thomas Becket.
- Reformation-era martyrs — Tyndale, Latimer, Ridley, Cranmer.
- Modern witnesses — Bonhoeffer, Maximilian Kolbe, the Coptic 21, the Armenian genocide.
- The "veneration of saints" — different views across the traditions.
A round, in two minutes
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Sample question
Which deacon, stoned to death in Acts 7, is traditionally remembered as the first Christian martyr?
"And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, 'Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.' And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, 'Lord, do not hold this sin against them.' And when he had said this, he fell asleep."Acts 7:59-60
Stephen — one of the seven deacons appointed in Acts 6 to handle the daily distribution to widows — is the first recorded Christian martyr. His sermon in Acts 7 is the longest in the book. Saul (later Paul) is named as a witness who "approved of his execution," watching the cloaks of those who threw the stones.
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