| | | Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib ("'"' was the grandson of Muhammad. His mother was Muhammad's daughter Fatima Zahra and his father was M... | | Saint Pionius (d. March 12, 250) is a Christian saint. He was martyred at Smyrna during the reign of Decius. Pionius, with Sabina, Asclepiades,... | | The Canadian Martyrs, also known as the North American Martyrs, were eight Jesuit missionaries from Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, who were... | | Evodius (d. ca. 69) is a saint in the Christian church and one of the first identifiable Christians. Very little is known of the life of Evodius.... | | Saint Jean de Brébeuf was a Jesuit missionary, martyred in Canada March 16 1649. | | Saint Amphibalus was formerly venerated as the Christian priest traditionally sheltered by Saint Alban, who was converted by him, as a consequence... | | Saint Adrian or Hadrian of Nicomedia was a Herculian Guard of the Roman Emperor Galerius Maximian. After becoming a convert to Christianity, Adrian... | | Blessed George Gervase (1571-11 April 1608) was an English Benedictine priest who worked as a missionary in England during the period of recusancy.... | | Saint John Almond was born in 1577 and ordained in 1598. He was martyred December 5, 1612. Canonised in 1970, he is one of the Forty Martyrs of... | | Hugh Green was born about 1584; martyred 19 August, 1642. His parents, who were Protestants, who sent him to Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he took... | |