The people of Rome complained to the eparch Celerinus that Saints ... The Martyr Claudius was drowned in the sea, and his sons and soldiers were beheaded. Christians buried the bodies of the holy ...

And the odd thing is it fails.... The net effect of this is that a new cult of the martyrs ... from Rome which have always been suspicious of Rome. This simply brings those into the Christian ...

All Christian catacombs in Rome are property of the Catholic Church ... Pope Sixtus II entrusted the Holy Grail to Lawrence to save it from the persecution of Emperor Valerian.

Deep below the streets of Rome lie the ancient catacombs where early Christians buried their dead and sustained hope for eternal life. About the same time as the persecution of Decius, middle of ...

The Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, participated in an ecumenical service at the Basilica of St Paul’s Outside the ...

“We are proud to have this number of people from our village who have become martyrs,” he said after his brother’s murder. “Since the Roman era, Christians have been martyrs and have ...