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    The Archdiocese of Lyon (Latin: Archidiœcesis Lugdunensis; French: Archidiocèse de Lyon), formerly the Archdiocese of Lyon–Vienne–Embrun, is a Latin Church...
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    The homes of Christians were vandalized. (Hist. Eccl., 5.1.5,7). The martyrs of Lyon were accused of "Thyestean banquets and Oedipean intercourse," a reference...
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    Martyr Scillitan Martyrs Perpetua and Felicity Ptolemaeus and Lucius Pothinus, bishop of Lyon, with Blandina and several others, the "Martyrs of Lyon...
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    Blandina (category 2nd-century Christian martyrs)
    gives a two-page account of her martyrdom. Persecution in Lyon Scillitan Martyrs Acts of the Martyrs List of Christian women of the patristic age Saint of...
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  • The Lyon astronomical clock (French: Horloge astronomique de Lyon) is a seventeenth-century astronomical clock in Lyon Cathedral. The 9 m (30 ft) tall...
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    de Goto Paul Miki Basilica of the Twenty-Six Holy Martyrs of Japan (Nagasaki) Basilica Minore de Santuario de San Pedro Bautista Twenty-Six Martyrs Museum...
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    Supérieure de Lyon EM Lyon (École de Management de Lyon); ECE Lyon (École de Commerce Européenne de Lyon); Institut d'études politiques de Lyon (Sciences...
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    the 26 martyrs  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Japanese Martyrs". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. The Japanese Martyrs Nagasaki...
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    Irenaeus (redirect from Irénée de Lyon)
    persecution took place in Lyon. Returning to Gaul, Irenaeus succeeded the martyr Saint Pothinus and became the second bishop of Lyon. During the religious...
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    According to a letter written about 450 by Eucherius, Bishop of Lyon, bodies identified as the martyrs of Agaunum were discovered by Theodore (Theodulus), the...
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    horrible troubles, the suffering of martyrs, and other such thinges" in his contemporaneously-published Book of Martyrs. Protestants in England and Wales...
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    Canadian Martyrs (French: Martyrs canadiens), also known as the North American Martyrs (French: Saints martyrs canadiens, Holy Canadian Martyrs), were eight...
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    Martyrs of Japan (1597–1637) at Hagiography Circle Committee for Promoting Canonisation 2022. Martyrs of Japan at the All Saints & Martyrs website De...
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    The Stade des Martyrs de la Pentecôte (formerly known as Stade Kamanyola), or commonly referred to as the Stade des Martyrs, is the national stadium of...
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    Christianity re-established in Japan. The first group of martyrs, known as the Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan (1597), were canonized by the Church in 1862 by...
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    in Lyon on the banks of the Saône during part of the Middle Ages. It is inextricably linked with Saint Pothin's Day, a day of homage to the martyrs of...
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    OP (14 September 2005), English Martyrs, retrieved 30 July 2022 Thomson, Aidan McRae (30 June 2012), English Martyrs, Shrewsbury Cathedral, retrieved...
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    the ruins of the building a basilica to contain the relics of the martyrs in Lyon, tortured in 177. The church received the name "Church of Holy Apostles"...
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  • Mondésert, Conclusions, in: CNRS (Ed.), Les martyrs de Lyon (Colloques internationaux du centre national de la recherche scientifique, N. 575), Paris 1978...
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    Patrum. Butler, Alban. "Saint Nicetius, Archbishop of Lyons, Confessor". Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints, 1866. CatholicSaints.Info. 2...
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    Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe. Oxford University Press. p. 92. ISBN 9780199596799. Carroll, Stuart (2009). Martyrs...
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  • practicing cannibalism. Forty-eight Christians are martyred in Lyon (Saint Blandina and Pothinus, bishop of Lyon, are among them). Second Marcomannic War: Marcus...
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    of Lyon, also called the Israelite Cemetery of Gerland or de la Mouche, is a Jewish cemetery located in Gerland, in the 7th arrondissement of Lyon, France...
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  • Étienne Joseph Poullin de Lumina, Histoire de l'église de Lyon (chez Joseph-Louis Berthoud, 1770)p 56. "Elpidius Sicaire | Martyrs et Saints". martyretsaint...
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    of Lyon, which was much larger than today. The street was first called rue de la Concorde in 1848. In the south, it was called the Rue des Martyrs, between...
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  • of Lyon, Rhône. Saint Blandine (162–177 AD) – Christian martyr Irenaeus (2nd century AD–202) – Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul and early Christian martyr Sidonius...
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    The Martyrs of Otranto, also known as Saints Antonio Primaldo and his Companions (Italian: I Santi Antonio Primaldo e compagni martiri), were 813 inhabitants...
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    1559–1576: The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Phillip II. Chicago University Press. p. 61. Carroll, Stuart (2009). Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family...
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    The Garden of Martyrs is an opera with three acts by the American composer Eric Sawyer with libretto by Harley Erdman. It is based on the novel by Michael...
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  • This list of royal saints and martyrs enumerates Christian monarchs, other royalty, and nobility who have been beatified or canonized, or who are otherwise...
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