Editor: Michele Bosco
Discovery of the leaden books of Sacromonte (Granada) [1741]
from: Heredia Barnuevo, Diego N. Mystico ramillete historico, chronologyco, panegyrico, texido de las tres fragrantes flores del nobilissimo antiguo origen, exemplarissima vida, y meritissima fama posthuma del Ambrosio de Granada ... el Illmo. y V.Sr. Don Pedro de Castro, Vaca y Quiñones ... Arzobispo de Granada, y Sevilla, y Fundador Magnifico de la Insigne Iglesia Colegial del Sacro Monte Illipulitano, Granada, Imprenta Real, 1741.
Ecce Servus meus, Suscipiam eum, electus meus, complacuit sibi in illo anima mea, dedi Spiritum meum super eum, iudicium gentibus proferet... Isa. 42. Deduxit eos in Spe, et Inimicos eorum operuit mare Et induxit eos in Montem Sanctisficationis Sive Montem quem acquisivit dextera eius. Ps. 77. [1620]
from: Antolínez de Burgos, J. Historia eclesiástica de Granada [manuscript, composed around 1620 and conserved in the Library and Historical Archives of the Abadía de Sacromonte, Granada].
Martyrdom of Juan Martínez Jáuregui, clergyman of Mairena (1610)
from: Antolínez, J. Historia Eclesiástica de Granada, 1610.
Martyrs of Sacromonte (Granada) [1741]
from: Heredia Barnuevo, Diego N. Mystico ramillete historico, chronologyco, panegyrico, texido de las tres fragrantes flores del nobilissimo antiguo origen, exemplarissima vida, y meritissima fama posthuma del Ambrosio de Granada ... el Illmo. y V.Sr. Don Pedro de Castro, Vaca y Quiñones ... Arzobispo de Granada, y Sevilla, y Fundador Magnifico de la Insigne Iglesia Colegial del Sacro Monte Illipulitano, Granada, Imprenta Real, 1741.
Mille Clypei pendent exea Plantaverunt Ecclesiam Sanguine suo. Expoliti Lapidis suis Coaptantur Locis Per Manus Artificis Disponuntur Permansuri Sacris Aedificiis. Fundamenta eius in Montibus S[anc]tis. [1741]
from: Heredia Barnuevo, Diego N. Mystico ramillete historico, chronologyco, panegyrico, texido de las tres fragrantes flores del nobilissimo antiguo origen, exemplarissima vida, y meritissima fama posthuma del Ambrosio de Granada ... el Illmo. y V.Sr. Don Pedro de Castro, Vaca y Quiñones ... Arzobispo de Granada, y Sevilla, y Fundador Magnifico de la Insigne Iglesia Colegial del Sacro Monte Illipulitano, Granada, Imprenta Real, 1741.
Ugíjar Martyrs (1610)
from: Antolínez, J. Historia Eclesiástica de Granada, 1610.
Frontispiece of the book Historia Eclesiástica de Granada, 1638. (1638)
from: Bermúdez de Pedraza, F. Historia Eclesiástica de Granada, Granada, 1638.
Saint Roderick, Martyr in Cordova (857) (1789)
Parish of the Assumption (Parroquia de la Asunción). Arroyo de la Luz, Cáceres (Spain).
Martirio del bendito P[adr]e Fray Diego Ortiz en Vilcabamba (1638)
from: Calancha, A. Coronica moralizada del Orden de San Augustin en el Peru. Barcelona, 1638.
P. Franciscus Paciecus Lusit. ; P. Balthasar de Torres Hisp. ; P. Ioannes Zola Ital. , cum 6 Coadiutoribus Iaponijs , Soc. IESUs, lento igne vivi pro Christo exusti Nangasacki in Iaponia 20. Iunij, A. 1626. (1675)
from: Mathias Tanner, Societas Iesu usque ad sanguinis et vitae profusionem militans, [...] in causa fidei, & virtutis propugnatae, violenta morte toto orbe sublati sunt, Praga, Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae in Collegio Societatis Jesu ad S. Clementem, 1675.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The Martyrdom of the Jesuit John Ogilvie (1615). Hanging and evisceration (1675)
from: Tanner, M. Societas Jesu usque ad sanguinis et vitae profusionem militans, in Europa, Africa, Asia, et America, contra gentiles, Mahometanos, Judaeos, haereticos, impios, pro Deo, fide, Ecclesia, pietate, sive, Vita, et mors eorum, qui ex Societate Jesu in causa fide, Praga, 1675.
After suffering a long siege, Malta finally repels Turks' attack (1565) (1852)
Salles des Croisades, Châteaux de Versailles, Versailles (France)
Miniature from Raymond Lull's Vita coetanea or a Threaty on the Demonstration of the Truth of Christianity through Art (Breviculum, miniature V). [1325]
from: Breviculum o Vida de Mestre Ramon. Latin XIV century Codex with Miniatures by Thomas Le Myésier (miniature V).
The Codex is conserved at the Karlsruhe Badischen Landesbibliothek (Germany), Karlsruhe, Bad. L. Bibl. 92.
Miniature from Raymond Lull's Vita coetanea or a Threaty on the Demonstration of the Truth of Christianity through Art (Breviculum, miniature VIII). [1325]
from: Breviculum o Vida de Mestre Ramon. Latin XIV century Codex with Miniatures by Thomas Le Myésier (miniature VIII).
The Codex is conserved at the Karlsruhe Badischen Landesbibliothek (Germany), Karlsruhe, Bad. L. Bibl. 92.
Raymond Lull Demonstrating the Truth of Christianity to Infidels through Intellectual and Rational Arguments (Breviculum, miniature IX). [1325]
from: Breviculum o Vida de Mestre Ramon. Latin XIV century Codex with Miniatures by Thomas Le Myésier (miniature IX).
The Codex is conserved at the Karlsruhe Badischen Landesbibliothek (Germany), Karlsruhe, Bad. L. Bibl. 92.
Raymond Lull’s supposed martyrdom in Tunis [1325]
from: Breviculum o Vida de Mestre Ramon. Latin XIV century Codex with Miniatures by Thomas Le Myésier (miniature X).
The Codex is conserved at the Karlsruhe Badischen Landesbibliothek (Germany), Karlsruhe, Bad. L. Bibl. 92.
The origins of Raymond Lull's works and his explication of the Christian theory of Sacrifice (Breviculum, miniature I) [1325]
from: Breviculum o Vida de Mestre Ramon. Latin XIV century Codex with Miniatures by Thomas Le Myésier (miniature I).
The Codex is conserved at the Karlsruhe Badischen Landesbibliothek (Germany), Karlsruhe, Bad. L. Bibl. 92.
The Saracen: I would rather hang myself with a noose, than suffer the vengeance of Christians for having blasphemed Christ. [1325]
from: Breviculum o Vida de Mestre Ramon. Latin XIV century Codex with Miniatures by Thomas Le Myésier (miniature III).
The Codex is conserved at the Karlsruhe Badischen Landesbibliothek (Germany), Karlsruhe, Bad. L. Bibl. 92.
The first five Franciscan martyrs (1524)
Chiesa di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice
Martyrdom of Saint Pelayo from Cordova [1520]
Catedral de la Encarnación, Malaga (Spain)