Editor: Christopher Martinuzzi – Image Gallery
Hanging of Jan Smit from the Gallows (1685)
from: Braght, T. J. van. Martyrs' Mirror, book 2, 1685, p. 641
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Horribilia scelera ab Huguenotis in Gallijs perpetrata. (1587)
from: Verstegan, R. Theatrum Crudelitatum haereticorum nostri temporis. 1587, p. 37
Kaiserliche Koenigliche, Hofbibliothek, Vienna
Horribilia scelera ab Huguenotis in Gallijs perpetrata. (1587)
from: Verstegan, R. Theatrum Crudelitatum haereticorum nostri temporis. 1587, p. 39
Kaiserliche Koenigliche, Hofbibliothek, Vienna
Anneken Jans uyt den Briel, verdronken tot Rotterdam, met, en Beneffens Christina Michiel Barents van Leuven, op den 23. January, Anno 1539. (1685)
from: Braght, T. J. van. Martyrs' Mirror, book 2, 1685, p. 143
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Gerrit Hazepoot verbrand (1736)
from: Joost, B. 't merg van de historien de martelaren, Amsterdam, I. Tirion, 1736, p. 178
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Persecutiones adversus Catholicos à Protestantibus Calvinistis excitae in Anglia. (1587)
from: Verstegan, R. Theatrum Crudelitatum haereticorum nostri temporis. 1587, p. 77
Kaiserliche Koenigliche, Hofbibliothek, Vienna
Execution of Carthusians in 1535 (1555)
from: Horibilis Damnatio Praeclarissimi Doctoris Apvd Parisios Et Salvberrima Cartvsianae Vinae Origo, Rome, P. P. Palumbo
The British Library, London
Horribilia scelera ab Huguenotis in Gallijs perpetrata. (1587)
from: Verstegan, R. Theatrum Crudelitatum haereticorum nostri temporis. 1587, p. 41
Kaiserliche Koenigliche, Hofbibliothek, Vienna
Three Godly Martyrs Burned in Smithfield, Anno 1558 March 28 (1570)
from: Foxe, J. Book of Martyrs, 1684
Atla Digital Library
Adolf Clarenbach (1992)
Kölner Rathaus, Cologne
Torture of Hans Bret. Antwerp, 1576 (1685)
from: Braght, T. J. van. Martyrs' Mirror, book 2, 1685, p. 729
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Georg Wranger derlyk gevangen Onthoost (1736)
from: Joost, B. 't merg van de historien de martelaren, Amsterdam, I. Tirion, 1736, p. 336
Bodleian Library, Oxford
A liuely Representation of the manner how his late Majesty was beheaded uppon the Scaffold Ian 30: 1648 [1649 - 1660]
The Royal Collection Trust, UK
Guililmus Tyndallus Martyr (1620)
National Portrait Gallery, London
Execution of Charles I (18th Century)
The Royal Collection Trust, UK
Martyr's Memorial, Oxford (19th Century)
The Royal Collection Trust, UK
Carthusians Arrested (1555)
from: Horibilis Damnatio Praeclarissimi Doctoris Apvd Parisios Et Salvberrima Cartvsianae Vinae Origo, Rome, P. P. Palumbo
The British Library, London
P. Ioannes Ogilbeus Scotus Soc: IESU. pro Catholica Religione suspensus, et dissectus Glasci in Scotia. 10 Marty. A. 1615. (17th Century)
from: Unknown
National Portrait Gallery, London
Capture of Hans van Overdam. Ghent, 1550 (1685)
from: Braght, T. J. van. Martyrs' Mirror, book 2, 1685, p. 89
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Burning of Joriaen Simonsz, Clement Dirksz, and Mary Joris. Haarlme, 1557 (1685)
from: Braght, T. J. van. Martyrs' Mirror, book 2, 1685, p. 179
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Johannes Mollius (1604)
from: Haemstede, Adriaen Cornelisz van, De historien de vrome martelaren, 1609, p. 295
Bibliotheek Rotterdam
The Martyrdome of Alexander Gouch, and Drivers wife. (1563)
from: Foxe, J. Book of Martyrs, 1684
Atla Digital Library
The Burning of Seven Martyrs at Canterbury. (1570)
from: Foxe, J. Book of Martyrs, 1684
Atla Digital Library
The Martyrdome of Master George Wisehart (1570)
from: Foxe, J. Book of Martyrs, 1684
Atla Digital Library
Horribilia scelera ab Huguenotis in Gallijs perpetrata. (1587)
from: Verstegan, R. Theatrum Crudelitatum haereticorum nostri temporis. 1587, p. 43
Kaiserliche Koenigliche, Hofbibliothek, Vienna
An Angel Crowning Three Male Martyrs [1575 - 1600]
The Royal Collection Trust, UK
Three Panel Frontespiece: Anabaptist Murdering a Woman; Monstrous Representation of Anabaptism; Execution of Anabaptist Leaders in Münster (1702)
from: Corvinus, J. F. Anabaptisticum et enthusiasticum Pantheon, 1702, frontespiece
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
Horribilia scelera ab Huguenotis in Gallijs perpetrata. (1587)
from: Verstegan, R. Theatrum Crudelitatum haereticorum nostri temporis. 1587, p. 51
Kaiserliche Koenigliche, Hofbibliothek, Vienna
Ellert Jansz met 5 medebroederen en Zuster: Verbrandt (1736)
from: Joost, B. 't merg van de historien de martelaren, Amsterdam, I. Tirion, 1736, p. 136
Bodleian Library, Oxford
P. Edmundus Campianus, et P. Alexander Briantus Angli S. I. pro Fide suspensi et secti Londini in Anglia A. 1581. 1. Decembris. (17th Century)
from: Unknown
National Portrait Gallery, London
P. Thomas Cottamus Anglus S. I. pro Fide Christi suspensus, et sectus. Londini in Anglia. A. 1582. 30 Maij. (17th Century)
from: Unknown
National Portrait Gallery, London
The Martyrdom of Fathers John Rochester and James Walworth (1626 - 1632)
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
The Manner of Burning Anne Askew, Iohn Lacels, Iohn Adams, & Nicolas Beleman, with Certane of ye Counsell Sitting in Smithfield. (1563)
from: Foxe, J. Book of Martyrs, 1684
Atla Digital Library
Henrick Zurphen tot Diethmaer van de Boeren wreede-lick om hals gebracht. (1659)
from: Haemstede, Adriaen Cornelisz van. Historie der martelaren, 1659, fol. 51
Ghent University
Execution of Three Carthusian Martyrs in 1535 (1555)
from: Horibilis Damnatio Praeclarissimi Doctoris Apvd Parisios Et Salvberrima Cartvsianae Vinae Origo, Rome, P. P. Palumbo
The British Library, London
Martyrdom of St. Philip of Jesus [17th Century]
Saint Anthony of Padua Convent, Puebla City, Mexico
Hugh Latimer (17th Century)
National Portrait Gallery, London
Burning of Leonhard Kayser. Scharding, 1527 (1685)
from: Braght, T. J. van. Martyrs' Mirror, book 2, 1685, p. 10
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Horribilia scelera ab Huguenotis in Gallijs perpetrata. (1587)
from: Verstegan, R. Theatrum Crudelitatum haereticorum nostri temporis. 1587, p. 55
Kaiserliche Koenigliche, Hofbibliothek, Vienna
K. Charles I. Murthered [1649 - 1660]
The Royal Collection Trust, UK
Horrenda inhumanitatis à Geusijs Belgicis peracta. (1587)
from: Verstegan, R. Theatrum Crudelitatum haereticorum nostri temporis. 1587, p. 59
Kaiserliche Koenigliche, Hofbibliothek, Vienna
The patient Martyrdome of a Poore Woman at Exeter, Being one Prests Wife. (1570)
from: Foxe, J. Book of Martyrs, 1684
Atla Digital Library
Apprehensiones. Catholicorum. (1584)
from: Cavalieri, G. B. Descriptiones quaedam illius inhumanae et multiplicis persecutionis, quam in Anglia propter fidem sustinent catholice christiani, Rome, Franciscus Zannettus, 1584, p. 1
Unknown
The Burning of Master Ierome of Prage. (1563)
from: Foxe, J. Book of Martyrs, 1684
Atla Digital library
The Martyrdome of Ierome & his Two Companions. (1570)
from: Foxe, J. Book of Martyrs, 1684
Atla Digital Library
The Talke Betwene Maister Bradford, and Two Spanish Friers (16th Century)
National Portrait Gallery, London
Horrenda inhumanitatis à Geusijs Belgicis peracta. (1592)
from: Verstegan, R. Theatrum Crudelitatum haereticorum nostri temporis. Antwerp, A. Huberti, 1592, p. 67
Utah State University
Execution of Jan Woutersz van Cuyckand of Adriaenken Jansdochter (1685)
from: Braght, T. J. van. Martyrs' Mirror, book 2, 1685, p. 567
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The Order and Manner of Taking up ye Body of John Wycliffe, and Burning his Bones 41. Years After his Death. (1563)
from: Foxe, J. Book of Martyrs, 1684
Atla Digital Library
A Description of Lollards Tower, where Mr. Richard Hunne was Murthered. (1563)
from: Foxe, J. Book of Martyrs, 1684
Atla Digital Library
Martyrdoms of the Bishops Ridley and Latimer, who Were Burnt Together in One Fire at Oxford. [1765]
Wellcome Collection, London
The Martyrdom of the Carthusians of Bourg Fontaine (1626 - 1632)
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Mort héroïque de quelques pères de la Compagnie de Jésus dans la Nouvelle-France (1664)
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Horribilia scelera ab Huguenotis in Gallijs perpetrata. (1587)
from: Verstegan, R. Theatrum Crudelitatum haereticorum nostri temporis. 1587, p. 35
Kaiserliche Koenigliche, Hofbibliothek, Vienna
Johannes Frythus ende Andreis Hewet ruggelings aen malkanderen door het vyer gemarteliseert, tot Londen. (1659)
from: Haemstede, Adriaen Cornelisz van. Historie der martelaren, 1659, fol. 79
Ghent University
Horrenda inhumanitatis à Geusijs Belgicis peracta. (1587)
from: Verstegan, R. Theatrum Crudelitatum haereticorum nostri temporis. 1587, p. 65
Kaiserliche Koenigliche, Hofbibliothek, Vienna
Joris Wippe in een vat verdronken (1736)
from: Joost, B. 't merg van de historien de martelaren, Amsterdam, I. Tirion, 1736, p. 198
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Jan de Backer van Woerde (1604)
from: Haemstede, Adriaen Cornelisz van, De historien de vrome martelaren, 1609, p. 104
Bibliotheek Rotterdam
The Martyrdom of Father Andrés, Prior of the Seiz Charterhouse (1626 - 1632)
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Iudicia et Condemnationes. (1584)
from: Cavalieri, G. B. Descriptiones quaedam illius inhumanae et multiplicis persecutionis, quam in Anglia propter fidem sustinent catholice christiani, Rome, Franciscus Zannettus, 1584, p. 4
Unknown
Persecutiones adversus Catholicos à Protestantibus Calvinistis excitae in Anglia. (1587)
from: Verstegan, R. Theatrum Crudelitatum haereticorum nostri temporis. 1587, p. 73
Kaiserliche Koenigliche, Hofbibliothek, Vienna
Thomas Morus quondam supremus totius Angliae cancellarius digniss (1620)
National Portrait Gallery, London
Edmund Campion, Martyr (1582)
from: A Particular Declaration or Testimony of the Undutifull and Traiterous Affection Borne Against her Maiestie by Edmond Campion Jesuite, London, Christopher Barker
British Museum, London
The Martyrdom of the Franciscan and Japanese Martyrs at Nagasaki (1621)
Church of San Bernardino di Siena, Chiari
The Martyrdom of the Roermond Carthusians (1626 - 1632)
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
De Koningh is verstoort, om dat sijn Vrouwen twisten. Daerom hy d'een onthoost en soo de twist doet slissen. (1660)
from: Hortensius, L. Oproeren der Wederdoperen, geschiet tot Amsterdam, Munster en in Groeningerlandt, Samuel Imbrechts, Amsterdam, 1660, p. 90
Bibliotheek Universiteit van Amsterdam
The Racking of Edmund Campion (1584)
from: Cavalieri, G. B. Ecclesiae Anglicanae Trophaea siue Sanctorum Martyrum, Rome, Bartholomaei Grassi, p. 31
Unknown
Spanish Inquisition (1700)
from: Martyrs in Flames: or The History of Popery, London, Nath. Crouch, 1700
The Royal Collection Trust, UK
A Lamentable Spectacle of Three Women, with a Silly Infant Brasting Out of the Mothers Womb, Being First Taken Out of the Fire, and Cast Again, and so All Burned Together, in the Isle of Garnsey, 1556 July 18. (1563)
from: Foxe, J. Book of Martyrs, 1684
Atla Digital Library
Execution of Carthusians in 1535 (1555)
from: Horibilis Damnatio Praeclarissimi Doctoris Apvd Parisios Et Salvberrima Cartvsianae Vinae Origo, Rome, P. P. Palumbo
The British Library, London
The Martyrdome of Thomas Benbridge, Anno 1558 July 19. (1583)
from: Foxe, J. Book of Martyrs, 1684
Atla Digital Library
Hendrik Pruyt, Anno 1574 (1685)
from: Braght, T. J. van. Martyrs' Mirror, book 2, 1685, p. 691
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Persecutiones adversus Catholicos à Protestantibus Calvinistis excitae in Hibernia. (1587)
from: Verstegan, R. Theatrum Crudelitatum haereticorum nostri temporis. 1587, p. 81
Kaiserliche Koenigliche, Hofbibliothek, Vienna
Horribilia scelera ab Huguenotis in Gallijs perpetrata. (1587)
from: Verstegan, R. Theatrum Crudelitatum haereticorum nostri temporis. 1587, p. 47
Kaiserliche Koenigliche, Hofbibliothek, Vienna
Tormenta in Carceribus Inflicta. (1584)
from: Cavalieri, G. B. Descriptiones quaedam illius inhumanae et multiplicis persecutionis, quam in Anglia propter fidem sustinent catholice christiani, Rome, Franciscus Zannettus, 1584, p. 3
Unknown
The Burning of William Flower at Westminster, ye 24 of April, Anno 1555 (1563)
from: Foxe, J. Book of Martyrs, 1684
Atla Digital Library
Cristiaen Langedul, Cornelis Claesz, Mattheus de Vik, en Hans Symonsz. 1567. (1685)
from: Braght, T. J. van. Martyrs' Mirror, book 2, 1685, p. 345
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
P. Alexander Briant, Soc. Iesu Londini pro fide Catholca suspensus et sectus. j, Decemb, 1581. (1608)
from: Unknown
National Portrait Gallery, London
Twee jonge Maegdekens, ontrent Anno 1550. (1685)
from: Braght, T. J. van. Martyrs' Mirror, book 2, 1685, p. 103
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Burning of Anneken (1685)
from: Braght, T. J. van. Martyrs' Mirror, book 2, 1685, p. 539
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The Martyrdom of Edmund Campion (1584)
from: Cavalieri, G. B. Ecclesiae Anglicanae Trophaea siue Sanctorum Martyrum, Rome, Bartholomaei Grassi, p. 33
Unknown
The Description of the Horrible Burning of Iohn Badby, and How he Was Used at his death. (1563)
from: Foxe, J. Book of Martyrs, 1684
Atla Digital Library
Maria van Monjou. 1552. (1685)
from: Braght, T. J. van. Martyrs' Mirror, book 2, 1685, p. 131
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Johannes Rogestus Mart. (1620)
National Portrait Gallery, London
Burning of Leonhard Bernkopff. Salzburg, 1542 (1685)
from: Braght, T. J. van. Martyrs' Mirror, book 2, 1685, p. 63
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The Executions in England of Members of the Venerable English College of Rome, and the English College at Douai and Rheims, 1582-1583. (1584)
from: Cavalieri, G. B. Ecclesiae Anglicanae Trophaea siue Sanctorum Martyrum, Rome, Bartholomaei Grassi, p. 35
Unknown
The Martyrdom of Three Carthusians at the London Charterhouse (1626 - 1632)
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Beheading of Matthias Servaes von Ottenheim. Cologne, 1565 (1685)
from: Braght, T. J. van. Martyrs' Mirror, book 2, 1685, p. 327
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Horribilia scelera ab Huguenotis in Gallijs perpetrata. (1587)
from: Verstegan, R. Theatrum Crudelitatum haereticorum nostri temporis. 1587, p. 49
Kaiserliche Koenigliche, Hofbibliothek, Vienna
Nocturnae per Domos Inquisitiones. (1584)
from: Cavalieri, G. B. Descriptiones quaedam illius inhumanae et multiplicis persecutionis, quam in Anglia propter fidem sustinent catholice christiani, Rome, Franciscus Zannettus, 1584, p. 2
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