Editor: Michele Bosco – Image Gallery

Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe

“Conçederación, Ciudad del Infierno. Penas graves, príncipe de las tinieblas, el rico, avariento, ingrato, lujuria, soberbia, castigo de los soberbios pecadores y ricos que no temen a Dios”. (1615)

from: Guamán Poma de Ayala, F. Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [1616]. Manuscript conserved in the København, Det Kongelige Bibliotek [ Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark ], GKS 2232 4°.

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: EvilNative AmericansPeruPunishmentSin

Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe

Conquista. Don Francisco Pizarro le quema en una casa a Capac Apoguaman a Chava pidiendo oro. (1615)

from: Guamán Poma de Ayala, F. Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [1616]. Manuscript conserved in the København, Det Kongelige Bibliotek [ Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark ], GKS 2232 4° [fol. 396].

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Indigenous MartyrsMassacresNative AmericansPeruSpanish Empire

Mesa, Juan de

Statue of Saint Raymundo Nonnatus (1626)

Museo de Bellas Artes, Seville (Spain)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomMercedarians (O. de M.)ReconquistaSaintsTortures

Anonymous / Unknown

Saint Pelayo from Cordova [18-19^th Century]

Ceramic Tiles in San Pelagio Seminary, Cordoba

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomPersecutionsReconquistaSaintsSpain

Anonymous / Unknown

“Licenciado Juan Díaz Gallego Collegial de esta casa y Beneficiado de Cadiar, padeció por Christo en Ferreira, abiendose retirado a la torre de la Yglesia con otros Christianos a la qual pegaron fuego y estando predicando a los infieles desde una ventana fue atrabesado con una saeta, viernes 24 de diciembre de 1568.” (1761)

Pontificio y Real Seminario de San Cecilio (Cloisters). Granada, Spain.

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: AlpujarrasMartyrdomMassacresMoriscosPersecutions

Vázquez, Alonso

The Martyrdom of Saint Raymond Nonnatus (16-17^th Century)

Private Collection. Spain

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomMercedarians (O. de M.)ReconquistaSaintsTortures

Zurbarán, Francisco de

Saint Raymond Nonnatus (Zurbarán's Atelier) [17^th Century]

Unknown

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomMercedarians (O. de M.)ReconquistaSaintsTortures

Castillo y Saavedra, Antonio del

Martyrdom of Saint Eulogius (A.D. 859), showing the moment of his beheading. [1660]

Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Fuensanta (Main Altar). Cordoba, Spain

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomPersecutionsReconquistaSaintsSpain

Zurbarán, Francisco de

Saint Raymond Nonnatus (17^th Century)

Private Collection. Madrid (Spain)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomMercedarians (O. de M.)ReconquistaSaintsTortures

Goya, Francisco de

Por una navaja (1863)

from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: French Invasion of SpainPeninsular War - Guerra de la Independencia EspañolaSacrifice for the NationSecular MartyrsViolence

Anonymous / Unknown

S. Raymundo Nonato, Mercedarian. [19^th Century]

Unknown

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: Mercedarians (O. de M.)North AfricaRedemption of CaptivesSaintsTortures

Anonymous / Unknown

De sanctorum martyrum cruciatibus [frontispice] (1602)

from: A. Gallonio, De sanctorum martyrum cruciatibus. Antonii Gallonii [...] liber [...] nunc primum in Germania [...] editus, Colonia, J. Gymnicum, 1602.

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century) 7. Sacrifices of self: Martirology and Catholic global missions (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: FrontispieceIconographyMartyrdomPunishmentTortures

Hayez, Francesco

Peter the Hermit preaches the First Crusade (1827 - 1829)

France National Library (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Richelieu), Paris

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: Church HistoryCrusadesHoly LandHoly WarsIconography

Anonymous / Unknown

Saint Ramon Nonatus Protecting a Slave (18^th Century)

Museo Diocesano, Solsona (Lleida, Catalunya).

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomMercedarians (O. de M.)ReconquistaSaintsTortures

Anonymous / Unknown

Silver Shrine containing the relics of some of the Cordovan Martyrs (those who suffered the Islamic persecution of the mid-9th century). [17-18^th Century]

Cordoba Cathedral, Cordoba (Spain).

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomPersecutionsReconquistaRelicsSpain

Anonymous / Unknown

Per Contemptibile Lignum Iustu Gubernans Sapi[enter]. Pusieron los Moros al Glorioso Patriarcha S. Pedro Nolasco en un pequeño Barco y dejándole con él en alta Mar sin Remos, Velas, ò Bastimento alguno para que o el mar o el hambre acabassen con él, Haziendo el Santo vela de su capa, mástil de su Cuerpo, atravessó de Argel à valenzia en brevissimo espacio sin Peligro alguno. (17^th Century)

Convento di Nostra Signora di Bonaria, Cagliari (Italy)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: Mercedarians (O. de M.)North AfricaRedemption of CaptivesSaintsUnbloody Sacrifice

Anonymous / Unknown

Statue of Saint Pelayo [19^th Century]

Ermita de San Pelayo, Morales del Rey (Spain)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomPersecutionsReconquistaSaintsSpain

Mesa, Juan de

Statue of Saint Raymundo Nonnatus (detail 2) (1626)

Museo de Bellas Artes, Seville (Spain)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomMercedarians (O. de M.)ReconquistaSaintsTortures

Anonymous / Unknown

Caídos por Dios y por España (20^th Century)

Tombstone in San Miguel Church, Segovia (Spain)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomMassacresSacrifice for the NationSecular MartyrsSpanish Civil War

Anonymous / Unknown

“Licenciado Martín Cavallero Colegial de esta casa y beneficiado de Verja, padeció martirio en el dicho lugar sacándolo a cortar las manos atadas atrás a voz de pregonero [has]ta llevarlo a la plaza donde le dieron muchísimas bofetadas y puñadas y atándolo a un madero lo arcabuzearon y después lo hicieron pedazos con sus alfanjes el Domingo a 26 de diciembre de 1568. Hicieron a su costa este lienzo los señores colegiales, los licenciados este año 1761.” (1761)

Pontificio y Real Seminario de San Cecilio (Cloisters). Granada, Spain.

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: AlpujarrasMartyrdomMassacresMoriscosPersecutions

Hernández López, Rafael

S[a]n Rodrigo, Patrono de Cabra (19^th Century)

Sacresty of the San Francisco y San Rodrigo Church, Cabra (Spain). Oil on Zinco plate.

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: Christian-Islamic relationsMartyrdomReconquistaSaintsSpain

Heylan, Francisco

Martyrdom of Juan Martínez Jáuregui, clergyman of Mairena (1610)

from: Antolínez, J. Historia Eclesiástica de Granada, 1610.

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomMassacresReconquistaSpainTortures

Anonymous / Unknown

S. Fandila Már[ti]r, Protector de las siminteres. [1800 - 1820]

Painting on metal (tin)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomPersecutionsReconquistaSaintsSpain

Anonymous / Unknown

Blessed Álvaro from Cordoba (O.P.) (17^th Century)

Convent of Santo Domingo de Escalaceli, Cordoba

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: HagiographiesIconographyMartyrdomReconquistaSaints

García Ferrer, Pedro

Martirio de los santos Pablo Miki, Juan Gotó y Diego Kisai, mártires Jesuitas del Japón (17^th Century)

Museu de Belles Arts, Valencia (Spain)

Topics:
7. Sacrifices of self: Martirology and Catholic global missions (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Catholic MissionsJapanJesuits (S.J.)MartyrdomNagasaki

Bonisoli, Agostino

Martyrdom of the Franciscan Protomartyrs (1673)

Pinacoteca di Treia (Treia Art Gallery)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century) 7. Sacrifices of self: Martirology and Catholic global missions (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: CrusadesFranciscans (O.F.M.)MartyrdomMassacresMorocco

Goya, Francisco de

Escapan entre llamas (1863)

from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: French Invasion of SpainPeninsular War - Guerra de la Independencia EspañolaSacrifice for the NationSecular MartyrsViolence

Allet, Jean-Charles

Franciscan Matryrs in Morocco (1708)

from: San Juan del Puerto, F. Mission Historial de Marruecos: en que se trata de los martirios, persecuciones y trabajos que han padecido los Missionarios y fruto que han cogido las Missiones que desde sus principios tuvo la Orden Seraphica en el imperio de Marruecos y continua la provincia de San Diego de Franciscos Descalços de Andalucia en el mismo Imperio... por Fr. Francisco de San Juan de el Puerto. Francisco Garay, Sevilla, 1708.

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century) 7. Sacrifices of self: Martirology and Catholic global missions (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Catholic MissionsChristian-Islamic relationsFranciscans (O.F.M.)MartyrdomMorocco

Zurbarán, Francisco de

Martyrdom of Saint Serapion of Algiers (Mercedarian, 1179 - 1240) (1628)

Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: Christian Martyrs in AlgiersMatyrdomMercedarians (O. de M.)ReconquistaRedemption of Captives

Anonymous / Unknown

Juan de Prado, Martyr in Morocco (Statue) [18^th Century]

Capilla de San Juan de Prado, Catholic Church in Morgovejo, León (Spain).

Topics:
7. Sacrifices of self: Martirology and Catholic global missions (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Catholic MissionsFranciscans (O.F.M.)MartyrdomMoroccoSpanish Missionaries

Espinosa, Jerónimo Jacinto

Raymond Nonnatus, Saint (17^th Century)

Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (Spain)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomMercedarians (O. de M.)ReconquistaSaintsTortures

Anonymous / Unknown

Martyrs of El Otero, Siguenza (Spain), 1936 (20^th Century)

from: Picture

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: AnticlericalismMartyrdomMassacresSpanish Civil WarViolence against Clergy

Arjona Navarro, Miguel

Sculpture representing Saint Roderick, Martyr in Cordova (detail) (1981)

Parish of Asunción y Ángeles, Cabra (Spain)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomPersecutionsReconquistaSaintsSpain

Mare, Johannes de

Trinitarian Martyrs of Algiers (17th century) (19^th Century)

Curia Provinciale dei Padri Trinitari, Rome

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century) 7. Sacrifices of self: Martirology and Catholic global missions (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AlgiersImprisonmentMartyrdomRedemption of CaptivesTrinitarians (O.SS.T)

Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe

Maltratamiento de los corregidores y padres españoles a los indios, indias pobres. (1615)

from: Guamán Poma de Ayala, F. Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [1616]. Manuscript conserved in the København, Det Kongelige Bibliotek [ Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark ], GKS 2232 4° (fol. 922).

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Indigenous MartyrsNative AmericansPeruSpanish EmpireViolence

Goya, Francisco de

Grande Hazaña ... con muertos (1863)

from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: French Invasion of SpainPeninsular War - Guerra de la Independencia EspañolaSacrifice for the NationSecular MartyrsViolence

Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe

Kusi Yupanqui (1615)

from: Guamán Poma de Ayala, F. Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [1616]. Manuscript conserved in the København, Det Kongelige Bibliotek [ Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark ], GKS 2232 4°.

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Indigenous MartyrsNative AmericansPeruSpanish EmpireViolence

Anonymous / Unknown

Holy Chamber within Oviedo Cathedral, where the relics of the Cordovan Martyr Saint Eulogius are conserved. (16-17^th Century)

Oviedo Cathedral (Spain)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomPersecutionsReconquistaSaintsSpain

Anonymous / Unknown

Mercedarian Mariano Alcalá and companions, martyrs in Spain in 1936. (20^th Century)

Our Lady of Mercy Church, Lérida (Spain)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: AnticlericalismCanonization of the SaintsMartyrdomMercedarians (O. de M.)Spanish Civil War

Anonymous / Unknown

Saint Juan Bautista de la Concepción (O.SS.T.) (18^th Century)

Convent of Santa María de Gracia, Cordoba

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century) 7. Sacrifices of self: Martirology and Catholic global missions (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: HagiographiesIconographySaintsSpainTrinitarians (O.SS.T)

Castillo y Saavedra, Antonio del

Saint Pelagius from Cordoba before the Califa Abd al-Rahmán III, just before his martyrdom (A.D. 925). (1645)

Mezquita - Catedral de Córdoba (San Pelayo Chapel). Cordoba (Spain)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomPersecutionsReconquistaSaintsSpain

Nicolau, Juan Bautista

Sacrificio de Isaac (18^th Century)

Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos (Museu de Belles Arts), Valencia, Spain

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBible, GenesisBible, Old TestamentBible, PentateuchPaintings

Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe

Pobre de los Indios. De seis animales que comen que temen. (1615)

from: Guamán Poma de Ayala, F. Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [1616]. Manuscript conserved in the København, Det Kongelige Bibliotek [ Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark ], GKS 2232 4° [fol. 694].

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice IdolatryNative AmericansPeruSpanish Empire

Küsel, Melchior

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.

Topics:
6. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology after Reformation (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: HeresyJesuits (S.J.)MartyrdomScotlandTortures

Anonymous / Unknown

Venerable María del Refugio Aguilar Torres (portrait) (20^th Century)

Real Monasterio El Puig De Santa María, Order of Mercy. El Puig, Valencia (Spain)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: AnticlericalismMercedarians (O. de M.)MexicoPersecutionsSelf-Sacrifice

Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe

A Topac Amaro le Cortan la Caveza en el Cuzco (1615)

from: Guamán Poma de Ayala, F. Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [1616]. Manuscript conserved in the København, Det Kongelige Bibliotek [ Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark ], GKS 2232 4°.

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Indigenous MartyrsNative AmericansPeruSpanish EmpireViolence

Anonymous / Unknown

Don Fausto Cantero Roncero, beneficiado de la S.I.C.P. de Toledo, bárbaramente asesinado por la furia roja en la Ciudad de los Concilios, el día 23 de Agosto de 1936 (20^th Century)

Unknown

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: AnticlericalismMartyrdomMassacresSpanish Civil WarViolence against Clergy

Anonymous / Unknown

San Ramón Nonnato [19^th Century]

Unknown

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: Mercedarians (O. de M.)North AfricaRedemption of CaptivesSaintsTortures

Anonymous / Unknown

Saint Raymundo Nonato, Mercedarian. (17^th Century)

Curia Generale dell'Ordine della Mercede, Rome

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: Mercedarians (O. de M.)North AfricaRedemption of CaptivesSaintsTortures

Anonymous / Unknown

Sacrifice of Isaac (12^nd Century)

Palatine Chapel, Royal Palace or Palace of the Normans, Palermo (Italy)

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Abraham and IsaacBible, GenesisBible, Old TestamentBible, PentateuchIconography

Carducci, Vincenzo

Saint Eulogius from Cordoba is announced his Martyrdom (detail). [1630]

Mezquita - Catedral de Córdoba (San Eulogio Chapel). Cordoba (Spain)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomPersecutionsReconquistaSaintsSpain

Vela Cobos, Cristóbal

Santa Victoria [1644]

Church of the Martyrs of Colodro, Cordoba (Spain)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: Early ChristianityIconographyMartyrdomSaintsSpain

Anonymous / Unknown

Statue of Saint Pelayo [18^th Century]

Church of the Episcopal Seminary, Cordova

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomPersecutionsReconquistaSaintsSpain

Goya, Francisco de

Duro es el paso (1863)

from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: French Invasion of SpainPeninsular War - Guerra de la Independencia EspañolaSacrifice for the NationSecular MartyrsViolence

Arbasia, Cesare

Saints Pelayo, Eulogio and Leocricia, Martyrs in Cordoba (16-17^th Century)

Cordoba Cathedral, Cordoba (Spain)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomPersecutionsReconquistaSaintsSpain

Anonymous / Unknown

Mártires de la Alpujarra [1935]

from: Hitos, F. A. Mártires de la Alpujarra en la rebelión de los moriscos (1568), Apostolado de la Prensa, Madrid, 1935, p. 192.

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: AlpujarrasMartyrdomMartyrologyMassacresMoriscos

Carducci, Vincenzo

Saint Eulogius from Cordoba is announced his Martyrdom (detail). [1630]

Mezquita - Catedral de Córdoba (San Eulogio Chapel). Cordoba (Spain)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomPersecutionsReconquistaSaintsSpain

Goya, Francisco de

No hay remedio (1863)

from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: French Invasion of SpainPeninsular War - Guerra de la Independencia EspañolaSacrifice for the NationSecular MartyrsViolence

Le Myésier, Thomas

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.

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: Anti-Islamic ControversyChristian-Islamic relationsIslamic MartyrdomNorth AfricaPhilosophy

Anonymous / Unknown

Saint Pedro Pascual from Valencia, Martyr in Granada in 1300 (1674)

from: Colombo, F., Relación de las fiestas, que el Real Convento de Santa Catalina de Toledo del Real, y Militar Orden de nuestra Señora de la Merced, Redencion de Cautivos, consagro a la solemnidad de la extension del culto, y rezo concedido a San Pedro Pasqual de Valencia ...: con los tres sermones, que en las fiestas predicaron los tres señores Canonigos Magistrales de la Santa Iglesia de Toledo. Y un epitome de la vida del Santo, sacado, y añadido de los processos que en su causa se hizieron, Madrid, Imprenta Real, 1674.

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: GranadaMartyrdomMercedarians (O. de M.)ReconquistaSaints

Ricci, Juan Andrés

The Martyrdom of Saint Serapius (1622)

Cuenca Cathedral, Main Altar. Cuenca (Spain)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: Canonization of the SaintsMartyrdomMercedarians (O. de M.)North AfricaTortures

Carducci, Vincenzo

Saint Eulogius from Cordoba is announced his Martyrdom (full painting). [1630]

Mezquita - Catedral de Córdoba (San Eulogio Chapel). Cordoba (Spain)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomPersecutionsReconquistaSaintsSpain

Anonymous / Unknown

San Perfecto, Pres[bitero] Proto-Martir de la Persecución Arábiga en Córdoba. (17-18^th Century)

from: Picture in anonymous devotional card

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomPersecutionsReconquistaSaintsSpain

Goya, Francisco de

Con razón o sin ella (bis) (1863)

from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: French Invasion of SpainPeninsular War - Guerra de la Independencia EspañolaSacrifice for the NationSecular MartyrsViolence

Anonymous / Unknown

El Ldo. Ojeda padeció martirio siendo Beneficiado del lugar de Soportujar, y en su plaza fue abofeteado y por mano de Abenfarax se le dio un formidable golpe en la cabeza con una vallesta, del cual murió en el año 1568 que fue el de rebelión. Se pintó este lienzo a costa de este Real Colegio siendo Rector el Sr. D. Gabriel Vicente Carrillos. Año de 1761. (1761)

Pontificio y Real Seminario de San Cecilio (Cloisters). Granada, Spain.

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: AlpujarrasMartyrdomMassacresMoriscosPersecutions

Anonymous / Unknown

Martyrdom of the Italian Jesuit Tristano d'Attimis (1748) [19^th Century]

from: Massara, E. Dei padri Tristano Francesco de Attimis e Giuseppe Henriquez della Compagnia di Gesù, Cividale del Fiuli, 1906

Topics:
7. Sacrifices of self: Martirology and Catholic global missions (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Catholic MissionsChinaChinese RitesJesuits (S.J.)Martyrdom

Goya, Francisco de

Será lo mismo (1863)

from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: French Invasion of SpainPeninsular War - Guerra de la Independencia EspañolaSacrifice for the NationSecular MartyrsWar

Goya, Francisco de

Enterrar y Callar (1863)

from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: French Invasion of SpainPeninsular War - Guerra de la Independencia EspañolaSacrifice for the NationSecular MartyrsViolence

Maestro de Becerril

Martyrdom of Saint Pelayo from Cordova [1520]

Catedral de la Encarnación, Malaga (Spain)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomPersecutionsReconquistaSaintsSpain

Goya, Francisco de

Bien te se está (1863)

from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: French Invasion of SpainPeninsular War - Guerra de la Independencia EspañolaSacrifice for the NationSecular MartyrsViolence

Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe

Atahualpa es encarcelado (1615)

from: Guamán Poma de Ayala, F. Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [1616]. Manuscript conserved in the København, Det Kongelige Bibliotek [ Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark ], GKS 2232 4°.

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: ImprisonmentIndigenous MartyrsNative AmericansPeruSpanish Empire

Goya, Francisco de

¿Por qué? (1863)

from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: French Invasion of SpainPeninsular War - Guerra de la Independencia EspañolaSacrifice for the NationSecular MartyrsViolence

Anonymous / Unknown

Symbolic Drawing of the Graveyard or Tombstone of the King Sebastian of Portugal, died as a martyr in a 16th century crusades to North Africa. (1622)

from: Juan Baptista Morales. Jornada de África del Rey Don Sebastian de Portugal, compuesto por Juan Bautista de Morales, natural de Montilla, a don Juan Fernández de Córdoba y Aguilar, Seville, Gabriel Ramos Bejarano, 1622.

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: CrusadesEarly-Modern ChroniclesMartyrdomNorth AfricaPortugal

Goya, Francisco de

Esto es malo (1863)

from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: French Invasion of SpainPeninsular War - Guerra de la Independencia EspañolaSacrifice for the NationSecular MartyrsViolence

Fragonard, Alexandre

The Death of Alberic Clement at the Siege of Acri (1191) (1838)

Salles des Croisades, Châteaux de Versailles, Versailles (France)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: CrusadesHoly LandHoly WarsIndividual SacrificeMartyrdom

Anonymous / Unknown

S.S. Ramon Nonato. Abogado de Partos Peligrosos. [18-19^th Century]

Unknown

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: Mercedarians (O. de M.)North AfricaRedemption of CaptivesSaintsTortures

Anonymous / Unknown

Saint Raymundo Nonato, Mercedarian. [18-19^th Century]

Unknown

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: Mercedarians (O. de M.)North AfricaRedemption of CaptivesSaintsTortures

Pardo de Lago, Lázaro

Los mártires franciscanos de Nagasaki (1630)

Convento de La Recoleta, Cuzco (Perú)

Topics:
7. Sacrifices of self: Martirology and Catholic global missions (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Catholic MissionsFranciscans (O.F.M.)JapanMartyrdomNagasaki

Delacroix, Eugène

The Massacre at Chios (1824)

Musée du Louvre, Paris

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: CrusadesHoly WarsMassacresOttoman EmpireSacrifice for the Nation

Anonymous / Unknown

Sculpture of Saint Pedro Armengol (Mercedarian) (17-18^th Century)

Chapel next to the Church of Santa María de Conxo. Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomMercedarians (O. de M.)ReconquistaRedemption of CaptivesSaints

Carazo, José ; Martín Rodríguez, Manuel

Myracle of Saint Peter Pascual before the king Totila (18^th Century)

Pedro Pascual Chapel, Sagrario: within the Cathedral of Jaén (Spain)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: GranadaMartyrdomMercedarians (O. de M.)ReconquistaSaints

Heylan, Francisco

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.

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: Church HistoryGranadaMartyrdomPersecutionsReconquista

Hidalgo, Anselmo

Saint Roderick, Martyr in Cordova (857) (1789)

Parish of the Assumption (Parroquia de la Asunción). Arroyo de la Luz, Cáceres (Spain).

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomPersecutionsReconquistaSaintsSpain

Mare, Johannes de

Trinitarian Martyrs of Algiers (17th century) (19^th Century)

Granada

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century) 7. Sacrifices of self: Martirology and Catholic global missions (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AlgiersImprisonmentMartyrdomRedemption of CaptivesTrinitarians (O.SS.T)

Goya, Francisco de

Estragos de la Guerra (1863)

from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: French Invasion of SpainPeninsular War - Guerra de la Independencia EspañolaSacrifice for the NationSecular MartyrsViolence

Anonymous / Unknown

Tombstone of the Priest Tommaso from Sardinia, victim of a supposed Ritual Murder by Jews in Damascus, along with his servant Ibrahim Amarah, on February 1840. The Italian inscription on the Graveyard says: “D.O.M. Qui riposano le ossa del padre Tommaso da Sardegna assassinato dagli ebrei il 5 febbraio nell’anno 1840”. (1840)

Capuchin Church in Damascus (Syrie).

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: EpitaphsMartyrdomOttoman EmpirePersecutionsViolence against Clergy

Anonymous / Unknown

“Ldo. Bartolome de Herrera Collegial desta Casa, Beneficiado de Laroles, a quien los Bárbaros agarenos ungieron los pies con aceite i pez derretida i pusieron sobre un brasero ardiendo, i después asateado i arcabuzeado dio el espíritu a su cria[dor] en defensa de nuestra santa fe. Viernes 24 de diciembre de 1568.” (1761)

Pontificio y Real Seminario de San Cecilio (Cloisters). Granada, Spain.

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: AlpujarrasMartyrdomMassacresMoriscosPersecutions

Caussé, F.

Véritable Portrait du Vén. Mastrilli. Martyr au Japon, en 1637. [19^th Century]

from: Pouplard, P.-X. La vie merveilleuse du vénérable Marcel Mastrilli, S.J. Client bien-aimé de Saint François Xavier et martyr au Japon. Suive d'une notice sur la chute, la pénitence et le martyre de Christophe Ferreira. Paris, Desclee, 1902.

Topics:
7. Sacrifices of self: Martirology and Catholic global missions (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: HagiographiesJapanJesuits (S.J.)MartyrdomNagasaki

Claesz van Wieringen, Cornelis (1577 - 1633)

The Capture of Damiate (1219) (about 1625 - 1627)

from: oil on canvas

The Frans Hals Museum (section: Dutch Golden Age paintings).

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: CrusadesHoly LandHoly Wars

Anonymous / Unknown

V[enerabile] P[adre] Fra’ Alippio da S[an] Gius[eppe] Agost[inia]no Scalzo Pal[ermita]no Ucciso in Tripoli in odio della S[anta] Fede nel 1645. [18^th Century]

from: Picture in anonymous devotional card

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century) 7. Sacrifices of self: Martirology and Catholic global missions (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Augustinians (O.E.S.A.)Christian-Islamic relationsConversionMartyrdomNorth Africa

Anonymous / Unknown

Martyrdom of Antonio, Fernando, Pedro, Juan, Luis, Bartolomé and Juan Quixada. [18-19^th Century]

Parroquia Nuestra Señora del Martirio (Our Lady of Martyrdom Parish Church), antechamber. Ugíjar (Spain)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: AlpujarrasMartyrdomMassacresMoriscosPersecutions

Anonymous / Unknown

Trinitarian Martyrs of Algiers (17th century) [17^th Century]

from: Religious card

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century) 7. Sacrifices of self: Martirology and Catholic global missions (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AlgiersImprisonmentMartyrdomRedemption of CaptivesTrinitarians (O.SS.T)

Mesa, Juan de

Statue of Saint Raymundo Nonnatus (detail 1) (1626)

Museo de Bellas Artes, Seville (Spain)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomMercedarians (O. de M.)ReconquistaSaintsTortures

Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe

Beheading of Atahualpa (1615)

from: Guamán Poma de Ayala, F. Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [1616]. Manuscript conserved in the København, Det Kongelige Bibliotek [ Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark ], GKS 2232 4°.

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: IdolatryIndigenous MartyrsNative AmericansPeruSpanish Empire

Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe

Castigos de vírgenes (1615)

from: Guamán Poma de Ayala, F. Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [1616]. Manuscript conserved in the København, Det Kongelige Bibliotek [ Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark ], GKS 2232 4° [fol. 308].

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: IdolatryIndigenous MartyrsNative AmericansPeruSpanish Empire

Anonymous / Unknown

Effigie del Venerabil Padre Fra Alipio di S. Giuseppe, scalzo di S. Agostino Palermitano, in odio della nostra santa Fede crudelmente ucciso da' Turchi in Tripoli di Barbaria à 17. di Febbraio 1645. La maggior parte delle cui Ossa fù maravigliosam[en]te trasportata à Sicilia nella terra di Palma. (1657)

from: Maggio, F.M. Vita, e morte del venerabil P. F. Alipio di S. Giuseppe Scalzo di S. Agostino Palermitano della congregazione d'Italia, in odio della confessione della S. Fede di Giesù Cristo, crudelissimamente ucciso da' Turchi di Barberia, nella città di Tripoli, a 17 di febbraio l'anno 1645. Roma, Ignatio de Lazzari, 1657.

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century) 7. Sacrifices of self: Martirology and Catholic global missions (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Augustinians (O.E.S.A.)Christian-Islamic relationsConversionMartyrdomNorth Africa

Anonymous / Unknown

Burial vault of the Seven Martyrs of Morocco (17-18^th Century)

Igreja de São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon (Portugal)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: CrusadesMartyrdomMassacresMoroccoRelics

Anonymous / Unknown

Sculpture of Saint Roderick, Martyr in Cordova (20^th Century)

Unknown

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: MartyrdomPersecutionsReconquistaSaintsSpain

Le Myésier, Thomas

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.

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: Anti-Islamic ControversyChristian-Islamic relationsMartyrdomNorth AfricaPhilosophy

González Velázquez, Zacarías

The Martyrdom of Saint Peter Pascual (detail) (19^th Century)

Sagrario Church, within the Cathedral of Jaén (Spain)

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: GranadaMartyrdomMercedarians (O. de M.)ReconquistaSaints