Topic: 5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12th-20th century) – Image Gallery
S. Fandila Már[ti]r, Protector de las siminteres. [1800 - 1820]
Painting on metal (tin)
Y son fieras (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863
Fuerte cosa es! (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863
Statue of Saint Pelayo [18th Century]
Church of the Episcopal Seminary, Cordova
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.
Martyrdom of Saint Eulogius from Cordova [1700]
Juramento de San Rafael Church, Cordoba (Spain)
Saint Pedro Pascual, Mercedarian, martyr in Granada (1300) (17th Century)
from: Rodríguez Gálvez, R. San Pedro Pascual, Obispo de Jaén y mártir. Estudios críticos, Jaén, Establecimiento tipográfico La Unión, 1903.
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. [18th Century]
from: Picture in anonymous devotional card
Duro es el paso (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863
Carretadas al cementerio (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863
Altarpiece of Saint Roderick (16-17th Century)
Church of San Juan de Dios, Cabra (Spain)
Roundel with Martyrdom of Saint Jacobus Intercisus [1520]
The Met Cloisters, New York
El Ldo. D. Pedro de Espinosa Beneficiado de la villa de Orgiva, padeció Martirio en el año 1567 [sic: 1568] predicándoles la fe de Cristo, murió quemado en la misma torre en tiempo de la rebelión. Se pintó este lienzo a costa de este Real Colegio año de 1761, siendo rector el Sr. Don Gabriel Vicente Carrillos. (1761)
Pontificio y Real Seminario de San Cecilio (Cloisters). Granada, Spain.
The Martyrdom of Saint Raymond Nonnatus (16-17th Century)
Private Collection. Spain
Martyrdom of S. Eulogius and S. Leocricia of Cordoba [1910]
from: Historia de España, III vols., ed. M. Seguí, 1910-1927.
Ya no hay tiempo (Desastres de la Guerra, n. 19) (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863
Grande Hazaña ... con muertos (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863
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)
Guillaume de Clermont defending Ptolemais (Acre) from Saracen siege in 1291 (1845)
from: oil on canvas
Salles des Croisades : Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Versailles (France)
Al Cementerio (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863
Bernabé Montano[s] Doctor en Sagrada Teología Colegial de esta Casa, beneficiado de Poqueira, padeció Martirio pegando fuego a una torre, donde encerrado sacándole medio abrasado y a cuchilladas le acabaron de quitar la vida. Viernes 24 de Diciembre de 1568. (1761)
Pontificio y Real Seminario de San Cecilio (Cloisters). Granada, Spain.
Some Priests of Ugíjar (Spain) being martyrized in Alpujarras mountains during moriscos' rebellion of 1568-1569. [18-19th Century]
Parroquia Nuestra Señora del Martirio (Our Lady of Martyrdom Parish Church), antechamber. Ugíjar (Spain)
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)
Trinitarian Martyrs of Algiers (17th century) [17th Century]
from: Religious card
Saint Roderick, Martyr in Cordova (857) [1633 - 1668]
Altarpiece of the Main Altar of the Church of San Juan de Dios. Cabra (Spain)
Saint Roderick, Martyr in Cordova (died on March 13, 857 AD) (19th Century)
Sacresty of the Church Asunción y Ángeles, Cabra (Spain)
Saint Juan Bautista de la Concepción (O.SS.T.) (18th Century)
Convent of Santa María de Gracia, Cordoba
Saint Eulogius from Cordoba is announced his Martyrdom (detail). [1630]
Mezquita - Catedral de Córdoba (San Eulogio Chapel). Cordoba (Spain)
Caídos por Dios y por España ¡Presentes! (20th Century)
External wall of the Villafranca Church (León, Spain).
Se aprovechan (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863
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)
Ldo. Juan Lorenzo Beneficiado y Vicario de Andarax fue puesto sobre un brasero y abrasado hasta las rodillas i después entregado a las moras que fieras sacándole los ojos y arrastrándole acabaron de matar a pedradas que como Laurencio y Esteban triunfó de sus enemigos. Martes 28 de Diciembre de 1568. (1761)
Pontificio y Real Seminario de San Cecilio (Cloisters). Granada, Spain.
RITRATTO DEL FU PADRE TOMMASO DA CALANGIANO DI SARD.a MIS.o APLI.co CAP.no IL QUALE DOPO 33 ANNI DI MISSIONE IN DAMASCO VENNE SACRIFICATO DALLI EBRE I DI QUELLA CITTA' IN UN COL SUO FEDELE ED AMATO SERVO ABRAHIM IL DI 5. FE BBRAJO DEL 1840. [1849]
Church of S. Maria degli Angeli, Calangianus (Sardinia, Italy)
Beheading of the five martyrs of Morocco (1508)
Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon (Proceeding from San Francisco Church in Évora, Portugal)
Esto es malo (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863
San Aurelio y Santa Sabigotho su Muge. Y San Jorge Monje. San Féliz y Santa Liliosa, su Muger. Mártires de Córdoba. (17-18th Century)
from: Picture in anonymous devotional card
Será lo mismo (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863
Suttee. Gouache painting by a painter of Thanjavur (Tanjore) [1800]
from: Tanjore
London, Wellcome Collection
Main Altar of the Nuestra Señora del Martirio Parish Church in Ugíjar (Spain). (17th Century)
Parroquia Nuestra Señora del Martirio (Our Lady of Martyrdom Parish Church). Ugíjar (Spain)
No quieren (n. 10) (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863
Sn Rodrigo Prev[iter]o M[artir] de Cordoba y Patrono de la Villa de Cabra. Y Sn. Salomon Su compañero. Que dedica y consagra a el Sr. Dn. Rodrigo de Cota y Cabrera Prevendado de la Sta. Iglesia Cathedral Su Servidor Pedro Rodriguez. N[icholas] Carrasco del. et Sculp. Año de 1749.” (1749)
Engraving (one-sheet devotional print).
San Acisclo (1645)
Church of the Martyrs of Colodro, Cordoba (Spain)
Sculpture representing Saint Roderick, Martyr in Cordova (detail) (1981)
Parish of Asunción y Ángeles, Cabra (Spain)
“Lcdo. Baltasar de Torres, Colegial de Portugus. Abofeteado y apuñeteado desnudo en carnes, las manos atadas atrás en una soga a la garganta lo llevaron a la plaza de dicho lugar, donde cortados pies y manos hizo de una horca escala para el cielo. Viernes 24 de diciembre de 1568.” (1761)
Pontificio y Real Seminario de San Cecilio (Cloisters). Granada, Spain.
the young Hindu woman accompanies her bridegroom's coffin to the funeral pyre and decides to commit sati (1657)
from: Walters manuscript W.649 (Burning and Melting)
The Walters Art Museum
Curarlos, y á otra (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863
Por una navaja (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863
Santa Flora, Mártir de Córdoba. Santa María, Mártir de Córdoba. (17-18th Century)
from: Picture in anonymous devotional card
Myracle of Saint Peter Pascual before the king Totila (18th Century)
Pedro Pascual Chapel, Sagrario: within the Cathedral of Jaén (Spain)
Tombstone of the Priest José María Ruíz Cano, martyr in El Otero (Siguenza, Spain) on July 27th 1936. (20th Century)
Tombstone in Siguenza (Spain)
San Pedro Pascual (detalle) (17th Century)
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (Spain)
Father Thomas from Sardinia and his servant Amarath Martyrs in Damascus (1840) (1930)
from: Journal «L'Orient», February 6, 1930
Padre Fray Bernardo Monroy (1740-1750)
Museo de Bellas Artes, Granada (Spain)
Shrine containing the relics of Gonzalico, a ten-years old child from Mairena, who died as a Martyr in 1568 during the Moriscos' Rebellion in the Alpujarras mountains (Spain). [17-18th Century]
Parroquia Nuestra Señora del Martirio (Our Lady of Martyrdom Parish Church). Ugíjar (Spain)
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.
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.
Our Lady of Mercy with St. Peter Nolasco and St. Raymond Nonnatus (16th Century)
Museo de Historia Nacional, Madrid
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].
Painting of Santa Flora, Martyr in Cordoba (A.D. 851) (17th Century)
Altar piece of the Capilla Mayor (main altar) of Cordoba Cathedral. Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba (Spain)
Sacerdotes diocesanos que dieron su vida por Cristo en la persecución religiosa 1936-1939 (20th Century)
Cordoba Cathedral, Cordoba (Spain)
Saint Pedro Pascual, Mercedarian, martyr in Granada (1300) (1676)
from: Pedro Pascual (Santo), Sancti Petri Paschasii Martyris, Giennensis Episcopi, Ordinis B. Mariae de Mercede Redemptionis Captivorum Opera [...], Madrid, 1676
Martyrdom of Juan Martínez Jáuregui, clergyman of Mairena (1610)
from: Antolínez, J. Historia Eclesiástica de Granada, 1610.
S[a]n Rodrigo, Patrono de Cabra (19th Century)
Sacresty of the San Francisco y San Rodrigo Church, Cabra (Spain). Oil on Zinco plate.
The Martyrdom of Saint Peter Pascual (19th Century)
Sagrario Church, within the Cathedral of Jaén (Spain)
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
Enterrar y Callar (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863
San Ramón Nonato, Ruega por nosotros (19th Century)
from: Anonymous popular religious card
Altar and reliquary of Saint Sisenandus of Beja (18th Century)
Sé de Beja (Cathedral of St. James the Great), Beja (Portugal)
Los fusilamientos del 3 de mayo 1808 (1814)
Prado Museum, Madrid
Venerable María del Refugio Aguilar Torres (portrait) (20th Century)
Real Monasterio El Puig De Santa María, Order of Mercy. El Puig, Valencia (Spain)
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.
El Glorioso Cardenal de la Santa Iglesia San Raymundo Nonacido enfermó en el viage à Roma. Recibe el Viático de manos del mismo Jesu Christo, acompañando de Ángeles vestidos del Hábito de su Orden de la Merced. Rezando un Padre Nuestro delante de esta santa Imagen se ganan 105 días de Indulgencia. (18th Century)
from: Devotional card picture
Library of the University of Navarra (Fondo Antiguo). Pamplona, Spain.
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)
Drawing representing the tombstone of the martyr Saint Pedro Pascual in Baeza Cathedral, Spain. (1653)
from: Bilches, F., Santos y Santuarios del Opispado de Jaen y Baeza, Madrid, Domingo García y Morrás, 1653, p. 146.
Dergoumidas, Prestre Armenien condamné par le Grand Visir Ali Pacha, mourut Martir le 5 Novembre 1707. (1707 - 1708)
from: Ferriol, Ch., Marquis Le Hay & Mour, J.-B. van. Recueil de cent estampes representant differentes nations du Levant, tirees sur les tableaux peints d'apres nature en 1707 et 1708, Le Hay et Duchange, Paris, 1714, engraving n. 85, pp. 44-47; [Also found in: Explication des cent estampes qui representent differentes nations du Levant avec de nouvelles estampes, Le Hay et Duchange, Paris, 1715].
Mártires Mercedarios en Proceso de Beatificación. 1936. (20th Century)
Curia Provincial Orden de la Merced, Madrid.
After suffering a long siege, Malta finally repels Turks' attack (1565) (1852)
Salles des Croisades, Châteaux de Versailles, Versailles (France)
Burial vault of the Seven Martyrs of Morocco (17-18th Century)
Igreja de São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon (Portugal)
Frontispiece of the book Historia Eclesiástica de Granada, 1638. (1638)
from: Bermúdez de Pedraza, F. Historia Eclesiástica de Granada, Granada, 1638.
Martyrdom of Saint Raymond Nonnatus (16-17th Century)
Prado National Museum, Madrid (Spain)
Mercedarian Mariano Alcalá and companions, martyrs in Spain in 1936. (20th Century)
Our Lady of Mercy Church, Lérida (Spain)
Numancia (1880 - 1881)
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (Spain)
No hay remedio (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863
Tantos, y más … (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863
Our Lady of Martyrdom, Patron Saint of Alpujarras (Sculpture) (15th Century)
Parroquia Nuestra Señora del Martirio (Our Lady of Martyrdom Parish Church). Ugíjar (Spain)
No se puede mirar (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863
Santiago Matamoros
Capilla de San Juan Bautista y Santiago, Catedral de Burgos
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)
Amarga presencia (1863)
from: Goya, F. Desastres de la guerra, Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1863










