Vela Cobos, Cristóbal

San Acisclo (1645)

Church of the Martyrs of Colodro, Cordoba (Spain)

Vela Cobos, Cristóbal

Santa Victoria [1644]

Church of the Martyrs of Colodro, Cordoba (Spain)

Vignon, Claude

Saint Catherine refusing to sacrifice to idols (1623-1625)

Louvre, Paris

Viktor

Stradanje deset Kritskih mučenika (The Ten Martyrs of Crete) (1694)

Galerija Matice Srpske, Novi Sad

Villadiego, Bernardo de

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

Wolgemut [Wohlgemuth], Michael

Samson pulling down the house at Gaza (1491)

from: Stephan Fridolin, Der Schatzbehalter, Nuremberg, Koberger, November 18, 1491, fol. 35v

British Museum, London

Žefarović, Hristofor

Raspeće Hristovo i stradanja apostola(Crucifixion and the Martyrdoms of the Apostles) (1751)

Galerija Matice Srpske, Novi Sad

Zurbarán, Francisco de

Saint Raymond Nonnatus (17^th Century)

Private Collection. Madrid (Spain)

Zurbarán, Francisco de

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

Unknown

[ Bocanegra, Pedro Atanasio ]

Martyrdom of Saint Roderick (17^th Century)

Church of San Juan de Dios, Cabra (Spain)

[ Mendieta, Gerónimo de ]

Muerte de un fraile franciscano a manos de los chichimecas. (16-17^th Century)

from: Mendieta, Gerónimo de, Historia eclesiástica Indiana

Original Manuscript in : Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin

[El Greco], Domenikos Theotokopoulos

Martirio de San Mauricio y la Legión Tebana (1582)

Sala de Capas, Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Spain)

[Shah Tahmasp]

The story of the prophet Zakariya (a conflation of Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, and the Old Testament prophet Zachariah), who according to Muslim legend died a martyr's death. Escaping his pursuers by hiding in a tree that miraculously opened to admit him, Zakariya was betrayed by Iblis, the devil, who pointed out the hem of the prophet's cloak protruding from the trunk. The devil's forces sawed the tree apart and with it Zakariya, whose saintly aura is shown as flames bursting among the leaves. (1550-1560)

from: from a dispersed copy of the Falnama (Book of Omens)

Worcester Art Museum

[Stimmer, Tobias]

Samson tears down the temple of the Philistines (1551-1575)

Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel

[White, Robert]

bottom left, Cranmer, Bishop Nicholas Ridley, and Bishop Hugh Latimer burning at the stake, with Queen Mary I and a monk observing from a balcony above (1682)

from: Engraved title-page to Gilbert Burnet, 'The Abridgment of the History of the Reformation of the Church of England' (London, Richard Chiswell, 1682)

London, British Museum