Topic: 5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12th-20th Century)
Spanning from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, this section delves into the complex world of religiously motivated wars, where martyrdom and self-sacrifice dedicated to God played a pivotal role. It offers an extensive collection of printed sources and images that trace the evolution of this phenomenon through the crusades, the Reconquista, and various holy wars. This assortment includes materials from the twelfth to the twentieth century and provides a comprehensive bibliography that examines these events from both sacred and secular viewpoints.
Los mártires de Córdoba y la pólitica anticristiana contemporánea en oriente.
in: Al-Qantara, v. 15 (1994), issue : pp.453 - 463.
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.
Autorità, dovere, sacrificio. Il discorso di guerra di mons. Angelo Bartolomasi (1915-1918)
in: Rivista di storia del cristianesimo (special issue: Sacrificarsi per la patria. L'integrazione dei cattolici italiani nello Stato nazionale), v. 8 (2011), issue 1: pp., v. 8 (2011), issue 1: pp.45-61.
A Spanish Source on Mid-ninth-century Mar Saba and a neglected Sabaite Martyr.
in: The Sabaite Heritage in the Orthodox Church from the Fifth Century to the Present, pp. 63 - 72
Leuven (Belgium): Peeters, 2001.
The first five Franciscan martyrs (1524)
Chiesa di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice
Carta que escrivió el Capitan Don Antonio de Lima, cautivo en la ciudad de Argel, al R. P. M. Fr. Gabriel Gómez de Losada, Redemptor dos vezes del Orden de N. S. de la Merced Redempción de Cautivos; en que le avisa de la muerte del Hermano Pedro de la Concepción, fundador de los Hospitales de Argel, que padeció en defensa de nuestra santa Fé, y la grande constancia que tuvo en ella
n. p.: n. p., 1667.
Carta que escrivió el Capitan Don Antonio de Lima, cautivo en la ciudad de Argel, al R. P. M. Fr. Gabriel Gómez de Losada, Redemptor dos vezes del Orden de N. S. de la Merced Redempción de Cautivos; en que le avisa de la muerte del Hermano Pedro de la Concepción, fundador de los Hospitales de Argel, que padeció en defensa de nuestra santa Fé, y la grande constancia que tuvo en ella.
Madrid: Julián de Paredes, 1667.
The Reconquest of Spain
London - New York: Longman, 1978.
Venerables mártires trinitarios de Argel. Historias de la Misericordia de Dios, una perspectiva histórica-psicológica (Fr. Juan del Águila, Fr. Juan de Palacios, Fr. Bernardo de Monroy).
Ciudad Real (Spain): Impresionarte Soluciones Gráficas, 2017.