martyrology
Americannoun
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martyrologies
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the branch of knowledge dealing with the lives of martyrs.
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a history of martyrs.
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such histories collectively.
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a list of martyrs.
noun
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an official list of martyrs
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Christianity the study of the lives of the martyrs
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a historical account of the lives of martyrs
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Etymology
Origin of martyrology
1590–1600; < Medieval Latin martyrologium history of martyrs < Late Greek martyrológion. See martyr, -o-, -logy
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Threaded through the narrative, as contrast and commentary, is a martyrology of female saints.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Showfolk love martyrology as much as political people do.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is a transcript of a very ancient martyrology containing the names of the saints and martyrs of the entire Church, with the Irish saints added under each day.
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, November 1864 by
M. Louis Blanc and M. Ernest Hamel talk of him as an angel or a prophet, and the Ninth Thermidor is a red day indeed in their martyrology.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre by John Morley
He had long ago made himself familiar with the catalogue of miseries in the literary martyrology beginning with Nash and Otway, and ending with his friend Banim.
From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 by Various
According to the Catholic Encyclopaedia, at least three Saint Valentines are mentioned in the early martyrologies under the date of 14 February.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2016
Occasional notes on Declan in the martyrologies and elsewhere give some further information about our saint.
From The Life of St. Declan of Ardmore by P. (Patrick) Power
Of many hundreds of our Irish saints we have only the meagre details supplied by the martyrologies, with perhaps occasional reference to them in the Lives of other saints.
From Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore by Anonymous
But M. Michelet ought to have remembered a fact in the martyrologies which justifies both parties,—the French heroine for doing, and the general choir of English girls for not doing.
From Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas De Quincey
We puzzled over the next two or three, which seemed to be martyrologies, or lives of the saints; but while we were poring over them, we thought we heard a noise.
From Visits To Monasteries in the Levant by Robert Curzon
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