Subject: Christian martyrs -- Biography (Keywords)

Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes. In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants behead twenty-one orange-clad Christian men on...

Edmund Campion (1540-1581) was a Jesuit priest who, in the turbulent years before the Spanish Armada, was charged with treason and executed. Waugh's book is an elegant homage to a man he revered as a hero and a martyr..

St George is the patron saint of England, yet he never set foot on English soil and the legend of his knightly deeds came from the imagination of a bishop in Italy. This book explores the many contradictions in the story of St George and the growth of his legend worldwide..

This brief historical introduction to William Tyndale explores the social, political and religious factors that formed the original context of his life and writings, and considers how those factors affected the way he was initially received.