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mar·tyr·ol·o·gy

(mär′tə-rŏl′ə-jē)

n. pl. mar·tyr·ol·o·gies

1. An official list or catalog of religious martyrs, especially of Christian martyrs.

2. An account of the life and manner of death of a martyr.

3. The branch of ecclesiastical history or hagiography that deals with martyrs.

mar′tyr·ol′o·gist n.

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martyrology

(ˌmɑːtəˈrɒlədʒɪ)

n, pl -gies

1. (Ecclesiastical Terms) an official list of martyrs

2. (Ecclesiastical Terms) Christianity the study of the lives of the martyrs

3. (Ecclesiastical Terms) a historical account of the lives of martyrs

martyrological, ˌmartyroˈlogic adj

ˌmartyrˈologist n

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mar•tyr•ol•o•gy

(ˌmɑr təˈrɒl ə dʒi)

n., pl. -gies.

1. a history of martyrs.

2. a catalogue of martyrs and saints.

[1590–1600; < Medieval Latin < Late Greek]

mar`tyr•ol′o•gist, n.

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Often invoked for safe childbirth, San Ramon, whose name is included in the Roman Martyrology, is also known as the protector of the unborn and the wrongly accused.

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Nowhere was the anabaptist belief in political nonresistance more exemplified than in the famed seventeenth century martyrology, Martyrs Mirror, which was compiled by Mennonite minister Thieleman van Braght.

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The original choice of this particular saint for inclusion evidently owed much for the need of a saint's life with a feast day on 13 February, and Colgan relatively blithely dismissed the evidence of the Martyrology of Donegal, which detailed two St.