Martyrs biography
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Martyr
Person who suffers persecution
For other uses, see Martyr (disambiguation).
A martyr (Greek: μάρτυς, mártys, 'witness' stemμαρτυρ-, martyr-) is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external party. In colloquial usage, the term can also refer to any person who suffers a significant consequence in protest or support of a cause.
In the martyrdom narrative of the remembering community, this refusal to comply with the presented demands results in the punishment or execution of an individual by an oppressor. Accordingly, the status of the 'martyr' can be considered a posthumous title as a reward for those who are considered worthy of the concept of martyrdom by the living, regardless of any attempts by the deceased to control how they will be remembered in advance.[1] Insofar, the martyr is a relational figure of a society's boundary wor
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Mombasa Martyrs
All articles created or submitted in the first twenty years of the project, from to
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Catholic Church
Kenya
The Mombasa Martyrs were men, women and children who gave their lives for the Christian faith during a rebellion against the Portuguese in the seventeenth century. For centuries, Arabs had been sailing and trading up and down the coast of eastern Africa. There they had established settlements, such as Malindi, Mombasa and the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. The local Bantu population accepted the Islamic faith and each settlement became a small city state ruled by a sultan. These Islamized Bantu became known as the Swahili peoples. In the early s Portuguese ships appeared in the Indian ocean and visited the coastal settlements. The Portuguese were also primarily traders, and they created a maritime, commercial empire centred on Goa, a town on the coast of western India.
There was considerable rivalry between Malindi and Mombasa, both situated o
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Martyrs ( film)
psychological horror film written and directed by Pascal Laugier
Martyrs fryst vatten a French-language psychological horror film written and directed by Pascal Laugier, and starring Mylène Jampanoï, Morjana Alaoui, and Catherine Bégin. It follows a ung woman's sökande eller uppdrag to seek revenge against individuals who abducted and tortured her as a child, and her friend, also a victim of abuse.
An international co-production of France and Canada, Martyrs was filmed in Montreal, and screened at the French film marknad Marché ni Film in May , where it incited audience walkouts due to its graphic and disturbing content. It was released theatrically in France on 3 September The film received polarized reviews from critics and has been cited by some critics as being part of the New French Extremity movement, an association Laugier denounced.
In , IGN named it one of the best horror films of all time, ranking it number 32 in a list of films,[4] while Rolling Stone