What happened to the Apostles? How did the early Christians live? Why did the Romans and other peoples try to destroy them with such brutality? Those answers are all provided in Fr. Pedro de Ribadeneyra, SJ’s Flores Sanctorum, carefully translated by Mrs. Anne Hope.
Lives of the Early Martyrs not only traces the most ancient testimony to where the Apostles went, and where they won their crowns of martyrdom, but their disciples as well. It carefully elucidates the lives that the early Christians led, and how it came about that they laid down their lives for Christ. Tracing the progress of the Church from Apostolic times until after Constantine, the work brings the glory of the early Church to life, showing us why the blood of the martyrs is the seed of faith.
In this work you will learn:
The lives of the Apostles and their resting place;
The lives of many saints, fathers, and holy women;
Figures like Ignatius of Antioch, Perpetua and Felicity, to names you haven’t heard of;
The progress of the Church in the early centuries.
Fr. Pedro de Ribadeneyra, SJ, was a 16th century Jesuit who was a great preacher, as well as spiritual writer and historian. Anne Hope was a British widow who converted to Catholicism after her husband’s death, and devoted her life to works of Church History. The present volume is the fruit of her love of the Church.
Mrs Anne Hope was a British writer, born in the early 19th Century. She converted to Catholicism in 1850 and later moved to Birmingham, to be near her literary advisor Father Dalgairns and his good friend St John Henry Newman. The Early Martyrs was published in 1855.
Listen and follow along to Mrs Hope’s book. Hear of the lives and deaths of these inspiring Saints, demonstrating heroic virtue and witnessing to the one, true Faith. May they inspire us and intercede for us all in our daily trials.
– The Early Martyrs by Mrs Hope – Trailer
– The Early Martyrs by Mrs Hope: Introduction and Chapter 1 – Persecution of the First Christians
– The Early Martyrs by Mrs Hope: Chapter 2 – Sts Mary Magdalen, Martha, Lazarus, Joseph of Arimathea
– The Early Martyrs by Mrs Hope: Chapter 3 – St James the Great
– The Early Martyrs by Mrs Hope: Chapter 4 – St James the Less
– The Early Martyrs by Mrs Hope: Chapter 5 – St Phillip, St Matthias
– The Early Martyrs by Mrs Hope: Chapter 6 – St Peter at Rome
– The Early Martyrs by Mrs Hope: Chapter 7 – St Nazarius and St Celsus
– The Early Martyrs by Mrs Hope: Chapter 8 – St Peter and St Paul
– The Early Martyrs by Mrs Hope: Chapter 9 – St Mark
– The Early Martyrs by Mrs Hope: Chapter 10 – Sts Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, Simon and Jude
– The Early Martyrs by Mrs Hope: Chapter 11 – Second Persecution
– The Early Martyrs by Mrs Hope: Chapter 12 – St Flavia Domitilla
– The Early Martyrs by Mrs Hope: Chapter 13 – St Andrew
– The Early Martyrs by Mrs Hope: Chapter 14 – St John the Evangelist
– The Early Martyrs by Mrs Hope: Chapter 15 – St Simeon
– The Early Martyrs by Mrs Hope: Chapter 16 – St Ignatius
– The Early Martyrs by Mrs Hope: Chapter 17 – St Clement
– The Early Martyrs by Mrs Hope: Chapter 18 – St Symphorosa
– The Early Martyrs by Mrs Hope: Chapter 19 – Martyrs of Lyons and Vienne
– The Early Martyrs by Mrs Hope: Chapter 20 – St Felicitas and Her Sons
– The Early Martyrs by Mrs Hope: Chapter 21 – St Polycarp
– The Early Martyrs by Mrs Hope: Chapter 22 – Fifth Persecution
– The Early Martyrs by Mrs Hope: Chapter 23 – Sts Perpetua and Felicitas
