#martyr

Fritz Eichenberg
St. Christopher

Wood engraving, 18.7 x 13 cm, 1949

Franz Anton Maulbertsch
Martyrdom of St. Quirinus

Oil on canvas, 74 x 43.5 cm, 1791

Francesco del Cossa
St. Florian

Tempera on poplar panel, 79.4 x 55 cm, ca. 1473-74

Arthur Goodland
St. Catherine

Wood and metal, 61 x 56 x 27 cm, 1940-80

North Italian School
Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew

Oil on wood, 45 x 40.5 cm, first half 18th century

Unknown Artist
St. Sebastian

Oil on canvas, 81 x 107.5 cm, 17th century

Unknown Artist
St. Catherine of Alexandria

Oil on canvas, 73 x 98 cm, 17th century

Unknown Artist
The Flaying of St. Bartholomew

Terracotta, H: 40 cm, ca. 1740

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Saint Genevieve as a child in prayer

Oil on canvas, 136.5 x 76.3 cm, between 1874 and 1876

Alessandro Tiarini
St. Cecilia

Oil on canvas, 165.2 x 123.6 cm, c.1620

Unknown Artist
St. George and the Dragon

Bronze, 13.2 x 6.8 x 5.5 cm, 15th century

Unknown Artist
St. George

Coloured enamel work; corrugated copper mount and hammered brass frame, Austria, 14.4 x 12.1 cm, c. 1920

Hans Thoma
St. George

Gouache, pencil and wash on paper, 45.7 x 22.4 cm, c. 1889

Saint Maria Goretti. Devotional illustration in art nouveau style for a client in Virginia, 2014.  For more original custom art and illustration, visit matthewalderman.com.

traumacatholic:

Saint Polycarp of Smyrna’s Prayer at The Stake

Lord God almighty, Father of Jesus Christ, that dear Child of yours, through whom we have come to know you, God of the angels and powers, God of all creation, God of the race that lives in your presence, the race of the just.

I bless you because you have thought me worthy of this day and hour, worthy to be numbered among the martyrs and to drink out of the cup your Anointed has drunk from, so to rise and live for ever, body and soul, in the incorruptibility that is the Holy Spirit’s.

May I be admitted with them to your presence today, a satisfying, welcome sacrifice. You have made my life a preparation for this; you showed me that this was to be and now you have brought it about, like the veracious and truthful God that you are. For this and all your blessings I praise you and give you glory, through the eternal high priest, Jesus Christ the heavenly, your dear Child.

He is with you and the Holy Spirit. Through him may glory be given you now and in the ages to come. Amen. 

traumacatholic:

Prayer of Saint Afra of Augsburg at her martyrdom

Lord God almighty, Jesus Christ, you did not come to call the just; you came to call sinners to repentance.

Your promise is clear; it admits of no doubt. You were so good as to say that as soon as a sinner turned away from his evil deeds, you would say no more about his sins. Accept, then, as a sign of my repentance, the sufferings I am now undergoing, and by this fire that is waiting to burn my body for a time, deliver me from the eternal fire that burns body and soul alike.

Thanks be to you, Lord Jesus Christ: in your mercy you have chosen me to be a victim for the glory of your name – you who offered yourself on the cross as a victim for the salvation of the whole world, you the innocent for us the guilty, you the good for us the wicked, you the blessed for us the cursed, you the sinless for all us sinners.

To you I offer my sacrifice, to you who are one God with the Father and the Holy Spirit, with whim you live and reign, as you always will, age after age. Amen.

Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson (1847 - 1906)

1. The Morning Stars
2. Wild Parsley
3. In Ashdown Forest, Sussex
4. Une Martyre (Saint Thechla)
5. The Bacidae
6. Butterflies