#martyr
On 13th May 1685 James Kirko was executed near Dumfries as a Covenanter refusing to swear the oath, one of the last of the wave of deaths of the “Killing Time”.
James Kirk , also spelt Kirka and Kirk, was one of two elders present with Rev John Guthrie of Stirling, who made a petition to Charles II on his restoration in 1660.
The second elder, Andrew Hay of Craignethan, escaped , but Kirk and Guthrie were imprisoned for several months. He was suspected of taking part in the Pentland Rising and was thought to have been at Rullion Green in 1666.
He was much pursued by the military and for three years he left the country to escape them. His house was a well used resting place by the coventicling ministers Blackadder, Welsh and Semple. Kirko became an “intercommuned” person forced to wander in the moors and hills for nearly twenty years.
He was betrayed by an informer and shot on the Whitesands, Dumfries for refusing to take the Abjuration Oath. The story is that he asked for more time to make his peace with God but Captain Andrew Bruce, his captor, rebuked him thus “ Devil a peace ye get more made up ”, and had him shot on the spot.
The monument in the picture is said to mark the spot he was martyred and is in a car park outside the market entrance, Whitesands, Dumfries.
James Kirko is buried in St Michael’s churchyard the same churchyard as Rabbie Burns.
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“It is not the torture, but the cause which makes the martyr.” - #SaintAugustineofHippo
Today we celebrate the #FeastDay of #SaintMatthias, #Apostle. #SaintoftheDay
Crown of Martyrs / © duckycards / #GettyImages. #Catholic_Priest #CatholicPriestMedia #PrayforPeace
“For to me, life is Christ, and death is gain.” - #Philippians 1:21
“It is not the torture, but the cause which makes the martyr.” - #SaintAugustineofHippo
Today is the Feast Day of Saint Peter Chanel, #Priest. He is the First #Martyr and #PatronSaint of #Oceania.
A Hand holding Gold Crucifix / Italo Melo / #Pexels #Catholic_Priest #CatholicPriestMedia #Easter2022 #EasterSeason #PrayforPeace
Saint Agnes of Rome accompanied by an Angel Bearing the Lamb of God, ink, 2010. Matthew Alderman.
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The kind of awful depiction of the #Martyrdom of Saint Ignatius of Antioch by Pier Leone Ghezzi (1674-1755) on the epistle side of the nave of San Clemente #Roma #Rome #church #SaintIgnatiusofAntioch #IgnatiusofAntioch #patron #lion #rococoart #italianrococopainting #eighteenthcenturyart #artincontext #art #arthistory #martyr #eatenbylions (at Basilica of San Clemente al Laterano)
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Greetings from the #rector, visiting the place of our patron’s #martyrdom #Rome #Roma #Colosseo #Coliseum #SaintIgnatiusofAntioch #IgnatiusofAntioch #martyr #saints #romanarchitecture (at Colliseum, Rome, Italy)
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Ya Allah. So sad.
Giovanni Baglione, a contemporary of Caravaggio, gives us this St. Sebastian.
Interestingly enough, Baglione was the one who started barking about Caravaggio being a sodomite and oddly enough became his first biographer.
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Wedding of St. George and Princess Sabra
Watercolour on paper, 36.5 x 36.5 cm, 1857
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North Italian School
Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew
Oil on wood, 45 x 40.5 cm, first half 18th century
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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Saint Genevieve as a child in prayer
Oil on canvas, 136.5 x 76.3 cm, between 1874 and 1876
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Unknown Artist
St. George
Coloured enamel work; corrugated copper mount and hammered brass frame, Austria, 14.4 x 12.1 cm, c. 1920
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