In 1501–1502, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, an Italian humanist, was sent on a diplomatic mission to Mamluk Egypt by Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II...

placed patrons in the society. Martyr would become chaplain to the court of Ferdinand and Isabella. After 1492, Martyr's chief task was the education of...

Shmona and Gurya Agnes of Rome Felix and Adauctus Marcellinus and Peter Forty Martyrs of Sebaste Euphemia Cyprian Athenogenes of Pedachtoë Alban Ignatius...

Peter Heyling (1607/1608 – c. 1652) was a German Lutheran missionary to Egypt and Ethiopia. He was the first Protestant missionary to Ethiopia. The son...

Nagasaki, was presided over by Cardinal Peter Shirayanagi, archbishop emeritus of Tokyo. Saints portal Twenty-Six Martyrs Museum and Monument Christianity in...

Christiana and the martyr's palm pressed to his chest. This image was brought to Rome for the canonization festivities. Upon its return to the Philippines...

in Languedoc, Southern France. According to Gregory of Tours, Aphrodisius was an Egyptian who was martyred in Languedoc along with his followers Caralippus...

the Church of Alexandria (Egypt), has led some scholars to regard the First Peter epistle as having been written in Egypt. The Roman Martyrology assigns...

considered to be a threat to the Roman Empire. The legion, entirely composed of Christians, had been called from Thebes in Egypt to Gaul to assist Emperor...

in more Hellenized Egypt, although perhaps working off a Palestinian text. From the medieval era to 1886, the Apocalypse of Peter was known only through...