confessor of the faith

He is called a confessor of the faith rather than a martyr.

It is not certain whether Torquatus was a martyr or confessor of the faith.

Zeno is described as a confessor of the faith in early martyrologies.

He is designated as a Confessor of the Faith.

Confessor of the faith, in the Christian Church; when the term Conf.

He has also been declared a Confessor of the faith and Doctor of the Church.

When at length peace was obtained, he returned home and in poverty lived a withdrawn life until old age, an unconquered confessor of the faith".

"At Alexandria, St. Maximus, bishop, who became a renowned and distinguished confessor of the faith."

The bishops also canonized 860 others who were killed by the Bolsheviks, many of them priests and monks, as martyrs and "confessors of the faith."

Padwick, Constance E. Henry Martyn: Confessor of the Faith.

In Sorrento there was a chapel in the cathedral dedicated to the saint, where he is venerated with the title of Confessor of the Faith.

Saint Rostislav the Prince of Great Moravia, Confessor of the Faith (870)

He calls Donatus a martyr, though Donatus is described as a bishop and confessor of the faith in ancient sources rather than as a martyr.

He also wrote Jesuits in Conflict, a work describing the sufferings of some of the English Jesuit confessors of the Faith.

The title Confessor, the short form of Confessor of the Faith, is a title given by the Christian Church to a type of saint.

The foundress was called a confessor of the Faith by Pope Pius IX, because of the imprisonment of six months she endured.

For his faith in Christ he suffered exile and acted as an outstanding confessor of the faith, with moderation and prudence, in the difficult times that were his."

He is commemorated as a Confessor of the Faith in the Roman Catholic Church, and his name has been included in the supplementary process of the English Martyrs.

For Ambrose (d. 397), lilies were for virgins, violets for confessors of the faith, and roses for martyrs; of these, the imagery of the violet has no biblical precedent.

Saint Dentlin (Dentelin, Denain), child-saint, considered a confessor of the faith (7th century)The son of St Vincent Madelgarus and St Waldetrudis.

It was a struggle in which the heroic confessor of the faith was understood to be uniquely assisted by the Spirit of God, and more than one account tells of the 'victims' being granted visions to strengthen them.

The patron saint of the diocese is St Stephen of Sourozh, an eighth-century Archbishop of Sourozh (today Sudak) and Confessor of the Faith during the Iconoclastic Controversy.

He was believed to have died a martyr's death during the persecution of Decius or Valentinian (ca. 253), but is now listed in the General Roman Calendar as a confessor of the faith, who survived his tortures.

As Antonio Borrelli remarks, sometime between the end of the 10th century and the beginning of the eleventh, Romulus was "upgraded" from being considered a Confessor of the Faith to a martyr, possibly by a local abbot named Teuzo.

Many of the assembled fathers-for instance, Paphnutius of Thebes, Potamon of Heraclea and Paul of Neocaesarea-had stood forth as confessors of the faith and came to the council with the marks of persecution on their faces.