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SunTimes: She recounted that Jefferson at first doubted Beamer because he was so calm. She explained, “Todd loved his life but he knew that his life was much more than his 32 years on this Earth. His soul was secure, even when his body wasn’t, because Jesus was his savior.” The children of Todd and Lisa Beamer, David, Drew and Read more...

Built in 2011, this memorial, and others like it around the country, honors the legacy of the Four Chaplains: During the early morning hours of February 3, 1943, the USAT Dorchester was part of a convoy of six ships heading for Greenland when an enemy u-boat attacked, firing a torpedo into the ship’s midsection. The Dorchester quickly began taking on Read more...

Inscription: In the vaults beneath this building were imprisoned ten of the seventeen Protestant martyrs who were burned at the stake within a few yards of this site 1555 – 1557. Their names are recorded on the memorial to be seen on Cliffe Hill. Photographed by Michael Herrick, September 12, 2018, HMDB.org Read more...

From Willard Barbery in 1950: It was Mrs. Suiter who showed us the sheepskin, in the Davidson home, formerly used by Bro. Sheffey and made mention of in another place in these writings. That sheepskin was given to Rev. Peter Rayburn Suiter, local preacher in the Methodist church for many years in Bland county and an associate of the itinerant preacher. Bro. Sheffey Read more...

Beyond this site the following were martyred for their faith Henry Filmer Anthony Pierson Robert Testwood Burnt at the stake 28th July 1543 Read more about them at Foxes Book of Martyrs Photographed by Stephen Palmer, March 5, 2023, HMDB.org Read more...

From Wikipedia: The Lewes Martyrs were 17 Protestants who were burned at the stake in Lewes, Sussex, England, between 1555 and 1557. These executions were part of the Marian persecutions of Protestants during the reign of Mary I. On 6 June 1556, Thomas Harland of Woodmancote, near Henfield, Sussex, carpenter, John Oswald (or Oseward) of Woodmancote, husbandman, Thomas Reed of Ardingly, Sussex, and Thomas Avington (or Euington) of Ardingly, Sussex, turner, were burnt. [1][2][3] Richard Woodman and Read more...

Acts 25:23 “And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus’ commandment Paul was brought forth.”   Text of Marker: “For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse Read more...

Discovered in 1961, this is the only contemporary record of Pilate outside of the Bible Inscription: “(Po)ntius Pilatus, the prefect of Judaea, (erected) a (building dedicated) to (the emperor) Tiberius”. Replica. The original inscription, found in secondary use during the excavations of the theater, is on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Pontius Pilatus was the Roman prefect who Read more...

Many early Christians were burned alive to illuminate Nero’s horse races. From Phillip Schaff’s History of the Christian Church: To divert from himself the general suspicion of incendiarism, and at the same time to furnish new entertainment for his diabolical cruelty, Nero wickedly cast the blame upon the hated Christians, who, meanwhile, especially since the public trial of Paul and Read more...

From Wikipedia: The south inner panel depicts the spoils taken from the Temple in Jerusalem. The golden candelabrum or Menorah is the main focus and is carved in deep relief.[23] Other sacred objects being carried in the triumphal procession are the Gold Trumpets, the fire pans for removing the ashes from the altar, and the Table of Showbread.[21] These spoils were likely originally colored Read more...