Catholic tradition states that Saint Paul was beheaded in Rome under orders of Roman Emperor Nero sometime between AD64 and AD67.
The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula - Caravaggio - was created in 1610.
The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence - Titian - was created in 1558.
Martyrdom was his greatest achievement.
He became a saint upon his martyrdom in/about the year 319. He was not canonized as the official process was not instituted until the 12th century. He was proclaimed a saint by the early Christian community based on his life and martyrdom.
Saul of Tarsus, later known as Saint Paul, witnessed and approved of the execution of Saint Stephen.
At the top of Ludgate Hill.
St. George was never beatified. He was declared a saint directly based on his martyrdom.
Bartholmew would have been proclaimed a saint by the early Christian community soon after his martyrdom in the first century AD based on his martyrdom. There was no official canonization process in place at the time.
Saint Antoninus of Syria was declared a saint by the early Christian community based on his martyrdom. There was no official canonization process at the time.
Yes, Maximilian Kolbe is a saint based on his heroic martyrdom in the German prison camp.
No, she died in her own bed of natural causes.
Lawrence would have been declared a saint by the early Christian community soon after his martyrdom on August 10, 258. There was no official canonization process in place at the time.