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The historical events of the 1848-1849 Revolution determined both material prejudice and human sacrifice among the Romanian people, including the priests of the Arad Diocese with its canonical jurisdiction from the North of the Mureş River till the Criş River area, and also including the counties of Arad, Bihor and Zarand, under the spiritual guidance of the Arad Bishop Gherasim Raţ (1835-1850). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Confrontations and crimes and persecutions with a religious tinge always kept the atention of the researchers. In France in the years 1500-1750 the Huguenots' avatars are occupying an important place. What generated the „expulsion of the Huguenots“ and what were the consequences? Here is the subject of this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Like Gerald Bonner said, iot may therefore be said that the early persecutions exhibit Christian martyrdom in its purest and simplest form: it is death for confession of the Name of Christ. As such it enjoyed an esteem in Christian eyes that no other service of Christ could equal. A Christian confessor awaiting martyrdom became the object of veneration. The essential element in martyrdom is not the physical act of dying but rather a disposition of the will to live for Christ, with the necessary corollary that, by a strange but wholly Christian paradox, living for Christ may involve the necessity to lay down one's life for him. In imitation of Christ (Jn. 18, 37), Christians who followed in the way of Christ were also to give testimony to Christ and to be witnesses unto Him. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]