Saint Stephen is considered to be the first Christian example of, for 10 points, what people who die for their faith?
Examples of the "great" type of these people venerated in Eastern Orthodoxy include Theodore Tyro and Theodore Stratelates. Paul VI recognized Maximilian of Kolbe as one of these people "of charity." A popular story discusses 10,000 of these people "of Ararat" who were led by Acacius. A "faithful" one named Antipas is mentioned in the Book of Revelation. Tertullian wrote that the "seed of the church" is equivalent to a substance from these people. Paulo Miki was among a group of "Twenty-Six" of them in Japan. An early Protestant history titled Actes and Monuments is popularly known as John Foxe's Book of [these people], and discusses Thomas Cranmer and other so-called ones "of Oxford." Saint Stephen is considered to be the first Christian example of, for 10 points, what people who die for their faith?
Examples of the "great" type of these people venerated in Eastern Orthodoxy include Theodore Tyro and Theodore Stratelates.
martyrs [or martus; accept Martyrs of Nicomedia/Ararat or Twenty-Six Martyrs or Martyrs of Oxford or “the seed of the church is the blood of the martyrs”; prompt on saints] &lt;Religion&gt;