The woman with seven sons was a Jewish martyr described in 2 Maccabees 7. She and her seven sons were arrested during the persecution of Judaism initiated...

martyrs of 10 July as the sons of St Felicitas, and that this formed the basis for the extant "Acts." Woman with seven sons List of Christian women of...

Eusebonus, Alimus and Marcellus. Source: Eastern Orthodox Tradition The woman with seven sons is a Jewish martyr who is unnamed in 2 Maccabees 7, but is named...

of the stories of martyrdom in the book 2 Maccabees: that of the woman with seven sons and the scribe Eleazar, who are tortured to death by Seleucid King...

Judaism in Judea ordered by King Antiochus IV Epiphanes. Together with the woman with seven sons, he is one of the "Holy Maccabean Martyrs" celebrated by the...

martyrdom of Eleazar and the woman with seven sons; various works expanded the story to add more details such as the woman's name (variously called Hannah...

A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a woman is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). Typically, women are of the female...

the Books of Samuel Saint Anne, mother of Mary, mother of Jesus Woman with seven sons, an unnamed Jewish martyr in 2 Maccabees, usually given the name...

Classical Syriac narrative poem about the martyrdom of Eleazar and the woman with seven sons under Antiochus IV as described in the prose Greek works 2 Maccabees...

to have lived some time between the first and third centuries AD Woman with seven sons, Jewish martyr named in Lamentations Rabbah as Miriam bat Tanhum...