📚 Martyrs

Witness unto death: the accounts, the martyrologies, and the movements that grew from the executions.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject martyrs in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Fox's book of martyrs	John Foxe	1741	112
	Actes and monuments	John Foxe	1563	89
	Ecclesiastical history	Eusebius of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea	1476	81
	Martyrology	Catholic Church	1499	43
	Edmund Campion	Evelyn Waugh	1935	39
	Widerstand und Ergebung	Dietrich Bonhoeffer	1951	37
	The martyrs of the Coliseum	A. J. O'Reilly	1871	27
	Giordano Bruno	William Boulting	1914	13
	African holocaust	John Francis Faupel	1962	11
	Seliger Marter-Stand der ersten Christen, oder Von den zehen Haupt-Verfolgungen der ersten Christen Neues-Testaments ..	Heinrich Benkendorff	1753	10
	History of the Martyrs in Palestine	Eusebius of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea	1861	9
	Memoirs of missionary priests	Richard Challoner	1741	8
	Der blutige Schau-Platz oder Martyrer-Spiegel der Tauffs Gesiånten oder Wehrlosen-Christen	Thieleman J. van Braght	1748	8
	The blood of martyrs	Joyce E. Salisbury	2004	8
	The mirror of martyrs	Clement Cotton	1613	7
	Through Gates of Splendor	Elisabeth Elliot	1957	7
	'Let Us Die That We May Live'	Johan Leemans	2003	6
	The bloody theater	Thieleman J. van Braght	1837	5
	Noble martyrs of Kent	G. Anderson Miller	1880	5
	Historia aliquot martyrum Anglorum maxime octodecim Cartusianorum	Maurice Chauncy	1888	5
	Virgin saints and martyrs	Sabine Baring-Gould	1900	5
	The historic martyrs of the primitive church	Arthur James Mason	1905	5
	Acta martyrum	Giuseppe Balestri	1907	5
	Les origines du culte des martyrs	Hippolyte Delehaye	1912	5
	Candles in the dark	Mary Craig	1984	5
	Vie d'Etienne le Jeune Par Étienne le Diacre	Marie-France Auzépy	2016	5
	Martyrs of the coliseum	A. J. O'Reilly	1874	4
	The English martyrs	Morris, John	1887	4
	Tortures and torments of the Christian martyrs	Antonio Gallonio	1903	4
	Martyrs	Susan Bergman	1996	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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