List of Unitarian martyrs
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Unitarian martyrs are individuals who died for their adherence to
Renaissance
1529: Ludwig Haetzer - beheaded in Konstanz, Germany; believed Jesus was a leader and teacher, not a God due worship
1539: Katarzyna Weiglowa - burned at the stake at age 80 for "apostasy to Judaism", though her stance was anti-trinitarian, not specifically Jewish.
1553: Michael Servetus - burned at the stake after a prison term because of writing a book noting absence of biblical evidence for a Trinity.
1579:
1611: Iwan Tyszkiewicz - Polish member of the Socinian church (also see: Polish Brethren) who was beheaded for the blasphemy of Unitarianism.
Modern times
1697:
1942:
1965: James Reeb clubbed in Selma, Alabama, after responding to a call by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for the second of the Selma to Montgomery marches. Selma's public hospital refused to treat the Rev. Reeb, who was taken to University Hospital in Birmingham, two hours away. Reeb died on Thursday, March 11, with his wife by his side. His death inspired thousands to join King and other activists in the successful third march to Montgomery.
1965: Viola Liuzzo was a 39-year-old white mother and a civil rights worker from Detroit who came to Alabama to join in the Selma to Montgomery marches and help with voter registration. She was murdered March 25, 1965 while driving a fellow activist back from the Alabama Capitol Building, the site of the large rally at the culmination of the third march.
1988: Toribio Quimada, founder of the UU Church of the
2008: Greg McKendry and Linda Kreager, killed as a result of the politically motivated Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting.
References
- ^ Thomas Aikenhead Archived October 1, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Greer, Jane (August 30, 2010). "Morales visits Unitarian Universalists in the Philippines". UU World Magazine. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
UUA President Peter Morales is visiting Unitarian Universalists in the Philippines from August 26 to September 2
- ^ Muir, Frederic John (June 1, 2001). Maglipay Universalist: A History of the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Philippines.