The first Christian martyr

The first martyr Christian has been Stephen, one of the seven Deacons chosen by the Church of Jerusalem for help the Apostles. The seven belonged to the synagogue of the Hellenists, Hebrews or proselytes of Greek language (Acts 6,5 and following).

Stephen:

• instructed and educated in the ancient Scriptures;

• deacon, that is servant;

• witness of Jesus Christ;

• stoned for have viewed the Son of the man (Jesus Christ) to the right of God, that is for a real event with supernatural importance;

• he forgave the ones that killed him.

His martyrdom must serve us for teaching, so that we know how to believe to the simple historical facts in which God has operated, to the authentic and simple historical testimonies, more that to our depths studies. He must serve as admonishment so that our more deepened studies return home: to the simple historical reality in which God has intervened.

That's to which the secret of Fatima invites us. The Madonna has shown her worry for the many that have a behaviour worthy of the hell. She said that they go to the hell because nobody prays for them, but we can add, in the light of the "secret": even because there is not who makes to be resplendent for them the truth of Jesus Christ.

Many other people has been witness of Christ with all their life.

In the twentieth century the Christian martyrs has been about 45 million, more than two thirds of how much they have been in all the twenty centuries of Christianity.

And all these martyrs don't demand any revenge. It cannot even be imagined.

They testify simply that Jesus Christ, for whom has met him, is worth the entire life of a person and that «we without him could not do anything» (John 15,5).

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