Many people have shown tremendous courage to stand up for their beliefs - even at the cost of their lives.

These are some people who died for their faith or their belief.

Thomas A Beckett - Archbishop of Canterbury who infuriated King Henry II through placing the Church above the King. Beckett was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral on the orders of the King

Thomas More - Leading servent to King Henry VIII - Eventually beheaded for his refusal to accept Henry VIII's rejection of the Catholic Church

Joan of Arc - Burnt at stake for refusing to recant her communion with God.

The Oxford Martyrs - Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, and the Archbishop Thomas Cranmer. Burned at the Stake in Oxford 1555 for refusing to accept Roman Catholic faith of Queen Mary I.

St. Stephen as recorded in the Acts 6:8–8:3,the first Christian Martyr

# James the Great (Son of Zebedee) was beheaded in 44 A.D.
# Philip the Apostle was crucified in 54 A.D.
# Matthew the Evangelist killed with a halberd in 60 A.D.
# James the Just, beaten to death with a club after being crucified and stoned.
# Matthias was stoned and beheaded.
# Saint Andrew, St. Peter's brother, was crucified.
# Saint Mark was dragged in the streets until his death
# Saint Peter, crucified upside-down.

Maximilian Kolbe (Polish Franciscan, died at Auschwitz), 1941

Edith Stein (Carmelite nun, died at Auschwitz), 1942

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, (April 9, 1945) Lutheran Pastor