The subjects executed inside the monastery were perforce religious, many revelling in the horrors of Martyrology, and those intended as gifts or those ordered by the clergy were religious in subject for the sake of appropriateness.
"The Tapestry Book"
Helen Churchill Candee
"Well, we meet here after mass; the chapter opens by reading the Martyrology, followed by the concluding prayers of Prime.
"En Route"
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
Modern taste may dislike the way in which this poem mixes up the terms and ideas of Christian Martyrology with classical myths, and as "the Legend of the Saints of Cupid" assumes the character of a kind of calendar of women canonised by reason of their faithfulness to earthly love.
"Chaucer"
Adolphus William Ward