Saint Stephen's Solemnity Evening prayer in the place of the martyrdom of St. Stephen Just outside Lions' Gate (also known as Saint Stephen's Gate), a Greek Orthodox Church guards the place where Saint Stephen was martyred. His arrest, his trial, and the beginning of the persecutions against the Church are all narrated in Acts: Acts 6:8-15; 7; 8:13. They threw him out of the city, and began to stone him. Steps dug into the rock beneath the Temple esplanade indicate the ancient access route to th