When was the last time half a million people from around the world showed up to honor a Protestant martyr?

Never

because the veneration of martyrs( well developed in the Early Church) is not as developed in Protestant Churches as in the Catholic and Orthodox Churches because of the Protestant reaction to theinvocation of the saints in the pre reformations Churches ( both east and West)

Not that the protestants have not had many martyrs

many killed by catholic states and many such as Anabaptists killed by fellow Protestants and many in our modern age killed by Communists, Nazis, Islamists, etc

Of course, there have been many catholic martyrs killed by protestant governments in the past in such places as Britain and Ireland

There is a Christian martyred every 5 minutes, 105,000 deaths a year( Our Sunday Visitor pg 3 June 19, 2011 issues citing statistic from International Conference on Inter- religious Dialogue Between Christians, Jews and Muslims)

Why not have a great protestant gathering to honour those protestants ( and catholics and orthodox) who have been killed and are still persecuted and oppressed by Communist and Islamist regimes and pogroms and to call attention of the world to this ?

Check out Voice of the Martyrs that draws attention to this

Some liturgical Protestant Churches have Protestant ( and catholic and Orthodox ) Martyrs on their calendars

If a Catholic could interject a phrase or 2 right here: As I've mentioned earlier than, a few men and women appear to consider that honoring and respecting Mary is taking whatever clear of Jesus, and that is effortlessly no longer the case. She is a distinctive function mannequin for all Christians -- loving, compassionate, humble, and dependable. Showing recognize and love for the Blessed Mother on no account takes whatever clear of Christ's sacrifice at the Cross. Her illustration and her prayers continuously lead us in the direction of her Son and support us to develop within the love of God.

Or 4 million to honor any Protestant?

The funeral of Pope John Paul II in Rome on April 8, 2005 was:

+ The largest single gathering of Christianity in history, with over four million mourners

+ The largest gathering of statesmen in all of history, over 200 countries sent representatives to the funeral of Pope John Paul II. Here is a partial list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dignitaries_a...

http://www.vatican.va/gpII/documents/delegazioni-u...

+ Televised live in almost every nation in the world with an estimated viewership of over 2 billion people (there are only 1.1 billion Catholics in the world)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral_of_Pope_John_...

With love in Christ.

ah is this yet another bait and report Q??? does God tell us to "honor" the dead??? I believe Jesus told his desciples "let the dead bury the dead" Friend, when they told Him they had to bury their dead when Jesus was asking them to follow Him...

The living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun." "There is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest." Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6, 10. "The dead praise not the Lord." Psalms 115:17

Psalm 146:3,4 & Psalm 115:7 clearly states that the dead "do not praise the Lord", Job:7:9-10 / Ecclesiastes 9:5,6 Ecclesiastes 9:10 all make it clear that once we are dead, we stop functioning, we have no thoughts, no emotions, no wisdom or knowledge, and we have nothing to do with this earth anymore. You can read Job 34:14,15 and Job 27:3—there’s a number of verses that deal with the subject of death that make it very clear that the dead don’t know anything

so what purpose would it really serve??? seems like a complete waste of prescious time to me...

I never have and never will understand canonization of "saints". The whole Roman Catholic ritualistic business of patron saints of this and that; the collection of relics; the worship (veneration) of Mary; the very idea that God pardons mortal, but not venial sin ... for that you have to have your family members, friends and strangers pray you out of purgatory.

...you mean, idolatry? Never.

Did you know the Catholic church changed the ten commandments, removing the law: "Do not bow down to them nor serve them?"