martyr

How To Use martyr In A Sentence

• I'll leave you to your martyrdom, she said, turning from him. GALILEE
• It is August 14, 1941, the vigil of the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Mother, the Woman clothed with the sun and the moon and the stars, who long before had promised young Maximilian the twin crowns of purity and martyrdom for God. Anti-Catholicism
• Because politicians do not court martyrdom, the intimidatory power of these lobbies is formidable. On Abortion: A Lincolnian Position
• Fragrances; an extoller of the banner of love and harmony; a promoter of the greatest peace among all nations and tribes; a kindler of the fire of the love of God in the hearts of the people; a runner to the place of martyrdom in the Cause of God; a yearner for every calamity in the love of Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas
• I then said that no one I knew could serve as a better example of martyrdom than Joan of Arc, before relating a short account of her life for the rest of the essay.
• Each group maintained a dignified silence as the marchers passed on their pilgrimage to uphold Republican martyrology.
• For example, in the cemetery of St. Cyriacus two women bought from the fossor Quintus a bisomus, or double grave, retro sanctos (near a martyr's tomb), and there are several other references to this practice. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
• May I take this opportunity to wish all NLM readers a very happy and blessed Easter, in the words of the EF Martyrology: Hac die, quam fecit Dominus, Solemnitas solemnitatum, et Pascha nostrum: Resurrectio Salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi secundum carnem. Papal Easter Day Mass and Urbi et Orbi Blessing
• Both warrior and martyr alike join forces in the town and attempt to keep the peace.
• Mira rejected the official history that viewed her mother as a traitor, preferring instead to cast her as a martyr to the partisan cause.