How To Use Martyr In A Sentence

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.
So Foster's got this vaguely martyr-like songbird persona she's working, and sometimes the devious witch bit sticks out too, as on ‘Crackerjack Fool’.
When you read the complete stories of the lives of these saints and shift your focus from the gruesome details of their martyrdoms and extreme ascetical practices, you might meet people who can teach you about being who you are. Rev. James Martin, S.J.: The Saints Were as Strange as You Are - And You Can Be as Holy as They Were
At this stage I'm going around with a martyred look on my face, indicating to everyone that I am abstaining from something, which goes against what I learned at school.
She was idealized as a martyr's daughter and a symbol of Palestine.
Note that Jacopo adds something not prescribed - an angel swooping down with a palm, symbol of martyrdom.
Martyrs did not entirely disappear, but they were different from their late antique predecessors; they might be bishops killed in political strife, missionaries killed by pagans, or confessors being ‘living dead’.
Starting new ones will only compound the problem: the traditionalist is in the same boat as the liberal to the extent that both are prisoners of a denominational market (p. 205), even when appeal is constantly being made to the model of Reformation confessio - or even early Christian martyrdom. Ramsey Lecture - Durham - 'The Lutheran Catholic'
Qassam himself was "martyred" by British troops in 1935, at the start of the Palestine Revolt, and then largely forgotten until his memory was revived by Hamas. Which Way for Hamas?
Stephen, deacon and protomartyr, was stoned to death by the Sanhedrin because of a vision he testified to Acts 7:55-57: Scandal of particularity, scandal of flesh, scandal of manhood
In vain he travelled to the most esteemed saints and the most celebrated martyries. Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
We can believe in the resurrection as a fact because eleven out of the twelve disciples died as martyrs testifying to the resurrection and deity of Christ.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Che Guevara had achieved the iconic status of martyrs by this date.
Vase of St. Martin, which is as follows: when St. Martin visited the Martyr's Field at Agaune, he prayed for some time, and then stuck his knife into the ground, and was excusably astonished at seeing blood flow forth. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
It gave his face a lean, rather surprisingly attractive ascetic look—the look of long-distance runners, saints, martyrs, and fanatics, the kind of elongated, soulful face that El Greco painted so hauntingly. Twilight
Scottish nationalists have made her into their version of Joan of Arc, a martyred hero who struggled against English oppression.
On the one hand, the dead men are apotheosized and made into martyrs for a great cause, as part of an ongoing effort to whip up enthusiasm for the war within the public.
We are not satisfied with the flavor nature has given to gallinaceous fowls, art has taken possession of them, and under the pretext of ameliorating, has made martyrs of them. The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
Under the pontificate of his former pupil Paul II (1464-1471), he returned to Rome and was appointed a papal abbreviator, but became involved in fresh quarrels in 1465 he visited Crete and Byzantium, and then returned to Rome, where he wrote the account of the martyrdom of Bl. Andrew of Chios The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
Burn with righteous indignation , martyr sacrifices for equality, do the mankind to liberate emancipator.
Whom changeful Fortune martyrs, guides and thralls! The Age Reviewed
Sorry, would-be martyrs, we do not censor your favorite sites from comments, unless you're into mature mamas or something.
Well, being a snitch or an informant does not make you martyr or mean that you are really copping out.
Muhammadan tradition, which with rare exceptions is uniformly hostile to the Umayyad dynasty, regards Hussain ﮫﻨﻋﻰﻠﺎﻌﺘﷲﺍﻰﻀﺮ as a martyr and Yazid as his murderer. Archive 2009-07-01
There are many (questionless) canonized on earth, that shall never be saints in heaven; and have their names in histories and martyrologies, who, in the eyes of God, are not so perfect martyrs as was that wise heathen Socrates, that suffered on a fundamental point of religion, — the unity of God. Religio Medici
The merchant Sebastian Vizcaino, sailing up the southern California coast, names Syuhtun and the area sheltered by the islands Santa Barbara, in honor of an unattested 3rd century martyr.
The army has been held back because the government is reluctant to make martyrs of the protesters.
Both St. Peter and St. Paul suffered martyrdom under the Roman Emperor Nero about 65 A . D .
On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican
Has not the poetic legacy of the avant-garde already begun to resemble a blasted library, bestrewn with the unburied cadavers of lunatics and suicides — all the beautiful, but misguided, losers who have martyred themselves to untelevised revolutions? Writing and Failure (Part 1) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
Also during the war in the martyrdom of 12 Christians,'the Bible, the road '.
The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage. Chuck Palahniuk
Tomorrow one of the Clintons will find a way to martyr themselves with victimization and sad tales of derry-do gone awry. Obama: Bigger than Bill Clinton, Bigger than MLK, Jr.
It is supposed to be on the spot where Peter was martyred that a basilica was built.
Some fifteen other saints of Ireland, bearing the name Columba, are mentioned in the Martyrology of Gorman. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
Thrse is tormented by the pull of multiple vocations: warrior, priest, apostle, doctor, martyr. RIDDLE ME THIS
We are reminded, for example, that belief in the resurrection of the dead is not an essential feature of the Jewish Bible but a view that developed primarily in response to the martyrdoms of the Maccabean revolt.
Next were the Gospel readings used at pretiosa (text recited after the reading from the Martyrology in the chapterhouse after the Office of Prime) .121 At the close of the manuscript are the Augustinian Rule and Raymond of Peñafort's version of the Order's constitutions. 122 A comparison between the prototype and the Unterlinden manuscript shows that the necrology is specific to the codex's community, in the first case the men in charge of the Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
Edward has the rather unenvied distinction of being the last of the religious martyrs in England to be burned at the stake.
Ellsworth was a martyr to his sense of honour and responsibility.
The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage. Chuck Palahniuk
Many of his successors find a place in Irish martyrologies, including St. Mochua, St. Moling and St. Cillene. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
Alban, protomartyr of Britain and patron of my parish church. Archive 2005-06-01
The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
It is better to be a martyr than a confessor.
A few were martyrs, some were serial murderesses, and some were mentally unbalanced, while others were totally innocent.
This monument was erected in honour of the martyrs during the internal war.
Not sure what he’d do if genuine martyrdom would advance the evangelical goal. franz dibbler Freshwater: Dec 8, 10, & 11, 2009 - The Panda's Thumb
I'll leave you to your martyrdom, she said, turning from him. GALILEE
She sat picking at her small plate of rice salad with an air of martyrdom.
Her forehead had what Domini secretly called a martyred look. The Garden of Allah
As the days pass, our participants discover and discuss new possibilities of psychophysiological self-regulation - breathing deeply to relax in spite of the anxious anticipation of leading a group for the first time, or to find a calm place from which to encounter memories of family members "martyred" by violence. James S. Gordon: Open Minds, And Warm But Troubled Hearts In Closed Gaza (Pt. 1)
Sub hac capella ad aliquos gradus monstratur locus eiusdem c鎛ationis, videlic鑤 c鎟nacul� magni, et in eo vas, aquarum, in quo Christus lauabat pedes Apostolorum: iuxta quod vas a Gamaliele, et alijs viris timoratis primus sepultus fuit protomartyr Stephanus. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
From Edgar Linton, as we have seen, Heathcliff's blows fell aside unharming, as the executioner's strokes from a legendary martyr. Emily Brontë
In 1985, after his cardinal petitioned the Vatican to beatify 117 Vietnamese martyrs, he was told he could never be released.
She fought against racism all her life and died a martyr to the cause.
They're self-righteous librarians drunk on the power of process and convinced of the virtue of martyrdom.
This revolutionary approach was announced by a woman painter, Anita Malfatti, “the protomartyr of modernism,” whose forward-looking paintings in her second exhibition, in 1917, were derided by Monteiro Lobato He claimed that she simply contributed her own “-ism” in her paintings where a horse and rider fall over: “I call this genre topple-ism”. [Jose] Oswald de [Souza] Andrade
However, not only the martyrs but also the confessors bore their tribulations and infirmities with great patience, and have to this day.
One who resolves to give his life for God if called upon has the merit of an actual martyr, since God considers a good intention as an accomplished deed.
Far from that, it begins questioning Lettres-de-Cachet generally, their legality, endurability; emits dolorous objurgation, petition on petition to have its three Martyrs delivered; cannot, till that be complied with, so much as think of examining the Protestant Edict, but puts it off always 'till this day week.' The French Revolution
Lord hath appeared to me this night, and hath said to me: Let not ne give none empeshment to Barnabas for to go into Cyprus, for he shall there enlumine many folk and shall suffer there martyrdom. The Golden Legend, vol. 3
The mullahs see it as their mission to spread Islam among the unbelievers and some believe they will achieve martyrdom in their attempts to achieve it.
‘Ironically,’ notes Miller, ‘the sort of feminist reading which stressed Charlotte's victimhood unintentionally reproduced the martyrology of the Victorians.’
You need plastic explosives, detonators, volunteers and somewhere to groom your potential martyrs and build your bomb.
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
A plethora of other problems transpierce him in every part of his being, however, like St. Sebastian's arrows; and the countenance that he raises to the unseeing skies is likewise that of a martyr.
I found out all about this after he was martyred.
Martyrs may die every day for their faith
Borromeo, ranked with Peter Martyr among the first writers on deep-sea research -- or thalassography, and is considered to be the founder of statistical science. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
From the Holy Father's June 6, 2007, General Audience on St. Cyprian, "the first Bishop in Africa to obtain the crown of martyrdom", whose feast is celebrated today: Saints
Throughout the entire span of their eventful history, they have struggled and fought for universal causes and have courted martyrdoms to uphold the values of truth, justice and freedom.
Lorenzago, picturesquely perched on one of the lower slopes on Monte Cridola, claims to be the scene of the martyrdom of Saint Florian, a popular Tyrolean saint, whose intercession is supposed to be of especial efficacy in cases of fire; while Monte Cornon is said to derive its name from an incident in the history of Cadore thus related by Mr. Gilbert: – Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
Originally used to designate the burial-place of a confessor or martyr (known also as a memoria or martyrion), this term gradually came to have a variety of applications: the altar erected over the grave; the underground cubiculum which contained the tomb; the high altar of the basilica erected over the confession; later on in the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
We will conclude this second part by giving a brief notice of some of those who, in the early days of aerostation, fell martyrs to their devotion to the new cause, and sometimes victims to their own want of foresight and their inexperience. Wonderful Balloon Ascents
As we grow increasingly self-righteous and hypercritical, we stumble into the ‘martyr trap.’
The Red Army, which had beaten the Wehrmacht colossus from the Volga back to Warsaw with incomparable martyrdom, had to quickly relieve the pressure on the inexperienced troops on the allied Western front.
The two elder sons of the Guru courted martyrdom fighting in action for us.
The desk, said to have belonged to the martyred poet Federico Garc í a Lorca, is passed along one by one among Ms. Krauss's characters. A Desk and Its Stories
His death made him a martyr to the cruelties of minority white rule and racial separation.
He conveyed to the fighting families letters of condolences from the President [Abbas] and updated them as to [Abbas's] decision to declare them as Shahids [Martyrs] of the Palestinian revolution ... Ken Blackwell: $900 Million for What?
A hundred tales of this sort are found in the martyrologies. A Philosophical Dictionary
There are bizarre anticipations of the Princess Diana cult - airhead clothes-horse becomes martyr for entire, weeping nation - in this musical about the trophy wife of dictator Juan Peron.
The "martyring," boomerang that it had proved, was over. The Madigans
That literature is almost exclusively religious, or rather (with the exception of the Gnostic writings and a few magical texts) ecclesiastical, either as to its contents (Bible, lectionaries, martyrologies, etc.) or as to its purpose (grammars and vocabularies composed with reference to the ecclesiastical books). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
We still live in an age of martyrs and heroic saints, of apostates and world-weary skeptics.
Her early history as a revolutionist is exceptional even in the minds of the Russians, and they have grown used to great martyrs. Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship
He was built as powerfully as a bull and it was common knowledge that he was generously endowed by nature that his martyred wife feared the marriage bed as unbelievers once feared the rack.
Thence we turned into the Rue St. Denis, which is one of the oldest streets in Paris, and is said to have been first marked out by the track of the saint's footsteps, where, after his martyrdom, he walked along it, with his head under his arm, in quest of a burial-place. Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1.
Driven by a death wish and using the most revolting tactics, these heartless nihilists demand martyrdom.
In each apostle portrait, each man holds the symbol of his martyrdom.
Severum persecutionem concitasse refert, in qua per omnes ubique locorum Ecclesias, ab athletis pro pietate certantibus, illustria confecta fuerunt martyria. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
But an anti-Mormon mob killed him that year, creating a martyr to the new faith.
Pridden's work down at the East of London; was effective; it had the ring to thrill a responsive chord in Mr. Barmby, who mused on London's East, and martyrly service there. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
He died a martyr's death, but only because he was pervaded from the beginning with the elements of a martyr's spirit. The Assassinated President
Did you know that more than 500 people were martyred in the Netherlands between 1530 and 1555 for espousing Reformation convictions?
Church, that the term martyr came to be exclusively applied to those who had died for the faith. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Did I not martyrize myself into a human mule by descending to the bottom of a dreadful pit (suffering mortal terror all the time, lest it should cave in upon me), actuated by a virtuous desire to see with my own two eyes the process of underground mining, thus enabling myself to be stupidly correct in all my statements thereupon? The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
On the hillside above the cemetery is a memorial to ‘the Glendale martyrs’, one of whom - John MacPherson - was an ancestor of the woman we buried.
Two or three of these dungeons, for they are nothing better, still remain; and a brief description of the one which we have mentioned will give our readers some idea of what confessorship cost, independent of martyrdom. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4
Plebs tua te, Domine, beati Angeli sacerdotis et Martyris tui glorificatione sanctificet: et eodem intercedente te mereatur habere rectorem. May 30 -- St Joan of Arc
In the Vendee, south of the Loire, civil war was soon raging, with the rebels organizing themselves into a self-styled Catholic and Royal Army dedicated to restoring the heirs of the martyred king.
For we cannot deny the church of God both in Asia and Africa, if we do not forget the peregrinations of the apostles, the deaths of the martyrs, the sessions of many and (even in our reformed judgment) lawful councils, held in those parts in the minority and nonage of ours. Religio Medici
Their battered condition lends credence to the story, for why else would they have been saved, if not for their association with the martyred slave?
A committed Catholic, Gibson's choice of screen roles has always veered towards suffering, sacrifice and martyrdom.
If you kill an opposition candidate, you create a martyr, with a groundswell of indignation on which his successor can ride into office.
Cuban martyrdom is not new - whether we speak of those Don Quixotes who took up arms against the revolution early on, the many would-be Mandelas who rotted in prison or the families who perished on boats fleeing the island, giving a moral meaning to the Spanish word balsa "(raft). The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
It was a snack shop; he turned to the lady at the counter with a martyred expression, amazed inside at how easy it was to lie.
This is the day of martyred intellectuals, who were brutally killed by the occupation army and their cohorts.
In the decades that followed his death, out of the circle of 12 that had accompanied him during his three years of ministry, 10 would die a martyr's death.
Men call Ethelbert a martyr now, I suppose because he was slain. A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford
In the process she achieves a kind of sanctification and transcendence through martyrdom.
THE latest Christian prodnose to have martyrdom status bestowed upon her by the Christian Legal Centre, among others, had been warned to keep her religious beliefs to herself. The Freethinker
The revolutionary zeal of her martyred men and women, which neither fortress nor katorga could suppress, was my inspiration in the darkest hours. My Disillusionment in Russia
But they burned in so great charity that they cast and threw away their arms and harness, and kneeling on their knees received sufferably with a joyous heart the swords of them that martyred them, among whom Maurice, embraced in the love and faith of Jesu Christ, received the crown of martyrdom. The Golden Legend, vol. 5
I don't know where you get the term martyr to equate it with suicide bombings. CNN Transcript Apr 12, 2002
I will instance only lich, ‘a dead carcase, whence lichwake, the time or act of watching by the dead; lichgate, the gate through which the dead are carried to the grave; Lichfield, the field of the dead, a city in Staffordshire, so named from martyred Christians. On Dictionaries
Moreover, the Northumbrian monarchy already had produced one saint and martyr, Oswald, whose death was at the hands of the heathen Mercian king Penda, of whom Wulfhere certainly, and Aethelbert probably, was a son. The Staffordshire Hoard Appeal
The greater nervous power planted in the female organ is demonstrated by the andromania to which some women are subject, and which makes them either Messalines or martyrs. The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
In the oldest known recension of the so-called martyrology of St. Jerome the name of St. Blasius does not appear; it is only in the later, enlarged catalogues that he is mentioned. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
It is better to be a martyr than a confessor.
(Old) Boleslav, where Wenceslaus gained his degree of martyrdom, is a sedate little town near the banks of the Labe (known as Elbe in Germany) dozing among orchards and lush meadows and o'ershadowed by tall elm-trees. From a Terrace in Prague
Being neutral toward the mother/father (without a show of martyrdom) is better for the children that seeing you in conflict, surely.
It is a theory that some people have been looking at because there is a fear that if Iran, which I hope we can prevent, becoming a nuclear power, but if they were to become one, some people worry that they are not deterrable, that they somehow have a different mindset and a worldview that might very well lead the leadership to be willing to become martyrs. Clinton: We Will "Totally Obliterate" Iran If They Attack Israel
We shall not 'quicken' our fellows unless we 'die,' either literally or by the not less real martyrdom of rigid self-crucifixion and suppression. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV
Female saints were also represented as visionaries, martyrs, and reformers.
It needed only that the seal of martyrdom upon such a life should cause his virtues to be transfigured before us in imperishable grandeur, and his name to be emblazoned with heaven's own light upon that topmost arch of fame, which shall stand when governments and nations fall. Abraham Lincoln; His Life and Its Lessons
To be a martyr is to witness to the truth we hold dear about our faith: the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit.
He must next be declared "beatified" (blessed), a title bestowed only on martyrs or those who have performed miracles. WN.com - Articles related to Boston Archdiocese welcomes 2 rectors as auxiliary bishops
Lequien (II, 621) mentions six bishops of Cyrene, and according to Byzantine legend the first was St. Lucius (Acts, xiii, 1); St. Theodorus suffered martyrdom under Diocletian; about 370 Philo dared to consecrate by himself a bishop for Hydra, and was succeeded by his own nephew, Philo; Rufus sided with Dioscorus at the Robber Synod (Latrocinium) of Ephesus in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
But in the February of 1429 -- four days before the Maid of Domremy set forth from her voice-haunted Bois Chenu to bring about a certain coronation in Rheims Church and in Rouen Square a flamy martyrdom -- four days before the coming of the good Lorrainer, Fulke d'Arnaye was slain at The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages
The divine has long been made an intimate participant in male experiences of violence, in war and in political martyrdom.
He was a Roman patrician and priest, and is mentioned with distinction in Latin martyrologies. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
This had been demonstrated before in the Marian persecution in the 1550s where many of the martyrs had occupations such as labourers, weavers, carpenters and fullers.
The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
The persecutions and martyrdoms seemed to have solidified the believers' faith.
Hunus by name, a sharp man (_hominem callidum_), whom he ordered to receive and bring back the body of the martyr in question. Lectures and Essays
A martyr of tolerance, I think she would like not to just purse her thin prim lips.
He was martyred after refusing to persecute Christians and became a patron saint of soldiers.
She, too, felt multiple calls; indeed, she felt all calls at once: ‘I feel the vocation of the warrior, the priest, the apostle, the doctor, the martyr,’ she wrote.
Now it was, it is clear, that the sword of sorrow pierced her through and through, for the Queen of martyrs was fearfully and mortally wounded in that part which is impassible, that is, in her soul; and she bore the death of the Cross in that which could not die, suffering all the more her grievous inward death, as outward death departed farther from her. Meditations on the Life and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
His ex-wife, Andrea, re-enters Tyrone's life, bringing with her a proposal to write a book about Sierra, his daughter and a martyr of the movement.
There are many (questionless) canonized on earth, that shall never be saints in heaven; and have their names in histories and martyrologies, who, in the eyes of God, are not so perfect martyrs as was that wise heathen Socrates, that suffered on a fundamental point of religion, — the unity of God. Religio Medici
Even crimes contrary to nature were not unknown, but as the martyr-apostle of Christ says: "Their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature; and the men also, leaving the natural use of the woman, flamed out in lust towards each other, perpetrating shameless acts with their own sex, and receiving in their own persons the due recompense of their pervertedness. On the Incarnation
martyrization of Gaza must stop", arguing that the Palestinian territory has become "a prison with an open sky" (article in French). Booker Rising
Iran has Rafsanjani, Khatami, Mousavi and Karoubi, who brought down the Shah with lengthy, building broadbased mourning demonstrations that fed off the continued martyring of their demonstrators. Iran Election Live-Blogging (Friday June 19)
Eusebius's compilation ton archaion martyrion synagoge, containing the Passions of martyrs previous to the persecution of Diocletian. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
In his list of six primary features of martyr narratives, Marotti singles out two as uniquely Catholic: the "sacralizing of these sites of suffering and execution by means of Catholic prayer, sacramentalism, and ceremonialism" and "the occurrence of supernatural signs and wonders and the conversion of the bodies and body parts of the martyrs into saints' relics" 78. Wheeler and Marotti on anti-Catholicism
If we go on reading about the puerile wife-swapping, the pubescent sex games, the Marvel Comics Fantastic Four superheroes, and the gratuitous martyrdom, we will gradually come to see our own suburbia as a desert vastation and our own children as Bedouins subsisting on the shifting sand, as refugees from civil war and famine. In the Desert, Prime Time
Because politicians do not court martyrdom, the intimidatory power of these lobbies is formidable. On Abortion: A Lincolnian Position
Mesopotamiæ, in qua et fuit martyrizatus secundum quosdam, rursumque post sexaginta et tres annos recuperatum corpus in suam fuisse Ecclesiam restitutum, videlicet in Calamia, atque in eiusdem recuperationis signum certum dimiserunt isti, et dimittunt extra feretri loculum dependere brachium dextrum, cum manu quæ tetigisse creditur pia resurgentis vulnera Christi. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
The day he was martyred, there was a demonstration after school.
Past historians evaluated him either as a secret papist who corrupted the church or as the martyr of true Anglicanism.
Boromir's attempted martyrdom was a bit self piteous to be sympathetic.
It is a martyr to mildew however and I have found it grows best in damp soil with shade for at least part of the day.
Rather, martyrdom only makes sense when one takes seriously the martyrs ' religiosity.
Many of the martyrs whose memory we revere, of the saints we apotheosize, of the heroes we enshrine in history, are one-third fraud and two-thirds fake. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
Wente acknowledges that suicide bombers like Aayat are driven to bombing by hopelessness and despair - but that this "hopelessness" is largely a creation of a culture that glorifies death and shoves the joy of "martyrdom" down the throats of the young. Daimnation!: The new Weekly Standard has
He is white or, if he is black, a recent convert to the missionary Church and a martyr.
`I have difficulty in seeing you in the role of martyr. SAN ANDREAS
`I have difficulty in seeing you in the role of martyr. SAN ANDREAS
Renaissance paintings showed the blood or lopped heads of martyrs; Shakespeare's tragedies typically concluded with swordplay and stabbings.
Most notable to European eyes at this time was their religious fanaticism and willingness to seek martyrdom through death in battle.
Aylward of Evesham, a weaver, together with other members of that town, visited the shrine to supplicate before the Martyr's tomb. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
As of this modern age these acts of martyrdoms are regarded as legends but they are based on historical facts and foundation.
'barrin' the ermine; 'besides, that on the present occasion, Peter's argument in their favour decided them upon staying, for they now felt like martyrs, and firmly believed that they were putting the chief justice under an obligation to them for life. The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete
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
Men have lost their reason in nothig so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.
The entire day is passed in religious exercises, but anything which could in the least savour of any public cult of the martyrs is sedulously guarded against, as such anticipation of the Church's official action would seriously interfere with the cause of their canonization, which is now under consideration at Quebec. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
She fought against racism all her life and died a martyr to the cause.
Many today, even among the leaders of the religious world, claim that Christ died a martyr's death, suffering merely for his beliefs.
Indeed, martyring its leaders and destroying infrastructure may only strengthen the enemy's cause.
Extreme cases come from martyrs who choose death rather than violate principles which are sacred to them.
For that average believer did not doubt that God's grace had been spectacularly displayed in the courage of the martyrs.
I should be very sorry to see you suffer martyrdom for me.
Emphasis on the sanctity of the human body can also be seen in the cult of the martyrs and saints, in which bodily remains are imbued with divine power.
Yet now, resolutely, as only a man can do who is capable of martyring himself for the cause of science, he proceeded to violate all the fineness and delicacy of his nature by making love to the unthinkably disgusting bushwoman. THE RED ONE
Thus that admirable saint and martyr, Bishop Hooper, when he came to die, one endeavored to dehort him from death by this: O sir, consider that life is sweet and death is bitter; presently he replied, Life to come is more sweet, and death to come is more bitter, and so went to the stake and patiently endured the fire. Sermons to the Natural Man
There is another aspect in which we may look at this great King; we think of him not only as a doer but as a sufferer; and not only as an endurer of disappointment, a bearer of toil, difficulty, trouble, but as one who bore in his body a "white martyrdom" of great pain, perhaps even anguish; and this for some twenty years. Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days
Exeter Cathedral Library still possesses a martyrology (a calendar of saints) in which are written out the names of the dead for whom the clergy prayed in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
A special exhibition of valuable and rare artefacts which trace the story of some of the saints and martyrs connected with York Minster has gone on display in the Minster Chapter House.
Renny quit his pummeling and struck a martyred pose.
Postwar rituals created an ‘immortal Confederacy’ with soldiers as heroic martyrs, Lee as a godlike figure, and ‘Dixie’ as a regional hymn.
Christianity; and at Polycarp's martyrdom they joined the heathens in clamoring for his being cast to the lions; and when there was an obstacle to this, for his being burnt alive; and with their own hands they carried logs for the pile. synagogue of Satan -- Only once is the term "synagogue" in the New Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
We celebrate the lives of past martyrs and saints from the Christian faith.
Rolling his eyes, he moved to join Max in his excavations, sighing in exaggerated martyrdom.
God's saints, she was their most bitter and relentless persecutor, yea, was "_drunken with the blood of the saints_, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. The Revelation Explained
The two illustrated here are probably St Barbara with the tower and martyr's palm, and an unidentified bishop-saint carrying the Greek Orthodox cross.
The last two, in particular, chafed at the restrictions of religious orthodoxy, but like Galileo after them, chose to live and continue their researches in preference to martyrdom.
If your son wanted to play the martyr, he may have had to pay the price. DESPERADOES
Don't let yourself become attached to a martyr complex.
Erinn gratuitously rags on Dragonlicker, calling his monastic approach, "the martyr approach," telling how he will overdramatize his suffering to give him an excuse for blowing the next challenge. Tallulah Morehead: Survivor Tocantins: Puff's Revenge
The Shahadat martyring of Imam Hussein turned two critical chapters in Islam. Mike Ghouse: The Significance Of Muharram And Centrality Of Imam Hussain
The revolutionaries are the prophets and martyrs of social and political change.
I could forgive the fetishizing of martyrdom if the film displayed a hint of subtlety or emotional resonance.

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