martyrdom

How To Use martyrdom 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.
• 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
• Note that Jacopo adds something not prescribed - an angel swooping down with a palm, symbol of martyrdom.
• 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'
• 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
• Both St. Peter and St. Paul suffered martyrdom under the Roman Emperor Nero about 65 A . D .
• 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 
• 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.
• The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage. Chuck Palahniuk