How To Use Martyrdom In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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Note that Jacopo adds something not prescribed - an angel swooping down with a palm, symbol of martyrdom.
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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'
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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
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Both St. Peter and St. Paul suffered martyrdom under the Roman Emperor Nero about 65 A . D .
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Also during the war in the martyrdom of 12 Christians,'the Bible, the road '.
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The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage. Chuck Palahniuk
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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.
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The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage. Chuck Palahniuk
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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
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I'll leave you to your martyrdom, she said, turning from him.
GALILEE
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She sat picking at her small plate of rice salad with an air of martyrdom.
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They're self-righteous librarians drunk on the power of process and convinced of the virtue of martyrdom.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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The two elder sons of the Guru courted martyrdom fighting in action for us.
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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.
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Driven by a death wish and using the most revolting tactics, these heartless nihilists demand martyrdom.
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In each apostle portrait, each man holds the symbol of his martyrdom.
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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
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A committed Catholic, Gibson's choice of screen roles has always veered towards suffering, sacrifice and martyrdom.
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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).
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In the process she achieves a kind of sanctification and transcendence through martyrdom.
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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
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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
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(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
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Being neutral toward the mother/father (without a show of martyrdom) is better for the children that seeing you in conflict, surely.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The divine has long been made an intimate participant in male experiences of violence, in war and in political martyrdom.
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The persecutions and martyrdoms seemed to have solidified the believers' faith.
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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
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Because politicians do not court martyrdom, the intimidatory power of these lobbies is formidable.
On Abortion: A Lincolnian Position
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Boromir's attempted martyrdom was a bit self piteous to be sympathetic.
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Rather, martyrdom only makes sense when one takes seriously the martyrs ' religiosity.
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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
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Most notable to European eyes at this time was their religious fanaticism and willingness to seek martyrdom through death in battle.
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As of this modern age these acts of martyrdoms are regarded as legends but they are based on historical facts and foundation.
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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
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I should be very sorry to see you suffer martyrdom for me.
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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
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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
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Rolling his eyes, he moved to join Max in his excavations, sighing in exaggerated martyrdom.
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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.
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I could forgive the fetishizing of martyrdom if the film displayed a hint of subtlety or emotional resonance.
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Are these serial terrorist failures (a) dupes (or not) used by Al-Q to probe US law enforcement techniques and thereby gather intelligence in advance of “the big one,” or (b) boobish 9/11 wannabes who just want to get in on the martyrdom love?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Faisal Shahzad Allegedly Admits to Attempted Times Square Bombing
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History is full of their bloody exploits, conquests, sacrifices and martyrdoms.
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What would stop Israel from setting up an investigation into complicty of the Turkish government in a premeditated armed attack on IDF commandoes by armed mercenaries and militants linked to known terrorist groups, who set sail from a Turkish port with the goal of breaking an Israeli blockade, and chanting “Khyber, khyber, beware O Jews”, and “Go back to Auschwitz” and various slogans glorifying jihad and martyrdom?
The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey
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He does so with an air of martyrdom about him, the selfish man.
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Certainly ... they do not seem to have been a company of gentle, dreamy and euphemistical saints, with a particular aptitude for martyrdom and an inordinate development of affability.”
Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
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Unless we view them dialectically, the events of history - the violent chaos of battle, agonies of martyrdom, interminable failures of individual intellect and will - appear to be no more than a ‘slaughter bench’ of human hopes.
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The feature that stands out in this long life of suffering, of martyrdom in her early years and always of convulsion [Page 296] and vicissitudes, is perfect truth, perfect simplicity, and, it may be said, entire and unalterable consistency.
The Ruin of a Princess
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This title presents an exploration of the Christian concept of martyrdom and its relation to the understanding of the 'self'.
AvaxHome
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His martyrdom encouraged the people to resist.
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Many saints suffered martyrdom
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Anabaptists encouraged themselves mainly with hortatory texts and liturgical hymns extolling martyrs and martyrdom.
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As Reza Aslan has pointed out in various interviews in the last few days, the Iranian precedent is that a movement feeds off martyrdom.
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Friday June 19)
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The missionary Jesuit order developed a speciality in clinical depictions of torturous martyrdoms.
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They are the words of the martyrs, martyrdom being the frequent fate of prophets.
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A crude chromolithograph of their martyrdom, widely scattered among the Christian tribes, still cries to the people for blood-vengeance.
High Albania
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Iraqi TV hailed the suicide bomb attack as the " blessed beginning on the road of martyrdom
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We do not envy most of them their eternal martyrdom in marble, their pillory of indiscrimination.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867
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According to the statement, of the "Liber Pontificalis" (ed. Duchesne, I, 155) an ostiary named Romanus suffered martyrdom in 258 at the same time as
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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Concepts like martyrdom, which might seem to be shared with Christianity, are quite differently inflected, because based on a much more ready acceptance of the way of the world than on world rejection.
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Confessor: One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution but does not suffer martyrdom.
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They believe in martyrdom, and forbid members to have one-to-one meetings with their lawyers in jail.
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He was invested with the Guruship on May 25, 1606 just days before his father's martyrdom.
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Reports of martyrdoms steeled resistance to persecution and were the source of encouragement to persevere.
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An extraordinary letter was written by the prior of the monastery two years before his martyrdom.
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Intensely painted scenes depict the gruesome martyrdom of countless saints.
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Made illustrious through the chrism of episcopacy and through the divine blood of martyrdom, ye are, O God-wise ones, glorified God-beseemingly on account of both, crying out: Blessed art Thou in the temple of Thy glory, O
The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
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Soutine's paintings of skinned rabbits, plucked fowl, fish and beef carcasses—metaphors for suffering and martyrdom, especially the Crucifixion—were inspired by paintings of similar subjects by Titian, El Greco, Rembrandt and Chardin.
Constructivist Criticism Laid Bare
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Footage from TheCall San Diego, taken November 1, 2008 by video documentarist Michael W. Wilson [author of Silhouette City] shows Engle and his disciples exhorting a Qualcomm stadium crowd to acts of Christian martyrdom against legalized abortion: rhetoric that serve as thinly veiled exhortation towards violent acts of terrorism against abortion clinics and abortion providers.
Bruce Wilson: Anti-Gay Marriage Pro-Prop 8 Leader Called For Antiabortion Martyrs
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Iraqi TV hailed the suicide bomb attack as the " blessed beginning on the road of martyrdom
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AGI - Naples, Sept. 19 - The miracle of San Gennaro's blood that liquefies happened again in the cathedral of Naples during the feast of the Patron Saint, which is the anniversary of the martyrdom which took place in 305 A.C. at the Pozzuoli solfatara.
San Gennaro: A New Miracle
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Indeed, her loyalty is soon recast as selfless martyrdom.
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With a sense of impending martyrdom she walked through the adjoining sitting-room to the hall.
THE GOSPEL MAKERS
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She sat picking at her small plate of rice salad with an air of martyrdom.
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They argued windily with him, and he was cocky, and enjoyed the spectacle of his interesting martyrdom.
Babbit
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All three, and particu - larly Bruno, extend Ficino's anthropocentrism into cosmic dimensions, as they unfold a universe to be explored and understood through the unfettered inter - rogation of nature rather than by a perusal of tradi - tional authors — an ideal consecrated by Bruno's martyrdom.
PLATONISM IN THE RENAISSANCE
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Instantly a bullet zings past a few feet away, almost guaranteeing his ticket to martyrdom.
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They are the words of the martyrs, martyrdom being the frequent fate of prophets.
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I thought of the medieval Netherlandish altarpieces I love so much: Sometimes the central panel -- be it a picture of the annunciation, the crucificion, or a martyrdom -- is flanked by panels depicting portraits of the altarpiece donors (often husband and wife, male and female).
A Conversation with Julia Glass, author of Three Junes
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But in the army, where next week you may find yourself in a vicious firefight with a load of Taleban wackos bent on both martyrdom and the tender attentions of the usual 72 virgins (or is it 73 this week?), curtailing training by a week may mean that something which might save the life of a young Private soldier in the field goes untaught.
A Shilling for Des's Meter?
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The pictures show a country with a truly biased curriculum and a penchant for martyrdom.
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His first encounter with the Stations of the Cross set him howling with fright in church; his compulsory bedtime reading as a child was stories of Christian saints and their martyrdoms.
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Victorinus, bishop of Pettau in Pannonia, who suffered martyrdom under Diocletian in A.D. 303, wrote the earliest extant commentary on the Apocalypse.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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She sat picking at her small plate of rice salad with an air of martyrdom.
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Christianity in the first three centuries was a religion of martyrdom.
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Through daily ascesis, even in periods of no external persecution, the monastics testify to the martyrdom of conscience.
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He could well have viewed his coming death as the martyrdom of God's eschatological agent who had to endure tribulation to bring about Israel's renewal and inaugurate the new covenant.
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Through daily ascesis, even in periods of no external persecution, the monastics testify to the martyrdom of conscience.
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Then there arises the question of the seemliness of conferring titles of martyrdom on the victims.
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A mass of people has collected on the terrace of the press center and set up a kind of protest show with flags: a black one for grief, a red one for martyrdom, a green flag for Islam, and the Iraqi flag.
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Rather, suffering and martyrdom are consequences of faithful witness in a hostile world.
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He was a man who actively sought martyrdom; and the talents he possessed, which were not inconsiderable, had been diluted by spite.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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For all that, Sherman's shots still trade on a kind of painterliness, the stiff poses and Her-Majesty-the-Queen gestures of her subjects as instantly recognisable an attribute of big bucks as palms and haloes are of martyrdom.
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Later, as part of a rambling disquisition, which is allowed because, under the Commissions 'rules, he is permitted to represent himself, Mohammed addressed the desire for martyrdom that has also been prominent in previous hearings.
Andy Worthington: Chaos and Lies: Why Obama Was Right To Halt The Guantanamo Trials
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So the following years brought further opposition and persecution, and even martyrdom, to evangelical missionaries in Mexico.
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The ringdove thanks the Lord for her (his?) suffering in the holy martyrdom of love.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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His martyrdom is the first - and only one - among the Apostles to be recorded in Scripture.
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Those modern Jews were voluble to disavow all sympathy with the murderous deeds of their progenitors, who had martyred the prophets, and ostentatiously averred that if they had lived in the times of those martyrdoms they would have been no participators therein, yet by such avouchment they proclaimed themselves the offspring of those who had shed innocent blood.
Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
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The group of catechumens was baptized after a few days in prison, and-though it may seem hard to believe-looked forward to their martyrdom.
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Their actions can give us some gauge: depending on whether they accept martyrdom or apostatize; build a monastery or molest little girls; become suicide bombers or found the Missionaries of Charity.
Mail Call: A Crisis of Faith
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The menology, published by Canisius, places the martyrdom of St. Julian and his companions, at Antinopolis in
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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When you read the complete stories of the lives of these saints, and shift your focus from the gruesome details of their martyrdoms and their more 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
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This directed Gauguin's search for sacred art away from our world of afflictions, through a penitential view of personal martyrdom to a symbolist, dreamlike transcendence available to initiates alone.
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The recital which they gave on their return made Germany so unpopular among the brethren that they said that none ought to go there but such as aspired to martyrdom, and that many prayed to Heaven to be preserved from the ferocity of the Germans.
The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
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And yet the number is steadily increasing who quietly undertake herculean tasks for their fellow-men, knowing that they will be neither appreciated nor understood, but, instead, will have to suffer social ostracism, which is sometimes quite as hard to endure as physical martyrdom.
The Ascent of the Soul
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Suetonius (in Claud.c. 25) may seem to offer a proof how strangely the Jews and Christians of Rome were confounded with each other.] 26 See, in the xviiith and xxvth chapters of the Acts of the Apostles, the behavior of Gallio, proconsul of Achaia, and of Festus, procurator of Judea.] 27 In the time of Tertullian and Clemens of Alexandria, the glory of martyrdom was confined to
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Obedience, suffering, and martyrdom are also the theme of Jesus' words in John 12.
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The little chapel of the martyry was dedicated to St. Basiliscus, a Bishop of Comana who, in the third century, had suffered martyrdom with Lucian at
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
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How could I refuse such an impressive display of martyrdom?
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“By martyrdom,” the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council explained, “a disciple is transformed into an image of his Master …” (Lumen Gentium, 42).
Sinners, Apostles, Martyrs: On the Solemnity of Sts. Peter & Paul
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His characters lived and understood themselves in a fallen world where martyrdom was often the cost of salvation.
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_History of the Quakers_, edit. 1725, pp. 219-227.; also in a pamphlet entitled _A Declaration of the sad and great Persecution and Martyrdom of the People of God, called Quakers, in New England, for the
Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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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.
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… He [Praxeas] was the first to import into Rome this sort of perversity, a man of restless disposition in other respects, and above all inflated with the pride of martyrdom [confessorship] simply and solely because of a short annoyance in prison; when, even if he had given his body to be burned, it would have profited him nothing, not having the love of God, whose very gifts he resisted and destroyed.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History
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She dressed in scarlet, the colour of martyrdom.
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Just as there are two Benazirs (who sometimes get mixed up: only the Radcliffe Benazir could be "enthused" by her Asian identity), there are two Bhutto families: one is compared to the Kennedys; the blessed clan destined to deliver the people from poverty and oppression, but punished by political martyrdom.
The Double Life of Benazir Bhutto
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The self-invited martyrdom he was presently orchestrating would be rendered worthless.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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The sole remaining source is tradition, which, though constantly receiving unhistoric accretions, seems to preserve a kernel of truth in the legend that the apostle went to Rome toward the close of his life and there suffered martyrdom under Nero.
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His last speech and his death are theatrical moments beyond all reason and expectation; his words define and contextualise his action as martyrdom, not suicide.
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There is nothing that will spread abroad anything, true or false, like the flames of martyrdom, because if the people whom you martyrize have the hardihood to stand the punishment that you impose, you only turn society against the truth and make their martyrdom the very instrument of error.
The Proper Limitations of State Interference
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Let us whose souls were sealed with the blood of Christ in the day of redemption, with spiritual exultation, prophetically, draw the holy blood that is flowing unto us from the source of martyrdom, and is prefigurative both of the life-bringing passion of the Saviour and of the eternal glory; let us therefore cry unto Him: Thou that art glorified in thy saints, O
The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
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The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage. Chuck Palahniuk
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His martyrdom is the first - and only one - among the Apostles to be recorded in Scripture.
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Although those who have been "martyred" because of their passivism have sometimes become role models for others, it is not the principle ruling the world order, nor is martyrdom "just".
Keith Ward, Big Questions in Science and Religion 8: Can Science Provide a Wholly Naturalistic Explanation for Moral and Religious Beliefs?
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So religious was Ahmad Sabourjian that he bought a house near a Hosseinieh, a religious club that he frequented during the holy month of Moharram to mourn the martyrdom of Imam Hossein.
Not a Self-Hating Jew, Just a Jew-Hating Fool
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Certainly ... they do not seem to have been a company of gentle, dreamy and euphemistical saints, with a particular aptitude for martyrdom and an inordinate development of affability.
Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
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She led them into battle where they achieved martyrdom and were blessed by Guru Gobind Singh.
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What does the Bible tell us about the ministry, martyrdom, resurrection and ascension of the two witnesses?
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However, despite the monolithic picture of early Christians 'willingness to die at the hands of the authorities that we have inherited from martyrologies and much other literature, not to mention such movies as The Sign of the Cross, martyrdom was in fact a controversial issue at the time.
The Betrayer's Gospel
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The arch of the centre porch has an immense span, bordered by bold fascicled work, while over the doorway is the Martyrdom of St. Laurence in relief.
The South of France—East Half
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Frank rather pished and poohed at all these preparations of grandeur; he felt that when the ceremony took place he would look like the ornamental calf in the middle of it; but, on the whole, he bore his martyrdom patiently.
The Kellys and the O'Kellys
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A tragedian, Rubens loved to depict battles, atrocities, martyrdoms and slaughters.
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And when they should be beheaded both, S. James desired a potful of water of him that should smite off their heads, and therewith he baptized Josias, and then anon they were both beheaded and suffered martyrdom.
The Golden Legend, vol. 4
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The short second act ends with the vow of martyrdom, setting the stage for one of the most hair-raising operatic finales.
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What would stop Israel from setting up an investigation into complicty of the Turkish government in a premeditated armed attack on IDF commandoes by armed mercenaries and militants linked to known terrorist groups, who set sail from a Turkish port with the goal of breaking an Israeli blockade, and chanting “Khyber, khyber, beware O Jews”, and “Go back to Auschwitz” and various slogans glorifying jihad and martyrdom?
The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey
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Let us hope that the coky-nuts will agree wid us, an 'that the natives won't urge upon us the blissins av martyrdom.
Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature
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Trent's bilious name-calling, vows of revenge, and cheap martyrdom are no deeper than those of any car-less teenager, but his colossal production crystallized his complaints.
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Relics were increasingly translated, or transported into, churches from sites of martyrdom, and as the basis for Christian burial ad sanctos.
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In mentioning martyrdom of course, the question of religion comes up.
