Word: martyrdom
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...feels that Protestant ministers would be better off unmarried. "In times of crisis, such as we are entering," he says, "a clergyman's loyalty should not have to be divided between duties toward his brethren and care for his family. Marriage is a poor basis for martyrdom...
...comments of Senator Goldwater [June 16] and his disciples frighten the hell out of me. His suicidal ideas would have led him to martyrdom and glory had he existed during the revolutionary period, but in 1961 they are as out of place as Liz Taylor at a Tupperware* party...
...Freedom Riders gave up their bus tour and flew to New Orleans and safety. Whether courting martyrdom or standing for principle, they had unprotestingly submitted to blows and injuries for their cause. And now others took it up. In fast-integrating Nashville (see below), a group of ten college students-eight Negroes and two whites-felt impelled to finish out the Freedom Riders' uncompleted bus trip from Birmingham to New Orleans. When the bus bringing the students from Nashville got to Birmingham, the cops first jailed the students in "protective custody...
...upon my years as a minister of the Gospel, I am by no means cast down by the knowledge that I shall never again wear the clerical collar. Truth to tell, I am a little surprised that I should have worn it so long, in the face of the martyrdom I have suffered at the hands of women in my various flocks...
...them enshrined in the church of Mugnano del Cardinale near Naples, where they promptly began to produce a flood of miracles and special favors. A Neapolitan nun named Sister Mary Louisa of Jesus claimed to have received a series of revelations about Philomena's life and martyrdom, on the basis of which Don Francis di Lucia compiled a "biography" of the "saint." As a martyr, her formal canonization was unnecessary, but in 1837 Pope Gregory XVI authorized her public veneration and established her feast day (Aug. 11), and in 1855 Pope Pius IX approved a Mass and office...