Word: martyrdom
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...Jesus she wrote in the mystic's language of love: "I feel myself consuming with love for You, and this is a great torture to me, a slow martyrdom at not being able to do something for You. . . . Convert me, Jesus, convert me completely to Yourself, for if You do not make me a saint, I will not know how to work in Your vineyard and will end by betraying Your interests, instead of rendering them successful...
...Church Fathers and the lives of the Saints. But their subject matter was more surrealistic than sacred. Their usual theme: the horror of war, illustrated by such symbolism as rotting flesh on temple steps. There were no heroics. In the new Dark Age, saints bore assumed names, and martyrdom was usual...
...country lady, very ugly; with so much goodness in her blind eye, so much goodness in her moustache, in her snuff-taking nose, in her sagging cheeks, in her black-lipped mouth, that she was frightfully ugly. It was an ugliness made of all that sacrifice, of all that martyrdom which constitutes real goodness...
...unifying hand. They were split up in some 20 factions, and a struggle for leadership was developing inside the Jewish Agency Executive. One group, headed by the Hagana underground, championed armed defiance of the anti-immigration rules. They held that Jewish chances were already lost, believed that only the martyrdom of thousands would win the world sympathy they needed...
...last week burly Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber, 76, longtime anti-Nazi who ones narrowly escaped being sent to Dachau, asked General Eisenhower for permission to build a convent on the site of that most dreaded of Nazi concentration camps. His vision: to make the scene of 20th-century mass martyrdom a place of pilgrimage for people of all faiths...