Word: martyrdom
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...letter was read, in defiance of police on hand to prevent it. Printing presses throughout Norway ran off copies by thousands. Said Bishop Berggrav: "When the truth becomes something sacred for us, it is then that it can create martyrs." Abashed by the Church's readiness for martyrdom and fearful of popular uprisings in its defense, the puppet government eased its campaign of terror and suppression...
...Luther's influence in Germany" should reflect that Hitler and his advisers are not and never were Lutherans, and that Lutheran pastors have been the chief obstacle to Hitler's absolute sway in Germany, Norway and Denmark, and for that reason they have suffered imprisonment and martyrdom by the thousands...
...tour work on paper and in conventions. I wonder who's going to do the leg work. I wonder who is going to break down the philosophy and the scheme and the propaganda into one-syllable words. I wonder who is going to supply the blood of martyrdom...
...under another man's name. After he had thrice been Mayor of Boston, the State Supreme Court ordered him to pay back to the city treasury, at the rate of $500 a week, $42,629 which he had been found guilty of accepting as graft. But Curley, oozing martyrdom, turned both cases into political assets. Campaigning from jail, he touched many an Irish heart by telling how he perjured himself on the civil service exam in order to get a job for a destitute friend with a wife and four children. On the second occasion, he let Boston know...
...Bishops of Denmark are militant Christians. Early this year Bishop J. J. A. Ammundsen of Lolland-Falster warned his Lutheran flock to be ready for martyrdom. Last week to the U.S. came news of increasing militancy. In Copenhagen Bishop Hans Fuglsang-Damgaard thundered: "We shall pray and kindle the spirit. There was never any use for cowardly clergymen, least of all today...