Word: martyrdom
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...most people will continue to know her under a different name, which is a point of some significance. Prior to her martyrdom, Teresa's name was Edith Stein, and she was born Jewish. The consequences of that status led Jewish leaders last week to term the canonization "problematic," "offensive" and "an attempt to appropriate the Holocaust without coming to grips with it." They see it as part of a dissonant motif in Pope John Paul II's otherwise triumphant symphony of Catholic-Jewish brotherhood--a masterwork that is very much part of his grand plan for the church's millennial...
Three days before Christmas 1988, Brazil was stunned by the news that Chico Mendes, a humble rubber tapper who had become the country's most famous crusader for the protection of the Amazon rain forest, had been murdered by furious Brazilian landowners. Martyrdom can help fulfill a life's mission, and that was true for Mendes: his death electrified a generation of young Brazilians, who found both magic and meaning in his seductive brand of environmentalism...
...dare. He was arrested in 1983 for heroin possession. Joe II drove his jeep off the road in 1973, paralyzing family friend Pam Kelley. Brother David died in 1984 of a drug overdose. It is all more than any family can bear, especially without the abiding solace of martyrdom to some cause greater than a thrill and a game...
...mention some exposed buttocks. "Armey's people are now denying he was ever a part of it," says Carney, "thus laying it on Paxon." Paxon, meanwhile, has taken the fall while insisting his role in the plot has been grossly overstated. "The interesting dynamic to emerge here is the martyrdom of Bill Paxon," says Carney. "He was loyal to Gingrich for a long time, and by resigning quickly, he might escape the fallout from this. When the end does come for Gingrich, it could well be Paxon who's the rising star for the GOP leadership...
...said that it might be best if Timothy McVeigh were not executed [CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, June 16], "to deny him his bid for martyrdom, to keep him earthbound and watch him slowly wither...just another old jailbird shuffling around his cell." But McVeigh will never be a martyr in the truest sense of the word, which comes from the Greek word for witness. It connotes one who testifies for his beliefs with the ultimate passionate guarantee of sincerity and a willingness to die for them. McVeigh stood on his right to silence and did not admit to the bombing...