Word: martyrdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experts who prepared it, but for one fatal flaw: Major General Farhat Dadsetan, Teheran's smart military governor, knew all about it from his secret agents in the Resistance. He summoned his commanders, told them to avoid gunfire if possible, so as to deny the Reds martyrdom. But if they had to shoot, the troops were to shoot to kill...
...Vatican revealed that, in response to requests from all over Italy, Pope Pius has proclaimed St. Cassianus of Imola the patron saint of Italian stenographers. Legendary martyrdom of St. Cassianus (dates uncertain), who taught writing: stabbing by the pens of his students when he refused to worship Roman gods...
...Ancient Rome, whose picnickers, barking dog and proud, weed-grown ruins form a landscape as gently charming as anyone could wish. Among Houston's 30 choices, which will be delivered after its new wing is completed next fall: the 15th century painting of St. Lucy Led to Her Martyrdom, by Siena's Bernardino Fungai...
...found beaten to death in her bed. In her own room was the body of Mrs. Strickler, who had been stabbed. There had been no recent religious or political troubles in Dehra Dun. Death came to Elizabeth Bennett and Martha Strickler, not in the missionary's tradition of martyrdom or persecution but through the brutal, almost random act of a thieving intruder...
...When art experts X-rayed da Caravaggio's The Martyrdom of St. Matthew, they found...