Word: martyrdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pope had left no doubt that he sided with Jachym on the issue of anti-Communist militancy v. conciliation. Vatican insiders reported that he had lectured Innitzer on the meaning of the cardinal's red as a symbol of its wearer's duty to suffer martyrdom, if necessary, in the defense of the church. Cardinal Innitzer was disgruntled by the whole affair, angrily refused to talk to the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano when a reporter called to ask a question...
...professional fighting men have sought martyrdom more insistently than gaunt, intense Captain John G. Crommelin, U.S.N. It was Airman Crommelin who set off the acrimonious Navy hearings last fall, encouraged an utterly unfounded charge of Air Force corruption in B-36 procurement, surreptitiously handed confidential Navy correspondence to the press, and obstreperously demanded a public court martial. Severely reprimanded and exiled to San Francisco last fall, Crommelin refused to be silent. Two or three times a week, from Reno to Los Angeles, before Rotary clubs and businessmen's luncheons, he defiantly reiterated his charges that the Navy was being...
Crommelin had the Navy in a spot. A disciplinary court martial would provide him with the rostrum and the martyrdom he seemed to want. But many once-sympathetic Navymen, embarrassed by his taunting evasion of discipline, heartily wished he would shut...
...Thomas å Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, Eliot reminded his audience that a faith can live only if the faithful are ready, in the extreme of need, to die for it. While lesser men feebly tried to bolt the door against evil, Thomas conquered evil by submitting to death and martyrdom. It is a meaningful lesson for a civilization anxiously trying to bolt the door against an evil whose champions are notably ready to give their lives for its triumph...
...Brigid, the Canon's maid, who is in communication with her namesake, St. Brigid, and who has a longing to become a nun. Although the play admits of no explicit and patent interpretation, I would venture the theory that Brigid, in her simple piety, open love and semi-martyrdom at the end represents the core of Christianity, which is, in some respects, perverted in the other characters...