Word: martyrdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were burned or beheaded when they refused to revert from Christianity to spirit-worship. In all, about 200 Catholic and Protestant converts died for Christianity during Mwanga's persecution; the missionary order of White Fathers, who converted the Ugandans to Catholicism, promoted the cause of only those whose martyrdom was unquestionably due to religion...
...tomboy. This tomboy Joan wants to conquer the English at Orleans for the sheer roughhousing fun of it. Thus, when she is captured, imprisoned and questioned by her inquisitors, it is merely as if her playmates were being taken away from her, and there is no anguishing foretaste of martyrdom...
...MARTYRED, by Richard Kim. This remorseless and controlled first novel takes the Korean war as its setting and the presumed martyrdom of twelve Christian ministers as its theme...
...MARTYRED, by Richard Kim. In this somber, remorseless and beautifully controlled first novel, the author takes the Korean war as his setting and the presumed martyrdom of twelve Christian ministers as his theme. Modern sainthood, he finds, most often is achieved by men racked by doubt...
...denies the existence of God and drains meaning from the rest of the play. "The Angel of Death," a satanic concentration camp doctor who "selects" those who will die from those who will live a little longer, taunts Father Riccardo with the emptiness of his death. His martyrdom will be unknown and unfelt. Is he dying for the Jews, when his own church has, in centuries past, itself persecuted the Jews? If God exists, why does inexplicable evil persist and triumph? "God is silent," mocks the Angel of Death. Father Riccardo finds no words or divine illumination to refute...