Word: martyrize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...church in Rome of which Cardinal Mindszenty became titular head was Monte Celio's 5th Century rotunda of St. Stephen the first martyr (about 50 A.D.).* On the walls of St. Stephen's are 34 frescoes showing scenes of Christian martyrdom-St. Margaret, her breast torn with hooks; Bishop Artemius, crushed between stone slabs; Bishop Simeon cut to pieces with knives. But not all martyrdom involves death. One fresco at St. Stephen's tells of a 4th Century persecution of Christians by King Unericus in North Africa. The description reads: "Those who talked and raised their hands...
There is an ironic epilogue two years later when the Russians are about to take over the country. The coalition that the purists once abhorred they now themselves enter. Hoederer has become a party martyr, and his assassin a marked...
Then, in a master-stroke of double irony on M. Sartre's part, the party line reverse and the murdered leader is to be declared a martyr, and the young assassin, the intellectual who would be a man-of-action, can never decide for himself whether he killed the leader on obedience to convictions or in a fit of passion. Deprived of the satisfaction of the former and now on the party's liquidation list, he is led off the stage in a fit of tormented laughter as the last curtain falls...
When the American Army drove the Germans out of Italy in 1945, it took among other prisoners Ezra Pound, expatriate poet, radio propagandist for Mussolini and self-made pundit who thought Hitler a "martyr" comparable to Joan of Arc. After a short stay in a prison camp near Pisa, where he continued to write poetry, the aging (63), rheumy-eyed poet was brought back to the U.S. to face treason charges. The case never came to trial; instead he was declared insane, and still languishes in St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington...
...first sentence he called the school "the full embodiment of the great and generous spirit that is America." Then he praised the prelate for whom he had named it, Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac* of Yugoslavia, railroaded to jail by Tito in 1946, as "the victim of godless Communism and a martyr to the ideals that Americans revere and cherish. He is the symbol of Peter and Paul and all the apostles and martyrs ... He also reincarnates the symbol of the fathers and mothers of America-whose thoughts, powers, sacrifices and achievements in the building of this mighty nation were motivated...