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...Chosen Martyr. For weeks Iraq's Communists had been calling strikes and engaging in street brawls with National Democratic supporters of Premier Karim Kassem, in protest against their progressive exclusion from Iraq's revolutionary regime (TIME, April 11). Now at last they had a martyr. They shoved Shakhnoub's body into a conveniently waiting coffin and marched on the capital, demanding to see Premier Kassem himself. The police tried to stop them. Only keening louder, the mourners broke through and dashed for Kassem's headquarters. Near Baghdad's imposing Defense Ministry, the procession came...
...Missionary-Pilot Nathanael Saint, sinking under the spears of the Amazon's Auca Indians in 1956, brave men have looked to the great missionary to the Gentiles, himself no stranger to suffering. Paul knew the inside of jails around the Mediterranean. Before he died, almost certainly as a martyr, he was scourged five times within an inch of his life, he was beaten thrice with rods, four times he was shipwrecked (once adrift in a storm for 24 hours), once he was stoned and left for dead. He spent his ministry, he wrote, "in weariness and painfulness, in watchings...
...Light. He storms onto the Biblical stage in the Acts of the Apostles as a hot-eyed, self-appointed persecutor of the Christian community in Jerusalem. He even appears at the stoning of Stephen, Christianity's first martyr. He "made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison." Then all at once, in a flash of blinding light, he became one of them...
...Martyr. It was the collection for the Mother Church in Jerusalem that profoundly changed his future. In his letter to the Romans, he said he wanted nothing more than to come to Rome, but the need to defend his ministry to the Gentiles against Jewish-Christian opposition in Jerusalem made it necessary for him to carry the latest collection there himself. When he was visiting the Temple in Jerusalem, some Jews from Ephesus recognized Paul, whom they considered Judaism's arch-subversive, and at once raised an outcry that Paul had desecrated the holy place. A frenzied mob surged...
...lieutenants of his missionary days gathered round him in the easy imprisonment. There is no sure record of the outcome of his trial-if he was tried at all-or of the place or manner of his death.*Most sources agree on one thing: that eventually he died a martyr's death in Rome. The earliest source-the letter from Rome to Corinth about the year 95, which is known as the First Epistle of Clement-implies that Paul and Peter were killed together, very likely during Nero's persecution of Christians after the great fire in July...