Word: martyrizing
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...Paul VI became the first Pontiff to perform such a ceremony personally. After beatification, the church must normally document two miracles resulting from prayers to the candidate to intercede with God. John Paul removed the need for that by proclaiming Kolbe not only a "confessor" but a martyr, a Christian who died for his faith. As it happened there were several reports of miracles that the Vatican could have investigated...
...have rough, country faces and washed, flat, distantly Celtic eyes. People in wheelchairs are pushed up to his wheelchair, and George Wallace reaches out the gentlest communing hands to them, and spends long moments with each, consoling and almost, one thinks, healing. He has the nimbus of saint and martyr-or at any rate, of a celebrity who has passed through the fire and the greater world; he has come back to them from history, come back with powder burns...
...SCHOOL saga, Jack Greenberg unwittingly played a perfect martyr to this cause. A man who has quietly devoted his life to furthering the rights of Black people. Greenberg was brought into the issue innocently, at the request of a Black civil rights lawyer who wanted him to help teach the course. Suddenly, however, he was bearing the blame for the Law School's suspect tenuring process. Minority students were demanding that he be disinvited to teach the course, and that a minority professor be brought in his place...
...Catholic Worker. She suffered prison zestfully for her conscience, as suffragist and pacifist. At 15 she demonstrated with the farm workers of Cesar Chavez and went to jail for one last time. The old lady's picture in the papers made almost too pat a portrait of a martyr...
...martyr in me played games And I was the young alienated loner . . . I have become what I wanted To be all along, a psychopathic poet...