Word: martyrizing
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...hero as a German U-boat skipper in World War I and a martyr as a Nazi prisoner in World War II, West Germany's pugnacious Pastor Martin Niemöller, neutralist foe of his country's rearmament, began a skirmish with his own Evangelical Lutheran Church. Charged last month with neglecting the spiritual duties of the church's Foreign Bureau, run by him, Niemöller wrote a bitter letter of resignation to famed Bishop Otto Dibelius, tossed in a threat that unless the charges are withdrawn, "I will hold the time ripe to expose...
...Reformation, the Anglican Communion has largely contented itself with the ancient saints of the church calendar. The most famous exception was King Charles I, charged with treason and beheaded by a provisional government under Cromwell in 1649. After the Resto ration the Church of England acclaimed him as a martyr for his unwillingness to renounce the Anglican faith, officially put his feast into the calendar of saints.-Nearest thing to a U.S. Episcopal saint is probably Samuel Seabury, first Bishop of the Episcopal Church in America, the anniversary of whose consecration in November is widely observed...
...drops dangerously. He talks incoherently. The following day his fiancee and family file in for farewells. To the end, top scientists, military men and even a Congressman carry on a bitter debate around the bed of the bomb's first peacetime victim. There is a lot of the martyr-toned, bogus moralizing now fashionable among scientists and their hero-worshipers. When Novelist Masters, a former science editor and nephew of Poet Edgar Lee Masters, suggests that postwar America "lost control" of the bomb in the same way that the scientist-hero let his experiment slip, he comes close...
...film, much more strongly than the book, gives the impression that Peter Marshall was a great salesman, who sold Christianity the way another man might sell frontage in an exclusive suburb. And his death at 46, which is apparently intended to move one like the death of a martyr, has instead a kind of sorry unimportance on the screen, as if Connecticut, and not Heaven, had been his destination...
...Papal Nuncio in Spain, Archbishop Ildebrando Antoniutti, congratulating the Chapter of the Seville Cathedral for condemning a recent leaflet campaign, "directed against the Pope, the Holy See, the Nuncio, and the Archbishop Coadjutor by means of writings widely distributed from Seville throughout Spain." The leaflets (one title: Segura, Martyr of Truth), attacked the Cardinal's "enemies" and were reportedly approved by Segura himself. Said the Nuncio: "Put an end to the mutterings, maledictions and calumnies . . . May the pen break of those who write anonymous documents...