Word: martyrizing
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...Andrew was a Galilean fisherman and brother of St. Peter. During the reign of Nero, he was crucified by being bound to a decussate (X-shaped) cross. In the painting owned by Los Angeles, the martyr supports one shaft of the cross and raises a hand in blessing. In other versions, El' Greco pictured the scene from various angles and in different moods...
...CRIMSON, placed in a martyr's position by a public regrettably only half-acquainted with the facts of the matter, was beginning to feel very sorry about the whole affair. Meanwhile, Weld Hall found its villainous role extremely uncomfortable and began to needle the paper for all kinds of past errors which had never before even entered the controversy. The summer paper finally agreed to publish without editorials, and as a face-saving gesture changed its name to The Summer News. But the tempest magnified from a little harmless wind left both the CRIMSON and the Summer School smarting from...
...hour of suspense, the big question was what should be done with Mohammed Mossadegh. The Shah and his ministers dared not let him go free to stir Iran once more to rebellion, and chaos. They also feared to execute him for treason, and thus give him a martyr's crown. They even worried that a public trial would give the old wizard a stage from which to work his spell on Teheran's easily swayed street mobs. Mossadegh, after all his years at the game of plot, imprisonment and exile, knew too well how to capitalize...
...master of these revels was Vicomte Charles Eugene de Foucauld, who died a martyr's death in French Morocco in 1916, and is now being considered for beatification by the Roman Catholic Church. The conversion of the worldly sybarite into the selfless man of God makes a dramatic biography out of an indifferently written book, The Warrior Saint, by R. V. C. (for Ronald Victor Courtenay) Bodley...
...injured the reputation of a man who has been given no chance to prove his innocence." Said Bucklin Moon: "All I can do is, through a great deal of personal work and some money, try to get myself officially cleared. I'm not trying to be a martyr. But this is a terrifying thing that can happen to anyone...