All 29 Uses of
martyr
in
Murder in the Cathedral
- Who has stretched out his hand to the fire and remembered the Saints at All Hallows, Remembered the martyrs and saints who wait? and who shall Stretch out his hand to the fire, and deny his master? who shall be warm By the fire, and deny his master?†
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- We wait, we wait, And the saints and martyrs Wait, for those who shall be martyrs and Saints.†
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- We wait, we wait, And the saints and martyrs Wait, for those who shall be martyrs and Saints.†
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- But think, Thomas, think of glory after death, When king is dead, there's another king, And one more king is another reign, King is forgotten, when another shall come : Saint and Martyr rule from the tomb, Think, Thomas, think of enemies dismayed, Creeping in penance, frightened of a shade; Think of pilgrims, standing in line Before the glittering jewelled shrine, From generation to generation Bending the knee in supplication.†
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- Seek the way of martyrdom, make yourself the" lowest Oh earthj to be high in heaven, And see far off below you, where the gulf is fixed, Your persecutors, in timeless torment, Parched passion, beyond expiation.†
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- Those men His disciples knew no such things : they went forth to journey afar, to suffer by land and sea, to know torture, imprisonment, disappointment, to suffer death by martyrdom.†
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- Not only do we at the feast of Christmas celebrate at once Our Lord's Birth and His Death: but on the next day we celebrate the martyrdom of His first martyr, the blessed Stephen.†
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- Not only do we at the feast of Christmas celebrate at once Our Lord's Birth and His Death: but on the next day we celebrate the martyrdom of His first martyr, the blessed Stephen.†
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- Is it an acci dent, do you think, that the day of the first martyr follows immediately the day of the Birth of Christ?†
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- Just as we rejoice and mourn at once, in the Birth and in the Passion of Our Lord; so also, in a smaller figure, we both rejoice and mourn in the death of martyrs.†
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- We mourn, for the sins of the world that has martyred them; we rejoice, that another soul is numbered among the Saints in Heaven, for the glory of God and for the salvation of men.†
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- Beloved, we do not think of a martyr simply as a good Christian who has been killed because he is a Christian: for that would be solely to mourn.†
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- A Christian martyrdom is no 894 T. S. ELIOT accident.†
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- Still less is a Christian martyrdom the effect of a man's will to become a Saint, as a man by willing and contriving may become a ruler of men.†
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- A martyr, a saint, is always made by the design of God, for His love of men, to warn them and to lead them, to bring them back to His ways.†
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- A martyrdom is never the design of man; for the true martyr is he who has become the instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, not lost it but fpund it, for he has found freedom in submission to God.†
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- A martyrdom is never the design of man; for the true martyr is he who has become the instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, not lost it but fpund it, for he has found freedom in submission to God.†
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- The martyr no longer desires any thing lor himself, not even the glory of martyrdom.†
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- The martyr no longer desires any thing lor himself, not even the glory of martyrdom.†
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- I have spoken to you today, dear children of God, of the martyrs of the past, asking you to remember especially our martyr of Canterbury, the blessed Archbishop Elphege; because it is fitting, on Christ's birth day, to remember what is that Peace which He brought; and because, dear children, I do not think I shall ever preach to you again; and because it is possible that in a, short time you may have yet another martyr, and that one perhaps not the last.†
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- I have spoken to you today, dear children of God, of the martyrs of the past, asking you to remember especially our martyr of Canterbury, the blessed Archbishop Elphege; because it is fitting, on Christ's birth day, to remember what is that Peace which He brought; and because, dear children, I do not think I shall ever preach to you again; and because it is possible that in a, short time you may have yet another martyr, and that one perhaps not the last.†
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- I have spoken to you today, dear children of God, of the martyrs of the past, asking you to remember especially our martyr of Canterbury, the blessed Archbishop Elphege; because it is fitting, on Christ's birth day, to remember what is that Peace which He brought; and because, dear children, I do not think I shall ever preach to you again; and because it is possible that in a, short time you may have yet another martyr, and that one perhaps not the last.†
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- At whatsoever time you are ready to come, You will find me still more ready for martyrdom.†
Chpt 2
- Now to Almighty God, to the Blessed Mary ever Virgin, to the blessed John the Baptist, the holy apostles Peter and Paul, to the blessed martyr Denys, and to all the Saints, I commend my cause and that of the Church.†
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- He used every tneane of provocation; from his conduct, step by step, there can be no inference except that he had determined upon a death by martyrdom.†
Chpt 2
- …circle of pain within the skull You still shall tramp and tread one endless round Of thought, to justify your action to your selves, Weaving a fiction which unravels as you weave, Pacing forever in the hell of make-believe Which never is belief: this is your fate on earth And we must think no further of you. my lord The glory of whose new state is hidden from us, Pray for us of your charity; now in the sight of God Conjoined with all the saints and martyrs gone before you, Remember us.†
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- For the blood of Thy martyrs and saints Shall enrich the earth, shall create the holy places.†
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- For wherever a saint has dwelt, wherever a martyr has given his blood for the blood of Christ, There is holy ground, and the sanctity shall not depart from it Though armies trample over it, though sightseers come with guide-books looking over it; From where the western seas gnaw at the coast of lona, To the death in the desert, the prayer in forgotten places by the broken imperial column, From such ground springs that which for ever renews the earth Though it is forever denied.†
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- We acknowledge our trespass, our weakness, our fault; we acknowledge That the sin of the world is upon our heads; that the blood of the martyrs and the agony of the saints Is upon our heads.†
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Definition:
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(martyr) someone who dies or suffers to uphold principles -- especially someone killed for refusing to renounce their religion, or someone who commits a suicide death in the name of their religion
or:
someone who suffers a great deal
or (as a verb):
to kill someone or make them suffer in a manner that many would view as unjust