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—Within a day of the shootings at Columbine High, the story of Cassie's exchange with the boys who killed her was making headlines across the nation, and by the next day, people began calling her the "martyr of Littleton."†
p. 131.2

martyr = someone who dies or suffers to uphold principles
By that definition it's not at all inaccurate to call Cassie a martyr.†
p. 131.6
But even if Cassie's death is a martyrdom, it is an unlikely one.†
p. 131.8

martyrdom = the death or suffering of someone due to upholding principles
I say that because before she was a martyr, she was a teen.†
p. 131.9

martyr = someone who dies or suffers to uphold principles
Like Cassandra recently told me: I just don't know how Cassie would respond to that label, "martyr."†
p. 133.9 *
People can call Cassie a martyr, but they're off track if they think she was this righteous, holy person, and that all she did was read her Bible.†
p. 134.9
To lift up Cassie as a martyr, then, is unnecessary.†
p. 135.4
Finally, it means daring to sacrifice all for Love's sake—not as a hero or a martyr, necessarily—but consistently and with conviction, in the small, everyday things that make up a life.†
p. 159.7
It was a tribute to the country's martyrs, and the translation ran something like this: "My death is not my own, but yours, and its significance depends on what you do with it."†
p. 160.6

martyrs = dies or suffers due to upholding principle; or people who have suffered such a fate

Definitions:

(1) (martyr)
someone who is killed or made to suffer greatly for their beliefs, often unjustly; or someone who acts as if they suffer a lot; or to make someone into such a person
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)