Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The martyrologies are catalogues in which are to be found the names of the saints with the days and places of their deaths and, generally, with the distinctive character of their sanctity and with an historic summary of their lives.
They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.