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Sentence Examples Even if we grant that Peter was martyred in Rome, his body is unlikely to have been recovered for burial, or his grave ever marked. Scottish nationalists have made her into their version of Joan of Arc, a martyred hero who struggled against English oppression. It is supposed to be on the spot where Peter was martyred that a basilica was built. He fought tooth and nail with terrorists killing three of them, but at last he was martyred. People had held her in high esteem fancying that her withdrawal from public life was a sort of silent homage to her martyred husband. Legend has it that St Andrew was martyred by the Romans on a saltire cross at Patras in Greece. The artist drew on religious imagery of martyred saints to depict new political martyrs. She was said to have been martyred after refuting 50 pagan philosophers who were sent to argue her out of her faith. This is the day of martyred intellectuals, who were brutally killed by the occupation army and their cohorts. Did you know that more than 500 people were martyred in the Netherlands between 1530 and 1555 for espousing Reformation convictions? He became a martyred hero whose soaring rhetoric inspired many in the United States and abroad. And then, too, to be candid about it, the fact that he was martyred made him more popular than he ever was in lifetime. A large figure of St. Nabor, a martyred Roman soldier, overlooks the silent host. In the third year of the Hijra, news went wild that the Prophet was martyred. Robert Emmett was a republican hero of the early 19th century who had sacrificially martyred himself for Ireland's cause. And if he can achieve this by putting on the chasuble of a martyred priest, and leading the Indians on their peaceful march to freedom, so be it. If the person is martyred or its equivalent, the body is not cleansed and is buried as it fell. A French Marist priest, St. Peter Chanel, was martyred in 1841 after a brief apostolate on the island of Futuna. Dozens of Saudis, Tunisians, Libyans and Jordanians have already been martyred in the Syrian civil war fighting for al-Nusra. Their battered condition lends credence to the story, for why else would they have been saved, if not for their association with the martyred slave? Show More Sentences Because when the time of rampant sin comes and the Antichrist makes his appearance, the saints must be martyred. These two witnesses are martyred by the Antichrist and then resurrected in three and a half days from their death. The born-again saints must, to defend their faith, thus stand against the Antichrist and be martyred. Monuments to martyred Tigers overshadow temples and churches, seemingly supplanting the local religions. In a Roman legion, 40 soldiers disobeyed the command of the Roman Emperor to bow before an idol, and they were to be martyred. In 1940, he was martyred at the tip of an ice pick wielded by a Soviet agent posing as an acolyte. Emotionally, he is drawn to Mary, a martyred heroine falsely accused of plotting her cousin's death and meeting her own end with grace and dignity. Figuring the outlaw as the martyred victim of both tyranny from without and treachery from within, oral tradition solicits sympathy and even pity for the people's hero. And so the story ends with the martyred Saint John the Baptist. Overnight Poland became a sad, bitterly divided, martyred nation whose Communist party leader was reviled in the west. Because he has expressed the desire to be martyred, military justice ought to deny him that wish. In this time of the Tribulation, all the saints will be persecuted and martyred by the Antichrist. The semichorus with organ returns, this time as martyred saints, singing with gentle ecstasy of pain and mutilation. On the model of Christ's Incarnation, the bones of martyred saints embodied God's salvific power and thus became the centre of active cults. An avenue was chosen to immortalise a name that had become of the symbol for martyred journalists in Africa. They regard the slain imperial family as saints—on the ground that they were, at least partly, martyred for their Orthodox faith. But the right's attempt at making the L-word the equivalent of a swear alienated too many people and gave them a cause, martyred the numerous innocent. The original tradition involving hunting wrens stems from the belief of the ancient Irish that a wren betrayed St Stephen's hiding place to the Romans, who martyred him. The day he was martyred, there was a demonstration after school. My son was martyred and his cousin survived to tell us the story. Show More Sentences Her poor, martyred heart is then subjected to all the glorious pains of unfulfilled love we associate with the Petrarchan traditions of the late Elizabethan era. John the Baptist's murder might well have been similarly cast save for the tradition that followed him, which recounts the story in which he is a martyred saint. At this stage I'm going around with a martyred look on my face, indicating to everyone that I am abstaining from something, which goes against what I learned at school. Some stand as if in a martyred silence, some have bullhorns. Brothers, encouraged by the faithful witness of our martyred brothers. Around 695, two early English missionaries, Hewald the White and Hewald the Black, were martyred by the vicani, that is, villagers. According to Church tradition, it was under Nero's persecution that early Church leaders Peter and Paul of Tarsus were each martyred in Rome. Tiradentes, an 18th-century rebel against imperial Portugal, is remembered by a holiday, but he was martyred for a movement as aristocratic as the system it was trying to overthrow. In this scene only the father and two sons are martyred. They who were saints and witnesses for Christ, living according to His wise rules, were martyred by a church that ignored the depth of the message of love. They were both martyred, along with a new number of civilian victims. They will perform great power of God in their ministry and people will be afraid of them, but when the time comes they will be captured by the anti-Christ and martyred. This time the question pertains to the investigation into the assassination of martyred Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and his companions, which is a matter of bringing justice to a people and a country. To date, many Ahmadiyya Muslims have been martyred, businesses have been looted, property and mosques burned and demolished, admission to schools and employment denied, and graves desecrated. The legend also mentions that Saint Epeteno, a disciple of Saint Peter, was martyred on the Los Remedios hill where the patron saint's hermitage now stands. Bangladesh was instrumental in having February 21st proclaimed as International Mother Language Day as a group of students were martyred in 1952 for defending their right to continue to speak Bangla. Mainz is also the legendary home of the martyred Rabbi Amnon of Mainz, composer of the Unetanneh Tokef prayer. We certainly have no evidence that they were all martyred for their faith. The castle's enflamed gate or portcullis symbolizes the instrument of torture used on St. Lawrence: a gridiron propped above a bed of burning coals on which he was martyred. Ibrahim Ahmed gives a fine performance as a martyred herdsman, while Sissako rustles up a rich and nuanced overview of a nation in crisis, swinging gracefully from gentle satire to righteous rage. Show More Sentences Saints are fairly often seen, with Peter and Paul, both martyred in Rome, by some way the most common in the catacombs there. Neither Victricius's De Laude Sanctorum nor the Passio Albani mention where he was martyred, other than that it was in Britain. The slow resurrection of the site, under the aegis of UNESCO, is giving back to a martyred country its ancient past, on which it can start building a new life. The result of state sponsored atheism was to transform the Church into a persecuted and martyred Church. In 1964 Burton portrayed Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury who was martyred by Henry II of England, in the film adaptation of Jean Anouilh's historical play Becket. Church historians consistently consider Peter and Paul to have been martyred under the reign of Nero, around AD 65 such as after the Great Fire of Rome. Some of the brethren were martyred through force feedings of Das Kapital, and others were thrown to the bull dykes before roaring mobs of multi culturalists. Rome had a large congregation early in the apostolic period whom Paul the Apostle addressed in his Epistle to the Romans, and according to tradition Paul was martyred there. In 2008, the seven martyred members of the Melanesian Brotherhood were honoured during the concluding Eucharist of the 2008 conference at Canterbury Cathedral. The Pope will then return to the Basilica to celebrate Mass to beatify Juan Bautista and Jacinto de los Angeles, Indians martyred in 1700 in southern Oaxaca state. He also suggested that Mugabe take the lead in being the first to apostatize and return to the African religions of his country's martyred ancestors. Three pilot officers were martyred this morning by unknown gunmen. Some religious and other minorities were martyred until extinction. Examples from Classical Literature The said Schedelius furthermore setteth downe, that his emerita martyred in Rhetia. Let him only be supposed to be martyred by these, and there is no saying where his popularity may be carried. They were martyred by being tied to posts, and having their feet pierced with nails. A Ftiha in the name of Husain and of those who were martyred with him is then said. The saint is supposed to have been martyred in front of the church of St. Andrea at Vercelli. Her father as it proved, had martyred his poor child to an inordinate desire for measuring his land by miles instead of acres. Already, under Leo the isaurian, the virgin Theodosia had been martyred. This building was yet unfinished when Wenceslaus was martyred. By profession a clerk in a Government office, he was one of those martyred spirits to whom literature is at once a source of divine joy and of almost intolerable irritation. This was the reaction of the families of the four UAE heroes martyred in Tuesday's attacks on the exiled Yemeni officials and Saudi-led troops in Aden in Yemen. Find more words! 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