One chilly night, I went to Sayyida Zainab, a neighborhood centered around the shrine of the sister of Hussein, grandson of the Prophet and the central martyr of Shiism.
But it is El Greco's studied, and more naturalist style here, as captured again in breathtaking details, that compels us to believe in miracles: Who could doubt the presence of the early Christian martyr St.
Last month the annual commemoration of the death of Shia Muslims' favourite martyr, the Imam Hossein, was unusually subdued.
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His office was crammed with souvenirs of his peregrinations: sphinxes, skulls, obelisks, a bright-green wall clock bearing the likeness of a Shia martyr.
The comparison with the Christian martyr pierced by the arrows of the unfaithful may not quite fit the senator.
But because of the commission's reluctance to make an Afrikaner martyr of him, nobody expects him to suffer serious punishment.
The deposed Iraqi president did not allow Shiites to walk to the Tomb of Hussein, a Muslim martyr who was killed more than 1, 300 years ago.
When he picked him up after the treatments, the expression Obie wore was that of a martyr, his eyes misshapen and dark with pain.
Like Batman walking away, all martyr-like at the end of The Dark Knight, Bezos too can take it.
One such martyr is Lasantha Wickrematunge, editor of the Sunday Leader in Colombo until his still unsolved murder on Jan. 8.
The Metric Martyr group's appeals against conviction were rejected all the way up to the House of Lords and, in February 2004, by the European Court of Human Rights.
"She's a martyr, suffering the trials and tribulations of being married to a filmmaker!"
Karbala is where Muslim martyr Imam Hussein bin Ali -- grandson of the prophet Mohammed -- was killed and entombed more than 1, 300 years ago.
Without a hint of irony, he says he expects to become a martyr to the cause, just like Mandela and Gandhi.
Emily Davison became a martyr for the suffragette movement, which turned radical around the beginning of the 20th century.
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Incredibly, some even came to think of the late President Sadat no longer as a traitor for making peace with Israel, but as a martyr.
"Spielberg asked me directly to respond to some of the suggestions by others about Lincoln's relationship with Mary, and several portrayed him as a martyr, who had been tricked into a bad marriage, " she said.
Though Mahathir may well have made a martyr out of his former protege, 51-year-old Anwar, no one drove the news with such ferocity this year as Dr. M--and that makes him Asia's Newsmaker of 1998.
Poles are a messianic people, many of whom see their country as having been a martyr among European nations, crucified over and over so that the continent could be purified and saved.
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