The martyrdom of Archbishop Cranmer, said the don at last, grimacing with embarrassment.
The martyrdom of Hussein carries a significance for Shia similar to Christ's crucifixion, according to GlobalSecurity.org, an international security group.
The pilgrimage is to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Musa al-Kadhim, one of the 12 Imams of Shia Islam.
They regard the denial of Ali's alleged right to succeed the prophet on his death, his subsequent murder, and the martyrdom of his son Hussein at Karbala (in present-day Iraq) later as seminal events.
The culture of martyrdom means that some no longer know what they are fighting for.
The six million men, women and children exterminated by the Nazis belonged to a great people not predestined to martyrdom, but the victim of gratuitous barbarism.
Martyrdom is the test of faith, but the test of truth is truth.
Giuliani has said that the experience reveals much about his character: he is, by his account, the stalwart, the lone defender of the cause, even unto martyrdom.
Bob Marley died young, but he managed to avoid many of the most common pitfalls and pratfalls of rock martyrdom.
That became the set for the subsequent scene, in which the nuns took their vow of martyrdom.
It celebrates the end of the 40-day Ashura period honoring Hussein's martyrdom.
That said, the currency union was hardly an act of martyrdom by Germany.
Brought before the Ottoman ruler with the connivance of hostile rabbis to answer charges of sedition, Sevi converted to Islam rather than face martyrdom, and accepted a sinecure as the Sultan's head gatekeeper.
Before his twitter martyrdom, now reversed, Adams was doing little in the greater scheme of things that many others were not.
He also wrote profound song cycles, gorgeous chamber music and a powerful opera, "Dialogues of the Carmelites" (1957), whose subject is religious martyrdom and which the Metropolitan Opera will be reviving this spring for the first time since 2003.
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Soprano Patricia Racette brought a sense of serenity and strength to the role of Madame Lidoine, who succeeds the old prioress and leads the nuns to their martyrdom.
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