Confessors, that is, people who are condemned to martyrdom but not martyred, also become especially important, as figures who are considered to be closer to God.

忏悔神父就是，那些被判刑要殉道，但没有殉道成功的人，他们也变成很重要的人，他们被视为更接近上帝的人。

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What do you do with people who are condemned to martyrdom but not actually martyred?

那些被判刑要殉道，却没有殉道的人,人们会怎么对待他们？

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A movement that prizes “martyrdom” will not let the propaganda opportunities of its symbolic leader's execution be wasted.

其象征性领导者逝去了，一个珍视“殉道”的组织是不会白白浪费掉这个大好的宣传机会的。

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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.

NEWYORKER: Witness

It was not an act of martyrdom, or of arrogance or self-delusion, but, rather, an exercise in intellectual consistency.

NEWYORKER: Deceptive Picture

This was not an act of martyrdom, but of resourcefulness.

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