The executioner had one condition, ‘Just renounce your faith and destroy this statue of the Blessed Mother.’

行刑者开出条件，要他『拒绝承认你的信仰及摧毁圣母像』。

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In the Roman Catholic Church, a person was traditionally declared a martyr if they died for refusing to renounce their faith.

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Sarah, who'd been listening to Christian radio in her car on her way to applying for the counterterrorism job, must renounce her faith, at least outwardly, by submitting to the collective's secular version of a baptism.

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