In fact the St. Peter Martyr is generally called the "Silenzio," and like so many of the artist's pictures must be taken to have a special spiritual significance.
He died a martyr (as we have said), while preaching to the heathen Prussians, and for a time darkness again settled over the history of the Czechs.
It proclaimed the supreme will of the King, and, inter alia, forbade the people to regard the dead hero and popular idol, de Montfort, as the saint and martyr they were already declaring him to be.
In 1332 he founded the chantry chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr in the church.
It is true that in the ancient martyrologies we find almost all the first popes ranked as martyrs, but the word martyr is there taken only in its original and true signification, which is a witness and not a sufferer.
St. Ireneus reckons only one martyr among all these bishops, namely, Telesphorus, who suffered in the year 139 of our vulgar era; nor have we any positive proof of this Telesphorus being put to death.
Socrates, who came the nearest to the knowledge of the true God, is said to have suffered on that account, and died a martyr to the Deity; he was the only one whom the Greeks ever put to death on account of opinion.
On the present occasion the white penitents performed a solemn service for Mark Antony Calas as for a martyr; nor was the festival of a real martyr ever celebrated with greater pomp by any church: but then this pomp was truly terrible.
One of the brothers, Eleazar, died on the field, a martyr to his bravery.
Nicholas Gogol, a soul crushed by its own greatness, a victim to the noblest infirmity and the most generous mania that can come upon a man, a martyr to love of country.
And his faithfulmartyr Stephen, prayed for his murderers, Lord lay not this sin to their charge, Acts vii.
M29) The first sign by which it pleased God to show the merit and glory of this His martyr was concerning his relics, which were eagerly sought for by many Catholics at the very time of his martyrdom.
No; the truth was this: the man had lived a saintly life, and his death was answerable, and he a glorious martyr of extraordinary merit.
Gerard in the Tower cx, released for money, becomes a Priest, a Jesuit, and a martyr cxi.
So she gave up her soul to God, along with the martyr Father Filcock, S.
And of this great and worthy martyr there is no question but many witnesses will one day be produced to the glory of God and His servant, and the safety of their own souls if ever they come to penance.
Another future martyr was then residing there of whom I have previously spoken, namely, Mr. Robert Drury, Priest.
Gerard's letters lxxxviii, tries to have him rearrested cxxix, betrays Thomas Tichburn, the martyr cxxx.
I have been a martyr of faction in politics, and have no vocation to be so in philosophy.
The grateful bishop buried him in the church with much pomp; he declared him to be a martyr and a saint, and gave him the name of St. Thaumasius.
The Bishop Hesychius, the martyr in the late persecution, was one of the learned men of the time.
Philo's writings are valuable as showing the steps by which the philosophy of Greece may be traced from the writings of Plato to those of Justin Martyr and Clemens Alexandrinus.
Among the victims were Justin Martyr at Rome, and Polycarp at Smyrna.
St. Philip was the martyrof Russia--slain for defending his country and his Church against this tartarizing Tsar.
The sect is secret; and any profession of the faith would make a martyr of the man upon whom was found the sign of his high calling.
Coiling it, harmless, with autumnal fires; In the ivy's paler blaze the martyr oak stands mute.
Voltaire was not a martyr in his body, but he consented to be one in his name, and devoted it during his life and after his death.
At length she got to the end, and the two lovers left the prison, after having embraced the old martyr to efficacious grace.
Their own merits, and the intercession of the blessed martyr Alban, obtained for them a calm passage, and the happy vessel restored them in peace to the desires of their people.
Here, therefore, the head of the undaunted martyr was struck off, and here he received the crown of life, which God has promised to them that love him.
At bottom he is simply a martyr who has followed the wrong track.
In that Africa of my dream-land I no longer pictured myself in a cork helmet slaying lions, but dying at the stake, a martyr to my duty and--must I add it?
When I fixed my purpose to march to the strife unhampered by any domestic ties, I felt that I was making myself a martyr to duty.
More than three months of precious time had that martyr of a major given up to his nephew.
The martyr is then drawn up by a rope fastened to the feet and run over the arm of the post.
In 1748 I laid before him The Case of the Royal Martyr considered with candour, and he was so good as to approve of it, and earnestly pressed me to print it.
Thus miserably perished the glittering Königsmark, a martyr to his own irrepressible romanticism.
And I knowed her soft nater made her a willin' martyrto widower's wiles.
The day and following night the weather was most beautiful as we passed the Martyr Islands and sand-banks of the same name.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "martyr" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
