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nounone who suffers for the sake of principle
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verbtorture and torment like a martyrtype of:
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"Saint Sebastian was martyred"verbkill as a martyrtype of:
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nounone who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religiontype of:
Definition that contains martyr
- george Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303)
- christopher Christian martyr and patron saint of travellers (3rd century)
- lawrence Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the church's treasure and when he responded by presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258)
- martyr torture and torment like a martyr
- martyr kill as a martyr
- vitus Christian martyr and patron of those who suffer from epilepsy and Sydenham's chorea (died around 300)
- canterbury a town in Kent in southeastern England; site of the cathedral where Thomas a Becket was martyred in 1170; seat of the archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church
- crispin patron saint of shoemakers; he and his brother were martyred for trying to spread Christianity (3rd century)
- ignatius bishop of Antioch who was martyred under the Roman Emperor Trajan (died 110)
- boniface (Roman Catholic Church) Anglo-Saxon missionary who was sent to Frisia and Germany to spread the Christian faith; was martyred in Frisia (680-754)