He fought tooth and nail with terrorists killing three of them, but at last he was martyred. |
Legend has it that St Andrew was martyred by the Romans on a saltire cross at Patras in Greece. |
And if he can achieve this by putting on the chasuble of a martyred priest, and leading the Indians on their peaceful march to freedom, so be it. |
People had held her in high esteem fancying that her withdrawal from public life was a sort of silent homage to her martyred husband. |
And then, too, to be candid about it, the fact that he was martyred made him more popular than he ever was in lifetime. |
Did you know that more than 500 people were martyred in the Netherlands between 1530 and 1555 for espousing Reformation convictions? |