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martyr

sufferer, offering, scapegoat; see saint 2, victim 1.

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John Penry, the Puritan martyr, was born at Cefn-brith in this parish.
Stephen became a martyr in August 257.
North-west, is claimed as the birthplace of the Scottish martyr, Patrick Hamilton (1504-1528).
ST SEBASTIAN, a Christian martyr whose festival is celebrated on the 10th of January.
Thayer, with other essays, 1889), originally a lecture, and in spite of the compression due to its form, up to that time probably the ablest defence, based on external evidence, of the Johannine authorship, and certainly the completest treatment of the relation of Justin Martyr to this gospel.

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