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His wife and children, being eleven in number, ten able to walk, and one sucking on her breast, met him by the way as he went towards Smithfield: this sorrowful sight of his own flesh and blood, dear as they were to him, could yet nothing move him, but that he constantly and cheerfully took his death with wonderful patience, in the defence and support of Christ's Gospel. - Unattributed Author, Martyrdom of John Rogers, see Charles Alexander Richmond's "Selection from the Writings of the Reformers and Early Protestant Divines of the Church of England" For a tear is an intellectual thing; And a sigh is the sword of an angel-king; And the bitter groan of a martyr's woe Is an arrow from the Almighty's bow. - William Blake, The Grey Monk The noble army of martyrs. - Book of Common Prayer, Te Deum Laudamus Tortured for the Republic. [Lat., Strangulatus pro republica.] - James Abram Garfield, Last Words, written as he was dying Who falls for love of God shall rise a star. - Ben Jonson, Underwoods--An Epistle to a Friend (32) He strove among God's suffering poor One gleam of brotherhood to send; The dungeon open its hungry door To give the truth one martyr more, Then shut,--and here behold the end! - James Russell Lowell, On the Death of C.T. Torrey Martyrs! who left for our reaping Truths you had sown in your blood-- Sinners! whom long years of weeping Chasten'd from evil to good. - Thomas Moore, Where is Your Dwelling, Ye Sainted? It is the cause, and not the death, that makes the martyr. - Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) Martyrdom . . .is the only way a man can become famous without ability. - George Bernard Shaw, The Devil's Disciple Like a pale martyr in his shirt of fire. - Alexander Smith, A Life Drama (sc. 2, l. 225)
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