The saint is usually one whose piety excels both in quality and strength; the martyr is often enough a man of many imperfections and sins, veiling an unsuspected, deep-reaching faith.

To this theme, which is one almost undrawn upon in our Elizabethan drama,Massinger's Virgin Martyr is the only example I remember,he returns continually, and he has elaborated these plays with peculiar care.

This blessed and holy martyr St. George is patron of the realm of England and the cry of men of war.

"All the early Christian martyrs were criminals in the sense that they were law-breakers.

It is enough to mention that the martyr who first used the expression was Don Sancho Ortiz Calderon de la Barca, a Commander of the Order of Santiago.

PETER MARTYR, 1, a Dominican notorious for his severity as a member of the Inquisition, murdered by a mob at Como in 1252, became the patron saint of the Inquisition.

"When I was a little boy, Marian," he said, gazing at her, "I used to think that Paul Delaroche's Christian martyr was the most exquisite vision of beauty in the world.

"Martyr," by the way, is a misspelt abbreviation for "Mortimer.

de las Indias., tom, ii, p. 272: A Pedro Martyr se le debe was credito que à otro ninguno de los que escribieran en latin, porque se hallo entonces en Castilla par aquellos tiempos y hablaba con todos, y todos holgaban de le dar cuenta de lo que vian y hallaban, como à hombre de autioridad y el que tenia cuidado de preguntarlo.]

The Haymarket martyrs were bold pioneer fighters for socialism and they paid with their lives for their devotion and clear-sightedness.

Peter Martyr was his "familiar friend and comrade," and tells the Pope, to whom these Decades were addressed as letters, that he wrote from information derived from Cabot's own lips.

The martyrs are objects of unfading veneration, because they died for Christianity.