Confessors, that is, people who are condemned to martyrdom but not martyred, also become especially important, as figures who are considered to be closer to God.

忏悔神父就是，那些被判刑要殉道，但没有殉道成功的人，他们也变成很重要的人，他们被视为更接近上帝的人。

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What do you do with people who are condemned to martyrdom but not actually martyred?

那些被判刑要殉道，却没有殉道的人,人们会怎么对待他们？

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Owais and his classmates may be misguided, but they fear nothing, and "martyrdom" least of all.

欧维斯和他的同学们或许被误导了，但是他们什么都不害怕，大不了一死。

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But what's interesting about that is why this particular village became the symbol for martyrdom in France. Why?

但关键是为什么就这个村子,成了法国殉难的象征,为什么

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Iranian government-backed broadcaster Press TV has finally got its fondest wish and lost its UK broadcast licence, but its martyrdom is self-inflicted rather than the result of any government conspiracy.

FORBES: Press TV and the Freedom of the Press

The taking of any other life for religious purposes is not martyrdom but murder.

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The six million men, women and children exterminated by the Nazis belonged to a great people not predestined to martyrdom, but the victim of gratuitous barbarism.

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