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Martyr | September 15, 2004

Martyr is a greek word which means to give witness or testimony. It has both legal and moral connotations of witness to facts, events, personal character, received teaching or revealed truth. In the Christian tradition it refers to the witness by Jesus’ disciples to his life, death and resurrection. The more particular meaning, one whose testimony for Christ results in death at hands of unbelievers, is indicated in later New Testament writings. Jesus himself, the “faithful witness”, was the very model of martyrdom. According to different estimates 10,000 to 100,000 Christians lost their life as Matyrs in the first three centuries of Christianity.

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