The way he died, he was a martyr".
The article asserted that these "acts of self-amputation finally did Schwarzkogler in," and that "he died, a martyr to his art".
He's not actually a saint, but because he died a martyr's death he was subsequently raised to quasi-sainthood.
He told me he represented a martyr's family from Port Said.
But if he is dead, he is a martyr and will go to heaven like all others".
He has said he believes he will become a martyr if he dies by lethal injection, because he viewed the deploying troops he killed as enemies of Islam.
"Mohammed Merah, you know, he's a hero, he's a martyr of Islam," the men said, Ms. Ibn Ziaten recalled.
RFK has a continuing, extraordinary hold on our imagination, not because he was a martyr, but because he, (and his brother) represented a hope.
In prison, he is a martyr to time wasted; now that he has finally begun to think, he has too little time left to complete his thoughts.
"He says [to me] 'don't be sad [about Abdullah], he's a martyr'".
