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Others given victor's laurels included NATO, described by the London Observer as having "saved its reputation and credibility, gaining time to improve its effectiveness as a guarantor of peace"; and the new world order celebrated in Andrew Marr's column in the Observer , "What has happened is a decisive and perhaps terminal defeat for an older Europe, a place of tribal hatreds, double-headed eagles, flaming swords and obscure martyrs.
The small Chapel of St. Francis Xavier is dedicated to the 16th-century patron saint of missionaries, and has on display the elbow of the saint, along with the bones of numerous Japanese and Vietnamese martyrs.
Bin Ladin routinely told important visitors to expect significant attacks against U.S. interests soon and, during a speech at the al Faruq camp, exhorted trainees to pray for the success of an attack involving 20 martyrs.
The Catholic Church has counted 3,125 martyrs in Japan from 1597 (beginning under Hideyoshi) to 1660.
News column describes the attractions of cults, and compares the Heaven's Gate suicides to early Christian martyrs.