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It was not too bad early on, when, according to Miles, the seven Maccabean martyrs who “saved Judaism” did so only at the instigation of their mother.
In the 1960s, eminent Israeli archaeologist Yigael Yadin claimed to have found the bones of 960 martyrs there, thus confirming Josephus' account of their deaths.
John Coffey is another of Stephen King's mystical black martyrs with extra-sensory perception.
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.
A monument to 26 Christian martyrs executed in 1597 (at the beginning of Japan’s repression of Catholicism) includes a small museum displaying relics, including a communion wafer that has survived in dehydrated form since the 17th century.