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John Coffey is another of Stephen King's mystical black martyrs with extra-sensory perception.
In October 2000, Abu Basir took Hamlan and Nami to Kandahar to meet KSM, who impressed on them the high expectations for martyrs and instructed them on using coded telephone numbers.
Look for Ghiberti’s vigorous bronze of the city’s patron St. John (east wall, on the Via de’ Calzaiuoli); St. Matthew, the bankers’ tax-collector turned Apostle (west); Donatello’s St. George, the armorers’ dragon-killer (north, a bronze cast of a marble original in the Bargello); St. Mark, whose vividly sculpted robes do credit to the linen-drapers he protects (south); and Nanni di Banco’s outstanding conspiratorial group of Four Crowned Martyrs for the sculptors’ own guild of stonemasons and wood-workers (north).
All "seven martyrs," as they've been lionized, stayed Republicans and campaigned for Ulysses S. Grant in 1868.
This is Edinburgh, a city which, since 1846, has marked time in its own distinctive style and to which, in return, time has bequeathed a rich legacy of monuments, myths, martyrs, and memories that make it a magnet for visitors.