What is Martyr?
[[File:Jean-Léon Gérôme - The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer - Walters 37113.jpg|thumb|right|''The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer'', by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1883).]] A '''martyr''' is someone who suffers [[persecution]] and later [[assassination]] or [[death]] for [[Advocacy|advocating]], renouncing (giving up), or refusing to renounce (not giving up) a [[religious belief]] or other cause, despite another person or group demanding that they do so. Originally it was applied only to those who suffered for their religious beliefs but now the term has come to be used in connection with people killed for a political or [[Nationalism|nationalist]] cause as well. == Related pages == *[[Self-denial]] *[[Self-immolation]] *[[Shaheed]] {{religion-stub}} [[Category:Theology]] [[Category:Death]]