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Our Times: The Age of Martyrs
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"THE REAL PRESENCE
CHRIST IN THE EUCHARIST
Our Times: The Age of Martyrs
Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.
Never in the history of the papacy has any Bishop of Rome written at greater
length about martyrdom than Pope John Paul II. His encyclical The Gospel
of Life devotes a thousand or more words to the call to martyrdom in our
age.
He reminds us that the revelation from the Old Testament to the new, and from
the time of Christ to the present day, is the history of martyrdom as a witness
to the truth.
He names Susanna, who refused to consent to lechery and was ready to die to
preserve her chastity. He spoke of John the Baptist who was beheaded by King
Herod because he condemned the adulterous marriage of the king. But he especially
identifies Jesus Christ as the king of martyrs, who died on the cross as a witness
to the Truth which He was sent to proclaim to the world.
So the history of courageous practice and profession of the Truth has gone
on for twenty centuries of Christianity.
We commonly speak of the first three hundred years of the Christian era as
the Age of Martyrs. Certainly tens of thousands of believing Christians laid
down their lives, rather than compromise their Christian faith and morality
to the pagan culture in which they lived. Every single Pope up to the fourth
century died a martyr's death.
So, far from crushing Christianity or destroying the church founded by Christ,
martyrdom actually contributed to the growth of a Christian civilization. The
phrase, sanguis martyrum est semen Christianorum --"the blood of
martyrs is the seed of Christians"--was not a pious aphorism. It was a
literal fact of history. The more blood was shed by Christians in dying for
their faith, the more Christianity expanded throughout what had been a pagan
world.
Modern Paganism
All th"
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