martyr's blood

And the martyr's blood that was shed avenged at long last.

There is no martyr's blood in these veins.

The painting shows the saint squeezing a martyr's blood from a sponge into an ornate vessel.

"Now where St. Whale fell, his martyr's blood soaked into the ground, and strange flowers sprang up instantly, such as had never been seen before.

This supreme good has been paid for by the martyr's blood of pure and great men, for whose sake Italy is still loved and reverenced to-day.

At the quartering the footmen of the French Ambassador and of the Lois, Count of Egmont dipped their handkerchiefs into the martyr's blood.

A vial of the martyr's blood is enshrined there, and every 10 August on his feast day, the day on which his martyrdom is commemorated, it liquifies.

Of the lateral chapels, that of the Treasure is the most notable; it is there that the head of St. Januarius and the ampullæ that contain the martyr's blood are preserved.

Dr Schultz, leader of Red River's rabid pro-Canadian party, toured Orange Ontario brandishing a rope that he claimed had bound Scott's hands during the execution and a via] of the martyr's blood.

In the case of Nazarius, the 'martyr's blood was as fresh as if it had been shed that day, and his decapitated head was entire, with its hair and beard as if it had just been washed', according to Ambrose's biographer.

On the fourth of April, James Earl Ray gunned down Martin Luther King on a motel balcony in Memphis, but the assassin's hopes were foiled when, because of this murder, freedom grew more vigorously from the richness of a in martyr's blood.