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[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, today’s Gospel gives an account of Herod’s murder of John the
Baptist. John is a proto-martyr, anticipating the martyrdom of many
Christians.Martyrdom has always been an important chapter of the Christian
story, from believers in the early Church who refused to sacrifice to
Rome’s pagan gods, to great saints of the Middle Ages such as Thomas Becket
and Thomas More who refused to compromise their beliefs for the sake of the
state, to modern martyrs killed in what St. John Paul II called odium
caritatis, "hatred of charity," such as Archbishop Oscar Romero of El
Salvador.*In the early twenty-first century

*, martyrdom remains a stunningly common fact of Christian life. One
high-end estimate for the number of Christian martyrs killed each year is
one hundred thousand, while the low end is around eight thousand—ranging
from one new martyr every five minutes to one every hour.*
*The example of the martyrs draws people to wonder what it is that would
induce so many to make the ultimate sacrifice. The Church Father Tertullian
said that "the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church," and it’s a
rare case of a theological maxim for which there’s actually empirical
confirmation.*
* Ó bűn nélkül fogantatott Szűz Mária, könyörögj értünk, kik hozzád
menekülünk! *
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