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Motifs
- "Better a live confessor than a dead martyr." So answers a preacher when asked whether he preferred to stay at home and confess his flock or go to war against the infidels. J1261.9
- Martyrdom to preserve virginity. T326.3
- Reciting martyrology will prevent decomposition of body of one who recites it. V52.14
- Martyr with sign of cross on his heart. (Cf. V254.3.) V86.2
- Place of saint's martyrdom perpetually green. V229.2.5
- Martyrs emit milk instead of blood from their wounds. V229.2.6
- Religious martyrdom. V463
- First martyr: John the Baptist. V463.2
- Red as symbolic of martyrdom. Z141.2
- Martyrs called "red wheat"; saints, "Dei triticum" (God's wheat). Z141.2.1
- White as symbolic of martyrdom. Z142.2
- Blue as symbolic of martyrdom. Z144.1
- Green as symbolic of martyrdom. Z145.1