saint and martyr

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All photograph: David Levene To some, he is verging on a saint and martyr, singlehandedly standing against the forces of Chinese political repression.

From The Guardian • May 30, 2013

Don Fernand is to this day esteemed as a saint and martyr in Portugal, and his memory is commemorated on the fifth of June.

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de

And the metaphorical style of the Hebrews might ascribe to a saint and martyr the adoptive title of Son of God.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Milman, Henry Hart

What will Mademoiselle say?—she that has held up the faith of every one of us, like a little saint and martyr as she is! 

From A Modern Telemachus by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

It was better that Enid should think of her father as a saint and martyr, than as a profligate whose hand no honest man or woman would care to hold.

From A Life Sentence A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline