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Martyrs are considered martyrs because they were killed out of their persecutors’ hatred of the Christian faith . Beyond this classical criterion, however, there has been a direction towards its theological rethinking. Pope : Death penalty never brings justice, but is a poison for societyGaza pastor: May the ceasefire talks move us toward 'miracle' of peace
What I would like to argue is the recognition of non-heroic martyrs, persons not as heroic as Oscar Romero or Martin Luther King, Jr., persons who at first were not actually resolved to joyfully offer their lives for the faith like the martyrs of old who were said to be singing while being led to arena where the lions wait.
For this, they met their violent deaths. José Ignacio Gonzáles Faus describes these martyrs as “witnesses to love”, “killed by the hatred of love”. Ignacio Ellacuria calls them “crucified peoples”. I call them “martyrs at the margins”… This attempt to rethink the notion of martyrdom is intended to make sense of what many people call “senseless killings” in populist regimes of our times. I would like to consider that these simple people among the socially excluded did not die in vain. Beyond the narratives of “elite martyrs”, they did not die in the name of grand narratives of fighting for justice and heroic causes of universal importance.
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