'There are in fact two kinds of martyrdom.
One takes place only in the heart, the other in both heart and body.
We too are capable of being martyrs, even without having anyone slay us.
To die from someone's enmity is martyrdom out in the open.
To bear insults, to love a person who hates us, is martyrdom in secret.'
St. Gregory the Great
Painting: Jean-Leon Gerome, The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer, 1883
