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  1. Greek `witness'. one who voluntarily suffers
  2. death for refusing to renounce a religious
  3. faith. The first recorded Christian martyr
  4. was St Stephen, who was killed in Jerusalem
  5. shortly after Jesus' alleged ascension to
  6. heaven.
  7.