martyred body

His martyred body was thrown in the flames of the burning Church.

Think of the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, in which the perpetrators genuinely believed their martyred bodies would exude perfume as they attained paradise.

Her centuries-old martyred body is encased in wax in a glass case - but the wax has cracked at the tips of her fingers.

The typical medieval devotional space, where religious functions were celebrated, was animated with images of far-flung saints and often with fragments of their martyred bodies.

Christian sources describe various miracles after the priests' deaths, including their martyred bodies being miraculously carried against the stream for the space of forty miles to the place in which the companions of the Ewalds were residing.

Like a sharp black mechanical cry in the spongy organism of gloom stood the coarse and sudden sculpture of his torment; the big mouth of night carefully spurted the angular actual language of his martyred body.

Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin, the 4th Twelver Shia Imam, helped the Banu Asad tribe to bury the martyred bodies and helped them to identify the bodies of Husayn ibn Ali, his father, and the Ahl al-Bayt and their companions.