martyrize
martyrise BrE

Not the fanatic our more left-leaning friends over in the Birch Society chose to martyrize."

Though it was a politically compassionate music made by a racially mixed group, it didn't martyrize or romanticize suffering; it preferred to use humor and beauty.

Let's not martyrize and glorify Kurt Cobain, as we did River Phoenix, James Dean or Jimi Hendrix.

If you didn't have a conscience, you wouldn't be worth knowing, but don't let it martyrize you unless you have a definite reason for wanting to be a martyr.