A martyr represents a reality in this world: that this world is a world of sufferings. In times of peace, they are sometimes heralded after they die or sometimes while they are alive - I think of Maya  Angelou who must have lived through hell to be so kind. All saints have been martyred at some point. Not all martyrs are necessarily saints at the time they are alive. But their merit makes them so in history.  Is is the worst thing on earth to be a martyr? It is  a fact of life for most of the world's population. So what do we make of all this: martyr, suffering, overal sufferings of all sentient beings on earth? We make it an odyssey from earth and back. We have lived the way of Love in the end of our lives- this is what a blessed martyr knows.