Martyrs are the True Heroes

Martyrdom of Saint John Nepomucene

Heroes are those who die for the truth, for God, who is the truth itself, not those who accomplish feats with a pruritus for human glory. Augustine suggests this term for martyrs because they are heroes.

Father Jose Moran footnote in Obras de San Agustin, Tomo VI-XVII: La Ciudad de Dios, BAC, 1958, 710-711 n.64.

Cf. Saint Augustine, The City of God, Book X, Chapter 21.