* For a martyr, the Pope has only to make a declaration of martyrdom, a certification that the venerable gave his or her life voluntarily as a witness for the faith and / or in an act of heroic charity for others.

Dragons that act as draugar appear in Beowulf as well as in some of the heroic lays of the Poetic Edda ( in the form of Fafnir ).

The titles were probably meant to convey certain characteristics of their associated leaders ; Diocletian, in Jovian style, would take on the dominating roles of planning and commanding ; Maximian, in Herculian mode, would act as Jupiter's heroic subordinate.

Occasionally, performing an extraordinary ( usually heroic ) act can earn a Padawan learner Jedi status, such as when Obi-Wan Kenobi defeats the Sith Lord Darth Maul.

That night, he is reconciled with Audrey and the following morning, secretly shows the newspaper article of his anonymous heroic act to his son.

ISBN 0-7642-2921-4 ; fictional account of Rahab's heroic act and later life among the Hebrews.

Kolbe's recognition as a Christian martyr also created some controversy within the Catholic Church, in that, while his ultimate self-sacrifice of his life was most certainly saintly and heroic, he was not killed strictly speaking out of odium Fidei ( i. e., out of hatred for the Faith ), but as a result of an act of Christian charity, which the Servant of God Pope Paul VI himself had recognized at his beatification by naming him a confessor and giving him the unofficial title " martyr of charity ".

However, Blessed Pope John Paul II, when deciding to canonize him, overruled the commission he had established ( which agreed with the earlier assessment of heroic charity ), wishing to make the point that the systematic hatred of ( whole categories of ) humanity propagated by the Nazi regime was in itself inherently an act of hatred of religious ( Christian ) faith, meaning Father Kolbe's death equated to martyrdom.

A bronze statue was later erected to him in the comitium because of his heroic act ; he was given " as much of the public land as he himself could plow around in one day with a yoke of oxen.

Eventually, he is drafted, is shipped overseas, and performs a heroic act, which results in his being severely wounded.

The Athenian scholar Laonicus Chalcondyles ( d. c. 1490 ) claims to draw on Greek traditions when he refers to Murad's killer as Miloes, " a man of noble birth who voluntarily decided to accomplish the heroic act of assassination.

The story of Decius as preserved has been patterned after that of the military tribune of 258, but Decius could still have performed some heroic act in 343, the memory of which became the origin of the later embellished tale.

P. Decius might have performed some heroic act which then enabled him to become the first of his family to reach the consulship in 340, but if so no detail of the historical event survives.

The chief was so impressed by this heroic act that Stark was adopted into the tribe, where he spent the winter.

The Scotists hold that the entire condignity of the good work rests exclusively on the gratuitous promise of God and His free acceptance, without which even the most heroic act is devoid of merit, and with which even mere naturally good works may become meritorious.

For example, the painting Lady Feng and the Bear, from ancient China, depicts the heroic act of a consort of the emperor placing herself between her husband and a rampaging bear.

The assassination was largely seen as a heroic act as it has historically been seen as a signal of a new bourgeois revolution against the feudal traditions of Albania and a crossing bridge in the newly democratic-bourgeois values.

The Presidential Unit Citation is a senior unit award granted to military units which have performed an extremely meritorious or heroic act, usually in the face of an armed enemy.

Among an all-star cast in the World War II battle epic The Longest Day, he provided a climactic heroic act of leading an ultimately successful attempt to breach the defense wall atop Omaha Beach in Normandy but dying in the process.

Divine or heroic epiphanies were sometimes experienced in historical times, either in dreams or as a waking vision, and frequently led to the foundation of a cult, or at least an act of worship and the dedication of a commemorative offering.

His death is described by Attar as a heroic act, as when they are taking him to court, a Sufi asks him: " What is love?

") – When committing a notably heroic act and being recognized for it he would shout out this phrase.

Confused about what has happened, Wilby as a dog goes to Professor Plumcutt, who says he has invoked the Borgia curse upon himself, which can only be broken through a heroic act of selflessness.

Captain Rubio's singularly heroic act turned the tide of the battle, and for his extaordinary leadership and valor, he posthumously received the Medal of Honor.

Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

Almost nothing is said of Charles' spectacular victories, the central theme being the heroic loyalty of the Swedish people to their idolized king in misfortune and defeat.

A need so deeply planted, asking for direction, so to speak, is likely to be gratified by the vivid examples and heroic proportions of literature.

In view of Eisenhower's reluctance to concede that anything was amiss in the Terror, it is doubtful that heroic intervention by Dulles could have produced anything but disaster for him and the country's foreign policy.

When looking for a long-term partner more conventional altruism may be preferred which may indicate that he is also willing to share resources with her and her children while when looking for a short-term partner heroic risk-taking, which may be costly signal showing good genes, may be more preferable.

However, years of activism, and fighting for the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War have left him disillusioned .</ br > When the plague epidemic is virtually over, Tarrou becomes one of its last victims, but puts up a heroic struggle before dying.

Athene is the shrewd companion of heroes and the goddess of heroic endeavour in Greek mythology.

Albrecht Altdorfer's depiction of the moment in 333 BC when Alexander the Great routed Darius III for supremacy in Asia Minor is vast in ambition, sweeping in scope, vivid in imagery, rich in symbols, and obviously heroic — the Iliad of painting, as literary critic Friedrich Schlegel suggested In the painting, a swarming cast of thousands of soldiers surround the central action: Alexander on his white steed, leading two rows of charging cavalrymen, dashes after a fleeing Darius, who looks anxiously over his shoulder from a chariot.

There is no trace of heroic monarchy and no tradition of a tyranny.

The film was a commercial success, but was highly controversial owing to its portrayal of African American men ( played by white actors in blackface ) as unintelligent and sexually aggressive towards white women, and the portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan ( whose original founding is dramatized ) as a heroic force.

Beowulf (; in Old English or ) is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature.

It is an epic poem told in historical perspective ; a story of epic events and of great people of a heroic past.

Although its author is unknown, its themes and subject matter are rooted in Germanic heroic poetry, in Anglo-Saxon tradition recited and cultivated by Old English poets called scops.

The poem is composed orally and extemporaneously, and the archive of tradition on which it draws is oral, pagan, Germanic, heroic, and tribal.

M. H. Abrams and Stephen Greenblatt assert in their introduction to Beowulf in the Norton Anthology of English Literature that, " The poet was reviving the heroic language, style, and pagan world of ancient Germanic oral poetry it is now widely believed that Beowulf is the work of a single poet who was a Christian and that his poem reflects well-established Christian tradition.

" Venerable / Heroic in Virtue " When enough information has been gathered, the congregation will recommend to the pope that he make a proclamation of the Servant of God's heroic virtue ( that is, that the servant exhibited the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity, and the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance, to a heroic degree ).

From this point the one said to be " heroic in virtue " is referred to by the title " Venerable ".

Conan's adventures often result in him performing heroic feats, though his motivation for doing so is largely to protect his own survival or for personal gain.

In the comic books and in the George Reeves television series, he favors the Daily Planets store room for his changes of identities ( the heroic change between identities within the store room is almost always seen in the comics, but never viewed in the Reeves series ).