“”Purposeless renunciation, the renunciation of the dervish or fakir, can never appeal to the Western world. But the renunciation of the martyrs was neither purposeless nor self-centered. As their name shows, they were ‘witnesses’; as the needle turns to the Pole, so they must point, not to themselves, but to another.” Herbert Workman, Persecution in the Early Church, pp. 258-9.
