Clearly, the early Christians believed that it was a great privilege to be martyred. Tertullian (Ad Scapulam) described how, around 185 CE, all the Christians of a town in Asia presented themselves...
When Jaimito says this to Dede, he is talking about how her sisters contributed to the revolution and rebelled against the government while Dede did not help. But Dede was the sister who lived and...