"pro-martyr" meaning in English

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          "text": "John was a son, probably the younger son, of Zebedee and Salome and a brother of the elder James who became the pro-martyr of the apostles.",
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          "text": "Among the scholars at Douai, men were being prepared to serve as priests and some showed themselves eager to cross over to England immediately rather than wait upon events. Cuthbert Mayne was captured and executed in 1577 and is regarded as the pro-martyr of the seminary priests.",
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          "text": "Though not hearing the tellers' full stories in these passages, we are nonetheless reminded that neutrality was not a quality of storytelling. The pro-martyr stance of the statements above will only have been more dramatized in their story form.",
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          "text": "If we now turn to another lustily pro-martyr work we can open up some more key themes and problems.",
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          "ref": "2008, M. A. Khan, The culture of martyrdom, page 4:",
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