Christian defeats were reframed as glorious martyrdom rather than divine abandonment

Evidence

In the final two of the five letters on the fall of Acre, Riccoldo accepts the inscrutable justice of God’s ways. No longer viewing the massacre of Acre’s friars as unjust, he now presents it as the glorious conferral of the crown of martyrdom. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1243

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Clergy reframed Confederate defeat as a Christlike resurrection narrative promising eventual triumph — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 256