So you get whacked by Rome because you refuse to sacrifice to their pantheon of gods for the simple reason that it runs counter to your Christian belief that does not permit worship of other gods, and that is NOT martyrdom????? The logic fails me.
She is not saying that that is not martyrdom. She’s saying that some stories portray that as the cause of the execution when other factors were the real cause.
And she’s right, in some cases, that did happen. The issue is whether it happened in most cases or only a few.
Stop shooting from the hip.
It was similar for Christians in Tokogawa Japan - read “Silence” for a nicely done rendition. They would make everyone step on pictures of Christ or saints or spit on crosses to demonstrate they weren’t Christian and if they didn’t they put em to the sword...katana that is.