A General History of the Christian Church: to the Fall of the Western Empire
A General History of the Christian Church: to the Fall of the Western Empire
Priestley Joseph
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Macar, a native of Lybia, after refilling all attempts to make him renounce his profeffion, was fen- tenced to be burned alive. After thefe Epimachus and Alexander, when they had long borne the horrors of a prifon, and had been tortured with iron for- ceps, and many other ways, were burned ia a lime-kiln. Four women perifhcd in the fame manner. Ammonarion, an unmarried woman, being tortured a long time;: in the pre- fence of the judge, and faying that nothing they could do to her would make her... pro^ nounce what they required, was^ ordered for execution. Mercuria, a venerable old wo-, man, and Dionyfia, the mother of many chil- dren, and who had brought them all up in the profeffion of chriftianity, and alfo another Ammonarion, were then brought before the prefed: ; and he being alhamed of having tor- tured women to no purpofe, he ordered them to be beheaded without any previous fuffering. Then Heron, and Ater, and Ifidorus,.alI Egyptians, were brought before the judge, together with Diofcurus, a boy about fifteen years old.
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