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Picture No 10052733
Date 2nd/3rd centuries
Description EARLY CHRISTIANS TORTURE
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One way in which early Christians were martyred was by placing them in a copper of oil which was then heated ; they amazed their torturers by singing hymns as they died
Source Engraving by T Smith in Fox's Primitive Martyrs (1776 edition)
Credit Mary Evans Picture Library
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