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
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Source | Engraving by T Smith in Fox's Primitive Martyrs (1776 edition) |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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