Early Christian Martyrdom
In Our Time: Religion
The Most Compell of the Martyrs in Eusebius
The first of eusebius stories is of a figure called ignatius, whos who'se living in the very early second century. And what's important about him is that he's ferociously ready to die for the faith. Eusebius says that the smell of his flesh burning was like the smell of a loaf of bread being baked, and it was the smell of paradise. Do we know the date of that? He says it's under marcus aurelius, who, who was emperor from a hundred and 61 sho probably early won the sixties. Also, there're also greek speaking, ah, there's a greek speaking christian
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