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The Story of Martyrdom
The stories of martyrdom were enormously powerful in their own day. Have you any idea how many martyrs there were? I think this is possible to say, because we're digging through. When they look at blandina, they see christ fied for them in her body. And the text says that she leads the people who are there to christ. That's a very powerful moment. So we don't need that many martyrs for martyrdom to have this hugely important outside presence in the christian imagination.