Early Christian Martyrdom
In Our Time: Religion
The Imitation of Christ
The story of the martyrs of leon in 177 specifically says that the christians are put into prison, and then they're taken out to be martyred in the arena. So it becomes a big public spectacle. The humblest person in the group is an elderly slave woman called blendina. She's taking care of the group as as a kind of spiritual mother. Instead of being thro to the beast, she's hung on a cross,. which is a standard criminal execution in the roman period. And he says that she hung there on the cross as if, as if in the same way that jesus had done.
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