Identifier: christianheroesm00fost (find matches)
Title: Christian heroes and martyrs
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: (Foster, William A.) (from old catalog)
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The Persians were driven entirely out of Syria, pursued into
their own country, and several cities in Persia fell into the hands
of the Romans.
After Gordian's death, in the reign of Decius, that emperor came
to Antioch, where, having a desire to visit an assembly of Christians,
Babylas opposed him, and refused to let him come in. The emperor
hid his anger at the time; but soon sending for the bishop, he sharply
reproved him for his insolence, and then ordered him, as a punishment,
to sacrifice to the heathen gods.
Refusing to do this, Babylas was committed to prison, loaded with
chains, treated with great cruelty, and then beheaded. Three young
men, who had been his pupils, were slain at the same time and with
the same sword. On going to the place of execution, the bishop ex-
claimed, " Behold me and the children that the Lord hath given me."
The chains worn by the bishop in prison were buried with him.

EXECUTION OF ALEXANDER AND OTHERS.

Alexander, bishop of Jerusalem, about this time was cast into
prison, where he died through the severity of his confinement; or,
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THE PERSIANS TAKE ANTIOCH AND CRUELLY TORTURE THE CHRISTIANS.

80 THE WORLDS CHRISTIAN MARTYRS.

as some historians say, was burned to death with several other Chris-
tians in a furnace.
Serapion, a Christian, was seized at Alexandria. He had his bones
broken, and was then thrown from the roof of a high building, and
killed by the fall.
Julianus, an old man, lame with the gout; and Cronion, another
Christian, were bound on the backs of camels, severely scourged,
and then thrown into a fire and consumed. A spectator who seemed
to pity them was ordered to be beheaded, as a punishment. Macar,
a Libyan Christian, was burned. Horon-Ater and Isodorus, Egyp-
tians, with Dioschorus, a boy of fifteen, after suffering many other
torments, met with a similar fate; and Nemesion, another Egyptian,
was first tried as a thief, but being acquitted, was accused of Chris-
tianity. Confessing this, he was scourged, tortured, and finally burned.
Ischyrian, the Christian servant of an Egyptian nobleman, was run
thro

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