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32. Aristarchus, Paul’s Friend
The Martyrdom Of Some Of Paul’s Friends And Brethren Who Were Imprisoned With Him Shortly After He Was Offered Up; Besides Others Who Were Slain Afterwards. It is related that shortly after the death of the Apostle Paul, his brethren and fellow prisoners, whom he mentions in the epistles which he wrote from his prison, namely, Aristarchus, Epaphras, Aquila, Prisca,…
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31. The Apostle Paul
The Apostle Paul Beheaded in Rome on Nero’s Orders, A.D. 69 Paul, the Apostle of Christ, Sorely Persecuted, and Finally Beheaded, at Rome, Under the Emperor Nero, A.D. 69 Saul, afterwards called Paul, was of Jewish descent, a Hebrew of the tribe of Benjamin; but, as to who his father and mother were, we find in Holy Writ no record.…
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30. The Apostle Peter
The Apostle Peter being crucified upside down in Rome on orders of Nero, AD 69 Simon Peter, the Holy Apostles, Crucified with His Head Downward, Under Emperor Nero, A.D. 69 Simon Jona, afterwards called Cephas in Syriac, but Petros or Petrus in Greek, was the brother of Andrew, a native of Bethsaida in Galilee, and a fisherman by occupation. He…
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29. Nero’s Cruelties Against the Christians
Of the Unheard of Cruelties Nero Practiced in Slaying the Pious Christians Touching the manner in which the Christians were tortured and killed at the time of Nero, A. Mellinus gives the following account from Tacitus and other Roman writers: namely, that four extremely cruel and unnatural kinds of torture were employed against the Christians: Firstly, that they dressed them…
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28. Ten Bloody Persecutions
Of the Ten Bloody Persecutions which the Christians Suffered under the Heathen Emperors of Rome; the First of which Began in the Reign of Nero, A. D. 66 The First Persecution of the Christians, under Nero, Anno 66 When the Jews were deprived of their power, by the heathen, and their time was past, in which they had persecuted and…
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27. Mark, the Evangelist
Mark the Evangelist dies on the way while being dragged to the site of his burning, Alexandria, A. D. 64 How Mark, the Holy Evangelist, Dragged to the Stake at Alexandria, Died on the Way, A.D. 64 The holy evangelist Mark is supposed by most to have been that Mark whose surname in Holy Scripture is John. He was of…
