The Martyrdom of Anna
A young Christian missionary to Turkey put to death in Epheos in ad365, for refusing to worship the local Gods.
The devout Christian Anna was arrested and put on trial accused of teaching the local children the outlawed religion of Christianity.
Although the beautiful 18-year-old virgin was warned many times at her trial that the crime she was accused of carried the death sentence, she still refused to renounce her faith, she was sentenced to death and taken down to spend her last days chained in a damp and lightless cell.
While Anna spent the time left to her, deep in prayer to her Lord Jesus praying for strength to die bravely as he had, she had no idea what they would do to her but she felt proud that she was to suffer for her Lord.
By the time Anna was 13 she had realised the consequences of being a Christian, from this early age she had decided that if she was called on to bear witness to her faith, she would lay down her life and accept martyrdom rather than deny her Lord Jesus.
It had been decided by the Senate that as an example to other would-be Christians Anna must be put to death, without a shred of dignity.
The chief executioner lead the guards to Anna’s cell she could hear them coming and made one last prayer to Jesus and offered no resistance as her hands were tied behind her back and she was led out clothed in a simple white garment wearing a small wooden cross on a leather throng around her neck it was decided to let the girl wear this cross for the time being.
Anna has not seen daylight for days, and her face is twisted against the early morning light as, with arms tied behind her back, she is led out to the execution site, flanked by eight guards, she is bewildered, dazed, and for the moment fails to see some of the things that have been prepared for her execution.
There are people gathered to watch, even this early, more will come as the day goes on.
As we near the place where Anna is to die, she sees the preparations taking place, and an involuntary cry of shock and horror escapes from her.
A wooden cross, thirteen feet long and with a seven-foot crosspiece, lies on the ground, its upper end slightly raised on chocks, its base positioned over a narrow post-hole, a small pile of wedges alongside. there are guide-ropes looped around the ends of the crosspiece for raising the cross, and close by, seven-inch nails and a heavy iron mallet, there is more to this cross, halfway down its upright post is fixed on a block an upward-facing shaft of wood about 4 inches in diameter and nearly a foot long, shaped like a giant phallus horribly designed penetrate her vagina and destroy that which she had dedicated to her Lord.
Anna is now trembling violently, she had read how the early martyrs had suffered but now the reality of what she was facing was testing her faith to the limit, her knees seemed to grow weak.
She is held still and upright as she is told that she is to be crucified, even then the brave woman cried out that she is not worthy to die crucified in the same way as the Jesus she worships.
Mocking her the chief executioner informs her that she be crucified according to our law whether she is worthy or not, she shudders as he tells her that because by law we are not allowed to execute a virgin we have prepared something special for you after the guards have had their way with you, do you see that shaft fixed on the cross it is larger than any mans member and you will suffer married to it as you die on the cross, she can barely put one foot in front of the other as she is led over to the six guards who have been chosen to rape her.
Anna tries to remain calm as her hands untied from behind her back and four executioners begin to slowly strip her, in the sheer horror of the proceedings she begins to lose her composure and tries to resist, she never been naked in front of a man before, let alone seen naked men with penises fully erect at the sight of her being stripped.
Nothing could have prepared the beautiful and pious young woman for what was to happen next.
After a short and futile struggle Anna is held upright naked in front of the crowd, many of the men had only ever seen their wives naked and this was the spectacle they had come to see.
Anna had the face of an innocent young girl but the body of a small but fully developed woman, who had never shaved her body as this would have been a sign of pride, she possessed a mass of dark hair covering her pubic region and halfway up the lower half of her flat stomach, each side of her small firm breasts she also had under arm hair.
Anna, already on the verge of breaking down having seen the huge shaft that will impale her on the cross, finally lets out a scream of fear. "Don't do this to me! I beg you!" "Oh, for heaven's sake, Jesus please, not this oh no not like this, I have preserved my body for you, please not like this.
Please, please! Have mercy, and then as she realises her martyrdom is about to begin and that she will soon be with her Lord in heaven, she raises her arms, as if already crucified above her head, and calls out ”Jesus help me bear this in your name” as her first and what will be her last sexual experience begins, she is spreadeagled on the ground in front of her cross and raped in turn by each of the six guards.
As the holy virgin struggled with no avail to resist the thrusts of her violators she began to experience a feeling deep inside that she had never known before, she thought this must be the ecstasy of martyrdom in giving up herself for the Lord.
As she suffered the pain and humiliation of losing her virginity she calls out to her violators to accept the love of Jesus and praying for them, this infuriated them to such an extent that one was detailed to hold her mouth shut, her debasement had not gone quite as planned.
“Now let's get on with the crucifixion” it is the growling impatient voice of the chief executioner, on his order Anna’s naked and abused body is dragged onto the cross, she offers no resistance as she is forced down and securely bound with strong ropes, her arms stretched wide and legs fixed either side of the giant phallus the rounded end of which is now aligned with the opening to her vagina still running with blood and semen underneath her wet and matted pubic hair.
Turning to face the young woman now fixed securely to the cross the chief executioner in a loud voice reads out the terrible sentence handed down by the court.
“Anna of Galilee for the crime of teaching Christianity and sedition you are hereby sentenced to be nailed to the cross displayed naked for all to see and as further humiliation to you and your Christian faith you are to suffer impalement through the womanhood and while you still live, your breasts and cunt shall be cut from your body”
Anna begins to pray aloud the sweat building up on her body.
Without further ado the guards begin to raise the cross with two pulling on each rope the rest start to push the cross upright and as this happens Anna’s body begins to slip down towards the huge phallus, the crowd can now see why her arms and legs are not bound straight.
Cheering breaks out as it becomes obvious what is happening, the guards and have now got the cross almost upright, Anna her whole body tensed and pulling up against the ropes holding her, she clenches her buttocks and vagina as tightly as she can but it is of no use, as the cross drops upright into the posthole she lets out a hideous scream, "Aaaaaaaagghhhh!!" and then keeps screaming as her vagina is torn open, her ecstasy disappears with this penetration.
To allow her impalement to continue a guard steps forward and cuts the ropes holding her legs to the upright, now with her legs hanging free Anna was no longer able to prevent the continued invasion of the impalement stake and as her arms give way and her body is stretched out straight, a roar of satisfaction came from the crowd as a lump begins to appear in her flat belly just above her pubic hair, gasping in agony from what was in effect the opposite to giving birth, Anna struggles to regain her composure and tries to pray.
The executioners satisfied that she is now fully impaled pull her legs either side of the upright and lash them firmly in place, the young Christian is now left her beautiful body on display naked fully conscious and humiliated for the satisfaction of the crowd.
Bound to the cross with her womanhood impaled, Anna was left until they were ready to begin the final stage of her execution, from the local judges point of view her demise satisfies the Turkish custom of impalement and the making an example of Christians by crucifixion.
The final part of her execution was now about to commence, two ladders are erected either side of the semiconscious girl, executioners scale these ladders to hammer large spikes through her wrists into the wood, having done this they cut the ropes binding her wrists, and descend to part her legs and nail her ankles either side of the upright.
The fully crucified girl is now barely aware of what is going on around her and can barely feel as a ladder is leaned against her naked body, and armed with a sharp knife the chief executioner ascends the ladder to complete the final act of the sentence by cutting off each of her small breasts and throwing them to the crowd,
this cruelty caused Anna to begin screaming out incoherently and then the executioner descended to her pubic region where he cut from below the swelling lump where the stake was pushing out from her stomach forcing his knife down he removed all her pubic hair and skin down to the bone.
The ladder was then removed and the executioners stood back to survey the the hideous spectacle they had managed to achieve.
Far from deterring would-be Christians the effect of her courage and bravery during her martyrdom actually increased the number converting to Christianity.
