Public Executions In The Arena

[Silent_Water]

To be honest, it often makes me simply sick that the ancient Greeks and Romans did not invent electric light bulbs or at least neon tubes and we - the interested public opinion - have "to enlighten" their most interesting "photos" in our threads by ourselves:


By the way: Are there more 'photos' like the last one without these silly male torturers and the girl simply hanging around without clothes seen from the front side?

 

[MICHELE PATRI]

Agnes of Rome stripped.

 

[Apostate]

Agnes of Rome stripped.

I think the kernel of truth in the St. Agnes story is that the Romans took a young Christian girl, gangbanged her in a whorehouse, and killed her.



Have you noticed in all the female martyr stories the saint miraculously retains her virginity? Yeah.

Right.

 

[MICHELE PATRI]

ELVIRA CRUCIFIED

Very little is known about Elvira. What we do know is that she lived in present-day France and was martyred as a Christian, probably crucified.

 

[ERIN the Brave]

View attachment 305999 nice kitty, nice kitty ... uh oh ... yikes!

When they said This won't hurt a bit...then were Lion!

 

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JULIA OF CARTHAGO CRUCIFIED

Julia was a noble Carthaginian girl of the 5th century AD who, having fallen into slavery, was bought by a trader, a certain Eusebius, and taken to Syria. Eusebius, although a pagan, held Julia's human and spiritual qualities in high regard, as she was a gentle, submissive and devoted slave.
When her work was done and she was allowed to rest, she devoted herself to reading or to prayer. Moved by the love of God, she fasted frequently. Eusebius was so attached to Julia that he took her with him on his travels. On one of these trips, at the Cap Corse (Corsica), they survived a shipwreck and stopped on the island, where the governor Felix, a violent and cruel man, reigned.
The governor had decided to buy the beautiful slave girl, but Eusebius refused the attractive proposal, as he was very fond of the woman.
One evening, Felix took advantage of Eusebius' drunkenness and had himself brought before Julia, offering her freedom if she would sacrifice to the gods. The saint refused with a curt reply, rejecting pagan idols. Felix, indignant, tried in various ways to make the young woman recant her faith.
All of Felix's efforts proved futile. So he did not hesitate to resort to violence, having her beaten and scourged. Finally, he ordered that her hair be pulled out and that, like Jesus, she be crucified.

 

[MICHELE PATRI]

TWO YOUNG FUGITIVE SLAVES CRUCIFIED IN THE ARENA

 

[MICHELE PATRI]

BENEDICTA OF ORIGNY CRUCIFIED

Benedicta was an indomitable heroine of the Christian faith. She lived during the impious IV Century, which was marked by a renewal of persecutions against the Christians promoted by the Roman Emperor Flavius Claudius Julian, better known as Julian the Apostate. Having renounced his allegiance to the Gospel of Christ, Julian sought to restore paganism in the Empire and began to punish the Christians for practicing their faith. His efforts soon assumed, in fact, the character of full-scale persecution that spread throughout the Roman Empire and lasted long after his rather short term as Emperor (361-363 A.D.).
At any rate, during this new wave of persecutions that took place in the second half of the IV Century, many Christians suffered torture and death on account of their faith. Among them, there was a young Roman maiden by the name of Benedicta, who spent her promising youth in an intense apostolate of faith in Jesus Christ, and of charity towards her fellow men.
Benedicta’s name is recorded in the Roman Martyrology on the day of January 4, year 371, which is the date of her martyrdom.
According to the tradition, she was sentenced to die on the cross.

 

[Apostate]

BENEDICTA OF ORIGNY CRUCIFIED

Benedicta was an indomitable heroine of the Christian faith. She lived during the impious IV Century, which was marked by a renewal of persecutions against the Christians promoted by the Roman Emperor Flavius Claudius Julian, better known as Julian the Apostate. Having renounced his allegiance to the Gospel of Christ, Julian sought to restore paganism in the Empire and began to punish the Christians for practicing their faith. His efforts soon assumed, in fact, the character of full-scale persecution that spread throughout the Roman Empire and lasted long after his rather short term as Emperor (361-363 A.D.).
At any rate, during this new wave of persecutions that took place in the second half of the IV Century, many Christians suffered torture and death on account of their faith. Among them, there was a young Roman maiden by the name of Benedicta, who spent her promising youth in an intense apostolate of faith in Jesus Christ, and of charity towards her fellow men.
Benedicta’s name is recorded in the Roman Martyrology on the day of January 4, year 371, which is the date of her martyrdom.
According to the tradition, she was sentenced to die on the cross.

Definitely one of you better ones, Michele.

But I must remind people that regarding actual persecution of those he called "the Galileans," Julian simply gets a bad rap.

Constantius, dying the year 361, Julian succeeded him, and had no sooner attained the imperial dignity than he renounced Christianity and embraced paganism, which had for some years fallen into great disrepute. Though he restored the idolatrous worship, he made no public edicts against Christianity. He recalled all banished pagans, allowed the free exercise of religion to every sect, but deprived all Christians of offices at court, in the magistracy, or in the army. He was chaste, temperate, vigilant, laborious, and pious; yet he prohibited any Christian from keeping a school or public seminary of learning, and deprived all the Christian clergy of the privileges granted them by Constantine the Great.

Persecution Under Julian the Apostate - Fox's Book of Martyrs

Read about Persecution Under Julian the Apostate - Persecution Under Julian the Apostate This emperor was the son of Julius Constantius, and the nephew of Constantine the Great.

www.biblestudytools.com

 

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SEVERA OF PYRGI SCOURGED TO DEATH​

There are at least four virgin martyrs called Severa who were killed in the IIIrd century, probably under the Emperors Claudius and Diocletianus. Unfortunately, only very little is known about them.
Severa of Pyrgi, a harbour town on the North-West coast of the Italian peninsula (today: Santa Severa (Toscana)), was the daughter of the army commander Maximus, who had become a Christian. In 298, during the persecution of Diocletianus, Maximus and over 100 soldiers were put to the sword because of their faith. Then his family was arrested. His wife Secunda died during the interrogation; Severa and her brothers Calendius and Marcus suffered a slow death: They were tied to poles and beaten with whips weighted with lead balls until they expired.

 

[MICHELE PATRI]

BARBARA OF NICOMEDIA TORTURED TO DEATH

According to the hagiographies, Barbara, the daughter of a rich pagan named Dioscorus, was carefully guarded by her father who kept her locked up in a tower in order to preserve her from the outside world. Having secretly become a Christian, she rejected an offer of marriage that she received through her father.
Before going on a journey, her father commanded that a private bath-house be erected for her use near her dwelling, and during his absence, Barbara had three windows put in it, as a symbol of the Holy Trinity, instead of the two originally intended. When her father returned, she acknowledged herself to be a Christian; upon this he drew his sword to kill her, but her prayers created an opening in the tower wall and she was miraculously transported to a mountain gorge, where two shepherds watched their flocks. Dioscorus, in pursuit of his daughter, was rebuffed by the first shepherd, but the second betrayed her. For doing this, he was turned to stone and his flock was changed to locusts.
Dragged before the prefect of the province, Martinianus, who had her cruelly tortured, Barbara held true to her Christian faith. During the night, the dark prison was bathed in light and new miracles occurred. She was then scourged and tortured with hot irons and torches. Finally, she was beheaded. Her father himself carried out the death sentence. However, as punishment, he was struck by lightning on the way home and his body was consumed by flame.

 

[Barbaria1]

BARBARA OF NICOMEDIA TORTURED TO DEATH

According to the hagiographies, Barbara, the daughter of a rich pagan named Dioscorus, was carefully guarded by her father who kept her locked up in a tower in order to preserve her from the outside world. Having secretly become a Christian, she rejected an offer of marriage that she received through her father.
Before going on a journey, her father commanded that a private bath-house be erected for her use near her dwelling, and during his absence, Barbara had three windows put in it, as a symbol of the Holy Trinity, instead of the two originally intended. When her father returned, she acknowledged herself to be a Christian; upon this he drew his sword to kill her, but her prayers created an opening in the tower wall and she was miraculously transported to a mountain gorge, where two shepherds watched their flocks. Dioscorus, in pursuit of his daughter, was rebuffed by the first shepherd, but the second betrayed her. For doing this, he was turned to stone and his flock was changed to locusts.
Dragged before the prefect of the province, Martinianus, who had her cruelly tortured, Barbara held true to her Christian faith. During the night, the dark prison was bathed in light and new miracles occurred. She was then scourged and tortured with hot irons and torches. Finally, she was beheaded. Her father himself carried out the death sentence. However, as punishment, he was struck by lightning on the way home and his body was consumed by flame.

Ahhh … one of my ancestors.

 

[Apostate]

BARBARA OF NICOMEDIA TORTURED TO DEATH

According to the hagiographies, Barbara, the daughter of a rich pagan named Dioscorus, was carefully guarded by her father who kept her locked up in a tower in order to preserve her from the outside world. Having secretly become a Christian, she rejected an offer of marriage that she received through her father.
Before going on a journey, her father commanded that a private bath-house be erected for her use near her dwelling, and during his absence, Barbara had three windows put in it, as a symbol of the Holy Trinity, instead of the two originally intended. When her father returned, she acknowledged herself to be a Christian; upon this he drew his sword to kill her, but her prayers created an opening in the tower wall and she was miraculously transported to a mountain gorge, where two shepherds watched their flocks. Dioscorus, in pursuit of his daughter, was rebuffed by the first shepherd, but the second betrayed her. For doing this, he was turned to stone and his flock was changed to locusts.
Dragged before the prefect of the province, Martinianus, who had her cruelly tortured, Barbara held true to her Christian faith. During the night, the dark prison was bathed in light and new miracles occurred. She was then scourged and tortured with hot irons and torches. Finally, she was beheaded. Her father himself carried out the death sentence. However, as punishment, he was struck by lightning on the way home and his body was consumed by flame.

*sigh*

I once more marvel how there’s a God who intervenes in martyrdoms with miracle after miracle and said martyrs still suffer horrible deaths anyway.

No complaints though. Such stories feed my unclean fantasies featuring righteous asses.

 

[MICHELE PATRI]

A GROUP OF CHRISTIANS ARE CRUCIFIED IN THE ARENA

 

[MICHELE PATRI]

YOUNG SLAVE CONDEMNED AS AN ARSONIST CHAINED TO A METAL STRUCTURE AND SLOWLY ROASTED TO DEATH

 

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REBEL SLAVE CRUCIFIED

 

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JULIA OF CORSICA CRUCIFIED AND TORTURED

At the time when Carthage was attacked, Julia was sold as a slave. She was bought by a merchant named Eusebius. Her master, though he was a pagan, admired the courage with which the woman went about her work.
When her master's ship was in the port of Cap Corse, where Eusebius had attended a pagan feast, he was put to sleep by the pagans, who took advantage of the occasion to kidnap Julia, who was also on the ship. She refused to deny Christ, so she was tortured, then scourged. However, in the midst of these torments, the woman continued to confess her faith with ever greater ardor. “I confess Him,” she cried, “who for love for me has endured the torment of the flagellation. For if my Lord was crowned with thorns for me, was nailed to the tree of the Cross, wherefore ought I refuse to let my hair be torn from my head as price for the confession of my faith, that I might be worthy to seize the palm of martyrdom?” Julia died by crucifixion.

 

[MICHELE PATRI]

JULITTA OF IKONIUM TORTURE TI DEATH

Julitta was a Christian widow who lived with her infant son Cyriacus (Cyricus, Quiricus) in Anatolia — according to some source in Ikonium (today: Konya, Turkey), to others in Tarsus. In 304 she was arrested because of her faith. Her child was killed before her eyes (the judge threw him upon the floor), and she was cruelly tortured and in the end beheaded.

 

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EULALIA OF MERIDA TORTURED TO DEATH

Eulalia was a devout Christian virgin, very young, whose mother sequestered her in the countryside in AD 304 because all citizens were required to avow faith in the Roman gods. Eulalia ran away to the law court of the governor Dacian at Emerita, professed herself a Christian, insulted the pagan gods and emperor Maximian, and challenged the authorities to martyr her. The judge's attempts at flattery and bribery failed. Eulalia was then stripped by the soldiers, tortured with hooks and torches, and burnt at the stake, suffocating from smoke inhalation. She taunted her torturers all the while, and as she expired a dove flew out of her mouth. This frightened away the soldiers and allowed a miraculous snow to cover her nakedness, its whiteness indicating her sainthood.

 

[Eulalia]

EULALIA OF MERIDA TORTURED TO DEATH

Eulalia was a devout Christian virgin, very young, whose mother sequestered her in the countryside in AD 304 because all citizens were required to avow faith in the Roman gods. Eulalia ran away to the law court of the governor Dacian at Emerita, professed herself a Christian, insulted the pagan gods and emperor Maximian, and challenged the authorities to martyr her. The judge's attempts at flattery and bribery failed. Eulalia was then stripped by the soldiers, tortured with hooks and torches, and burnt at the stake, suffocating from smoke inhalation. She taunted her torturers all the while, and as she expired a dove flew out of her mouth. This frightened away the soldiers and allowed a miraculous snow to cover her nakedness, its whiteness indicating her sainthood.

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Which is why she's my favourite saint! Thanks Michele