Combustion of the sons of Solomonia, Caspar Luyken, 1699 print In the foreground a man is burned on a large grid. In the background the Greek king Antiochus IV. He orders the execution of the seven sons of Solomonia. A Jewish woman. Solomonia stands behind the fire with her remaining sons and refuses to swear her faith. paper etching the martyrdom of the seven Maccabean brothers and their mother under Antiochus IV Epiphanes (2 Maccabees 7)

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