Christian heroes and martyrs . r own country, and several cities in Persia fell into the handsof the Romans. After Gordians death, in the reign of Decius, that emperor cameto Antioch, where, having a desire to visit an assembly of Christians,Babylas opposed him, and refused to let him come in. The emperorhid his anger at the time; but soon sending for the bishop, he sharplyreproved 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 withchains, treated with great cruelty, and then beheaded.
Christian heroes and martyrs . r own country, and several cities in Persia fell into the handsof the Romans. After Gordians death, in the reign of Decius, that emperor cameto Antioch, where, having a desire to visit an assembly of Christians,Babylas opposed him, and refused to let him come in. The emperorhid his anger at the time; but soon sending for the bishop, he sharplyreproved 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 withchains, treated with great cruelty, and then beheaded. Three youngmen, who had been his pupils, were slain at the same time and withthe same sword. On going to the place of execution, the bishop ex-claimed, Behold me and the children that the Lord hath given chains worn by the bishop in prison were buried with him. Execution of Alexander and , bishop of Jerusalem, about this time was cast intoprison, where he died through the severity of his confinement; or,. % r 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 bonesbroken, and was then thrown from the roof of a high building, andkilled by the fall. Julianus, an old man, lame with the gout; and Cronion, anotherChristian, were bound on the backs of camels, severely scourged,and then thrown into a fire and consumed. A spectator who seemedto 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 othertorments, 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 , the Christian servant of an
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