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Persecution of the Church

"The blood of the martyrs" — the Church's witness under Roman swords

This names the suffering inflicted on Christians by Roman and other authorities before Constantine, and the theology of witness and endurance that grew from it. Recorded in Eusebius's Church History and the Acts of the Martyrs, it gave rise to the conviction, famously voiced in the early Church, that the blood of the martyrs is seed. Martyrdom became a model of faithful witness unto death.

How it traveled

  1. The Epistles of Cyprian.
    Carthage · 258
    applies
  2. Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died
    — · 325
    applies
  3. The Church History of Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
    explains
  4. The Life of Constantine with Orations of Constantine and Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
    explains
  5. Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations
    Mosul · 345
    explains
  6. Defence of His Flight. (Apologia de Fuga.)
    Alexandria · 373
    explains
  7. Defence Against the Arians. (Apologia Contra Arianos.)
    Alexandria · 373
    explains
  8. Arian History. (Historia Arianorum ad Monachos.)
    Alexandria · 373
    explains
  9. Letters of Athanasius with Two Ancient Chronicles of His Life
    Alexandria · 373
    explains
  10. Apology to the Emperor. (Apologia Ad Constantium.)
    Alexandria · 373
    applies
  11. Encyclical Letter. (Epistola Encyclica.)
    Alexandria · 373
    explains
  12. Life of Antony. (Vita Antoni.)
    Alexandria · 373
    applies
  13. The Letters
    Caesarea (Cappadocia) · 379
    explains
  14. Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen
    Nazianzus · 390
    explains
  15. Selections from the Letters of St. Ambrose
    Milan · 397
    explains
  16. A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  17. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  18. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  19. Homilies on First Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  20. Homilies on Second Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  21. The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  22. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  23. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    applies
  24. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  25. Jerome and Gennadius. Lives of Illustrious Men
    Bethlehem · 420
    explains
  26. The Letters of St. Jerome
    Bethlehem · 420
    explains
  27. The Sacred History Of Sulpitius Severus
    Toulouse (Aquitaine) · 425
    explains
  28. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  29. City of God
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  30. Letters of St. Augustin
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  31. Answer to the Letters of Petilian, the Donatist
    Hippo Regius · 430
    applies
  32. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  33. Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  34. The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 439
    explains
  35. The Ecclesiastical History of Sozomen
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 450
    explains
  36. The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret
    Cyrrhus · 458
    explains
  37. The Letters and Sermons of Leo the Great
    Rome · 461
    explains
  38. Commentary on Galatians
    Wittenberg · 1546
    explains
  39. A History of the Work of Redemption
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
    explains
  40. Seventeen Occasional Sermons
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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