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1721 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 8.2 (John Foxe)
… , the venerable bishop of Lyons, who was ninety years of age. Blandina, on the day when she and the three other champions were first brought into the amphitheater …
1722 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 11.2 (John Foxe)
… sixteen years of age, who beheld this terrible judgment, suddenly exclaimed, “O unhappy wretch, why would you buy a moment’s ease at the expense of a miserable …
1723 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 11.10 (John Foxe)
… obey the imperial mandate, perform the sacrifices, and save his venerable person from destruction; for he was now eighty-four years of age. The good prelate …
1724 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 12.10 (John Foxe)
… , at the age of sixty-four, was seized, thrown into a loathsome prison, laden with fetters, his feet placed in the stocks, and his legs extended to the utmost for …
1725 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 13.3 (John Foxe)
… , in the month of April, 257, and continued for three years and six months. The martyrs that fell in this persecution were innumerable, and their tortures and …
1726 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 15.5 (John Foxe)
… for the space of seven years in this abject state of slavery, he caused his eyes to be put out, though he was then eighty-three years of age. This not satiating …
1727 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 17.4 (John Foxe)
… into the sea. The persecution became general in all the Roman provinces, but more particularly in the east; and as it lasted ten years, it is impossible to ascertain …
1728 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 21.4 (John Foxe)
Agnes, a virgin of only thirteen years of age, was beheaded for being a Christian; as was Serene, the empress of Diocletian. Valentine, a priest, suffered the same fate at Rome; and Erasmus, a bishop, was martyred in Campania.
1729 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 26.4 (John Foxe)
… of the West-Saxon kingdom. When he was only about six years of age, he began to discover a propensity to reflection, and seemed solicitous to gain information …
1730 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 26.6 (John Foxe)
… 752. The next year, his great age and many infirmities lay so heavy on him, that, with the consent of the new king, and the bishops of his diocese, he consecrated …
1731 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 31.4 (John Foxe)
… of the court, A.D. 1549. Herbert, a youth of nineteen years of age, was committed to the flames at Dijon; as was also Florent Venote in the same year.
1732 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 33.1 (John Foxe)
… the fury of their enthusiastic persecutors. Among these was young La Force (afterwards the famous Marshal de la Force) a child about ten years of age, whose …
1733 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 35.4 (John Foxe)
… , the brutal Catholics. Their children were taken from them to be educated by the Catholics, and at seven years of age, made to embrace popery. The reformed …
1734 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 37.3 (John Foxe)
… 19 years of age, the son of La Vaisse, a celebrated advocate of Toulouse, about five o’clock in the evening, was met by John Calas, the father, and the eldest son …
1735 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 41.1 (John Foxe)
… seventeen years of age. Being on the same side of the scaffold where the queen was seated, she addressed her, in hopes of obtaining a pardon, in the following …
1736 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 44.6 (John Foxe)
William Hoker, a young man about the age of sixteen years, being an Englishman, was stoned to death by certain young men in the city of Seville, for the same righteous cause.
1737 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 48.11 (John Foxe)
At the age of twenty-six years, he was, by his master, sent to Lisbon to act as factor. Here he applied himself to the study of the Portuguese language, executed …
1738 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 56.5 (John Foxe)
… of the Inquisition; and with a ghastly mimicry of the crimes of the mother state, the arrivals of viceroys, and the other popular celebrations were thought …
1739 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 65.6 (John Foxe)
… hundred years of age, together with his granddaughter, a maiden, of about eighteen, in a cave. They butchered the poor old man in the most inhuman manner, and then …
1740 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 67.1 (John Foxe)
… years of age they placed him in the monastery of Gray Friars, where he made such a rapid progress in arts, sciences, and languages that at eighteen years of age …