# Attalus, Roasted In An Iron Chair, Cast Before The Wild Beasts, His Throat Cut, And Beheaded, On The River Rhone, About The Year 172.

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At the time that this awful pressure of conscience
continued under the Emperors Marcus Aurelius and
Lucius Verus, ceasing not until those who endeavored
to live a Christian life according to their faith,
had ended their lives under many torments, it came
to pass that a certain pious Christian, called Attalus,
who had been apprehended for the name of Jesus,
his Savior, was most inhumanly tortured, to the
extent even, that he was placed over the fire in an
iron chair, and roasted. When he was asked, what
name the God of the Christians had, he answered:
“Where there are many gods, they are distinguished
by names; but where there is but one God,
no name is necessary.” He was finally brought
into the amphitheatre, to be devoured by the wild
beasts. But when these, either providentially, or
because they were already sated, did not touch him,
neither with their claws, nor with their teeth, he,
together with other pious martyrs, was stabbed
through the throat. Some write that he was then
beheaded. Compare Joh. Gys., fol. 17, col. 4, and
fol. 18, col. 1, with P. J. Twisck, Chron. 2d book,
for the year 172, page 46, col. 1, from Hist. Andr.
fol. 19. Also, Introduction to, etc., fol. 38, col. 1,
taken from Euseb., lib. 5, cap. 2 and 3.



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