# Rutilius, After Many Escapes, Torn Asunder, And Then Burnt, For The Testimony Of Jesus Christ, About The Year 210.

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“Rutilius, the holy martyr,” says Tertullian,
“after having so often escaped persecution by fleeing
from one place to another, and having purchased
his freedom, as he supposed, from the danger
of death, and after having provided himself
with all safe-conduct, and, feeling easy, and free
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from anxiety, was nevertheless unexpectedly apprehended,
and brought before the President, yea,
torn asunder with manifold torments, and then
committed to the fire; and thus, thanking the mercy
of God for it, he endured the suffering which he
had sought to escape.” “This Rutilius was martyred
somewhere in Africa,” writes A. Mellinus,
1st book of the Hist., fol. 55, col. 1, from Tertullian.
de Fuga, in Persecutione, cap. 5, at the end.



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