# Cassian, A Christian School-Teacher, By The Order Of The Magistrate Put To Death By His Heathen Scholars, For The Testimony Of Jesus Christ, At Forum Cornelii, A. D. 302.

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Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: CASSIAN, A CHRISTIAN SCHOOL-TEACHER, BY THE ORDER OF THE MAGISTRATE PUT TO DEATH BY HIS HEATHEN SCHOLARS, FOR THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST, AT FORUM CORNELII, A. D. 302.

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It is stated that in this persecution Cassian, Bishop
of the church at Brescia, in Italy, being compelled
to flee on account of the violent persecution, settled
in the city of Forum Cornelii (at present called
Imola), where he established a school for children.
However, the persecution, which also there broke
forth, did not spare him; for shortly afterwards he
was denounced as a Christian, and apprehended.
When the Judges asked him what profession or
trade he had, he replied that he was a schoolteacher,
and taught children to read and write. He
was also examined concerning his faith, and as he
would not abandon it, or sacrifice to the gods, the
Judges sentenced him to a very unusual death, for
this was his sentence: “Let the scourger, that is,
the school-teacher, be pricked, cut, and stabbed to
death by his own scholars, with styles, awls, pens,
penknives, and other sharp instruments such as
children make use of in school.”

Thereupon Cassian was stripped naked; his
hands were tied behind his back, and he was thus
delivered unto his scholars, to be maltreated by
them in the aforesaid manner. Some of these then
stoned him, some beat him with school-boards and
wax-tablets, others stabbed him with styles, pens,
penknives, and other sharp school utensils, till after
unspeakable torments, death ensued, and he, having
commended his soul unto God was thus released
from this vale of sorrows. Compare A. Mell.,
1st book, fol. 104, col. 3, 4, with J. Gys., fol. 24,
col. 1, ex Prudent., in Hymno, Steph. Hym.,
9. Petr. de Nat., lib. 7.





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