# Fourth Year Of The Persecution, Commenced A. D. 305.

305 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: FOURTH YEAR OF THE PERSECUTION, COMMENCED A. D. 305.

Source heading; not independently verified

Galerius Maximian, continuing in the persecution
which had been begun, and carried into execution,
with great bitterness, by Diocletian and Maximian,
exercised much cruelty, through Peucetius, Quintinian,
Theotecnus, and other Proconsuls, against
the poor Christians; burning them alive; throwing
them before the wild beasts, to be torn by them;
nailing them to crosses; drowning multitudes of
them in the sea; starving them to death in the
prisons; beheading them; cutting off their hands
and feet, and then giving them their life; but when
they would make use of the favor granted them,
spoiling them of all their goods, and driving them
away into misery.

Touching those who were slain there, the following,
among others, are mentioned by name.





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