# Several Thousand Persons Burned In Their Meeting-Places For The Evangelical Truth, On Different Occasions, By The Command Of Maximin, About The Year 237.

c. 237 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: SEVERAL THOUSAND PERSONS BURNED IN THEIR MEETING-PLACES FOR THE EVANGELICAL TRUTH, ON DIFFERENT OCCASIONS, BY THE COMMAND OF MAXIMIN, ABOUT THE YEAR 237.

Source heading; not independently verified

In the new Keysers Chronijk there is related a
cruel and iniquitous deed perpetrated by Emperor
Maximin on the Christians. The author says: The
Christians were assembled in their churches or
meeting-places, praising their Savior, when the
Emperor sent forth his soldiers, and had all the
churches or meeting-places locked up, and then
wood placed around them and set on fire, in order
to burn all the Christians within. But before the
wood was ignited, he caused it to be proclaimed,
that whoever would come out and sacrifice to the
god Jupiter, should be secure of his life, and, moreover,
be rewarded by the Emperor. They replied
that they knew nothing of Jupiter; that Christ was
their Lord and God, by the honor of his name,
and calling upon the same they would live and die.
It is to be regarded as a special miracle, that among
so many thousand Christians there was not found
one who desired to go out, in order to save his life
by denying Christ; for all remained together with
one accord, singing, and praising Christ, as long as
the smoke and vapor permitted them to use their
tongues. P. J. Twisck, 3d book, page 64, col. 1,
from Chron. Mich. Sach., fol. 146, Niceph., lib. 7,
cap. 6. Hist. Mandri, fol. 10.





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