# Touching The Cruelties Instituted By The Danish Tyrant Regnerus Against The Christian Believers, About A. D. 818.

c. 818 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: TOUCHING THE CRUELTIES INSTITUTED BY THE DANISH TYRANT REGNERUS AGAINST THE CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS, ABOUT A. D. 818.

Source heading; not independently verified

Four years after the admonition of the aforenamed
teacher, namely, A. D. 818, mention is made of a
certain Danish tyrant, called Regnerus, the sixty-second
King of Denmark; who, as regards military
affairs, was greatly praised by the champions of war,
but, with regard to his cruelty and tyranny towards
the Christian believers, deserves to be utterly contemned,
yea, counted a tyrant and a blood-thirsty
monster.

Concerning this, P. J. Twisck (from various other
writers) has left the following as a summary of his
wickedness, and how he was punished for it, as a
warning to all tyrants. “King Regnerus was a
prodigy in matters of war, but a great enemy and
persecutor of the Christians. He was conquered by
Hella, King of the Britons, and cast into a pool of
snakes, to be killed in this manner.” Chron., 9th
book, page 280.

Note.—We have not been able to learn in particular
the manner in which said tyrant manifested
his enmity against the Christians, or how he persecuted
them; nor the countries and places in which
those persecutions occurred; nor the names of the
persons who then suffered; nor how long these
persecutions and martyrdoms lasted; hence we cannot
more fully speak of these things.

In the meantime, it is our firm conviction, that
not a few upright professors of Jesus Christ laid
down their lives for the apprehended and accepted
truth of the holy Gospel, and were offered up as
steadfast martyrs for their love to their Savior, and
for the working out of their own salvation. But for
the want of their particular confessions and names,
we are constrained to break off, as we have had to
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do in several places in preceding centuries; which
things can be compared with the account we have
given here; which we commit to the intelligent and
impartial reader.

About A. D. 826, the Saracens invaded the
islands of the Romans, and took possession of Crete
(where Paul had ordained his beloved spiritual son
Titus Bishop and shepherd of the church), and put
to death, Cyril, the Bishop of the church of Gortina,
for confessing Christ. Compare A. Mell., 2d book,
fol. 306, col. 2, with Zonar., Tom. 3, in Michaele
Balbo Cedren.





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