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Such was the conflict of those Egyptians who contended nobly for
religion in Tyre.
But we must admire those also who suffered martyrdom in their native
land; where thousands of men, women, and children, despising the
present life for the sake of the teaching of our Saviour, endured
various deaths. Some of them, after scrapings and rackings and
severest scourgings, and numberless other kinds of tortures, terrible
even to hear of, were committed to the flames; some were drowned in
the sea; some offered their heads bravely to those who cut them off;
some died under their tortures, and others perished with hunger. And
yet others were crucified; some according to the method commonly
employed for malefactors; others yet more cruelly, being nailed to the
cross with their heads downward, and being kept alive until they
perished on the cross with hunger.
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