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Soldiers roast a martyr alive

Contributing Institution:	Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries
Description:	Two guards roast a naked man, whom they have bound to a spit. One of the guards ladles vinegar and salt over the martyr. The bucket containing the vinegar-salt mixture rests at the guard's right knee. [Cartouche: "The rosting of Christians at a low fire, with vineger and salt poured upo[n] their ...

Martyrs hang from gallows by the waist

Contributing Institution:	Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries
Description:	"MD" (see "Soldiers drag two Christians by ropes" in this collection).

Soldiers scrape a man with shells

Contributing Institution:	Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries
Description:	"MD" (see "Soldiers drag two Christians by ropes" in this collection).

Martyr burns in an iron chair

Contributing Institution:	Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries
Description:	"MD" (see "Soldiers drag two Christians by ropes" in this collection).

Soldier impales Christians on a spear

Contributing Institution:	Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries
Description:	"MD" (see "Soldiers drag two Christians by ropes" in this collection).

Christians suffer for refusing to worship an idol

Contributing Institution:	Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries
Description:	Wielding clubs in their right hands, two men attack three Christians (men and women) for refusing to worship the idol that sits behind them. Two of the victims raise their arms, and a third raises his right hand above his head and points upward. (Cartouche: "The Christians beaten with coudgils fo...

Man hangs by one hand and suffers the crushing of his toes

Contributing Institution:	Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries
Description:	"MD" (see "Soldiers drag two Christians by ropes" in this collection)

Twenty thousand Christians burn in their Temple

Contributing Institution:	Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries
Description:	"MD" (see "Soldiers drag two Christians by ropes" in this collection).

John Cassian suffers martyrdom at the hands of his students

Contributing Institution:	Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries
Description:	"MD" (see "Soldiers drag two Christians by ropes" in this collection).

Martyr undergoes execution in a guillotine

Contributing Institution:	Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries
Description:	A clothed martyr kneels in a guillotine, and a soldier raises its blade to behead him. The martyr's hands are bound behind his back, and the soldier braces himself against the guillotine. (Cartouche: "Here with a certayne engine they are beheaded. 66.128." ["Here with a certain engine they are be...