Today's installment concludes Early Christian Martyrs,the name of our combined selection from Homersham Cox and Polycarp. The concluding

Into which many desire to enter; knowing that by grace ye are saved; not by works, but by the will of God through Jesus Christ.Continuing Early

Of course the man who could thus tell the Roman senate and people that all that they held sacred was unspeakably and hideously wicked could expect but

According to the horrid custom of the times the executioners were about to fasten his hands to the stake by spikes, when he begged that he might be