Tag: FAITHFUL TO CHRIST UNTO DEATH

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 3)

    THE SEVENTH PERSECUTION, AD 249 By now, the heathen temples of Rome were almost forsaken, and the Christian churches were crowded with converts. The emperor Decius decided it was time to crush the Christians once and for all. Fabian, the bishop of Rome, was the first person of authority to feel the severity of this…