دانلود کتاب Standing At Lyon An Examination of the Martyrdom of Blandina of Lyon

In 177 CE an enslaved woman, known to the world subsequently only as Blandina of Lyon, underwent a tortuous and humiliating ordeal at the hands of her Roman persecutors. Starved, beaten, burned, lifted up on a post andfinally thrown before wild beasts, this woman stubbornly clung to her confession in the name of Christ, risking, and seemingly losing, all for that name. Because it is said that her bones were burned, ground into dust and then dumped into the Rhône, she may have been entirely forgotten but for the fact that history occasionally has a strange memory, sometimes leaving on written pages traces of events otherwise forgotten and remembrances of people otherwise erased. In this case, it was the fourth century Church historian, Eusebius, who deemed valuable the preservation of an encyclical letter which details the account of the martyrs of Lyon and which is the primary text to be used in conducting this project. The purpose of the letter appears to have been two-fold; to share the horrors undergone by the Christians at Lyon and to use the example of their horrors to buoy up fellow Christians who may also have been facing persecution.