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Works Eusebius of Caesarea (260-339) Historia Ecclesiastica

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Histoire ecclésiastique

CHAPITRE VIII : CEUX DE L'EGYPTE

[1] On peut aussi admirer ceux d'entre eux qui rendirent témoignage dans leur propre patrie. Là un nombre de dix mille hommes avec femmes et enfants, pour l'enseignement de notre Sauveur, méprisèrent la vie passagère et endurèrent divers genres de mort : les uns, après les ongles de fer, les chevalets, les fouets les plus cruels, et mille autres tourments variés dont le récit fait frémir, étaient livrés au feu ; les autres étaient noyés dans la mer; d'autres courageusement tendaient leurs têtes aux bourreaux ; les uns succombaient dans les tortures; les autres étaient consumés par la faim ; d'autres enfin étaient crucifiés, les uns à la façon des malfaiteurs, le, autres d'une manière pire encore, on les clouait la tête en bas et on les gardait vivants jusqu'à ce qu'ils périssent de faim sur le gibet même.1


  1. καταβροχθιαθέντες ZIMMERMANN, καταβροχισθέντες mss. ↩

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The Church History of Eusebius

Chapter VIII.--Those in Egypt. 1

1. 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.

2. 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.


  1. No part of Christendom suffered more severely during these years than the territory of the tyrant Maximinus, who became a Caesar in 305, and who ruled in Egypt and Syria. ↩

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