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far as to caufe them, for that reafon only, to ex- 

 pire in tortures : an abfurdity as grcar, a prac- 

 tice as enormoufly inhuman and wicked, as it 

 would be to put them to the torture for going 

 to Paris or Rome by a road different from that 

 which is taken by the pod. The fir(t Chriftians, 

 in particular, endured inexprefTible, inconceiv- 

 able perfecutions and torments. They whole 

 blood has been fpilt in the caufe of religion are 

 called Martyrs, and their names, as well as the 

 hiftory of their lives and deaths, are re< 

 thofe immortal books called Manyrologies. 

 There are form e that contain merely a 



lift of their names, and or the place ana c.ay of 



to pope 



Clement I. y of having mi i the 



cultom oi ;ng the ac>s of the martyrs. The 



inartyrbtogy of huk-bius of <, which is 



attributed to St. Jcror: he moft an, 



that is krfown ro us. That of Beda w 



o. 1 he ninth century wu> u.'ful of 



,^ of this jort. There is allb ti^ fir, all mar- 

 tyrolo^v that was lent by the pope to 



Xaban, Notker, 

 . The 

 martyru: -jre preceded by tne calendars. 



: jicits Or. 



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