(Yeah, I’m back… did ya miss me?)
Today’s Exasperating Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Have you ever heard of Fox’s Book Of Martyrs? It’s a circa-1563 morbid delight – tale after tale of early Christians suffering imaginatively brutal fatalities. It’s online for your perusal… and here’s a taste.
Timothy was the celebrated disciple of St. Paul, and bishop of Ephesus, where he zealously governed the church till A. D. 97. At this period, as the pagans were about to celebrate a feast called Catagogion, Timothy, meeting the procession, severely reproved them for their ridiculous idolatry, which so exasperated the people, that they fell upon him with their clubs, and beat him in so dreadful a manner, that he expired of the bruises two days after.
Culled from: Fox’s Book Of Martyrs by John Foxe
Generously submitted by: Louise
It’s also available from The Library Eclectica if you’d prefer a copy of your own, complete with woodprints of the tortures. (That is, if you want to help the Comtesse out by buying it through her store.)
Hmph. Serves Timothy right for being a party-pooper.