{"id":4987,"date":"2014-06-15T16:55:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T21:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4987"},"modified":"2014-06-15T16:56:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T21:56:08","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-june-15-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4987","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for June 15, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today\u2019s Pious\u00a0Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here is\u00a0another little tale of Christian Martyrdom from the classic of the genre,\u00a0<em>Fox\u2019s Book of Martyrs\u00a0<\/em>(1848)<em>. \u00a0<\/em>These acts allegedly occurred during the Fourth Persecution, under Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, A. D. 162:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Felicitatis, an illustrious Roman lady, of a considerable family and the most shining virtues, was a devout christian. She had seven sons, whom she had educated with the most exemplary piety.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Januarius, the eldest, was scourged, and pressed to death with weights; Felix and Philip, the two next had their brains dashed out with clubs; Silvanus, the fourth, was murdered by being thrown from a precipice; and the three younger sons, Alexander, Vitalis, and Martial, were beheaded. The mother was beheaded with the same sword as the three latter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Culled from:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #bb0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/22400\/22400-h\/22400-h.htm\">Fox\u2019s Book of Martyrs<br \/>\n<\/a>Generously suggested by: Louise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s Pious\u00a0Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Here is\u00a0another little tale of Christian Martyrdom from the classic of the genre,\u00a0Fox\u2019s Book of Martyrs\u00a0(1848). \u00a0These acts allegedly occurred during the Fourth Persecution, under Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, A. D. 162: Felicitatis, an illustrious Roman lady, of a considerable family and the most shining virtues, was a devout christian. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4990,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987\/revisions\/4990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}