 | Joseph Lomas Towers - 1808 - 346 pages
...and children, who, for that purpose, had been torn from the arms of their friends and parents ; the mouths of the communicants were held open by a wooden...egg-shells, or inhumanly compressed between sharp and heavy boards. The principal assistants of Macedonius, in the work of persecution, were the two bishops of... | |
 | William Edward Scudamore - 1851 - 346 pages
...and children, who, for that purpose, had been torn from the arms of their friends and parents ; the mouths of the communicants were held open by a wooden...while the consecrated bread was forced down their throat*," and many other horrors were enacted too painful to be related. As members of the Church of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 504 pages
...and children who, for that purpose, had been torn from the arms of their friends and parents ; the mouths of the communicants were held open by a wooden...while the consecrated bread was forced down their throat ; the breasts of tender virgins were either burnt with red-hot egg-shells, or inhumanly compressed... | |
 | James Lillie - 1870 - 208 pages
...and children, who, for that purpose, had been torn from the arms of their friends and parents. The mouths of the communicants were held open by a wooden...while the consecrated bread was forced down their throat ; the breasts of tender virgins were either burnt with red-hot egg-shells, or inhumanly compressed... | |
 | James Lillie - 1870 - 210 pages
...communicants were held open by a wooden engine, while the consecrated bread was forced down their throat ; the breasts of tender virgins were either burnt with...egg-shells, or inhumanly compressed between sharp and heavy boards."f The principal assistants of Macedonius were the Bishops of Nicomedia and Cyzicus, who were... | |
 | Thomas William Doane - 1882 - 648 pages
...children, who, for that purpose, had been torn from the arms of their friends and parents; the months of the communicants were held open by a wooden engine,...throats ; the breasts of tender virgins were either burned with redhot egg-shells, or inhumanly compressed between sharp and heavy boards."1 The principal... | |
 | Thomas William Doane - 1883 - 606 pages
...and children, who, for that purpose, had been torn from the arms of their friends and parents ; the mouths of the communicants were held open by a wooden...throats; the breasts of tender virgins were either burned with redhot egg-shells, or inhumanly compressed between sharp and heavy boards."* The principal... | |
 | Richard Eddy - 1892 - 288 pages
...and children, who, for that purpose, had been torn from the arms of their friends and parents ; the mouths of the Communicants were held open by a wooden...breasts of tender Virgins were either burnt with red-hot egg shells, or inhumanly compressed between sharp and heavy boards." Theodosius, one of the successors... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1899 - 636 pages
...were esteemed for their virtues, and especially for their charity. I cannot forbear reminding th« ttw adjacent country, by their firm attachment to the...Macedonius was informed, that a large district of Paphlagonia 155 was almost entirely inhabited by those sectaries. He resolved either to convert or... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 642 pages
...the consecrated bread was forced down their throat; the breasts of tender virgins were either burned with red-hot egg-shells, or inhumanly compressed between...themselves. Macedonius was informed that a large district of Paphlagonia '" was almost entirely inhabited by those sectaries. He resolved either to convert or to... | |
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The sacraments of the church were administered to the reluctant victims, who denied the vocation, and abhorred the principles, of Macedonius. The rites of baptism were conferred on women and children, who, for that purpose, had been torn from the arms... 
