Fourth Year of the Persecution, Commenced, in the Year 305

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Fourth Year of the Persecution, Commenced, in the Year 305

Galerius Maximian, continuing in the persecution which had been begun, and carried out with great bitterness, by Diocletian and Maximian, exercised much cruelty, through Peucetius, Quintinian, Theotecnus, and other Proconsuls, against the poor Christians; burning them alive; throwing them before wild beasts, to be torn by them; nailing them to crosses; drowning multitudes of them in the sea; starving them to death in the prisons; beheading them; cutting off their hands and feet, and then granting them their life; but when they would make use of the favor granted them, stripping them of all their goods, and driving them away into misery.

Concerning those who were slain there, the following, among others, are mentioned by name.