An Account of Those who Suffered in the Tenth Century

[About the year 910, we again refer to Giselbert (see our Account of Holy Baptism), who teaches, so to speak, for the consolation of the martyrs who could not receive water baptism, that it is in God's power to show them mercy because of their good will.

A lamentable persecution of the Christians in the region of Cordova, by the Arabians, begun by their King Habdarrhaghman, in the year 923.

Eugenia, an upright Christian woman, beheaded for the testimony of Jesus Christ, near Cordova, in that same year, 923.

Pelagius, a boy of thirteen years, beheaded after his arms and legs were cut off, for the true Christian faith, at Cordova, in the year 925.

An extract from the account of P. J. Twisck, concerning the martyrdom of the youth Pelagius.

A note giving further explanation concerning the confession of faith of Eugenia and Pelagius.

Of the cruel persecution begun by the Danish King Worm against the Christian believers, in the year 926.

A note with further explanatory remarks concerning the persecution last mentioned, and that other similar persecutions are to be understood and explained in the same way.

A deplorable persecution of the Christians, caused by Udo, the Sclavonian prince, in the year 950.

Marginal note, on the terrible plundering and burning carried out by the Saracens among the Christians in Syria, in the year 964.

A detailed account of the severe persecution of Christians by the Vandals, on the borders of Hamburg, Brandenburg, Havelburg, and the neighboring countries, in the year 984.

Marginal note, how, seven years afterwards, namely, in the year 991, the Normans came from Denmark into Germany, and there, for about forty years, greatly troubled the Christians; and that the Arabians, from the year 622 to 1300, did much harm in nearly every country of Europe, or Christendom.]