The Bloody Theater, or Martyrs Mirror, in plain modern English: edited chapter for chapter from the 1886 translation, with every scripture reference and abbreviation spelled out so it can be read aloud. The unaltered 1886 text is on the shelf as Martyrs Mirror.
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Contents
First Century
1Concerning the Baptism of John2The Persons John Baptized3How, Among Others, He Baptized Also Jesus the Son of God4How Christ Baptized Through his Disciples5How Christ Commanded Baptism to his Disciples6How the Apostles Executed This Command of Christ to Teach and Baptize7What Testimony Your Holy Apostles Have Given in their Epistles8Moreover, the Conditions Required In9Of the Testimony of the Fathers Concerning This Article10An Account of the Pious Martyrs and Witnesses of Jesus Christ who Suffered…11Jesus Christ the Son of God Crucified at Jerusalem12John the Baptist, Son of Zacharias and Elisabeth, in the Year 3213Stephen, One of the Seven Deacons of the Church at Jerusalem14James, the Son of Zebedee, Put to Death with the Sword, in the Year 4515The Holy Apostle Philip, Bound with his Head to a Pillar, and Stoned, in the Year 5416James, the Son of Alpheus, or Brother of the Lord, in the Year 6317Barnabas, a Companion of the Apostle Paul, in the Year 6418How Mark, the Holy Evangelist, in the Year 6419Of the Ten Bloody Persecutions which the Christians Suffered under The…20Of the Unheard of Cruelties Nero Practiced in Slaying the Pious Christians21Simon Peter, the Holy Apostle, in the Year 6922Paul, the Apostle of Christ, Sorely Persecuted, and Finally Beheaded, in the Year 6923The Martyrdom of Some of Paul's Friends and Brothers and Sisters who were…24Aristarchus, a Traveling Companion of Paul, in the Year 7025Epaphras, a Fellow Prisoner of Paul, in the Year 7026Four Fellow Laborers and Relatives of Paul, in the Year 7027Silas, or Silvanus, Scourged at Philippi, in the Year 7028Onesiphorus, a Friend of Paul, and Porphyrius, his Companion, in the Year 7029Andrew, the Holy Apostle, Crucified at Patras, in the Year 7030Bartholomew, the Holy Apostle of Christ, First Greatly Tortured, in the Year 7031Thomas, the Holy Apostle of Christ, Tormented with Red Hot Plates, in the Year 7032Matthew, the Holy Evangelist, in the Year 7033Simon Zelotes and his Brother Judas Thaddeus, in the Year 7034Matthias, the Holy Apostle of Christ35Some of the Seventy Disciples of Christ, in the Year 7036Of the Second Persecution of the Christians, in the Year 9337Antipas, the Faithful Witness of Jesus Christ38John, the Holy Evangelist, Banished to the Isle of Patmos, in the Year 9739Timothy, the Spiritual Son of the Apostle Paul, in the Year 9840Urticinus, a Pious Christian, in the Year 9941Vitalus, Buried Alive at Ravenna for the Name of Jesus Christ, in the Year 9942Of Different Other Persons who were Slain for the Name of Christ, in the Year 100