HIST 1001 Final: SOURCEBOOK FINAL
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Persecutions at lyons and vienne (no author listed: 166: all about persecutions of christians. Christianity is becoming popular, it is increasingly being more persecuted. Possible selection: for caesar had written that these christians should be put to death, but if any should deny they should be dismissed. The bodies of the martyrs after having been exposed and exhibited in every manner for six days, were afterwards burned and reduced to ashes by the lawless men and thrown in the river. Rhone which flows close by, so that no remnants of them might still be seen on earth. Sexuality and family life by athenagoars: 177: deals with attitudes toward sexuality that are very much out of line with traditional. Christians, paul taught, expected each other to uphold high standards of personal chastity, avoiding all occasions of sexual impurity by thought or deed. Paul is going throughout the mediterranean world spreading. Again, christianity is spreading but also being persecuted.
