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Persecution

Images

  • Christians in the catacombs celebrate the communion, threatened by Roman soldiers who are descending the stairs behind them. Lithograph after A. Leloir.
  • Truth represented as the word of God assailed by persecution, superstition, tradition, betrayal and violence. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Ethical loneliness : the injustice of not being heard / Jill Stauffer.

    Stauffer, Jill, 1966- | Date: [2015]
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    Psychische Spätschäden nach politischer Verfolgung / unter Mitarbeit von W. von Baeyer [and others] ; hrsg. von H. Paul und H.J. Herberg. Mit einem Vorwort von E. Schwarzhaupt.

    | Date: 1963
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    There is no crime for those who have Christ : religious violence in the Christian Roman Empire / Michael Gaddis.

    Gaddis, Michael, 1970- | Date: c2005
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    The mischief of persecution exemplified, by a true narrative of the life and deplorable end of Mr. John Child, who miserably destroy'd himself Octob. 13, 1684 : giving an account of his despair, and divers conferences had with him by several of his friends : together with his answer and papers written by his own hand : also a discourse of the nature and office of conscience, with a postscript shewing the reason of its publication at this time / attested by us, Tho. Plant, Benj. Dennis.

    Plant, Thomas, active 17th century | Date: 1688
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    A history of political and religious persecutions : from the earliest days of the Christian church / by Fernando Garrido and C.B. Cayley.

    Garrido, Fernando, 1821-1883. | Date: [between 1870 and 1879?]
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