The Washington times., 1922-07-23
Tremendous
Christian
Celebration
at the
VeryScel,e
Where
Thousands
Of Early
Converts
Were
Devoured
by Lions
to Arn,lse
the
Public

crosses on their backs The crowded with them
Did men came bent weight Of the wooden crcsses
young in the prime of e women with oosened has
which they tried to conceal their nakedness young oc
and little children followed in quick succession The crosses
as victims, ornamented with flowers Ths
servants III hand urged the victims made them
lay the corresponding pits and stand them
selves Thus perish those who were not driven
out to be torn by wild beasts a bE.. -..+s-
BLACK caught the Christians and placed them back
the and nailed their hands the cres
beams great haste that the people returning
might in their places The whole amphheatre
reounded with the blows Of hammers The echo of the blows
square around the amphheae the tent in which
Caesar entertaining his friends and the vestas In the
tent they drinking and banterng with Chile Angus
whispering strange words into the Of the priests
of vea but in the the work seething the nails
the hands and feet of the Christians
"Among the victims whose had Crispus.
There lions him, the fell
his share but he always ready for DEATH consoled himself
with thought that the hour had struck He looked different
man his body entirely Naked only grde Of
ivy encrcng his hips and his head garland Of
But in his burned the odtme from
garland gazed the and fanacaI face
And his heart he continued to threaten instead
Of consoling his brethren.
Thank the Redeemer' said Crspu He permits you
to die He Hms died Some of your sins
be forgiven you for this but tremble, for justice must be
requd and there cannot be the treatment for the just
and the wicked
"The sound Of the only responded. Crispus,
turning to those yet nailed, continued:
~" the heavens rent in twain, but also the open
abyss know not myself account will give to God,
but believe Him. and hated evil; and fear DEATH but
resurrection but the Judgment for the day
of wrath is approaching"
stranger exhibition Of cruelty given the evening,
which Christians had They
dressed heavy robes which soaked pitch The
victims then bound to high poles by Neros orders and
fire.
Most of Neros spectace in the Circus Maxmus,
terrible prosecutions
ordered in the Coliseum by later Emperors
Under the Emperor Docetian the population of whole
dragged and tortured to death The number
Under the Emperor Julian the i2ostate 1000
Christians were slaughtered s Even en-. the he % IBIS Of former
spite Of persecution: he first Apostle, er.vey carried
st. Peter and st. Paul went there within few
They knew that the sures way to build up the Church
quarters of old system cruelty idoatry When
the Roman authorities attempted to suppress the religion
the when the Christians being torn to
the spectators and fearess called to the sufferers to be
the Emperor Constantine made Christianity the religion
conditions under Julian the Aposate but the
The 5 $ the R RG%se e
Church continued cont. l,t to "a gain il, in strength
historic triumph when the Eucharistic Congress held
known caoe theooan Sad we'll
In the light of historical development see in this
revived zeal for eucharstc alteration the
Incarnation because the Blessed Sacrament the living
unty Of one In other Words Il Is the uuon ~ ~ M h
supernatural and the natural which found Marys bosom It's
Tiis union e the natural and u. supernatural which
institution in which heaven and earth unite, in which the
human and divine are blended through which