Title: GRUESOME DEATHS AND CELIBATE LIVES: CHRISTIAN MARTYRS AND ASCETICS
Description: This text profiles some of the colourful personalities who emerged from the ranks of the early Christian faithful to seize the imagination of their communities. They achieved this either by their readiness to die for their faith as martyrs or by their efforts to subsume their physical desires and needs to spiritual ends as ascetics.
Subjects: Church history, Rome, history, Rome, religion, Christian martyrs, Biography, Ascetics, Christianity, History, Religion