Did you know that thousands of Christians are estimated to be persecuted each year and that thousands more have died by the name of Christ?
The question is not why they are persecuted, but:
Why don’t you sue us?
Satan’s tyrants and organs did not settle for death alone to take the life out of the body. The types of death were as diverse as they were terrible. All that the cruelty of man’s invention could conceive to punish the human body was put into practice against Christians: scourges and plagues, stretches, lacerations, stonings, red iron swords applied to their bodies, deep dungeons, torture wheels, prison strangulations, wild animal teeth, grills, gallows and gallows, throws at bull horns; In addition, when they were killed by these means, their bodies were piled up and with them they left dogs to keep them, so that no one could come and give them a grave. and that no supplication could make them surrender to be buried.
And yet, despite all these incessant persecutions and horrific punishments, the Church grew every day, deeply rooted in the doctrine of apostles and apostolic men and abundantly watered with the blood of the saints.
? John Foxe, the book of martyrs