Fox's Book of Martyrs: Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant; Deaths of the Primitive Protestant MartyrsFoxe, John
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Fox's Book of Martyrs: Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant; Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
Foxe, John
Church history; Martyrs; Persecution
Peter Gabriola, a protestant gentleman of considerable eminence, being
seized by a troop of soldiers, and refusing to renounce his religion,
they hung a great number of little bags of gunpowder about his body, and
then setting fire to them, blew him up.
Anthony, the son of Samuel Catieris, a poor dumb lad who was extremely
inoffensive, was cut to pieces by a party of the troops; and soon after
the same ruffians entered the house of Peter Moniriat, and cut off the
legs of the whole family, leaving them to bleed to death, as they were
unable to assist themselves, or to help each other.
Daniel Benech being apprehended, had his nose slit, his ears cut off,
and was then divided into quarters, each quarter being hung upon a
tree, and Mary Monino, had her jaw bones broke and was then left to
languish till she was famished.
Mary Pelanchion, a handsome widow, belonging to the town of Villaro, was
seized by a party of the Irish brigades, who having beat her cruelly,
and ravished her, dragged her to a high bridge which crossed the river,
and stripped her naked in a most indecent manner, hung her by the legs
to the bridge, with her head downwards towards the water, and then going
into boats, they fired at her till she expired.
Mary Nigrino, and her daughter who was an idiot, were cut to pieces in
the woods, and their bodies left to be devoured by wild beasts: Susanna
Bales, a widow of Villaro, was immured till she perished through hunger;
and Susanna Calvio running away from some soldiers and hiding herself in
a barn, they set fire to the straw and burnt her.
Paul Armand was hacked to pieces; a child named Daniel Bertino was
burnt; Daniel Michialino had his tongue plucked out, and was left to
perish in that condition; and Andreo Bertino, a very old man, who was
lame, was mangled in a most shocking manner, and at length had his belly
ripped open, and his bowels carried about on the point of a halbert.
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