For all the hyperbole, as Edward Gibbon crushingly put it, the average annual consumption of martyrs in Rome during the persecutions was no more than one hundred and fifty per year during years of persecution.32
Catherine Nixey
For all the hyperbole, as Edward Gibbon crushingly put it, the average annual consumption of martyrs in Rome during the persecutions was no more than one hundred and fifty per year during years of persecution.32