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Forty-eight Christians were condemned and executed in the Roman city of Lugdunum, which at the time was the capital of \u00a0the province Gallia Lugdunensis<\/i>. \u00a0Lugdunum was the most important Roman city west of Rome, known today as Lyon, France. \u00a0The martyrdom of these brave men and women in 177 AD was recorded some years later by the historian Eusebius in the fifth chapter of his Eccelsiastical History<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Eusebius records that these men and women \u201cheroically endured all that the people heaped on them: abuse, blows, dragging, despoiling, stoning, imprisonment, and all that an enraged mob is likely to inflict on their most hated enemies. \u00a0They were dragged into the forum and interrogated before the entire populace by the tribune and the city authorities. \u00a0When they confessed [to being Christian], they were locked up in prison to await the arrival of the governor.\u201d<\/p>\n

The charges initially brought against these Christians were atheism and impiety since they would not worship either the Roman gods or the gods of an established national group. \u00a0Two pagan servants who were arrested with their Christian masters falsely accused their masters of \u201cOedipean marriages and Thyestean dinners\u201d which is another way of accusing them of incest and cannibalism. \u00a0These added charges did not help the arrested Christians. \u00a0Some of them did defect out of fear by rejecting Christ, but most remained faithful.<\/p>\n

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The Basilica of Notre Dame de Fourviere stands where the Roman Forum once stood, marking where the martyrs were put on trail. \u00a0A small plaque inside the old basilica chapel reads in French: \u201cThis chapel was built in 1168 on the place of the Roman Forum where the first martyrs of Lyon were condemned to death in 177.<\/span>\n
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Among the martyrs was the deacon Sanctus who during his trial answered to every question, \u201cI am a Christian.\u201d \u00a0Eusebius records that, \u201che kept repeating this again and again instead of giving his name, birthplace, nationality, or anything else; and the pagan crowd heard not another word from him. \u00a0As a result he only aroused the obstinacy of the governor and the torturers against him, and when they could think of nothing further to do to him, they finally tried pressing red-hot plates against the tenderest parts of his body. \u00a0And though these did burn him, he none the less remained unbending and stubborn, firm in his confession of faith\u2026 His body bore witness to his sufferings, being all one bruise and one wound, stretched and distorted out of any recognizably human shape.\u201d\n

For some of the martyrs, confessing to be Christians was enough to be condemned, while others were also accused of being murderers and criminals. \u00a0They were accused of being \u201cignoble cowards\u201d and of committing homicide.<\/p>\n

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Ruins of the Roman Forum of Lyon next to the Basilica of Notre Dame de Fourviere<\/div>\n
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The martyrs were killed at the arena of the city, facing inhumane cruelty and wrath. \u00a0As Attalus burnt to death he cried out, \u201cLook you, what you are doing is cannibalism! \u00a0We Christians are not cannibals, nor do we perform any other sinful act!\u201d<\/div>\n
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After the execution of the martyrs, the Christian community was not allowed to take their bodies for proper burial. \u00a0Eusebius records that \u201cthe bodies of the martyrs, exposed in every possible way and left unburied for six days, were then burned and reduced to ashes by these vicious men and swept into the river Rhone which flows hard by, so that not a single relic of their bodies might be left on earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Their remains may have been taken by the waters of the Rhone, but their memory endures and these brave men and women await the resurrection of the dead at the end of time.<\/p>\n

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The arena where the martyrs were brutally killed, Lyon<\/div>\n
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Saint Blandina, pray for us.<\/div>\n

Saint Sanctus, pray for us.
\nSaint Maturus, pray for us.
\nSaint Attalus, pray for us.
\nSaint Alexander, pray for us.
\nSaint Ponticus, pray for us.
\nBlessed Martyrs of Lyon, pray for us.<\/p><\/div>\n

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