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Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol.…Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol.…
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol. 1] with an universal history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitive age to these latter times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland. Newly revised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time again published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the help of Christ our Lord) John Fox, which desireth thee good reader to help him with thy prayer.Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 1] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.
London: printed by John Daye, 1583London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1583
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Likewise it is said, that Eugenia after the Martyrdom of her father, returning to Rome with Prothus, and Hyacinthus, by occasion of converting Basilla (who should have been married to a Pagan husband,1 and was then beheaded) to the Christian faith, was assailed with sundry kinds of death, first being tied to a great stone & cast into Tiber, where she was carried up from drowning, then put in the hot bathes, which were extincted, and she preserved: afterward by famishment in prison, where they say she was fed at the hand of our Saviour, all which Legendary miracles I leave to the Reader to judge of them, as shall seem good unto him. At last the story sayeth, she was with the sword beheaded, Antonin. Bergom. Ado.
Lykewyse it is sayd, that Eugenia after the Martyrdome of her father, returning to Rome with Prothus, and Hiacinthus, by occasion of conuertyng Basilla (who shoulde haue bene maried to a Pagane husband,1 and was then beheaded) to the Christian faith, was assayled wyth sundrye kinds of death, first being tied to a great stone & cast into Tyber, where she was caried vp from drowning, thē put in the hoate bathes, which were extincted, and she preserued: afterward by famishment in prison, where they saye she was fed at the hande of our Sauior, all which Legendary miracles I leaue to the Reader to iudge of them, as shal seeme good vnto him. At last the story sayeth, she was with the sword beheaded, Antonin. Bergom. Ado.
- 1Basilla, Eugenia, Martyrs.
1And because in this print history mention was made of Helenus whom Antoninus with his fellows noteth to be the bishop of Hierapolis, here is to be understood & observed by the way, that as Philippus in the foresaid history is falsely said to be bishop of Alexandria, so likewise untrue it is that Helenus was bishop of Hierapolis. For by Eusebius it appeareth, Lib. 7. cap. 5. alleging the words of Dionysius that he was bishop of Tarus in Cilicia, and had there oversight of that Church from the time of our Lord, 254. to the year. 274.