Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 535
e to protest with undaunted courage againstthe tyrannical and sanguinary excesses, by means of which it was attemptedto impose upon nations and upon individuals a religious conviction whichought to be the offspring of reason, and which should be the sole result ofliberty of conscience. The… … Fig. 327.—Funereal Lamp from the Catacombs, representing a young Christian woman crownedwith the palm leaves of martyrdom.—Terra-cotta of the Third Century, in the Vatican Museum. does not recognise the gods of the republic, and puts demoniacal extra-vagancies in their place. The judges, yielding…
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