OR,

A HISTORY

OF THE LIVES, SUFFERINGS AND TRIUMPHANT DEATHS

OF THE

PRIMITIVE AND PROTESTANT MARTYRS,

FROM THE

INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY,

TO THE LATEST PERIODS OF

PAGAN, POPISH, PROTESTANT, AND INFIDEL
PERSECUTIONS.

EMBRACING

Together with the usual subjects contained in similar works; the recent persecutions in the
Cantons of Switzerland; the persecutions of the Methodist and Baptist missionaries in the
West India Islands; and the narrative of the conversion, capture, long imprisonment,
and cruel sufferings of Asaad Shidiak, a native of Palestine. Likewise, a sketch of the
French Revolution, as connected with persecution.

COMPILED FROM FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRS, AND OTHER
AUTHENTIC SOURCES.
I

BY AMOS BLANCHARD,

Editor of the Cincinnati Journal.

EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY-FOUR ENGRAVINGS.

CINCINNATI

PUBLISHED BY ROBINSON AND FAIRBANK.