Identifier: christianheroesm00fost (find matches)
Title: Christian heroes and martyrs
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: (Foster, William A.) (from old catalog)
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own approaching fate,was firmly tied. Upon this occasion the interest of the spectatorswas still further excited by the fact that several of these victimswere not only illustrious for their rank, but yet more so for theirtalents and virtues. In their haggard looks, their emaciated forms,and too often, alas! their distorted limbs, it was easy to read thestory of their sufferings,—for some of them had been confinedwithin the dark walls of the Inquisition for more than a year; yettheir faces, though pale and worn, far from showing any signs ofweakness or fear, were lighted up with the glow of holy enthusiasm,as of men prepared to seal their testimony with their blood. When that part of the charge showing the grounds of their con-viction had been read, the grand inquisitor consigned them to thehands of the sheriff of the city, beseeching him to deal with theprisoners in all kindness and mercy—a mild-sounding but most in-sincere mockery of intercession; since no choice was left to the
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AN AUTO DB FE IN SPAIN: THE CONDEMNED GOING TO THE STAKE. 256 THE WORLDS CHRISTIAN MARTYRS. civil officer but to execute the terrible sentence of the law againstheretics, full preparations for which had been made by him aweek before. The whole number of the convicted amounted tothirty, of whom sixteen were reconciled, and the remainder relaxedto the secular arm—in other words, turned over to the sheriff forexecution. There were but two out of the fourteen thus condemnedwho, when brought to the stake, did not so far shrink from the dread-ful doom that awaited them as to consent to purchase a mitigationof it by confession before they died; these were strangled beforethe flames were lighted. Heroism of Don Carlos de Seso. Of the two martyrs whose constancy triumphed to the last overthe dread of suffering, one was Don Carlos de Seso, a nobleman ofFlorence. Having married a lady of rank in Spain, he had cometo that country to live. Being converted to the Lutheran doctrineand endeavoring

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