
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the accounts by Eusebius of Caesarea (c260-339 AD) and others of the killings of Christians in the first three centuries after the crucifixion of Jesus. Eusebius was writing in a time of peace, after The Great Persecution that had started with Emperor Diocletian in 303 AD and lasted around eight years. Many died under Diocletian, and their names are not preserved, but those whose deaths are told by Eusebius became especially celebrated and their stories became influential. Through his writings, Eusebius shaped perceptions of what it meant to be a martyr in those years, and what it meant to be a Christian.
The image above is of The Martyrdom of Saint Blandina (1886) at the Church of Saint-Blandine de Lyon, France
With:
Candida Moss
Kate Cooper
And
James Corke-Webster
Producer: Simon Tillotson
4.5
262262 ratings
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the accounts by Eusebius of Caesarea (c260-339 AD) and others of the killings of Christians in the first three centuries after the crucifixion of Jesus. Eusebius was writing in a time of peace, after The Great Persecution that had started with Emperor Diocletian in 303 AD and lasted around eight years. Many died under Diocletian, and their names are not preserved, but those whose deaths are told by Eusebius became especially celebrated and their stories became influential. Through his writings, Eusebius shaped perceptions of what it meant to be a martyr in those years, and what it meant to be a Christian.
The image above is of The Martyrdom of Saint Blandina (1886) at the Church of Saint-Blandine de Lyon, France
With:
Candida Moss
Kate Cooper
And
James Corke-Webster
Producer: Simon Tillotson
5,412 Listeners
1,842 Listeners
162 Listeners
7,909 Listeners
296 Listeners
3,193 Listeners
308 Listeners
501 Listeners
1,782 Listeners
1,050 Listeners
963 Listeners
1,925 Listeners
1,081 Listeners
1,902 Listeners
602 Listeners
722 Listeners
864 Listeners
293 Listeners
742 Listeners
2,979 Listeners
236 Listeners
3,043 Listeners
1,762 Listeners