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Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 19:16:31 -0400
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From: David Meadows <dmeadows@idirect.com>
Subject: Re: Christians Eaten by Lions
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At 06:54 PM 08/07/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>yep, no lions, no Colosseum.

traditionally, the first martyrizing in the Colosseum was St. Ignatius of 
Antioch ... what I haven't been able to find is when his particular story 
was written down. On the web I can't get past (i.e. earlier) than the 
Menologium of Basil II (10th century A.D.) which has an illumination of 
Iggy's travails in a not-very-Colosseumish Colosseum (although it is 
interesting ... the artist obviously knew it could be flooded for naumachiae):

http://www.bible-history.com/past/ignatius_martyr_lions.html

dm

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