Diocletian
There was a heathen emperor named , who was chosen to be emperor over all the earth, though he
was a destroyer of men, two hundred and eighty-six years after Christ's incarnation; and he reigned twenty years,
a cruel murderer, so that he killed, and bade kill, all the Christians whom he could find out, and burned churches,
and robbed the innocent; and this impious persecution spread unceasingly over all the earth fully ten years, until
it came also even to England, and there killed many who believed in Christ.
One of these was Alban, the noble martyr, who was likewise killed in that persecution for Christ's faith, even as
we shall tell you here.
In those days came the murderous ...
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the true God, and
renounced heathenism, and became verily a Christian, and exceeding full of faith. Then the priest dwelt with the
honorable man until the magistrate who persecuted the Christians discovered him there, and with great wrath
commanded him to be fetched before him speedily.
Then came the messengers to Alban's house, but Alban went out unto the persecutors with the priest's cloak, as if
he were he, and would not betray him to the wicked persecutors. He was therefore bound, and brought
straightway to the impious judge, where he was offering to his gods the devilish sacrifices, with all his associates.
Then became the judge fiendishly angry, as soon as he beheld the steadfast martyr, because he had received the
fugitive priest, and given himself up to be slain for him. Then he bade men lead him to the heathen sacrifice, and
said that he himself should receive the heavy punishment which he had meant for the priest if he could have
taken him, unless he ...
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