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Murder Most Horrid: The Grisliest Deaths of Roman Catholic Saints: Media

Methods of martyrdom you may not have heard of.

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St. Stephen
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St. Sebastian
Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian by Michael van Coxie.
© Renáta Sedmáková/Fotolia
St. Lawrence
Statue of St. Lawrence in the church at Lampaul-Guimiliau, France. St. Lawrence is...
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St. Margaret Clitherow
English martyr St. Margaret Clitherow, 16th-century woodcut.
St. Cassian of Imola
Wellcome Images (ICV No 33800)
St. Bartholomew
Yale University Art Gallery, (Fritz Achelis Memorial Collection, Gift of Frederic George Achelis, B.A. 1907;1925.69)