GALLERY
Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs
5.
A.Martyr whose limbs are interwoven in the spokes of a wheel, on which he is left exposed for days, till he dies.
B.Martyr bound to a narrow wheel, which is revolved, so that his body is horribly mangled on iron spikes fixed
underneath.
6.
A.A pulley.
B.Martyrs racked at the pulleys.
C.Crushed in the press, just as grapes and olives are pressed in making wine and oil.
D.Capstan or windlass.
7.
A.Martyr, with hands tied behind his back, hoisted in the air by a rope.
B.Pulley.
C.Spikes, or sometimes sharp flints, on to which the Martyr was let fall.
9.
A.Martyr buffeted, kicked, and pounded with the fists.
B.Martyr being stoned.
C.Martyr whose face and jaws are bruised and broken with a stone.
D.Martyr crushed under a huge stone.
10.
A.Martyr tortures by means of the iron claws or pincers.
B.Torn with hooks.
C.Mangled with the iron currycombs.
11.
A.Martyr hung from the wooden horse and scorched with the flame of torches.
B.Martyr suspended by the feet from a pulley and tortured in a like fashion.
12.
A.Martyr thrown head-first into a caldron full of molten lead or boiling oil.
B.Martyr in a hot frying-pan.
C.Martyr plunged into a boiling pot.
13.
A.Martyr's dismembered limbs put in a frying-pan.
B.Martyr in the brazen bull.
C.Laid on the iron bed and broiled.
14.
A.Martyr whose hand is filled with incense mingled with live coals, and who being constrained by the pain to
scatter the incense, is said to have made a sacrifice to the idol.
B.Martyr clad in the iron tunic and shod with the red-hot shoes, which consume the flesh from off his bones.
C.Martyr seated in the iron chair, while a red-hot helmet, or morion, is set on his head.
D.Martyr whose eyes are burned out with a lighted brand.
15.
Martyr compelled to walk over burning coals, while molten lead, boiling pitch, or the like substances, are poured
over his head.
16.
A.Martyr cast into a burning fiery furnace.
B.Martyr set in a tun, or cask, and burned therein.
C.Martyr burned in a room, or chamber, that hath been set on fire.
D.Bound hand and foot and set on a blazing pile.
E.Bound to four pegs fixed in the ground, with fire burning underneath.
F.Bound with ropes drenched in oil and consumed by a fire lighted under him.
G.Thrown into a pit full of live coals.
H.Iron shovel for stirring and rousing the fire.
17.
A.Martyr stabbed to death by boys with their writing styles.
B.Martyr whose limbs are amputated one by one.
18.
A.Martyr stabbed in the throat with a dagger.
B.Shot to death with arrows.
C.Beaten over the head with an axe.
D.Beheaded with a sword.
E.Transfixed with a spear.
19.
A.Martyr struck with a club or cudgel.
B.Sawn in two with an iron saw.
C.Hands and feet cut off.
20.
A.Martyr pierced through with a sharp-pointed stake.
B.Martyr whose belly has been cut open and the liver torn out, which the heathen used sometimes to eat.
21.
Martyrs being flayed alive.
22.
A.Martyr bound by either leg to the tops of two neighbouring trees, which have been bent down and forcibly
drawn together, and will presently be suddenly let go again.
B.Martyr tortured by having sharp reeds stuck under his finger and toe nails.
24.
A.Martyrs cast down headlong from a height.
B.Thrown into a lime-kiln.
25.
A.Martyr shut up in a leaden box and drowned in a river.
B.Sewn in a bag, together with a cock, a viper, an ape, and a dog, and thrown into the nearest sea or stream.
