Diocletian
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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 fin ....
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.... Then
began the priest, forasmuch as he loved God, to sing his offices, and fast strictly, and day and night to praise his
Lord, and meanwhile to teach the true faith to the honorable Alban, until he believed in 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 ....
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