English Martyrs
Anon
Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous |
Publications extracted: | Southey 1824 |
Subjects: | Miracles, Physiology |
Describes one martyr who felt no pain as his body was burned, and notes that this does not require a miraculous explanation: 'Nature is more merciful to us than man to man; this was a case in which excess of pain had destroyed the power of suffering; no other bodily feeling was left but that of ease after torture' (119). |
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