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Hello everyone, and welcome to Catholic Saints. I am Taylor Kemp, the director, formed in with me is Dr.

Elizabeth Klein. Dr. Klein, it's great to have you back on Catholic

Saints. Great to be here. You are filling out our Saint calendar, probably more valiantly than any of our

other professors. I love the saints. So we're grateful for that. Today we were talking about the

Martyrs of Lyon, Lyon and Vienne. That's right. I got the pronunciation right? You got it right. All right. Who are they? So the martyrs of Leona Vienne were

a group of people who were martyred under Marcus Aurelius around the year 177. I really love this

martyrdom story. I think it's one of the best ones and apparently guys weren't sick of martyrs,

so I just caught some more. But this particular story is one of the few stories that we have

kind of really securely know about this story before the persecution of Diocletian, the great

persecution of the 4th century. So they're early ancient martyrs. So the reason we know about these

martyrs is because the church historian Eusebius of Caesarea has a part of a letter written

about them in his ecclesiastical histories. So we know that it kind of predates him. He had

recorded apparently the entire story in a now lost work so we don't have the whole thing.

I'm lucky. But we have this kind of letter that was written by someone in the community of Leone

of Vienne about these martyrs.

If you ever go to Lyon, France, you can still visit the place where these martyrdoms

took place.

It's a place called the Amphitheater of the Three Gauls.

So we had talked a little bit about persecution in this really early period. I think

when we did Perpetual Felicity, maybe we talked about it a little bit. But these early Christian

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