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Churchwork
02-25-2009, 03:35 PM
http://www.reformed.org/master/index.html?mainframe=/books/fox/fox_martyrs.html

By the way "Reformed" is a word taken on by Calvinists, but calvinists are not Christians, since they believe their god sends people to hell without recourse and saves others against their will; he does not die for all, does not plead with all, either because he is powerless to do so or doesn't care. As Dave Hunt says, What Love is This?

Satan has his hands in everything. Don't understimate the wiles of the Devil in Christendom.

What happened to the Apostles (other sources)
http://www.about-jesus.org/martyrs.htm

Additional references,
http://www.windmillministries.org/frames/CH21-8A.htm

Churchwork
03-01-2009, 05:25 PM
James and Peter

James, son of Zebedee was killed by Herod Agrippa around 44 AD.
Acts 12.1-2.

Simon Peter was crucified 64 AD.
Clement’s letter to the Corinthians in approx. ca. 95 AD. The Ante-Nicene Fathers Volume I through X: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to AD 325 (1997), Volume 1, page 6.

The death of St. Peter is attested to by Tertullian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertullian) at the end of the second century, and by Origen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origen) in Eusebius, Church History II.1. Origen says: "Peter was crucified at Rome with his head downwards, as he himself had desired to suffer".[17] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter#cite_note-16) He was crucified upside down after he reputedly stated that he was not worthy to die as Jesus did.

Dionysius of Corinth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysius_of_Corinth) also serves as a witness to the tradition.[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter#cite_note-ODCC_Peter-1) He wrote: "You (Pope Soter) have also, by your very admonition, brought together the planting that was made by Peter and Paul at Rome and at Corinth; for both of them alike planted in our Corinth and taught us; and both alike, teaching similarly in Italy, suffered martyrdom at the same time" (Letter to Pope Soter A.D. 170, in Eusebius, History of the Church 2:25:8).

Clement of Rome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_of_Rome), in his Letter to the Corinthians (Chapter 5), written c. 80-98, speaks of Peter's martyrdom in the following terms: "Let us take the noble examples of our own generation. Through jealousy and envy the greatest and most just pillars of the Church were persecuted, and came even unto death… Peter, through unjust envy, endured not one or two but many labours, and at last, having delivered his testimony, departed unto the place of glory due to him."

Traditions originating in or recorded in the apocryphal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocrypha) Acts of Peter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Peter), say that the Romans crucified Peter upside down at his request because he did not wish to be equated with Jesus. Acts of Peter is also thought to be the source for the tradition.