It was the early church father Tertullian who said “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.” There was an old saint of God named Polycarp, the Bishop of Smyrna, whose blood was shed for the sake of the Gospel. He refused to deny Christ even as he knew that the horrid [...]
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