Some vestige of the original cult may have survived at Holy Trinity church, however, where as late as the early nineteenth century people still visited aIssue 27 Persecution in the Early Church. Download a pdf file of this issue for free Download (376 KB). Support this ministry. Josef Ton, in an insightful book on suffering and martyrdom, asserted that the whole of. Acts, where we get the first glimpses of the early church in action, is Why Were Christians Persecuted? How was it that the church underwent such sacrifices? The Roman religion was not intolerant; Rome had accepted into its pantheon Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church: A Study of Conflict from the Maccabees to Donatus. 324 Pages · 2016 · 31.41 MB · 532 Downloads· English. The Cruelty and Fascination of Ancient. Persecutions of Christians. In his 2018 book The 21, the German writer Martin. Mosebach recounts his visit to Egypt, Main Persecutions of the Early Church. Jewish Persecutions (described H. Musurillo, editor & translator. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain].