Trigger Warning- quote below poem contains detailed account of torture
there was no justice for Me in this life.
I poured myself out to bleed and die.
and for those who weep, I grieve and bleed.
massacres of innocents, destitution, torture and war
My saints have been through it all and so much more
those who follow Me are poured out like water over all the earth
the whole world groans with pains of childbirth
until the sons of God emerge with new heaven and earth
From Eusebius\' Martyrs of Palestine on Saint Amphian*: (Trigger Warning)
\"“ [he] was torn by the governor and those who were with them as if by wild beasts...[then] he was stretched by the tormentor with both his feet in the stocks for a night and a day....as they endeavored to force him to surrender, he exhibited all constancy under suffering and terrible tortures. His sides were torn, not once, or twice, but many times, to the bones and the very bowels.......the torturers, as commanded, covered his feet with linen cloths soaked in oil and set them on fire.......the fire consumed his flesh and penetrated to his bones, so that the humors of his body were melted and oozed out and dropped down like wax.....being half dead, he was finally thrown into the depths of the sea.”
*This book was written in the early 4th century during the Great Persecution under Diocletian