It is the Feast of St Vulpian of Tyre, who suffered one of the - TopicsExpress



          

It is the Feast of St Vulpian of Tyre, who suffered one of the more unusual martyrdoms of antiquity. A Syrian Christian of the 4th C he was called before the judge Urbanus and accused of professing faith in Christ, a crime he did not deny. For this, he was stretched on the rack so all his joints dislocated, then he was sewn into a leather sack with a wasp. Eventually the sack was thrown into the sea. There are Christians to this day in Tyre, the Maronites, who worship amid the ruins of a church dating back to the time of St Vulpian.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 06:45:30 +0000

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