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 1 1   |    was later scattered by the persecutions which followed the stoning
 2 1,3 |                           The Persecutions.~After these humble beginnings,
 3 1,3 |      by sporadic, but bloody, persecutions. Church tradition is full
 4 1,3 |    the Church Calendar.~These persecutions were often local in character
 5 1,4 |      began at a time when the persecutions had ended, and the Monks,
 6 1,6 | Bishop of Carthage during the persecutions of the Emperor Decius (250).
 7 1,0 |    year and the unprecedented persecutions which followed. The Russian
 8 3,3 |     ancient times, during the persecutions, the Gospel Book was borne
 9 6,2 |     sorrows, tribulations and persecutions that come our way. And the
10 8,4 |    history in the time of the persecutions of the 3rd and 4th Centuries,
11 8,4 |  Church.~After the end of the persecutions, the Sacrament of Repentance
12 10,3|      as a result of continued persecutions by the Jews at Thessalonica.
13 10,3|        during the time of the persecutions of Nero.~ ~Second Peter.~