Diocletian
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There was a heathen emperor named , who was chosen to be emperor over all the earth, though he
was a destroyer of men, two hundred and eighty-six years after Christ's incarnation; and he reigned twenty years,
a cruel murderer, so that he killed, and bade kill, all the Christians whom he could find out, and burned churches,
and robbed ....
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.... the true God, and
renounced heathenism, and became verily a Christian, and exceeding full of faith. Then the priest dwelt with the
honorable man until the magistrate who persecuted the Christians discovered him there, and with great wrath
commanded him to be fetched before him speedily.
Then came the messengers to Alban's house, but Alban went out unto the persecutors with the priest's cloak, as if
he were he, and would not betray him ....
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Number of words: 1218
Number of pages: 5 (approx. 250 words per double-spaced page)
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