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Cell gate
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t's a chapel now, located beneath a Catholic hospital. But in ancient
times it was a prison where faithful Christians were held in Lyons, France,
during a horrible persecution in AD 177 under the Stoic philosopher Emperor
Marcus Aurelius.
There was a series of disasters--floods, fires, pestilence--and the populace
demanded the sacrifice of Christians to propitiate the gods.
At left, the cell where 92-year-old bishop Pothinus was brought and
died two days later. It is only 3 feet high and he couldn't so much as
stand up.
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