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10 works, Today, September 2nd, is the Martyrs of Nicomedia’s day, their story illustrated #245

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Albrecht Dürer, (1471–1528)
20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia
Martyrdom of ten thousand Christians, c. 1508
Oil on panel
Height: 99 cm (38.9 in); Width: 87 cm (34.2 in)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

The 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia refers to victims of persecution of Christians in Nicomedia, Bithynia (Izmit, Turkey) by the Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian in the early 4th century AD…

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