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Persecution in Lyon
Also known as Persecution in Lyon (177)
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Mob violence and executions of Christians at Lyon and Vienne in 177, described in a letter preserved by Eusebius.
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The persecution in Lyon in AD 177 was an outbreak of persecution of Christians in Lugdunum, Roman Gaul, during the reign of Marcus Aurelius, recorded in a contemporary letter preserved in Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History, book 5, chapter 1, which was written 150 years later in Syria Palaestina. Gregory of Tours also describes the persecution in the 6th century in De Gloria martyrum.
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