Eostre (pron East-ra) was the Anglo-Saxon goddess of the dawn, from whom "East" (where the sun rises) and "Easter" got its name - as the fertility goddess of the Northern European peoples, her legend was manipulated by the invading Romans - newly Christianised, they merged Eostre's spring legend to coincide with the time of Christ's resurrection.
- Attack of the walls of a town by a seige-engine supported by bowmen protected by shields. The bodies of the three townsmen are impaled outside the wall. Here the stake went through the chest.[40].
Crucifixion then can be understood as the act of nailing, binding or impaling a living victim or sometimes a dead person to a cross, stake or tree whether for executing the body or for exposing the corpse. Crucifixion was commonly practiced from the 6th century BCE until the 4th century CE, when it was finally abolished in 337 CE by Constantine I. It was intended to serve as both a severe punishment and a frightful deterrent to others and was unanimously considered the most horrible form of death.
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Women are seldom if ever mentioned specifically in the ancient Jewish sources aside from two passages in the Mishna, one in Tractate Mourning 2.11 which suggests that women may have been sacrificed as well. The second reference is found in Sanhedrin 6.5 in which Simeon b. Shetah had 70 or 80 sorceresses hung in the city of
In Ancient Israel crucifixion amongst the Jews was rare and except for a few instances, as when treason was involved, the subject was stoned to death first and then hung on a tree in accordance with the Biblical passage in Deuteronomy 21:22-23. [1]
“When someone is convicted of a crime punishable by death and executed, and you hang him on a tree, his corpse must not remain all night upon the tree; you shall bury him that same day, for anyone hung on a tree is under God’s curse.”
There was one notable exception to this passage in which the Jewish victims were first killed via crucifixion rather that being hung on a tree after death as was the case with the high priest, Alexander Janneus in which 800 Jews were crucified in
As a deterrent in the ancient world, many of it’s victims were crucified where the criminal event took place as was the case with thieves or along the cities busiest thoroughfares. The situation can perhaps best be summed up by Quintilian (35-95 CE.) who wrote that “whenever we crucify the guilty, the most crowded roads are chosen, where most people can see and be moved by this fear. For penalties relate not so much to retribution as to their exemplary effect” (Decl. 274). Further evidence for this obscene and vulgar public display of the victim can be found in The Lives of the Caesars, as Suetonious (Vesp. 5.4) recorded that a stray dog made off with the hand of a crucified man from the cross roads and dropped it under Vespians breakfast table. (Rolfe).[3]
As one of the main objectives of this cruel method of e
Nun murdered.
During 2005-MAR, Maricica Irina Cornici, 23, visited Holy Trinity, a Romanian Orthodox monastery in Tanacu in north west Romania in order to visit a friend. (Some news sources report north east Romania; this appears to be an error.) She decided to stay and become a nun. According to a report by MediaFax news agency, she suffered from schizophrenia. However, other news sources report that she had no mental illness. Her behavior caused the priest, Father Daniel Corogeanu, 29, and the nuns at the convent to conclude she was possessed by the Devil. USA Today reports that "One parishoner, Dora, said the nun 'had to be punished, she had an argument with the Father during a Sunday mass and insulted him in front of the congregation'." According to News.Telegraph, the priest concluded that she was "beyond salvation" in life. As part of the exorcism ritual to drive Satan from her body, they denied her food and drink and kept her shut up for several days, with her hands and feet tied. Later, they tied and chained her to a cross, and pushed a towel into her mouth to smother sounds. She apparently survived the crucifixion for three days. She finally died of asphyxiation, presumably in great agony, either from the gag or the crucifixion itself, on JUN-15.
 | One news source said that they had left her alone on the cross for three days in a cold room in the cellar of the convent. |
| Another said that Father Daniel recited prayers to banish evil spirits: "The four nuns were first instructed to trace the sign of the cross in oil upon their foreheads to protect them from the evil eye. The nuns then chained the victim and delivered responses to the priest’s incantations." |
The priest and four nuns have been charged with imprisonment causing death. Police spokeswoman Michaela Straub said: "They all said she was possessed and they were trying to cast out the evil spirits." USA Today reports that Father Daniel said: "Over there, in your world, the people must know that the devil exists. Personally I can find his work in the gestures and speech of possessed people, because man is often weak and lets himself be easily manipulated by the forces of evil. I don't understand why journalists are making such a fuss about this. Exorcism is a common practice in the heart of the Romanian Orthodox church and my methods are not at all unknown to other priests,' Father Daniel added." BBC News reported that he said: "God has performed a miracle for her, finally Irina is delivered from evil."
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