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Blandina improved the land and settled there, and in doing so, she became the first white landowner.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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Blandina learned the Lenape language from her mother, and also acted as an interpreter.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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Blandina, amid the torrent of invective which, increasing my sense of isolation and misery, those scornful, dishevelled, furious visitors combined to pour on us.
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Christians, gave information regarding it to other Greeks, and sought to compel the martyrs Sanctus and Blandina to confess, under the influence of torture, [that the allegation was correct].
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Blandina on the contrary endured the most cruel torments rather than reveal it, though its profession would have confuted the same odious calumnies; and S. Augustine observes a similar reserve when answering the pagan Maximus
The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome Charles Michael Baggs
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Blandina, in which a short stair leads down to the crypt and the dungeons, one on each side, where Pothinus, first bishop of Lyons, and
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Being strengthened by Blandina, he persevered unto death; and she, after enduring all the torments heretofore mentioned, was at length slain with the sword.
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Blandina, a converted slave, were kept before being tortured and put to death in A.D. 177, during the persecution under Marcus Antoninus, the implacable enemy of Christianity.
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Blandina, on the day when she and the three other champions were first brought into the amphitheatre, she was suspended on a piece of wood fixed in the ground, and exposed as food for the wild beasts; at which time, by her earnest prayers, she encouraged others.
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Blandina, a christian lady, of a weak constitution; Sanctus, a deacon of
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