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Following Emporer Nero’s command, 'Let the Christians be exterminated!:' ... they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.

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Gerald Brenan, CBE

Gerald Brenan, CBE

Gerald Brenan, CBE (1894 - 1987) was a British writer who spent much of his life in Spain. He is best known for The Spanish Labyrinth, a work of history on the background to the Spanish Civil War, and for South From Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village . He was awarded a CBE in 1982, and was much honoured in Spain.

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