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A woman named Anne Askew was arrested and tortured for hours and she could have been let go if she just denied Christ. She didn’t. She blacked out multiple times from the pain. Finally, they stopped only because they were ordered to take her to be burned at the stake in public.
She was carried to the stake because they broke her legs and ankles when she was being tortured. Once she got there, she was offered the king’s total pardon if she would even say, “I don’t believe in Christ.” She never broke.
She was dragged to the stake, and then hung up and burned in front of hundreds of random bystanders. The entire time she was being burned, she was praying and singing for her murderers, hoping that they would soon turn to Christ. Even as the flames covered her and burned her, she kept praying and worshipping the Lord.
I think that this is an amazing story of faith. Anne knew that it was pointless to deny her god, not only was she going against what it plainly says in the bible, but she was just trying to stay in a world that isn’t anywhere near as good as the world that she will go to if she dies an honorable death for the man that gave up his life for her. This story is a sad, but inspiring story.
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