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The martyrdom of two sisters of Simeon, Bishop of Salencia: Two women, stripped to the waist are shackled to wooden boards and sawn in quarters in a marketplace. Etching by Dodd.
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The martyrdom of two sisters of Simeon, Bishop of Salencia: Two women, stripped to the waist are shackled to wooden boards and sawn in quarters in a marketplace. Etching by Dodd.

Dodd

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Lettering: Engraved for the Revd. Dr. Southwell's New Book of Martyrs. Two sisters of Simeon, Bishop of Salencia, in Persia, sawed into quarters, which were hung up in different parts of the city. Dodd delin.

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