When one of the judges lost his temper and cursed him as a traitor, the priest replied, “You might, sir, with the same justice charge the apostles also with being traitors, for they taught the same doctrine that I now teach and did the same things for which you condemn me.” He protested that he was unworthy of a martyr’s death, and after sentence sang “Te Deum laudamus” in a loud voice.
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