The time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight,
I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
2 Timothy 4:6
Lord Christ, let me not be put to shame.From Prayers of the Martyrs
Christ, I beseech you,
let me not be put to shame.
Christ, come to my aid,
have pity upon me,
let me not be put to shame.
Christ, I beseech you, give me the strength
to suffer what I must for you.
Dativus the Senator martyred in the Diocletian persecutions, c. 304
This is the end,
but for me
It is the beginning
of life.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer hanged at Flossenburg Concentration Camp, 1945
Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who of His great and abundant goodness ,
willed that I should be a partaker
of the sufferings of His Christ
and a true and faithful witness
of His divinity.
Ignatius of Antioch executed in Rome c. 107
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