QUOTE : Among the many stories of Christian martyrdom in this country of ours, this one has been handed down to posterity as the single most embarrassing failure. When all three of them abandoned the holy teachings together, the entire crowd of spectators—men and women of all ages, not one of whom had any grasp of what the Heavenly Lord even was—conceived a tremendous hatred for them. It may well be that the crowd felt cheated out of the promised burning at the stake.