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 7  # Jewish persecutions of Christians
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10  ## Synaxarion
11  - [[Holy Martyr St. Matrona]], (March 27, [[b.Makarios2003]], p.244)
12  	tortured and imprisoned, eventually martyred by Jews for secretly being Christian.
13  - [[Holy Martyr Eustratius the Faster]] (March 28, [[b.Makarios2003]] p.253)
14    resisted his Jewish slave owner's attempts at converting him and mocking him, attempting to make him deny Christ by starving him.resisted his Jewish slave owner's attempts at converting him and mocking him, attempting to make him deny Christ by starving him.
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16  ## Historians
17  >“. . .[T]he Jews were continually factious; and there was added to their ordinary hatred of the Christians . . . Cyril, on being informed of this, sent for the principal Jews, and threatened them with the utmost severities unless they desisted from their molestation of the Christians. These menaces, instead of suppressing their violence, only rendered the Jewish populace more furious, and led them to form conspiracies for the destruction of the Christians, one of which was of so desperate a character as to cause their entire expulsion from Alexandria” (Socrates, Hist. Eccl., VII, 13; PC, LXXXII, 759 ff).
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20  ## Patristics
21  Origen says Jews were habitual inciters of widespread and long-standing persecution of Christians. ^[Robert Wilde, *The Treatment of the Jews in the Greek Christian Writers of the First Three Centuries* (Washington, D.C: the Catholic University of America Press, 1949), p. 87]] The 2nd century Jewish military leader, Simon Bar Kohba, who was believed to be the long-expected  messiah, gave Christians the option of apostasy or death. "Opposition at all times and persecution where possible, was the policy of the Jews, once the distinction between Jews and Christians became known and understood".^[Wilde, p. 143]