The Monk that ended the Gladiatorial games. The Martyrdom of Saint Telemachus

First published at 17:19 UTC on May 22nd, 2021.

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Saint Telemachus was a monk who tried to stop a gladiatorial fight in a Roman amphitheater, and was killed. The Christian Emperor Honorius, however, was impressed by the monk's martyrdom and it spurred him to issue a historic ban on gladiatoria…

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