[BlackVeil]

"was roasted and beheaded because I wouldn't have put anything past the pagan Romans" Sad to say, the penalty of burning alive persisted many centuries after his death, and was understood to be Christian. Disembowelling and burning was another refinement.

[JMJ333]

Life was brutal back then!

I made the comment because the article says that his famous marytrdom by being roasted on a gridiron was more myth than truth. Just saying that I wouldn't doubt that something like that could have happened. =)