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...police blotter in Cirta, a suburb of Carthage, a Roman police captain entered his report: "Raided five homes. Discovered, confiscated and destroyed 38 Christian scrolls...
...Here We Stand." On May 19, 303 A.D., in the Algerian city of Cirta (now Constantine), one Munatus Felix, high priest of the emperor, personally led a raid on a Christian service. He took with him a stenographer, whose report, taken in shorthand, sounds disconcertingly familiar to modern ears...