martyrs redux

Greetings,

  No ... this isn't about some sort of Christian zombie thing, but is
  picking up on our martyrdom thread of a few weeks ago. Today is the
  feast day of Maximus, who, we are told, was executed in Ephesus when
  he wouldn't sacrifice to Diana. Now I was under the impression that
  the whole persecution thing was based on not sacrificing to the
  emperor ... do we have other martyrs who were martyred for not
  sacrificing to rather more traditional ancient divinities?

regards,

dm

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