Why I Wrote This Book

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It is a well-known fact that evert writer writes the book he or she wants to read – but can’t find it. So, he/she has to write it himself. And I am no exception, of course.

I am Roman Catholic – one of those who takes his faith very seriously; I was baptized Protestant (American Baptist, to be more precise) and was born and raised in an Orthodox Christian country.

So, I am familiar with all three theologies – and a very important role that Christian martyrdom plays in all three. I was trained as a scientist – my first degree is M.S. in theoretical nuclear physics so it’s no surprise that I wanted to get a thorough understanding of this issue.

Unfortunately, I could not find a book that presented a sufficiently comprehensive and well-researched study of Christian martyrdom. In other words, the one based on indisputable facts (as opposed to fairy-tales), rock-solid logic and good old common sense. So, I had to write this book myself.

This book has one more objective – to serve as a pilot project for my “… in 100 Facts” series. Consequently, I wrote it for myself, first and foremost.

However, I also intended to write the best book on Christian martyrdom – the one that will be of the maximum possible value for everyone interested in this topic: historians, students of history, schoolteachers, university professors and lecturers, priests, monks, nuns, seminarians – and everyone else who is interested in a highly complicated issue of Christian martyrdom.

I wanted to write the book that would (1) contain all really important facts and theories and (2) present them in well-structured, easy to read and understand way (using modern “blog post model”).

This book is based mostly on my own research on Christian martyrdom and the Great Christian Revolution that I conducted for my fiction books written in my native language – mostly “The Charon Project” and “Forbidden Chronicles”.