All Things Considered: The Blood of the Martyrs
The Blood of the Martyrs
On All Things Considered this week (Sunday 23 August at 8.30am, repeated Wednesday 26 August at 6.30pm) there's another chance to hear a programme which was originally broadcast in May 2007. Roy Jenkins' meets an Aberystwyth couple who have been re-tracing the steps of their great grandparents, martyred in China more than a hundred years ago.
When the Boxer Rebellion threatened the lives of all westerners, and especially Christian workers, Baptist missionaries Herbert and Elizabeth Dixon were forced to embark on a perilous journey in an attempt to leave the country. They never made it.
Their story has been in Pru Bell's family ever since, in the form of letters written during the uprising, and her great grandfather's vivid journal.
With her husband Stuart, who is rector of Aberystwyth, Pru Bell has now taken that journal, and her tape-recorder, back to the exact place where her forebears were killed - and to her immense delight she has encountered the thriving Christian church in that same community.
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