Persecuted from within : how the saints endured crises in the Church

"Jesus Christ promises us persecution. "There is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold ... houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions--and in the age to come eternal life" (Mark 10:29-30). All of the apostles except for St. John were martyred, and St. John only survived an attempted mar...