Later Roman Military Punishments

[Robert Vermaat]

Similar punishments for soldiers who refused to revert from christianity. In the later Passion of Sergius and Bacchus we hear of two oficers, apparently during the time of Galrius, who refuse to enter a pagan temple with the rest of their unit. they then were publicly humiliated by being chained, dressed in female attire and paraded around town (sounds familiar). Bacchus was beaten to death, while over the next days, Sergius was also brutally tortured and finally executed.