Explain how they'll accept baptism if it doesn't cost them their memories.
Thousands of Jews were murdered and many were forced to accept baptism.
Jews who did not want to leave Spain had to accept baptism as a sign of conversion.
Marcus was now at heart a Christian, but as yet had refused to accept baptism.
Thousands of Jews are murdered or forced to accept baptism.
Yet Augustine was reluctant to take the final step and accept baptism.
Æthelberht of Kent was the first king to accept baptism, circa 601.
He had never converted to Christianity, having accepted baptism only as a courtesy to his king.
It also records that 24 Jews avoided death by accepting baptism, while under the protection of the city fathers.
By the end of 1559, over 1,200 had accepted baptism.
