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A strongly dramatic picture dealing with events in Roman times, when it was almost a death warrant to be known as a Christian. The story is based upon the love of a noble Roman citizen for a Christian slave girl, and the jealousy of a Roman woman, an empress, who has the girl given to the lions. All this is worked out in accordance with the best information obtainable of the times and what occurred while they were in progress. The realistic scenery in the arena and the horror of what it means are rather trying, though if one can divorce one's self from the impression that it is real it can be looked upon merely as a picture, and as such is marvelous. The fidelity with which it has been worked out and that indefinable something which cannot be described, but can be felt, is sufficient to cause one to stop and think what it might have meant to be a Christian in those days. As a Christmas picture this has merit because it graphically represents the contrast after the passage of 2,000 years. - The Moving Picture World, January 8, 1910