The Martyrdom of Hypatia

Mangasar Magurditch Mangasarian (December 29, 1859 - June 26, 1943) was an American rationalist and secularist of Armenian descent.During his life Mangasarian wrote many fundamental books. His most popular, including The Truth About Jesus. Is He a Myth? (1909) and The Bible Unveiled (1911), deal with the evidence against the existence of an historical Jesus. He also wrote hundreds of essays and lectures on historical topic and questions of the times, including A Voice from the Orient (1885), A New Catechism (1902), Christian Science, a Comedy in Four Acts (1903), Morality without God (1905), The Story of my Mind (1909), The Story of Joan of Arc the Witch-Saint (1913), The Irish Question (1919) and What is Christian Science? (1922).The Martyrdom of Hypatia is a speech given by Mangasarian to the Independent Religious Society at the Majestic Theater in Chicago, May 1915. It is an admirable historical-philosophical dissertation on the history and thought of Hypatia of Alexandria, the ancient Greek philosopher, Eleusinian initiate, mathematician, astronomer and teacher, who was murdered in 415 by a mob of fanatical Christian monks under the authority of Archbishop Cyril.