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Dreadful persecution ensued and more than twenty thousand martyrs joyfully gave up property and life rather than renounce the faith which they recognized as divine truth. At such variance were his teachings with the creed-bound world about him that BAHA'O'LLAH, with his family and followers, was banished to Baghdad, to Constantinople, to Adrianople and finally to the penal colony of Acca in Syria.
(6:1)
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