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http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/how-the-800-martyrs-of-otranto-saved-rome How the 800 Martyrs of Otranto Saved Rome Matthew E. Bunson On August 14, 1480, a massacre was perpetrated on a hill just outside the city of Otranto, in southern Italy. Eight hundred of the city’s male inhabitants were taken to a place called the Hill of the Minerva, and, one by one, beheaded in full view of th…