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Plures efficimus quoties metimur a vobis, semen est sanguis Christianorum. As often as we are mown down by you, the more we grow in numbers; the blood of the Christians istheseed.

-Tertullian full name  Quintus SeptimiusFlorensTertullianus
Apologeticus, ch.50, section13.The phrase is often quoted as 'The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.'