Глава X. О подвижниках Петре, Маркионите, Асклепие и других мучениках

On the fourteenth day of the following month of Apelleia, or otherwise, nineteen days before the Kalends of January, the guards stationed at the gates were taken and some more Egyptians were sent here to serve the Cilician confessors. Over some of them, the same sentence was already carried out to which those who were supposed to use their service were subjected, that is, they had mutilated eyes and legs. The three between them showed marvelous steadfast courage and received one or another martyrdom in Ascalon, where they were kept. One of them, named Aris, was consigned to fire, and the others, called Promos and Elijah, were truncated. Then, on the eleventh day of the month of Abdynea, or three days before the Ide of January, in the same Caesarea, the ascetic Peter, otherwise Apselam, a native of the village of Anea, which is in the vicinity of Eleutheropolis, was tempted by fire as the purest gold and generously showed an example of faith in Christ God. The judge and those around him presented him with many convictions to feel sorry for himself, to spare his youth and youth; but he despised everything, preferring trust in the God of all to everything and to life itself. With him at that time was Asclepius, who seems to have been the bishop of Marcion’s delusion. Jealous, in his opinion, of piety, which, however, was not accepted, he ended his life on the same fire with Peter. This is how it happened. You might be interested in: