Book about Palestinian martyrs

The work of Eusebius of Caesarea, “The Book of the Palestinian Martyrs” (13 chapters, 311), describes the events that took place in 311-313. in Palestine, during the persecution of Emperor Maximin Daia. Eusebius talks about the events that took place in his homeland. The story begins with the persecution of Diocletian, which opened in 303 with the first edict against Christians and was carried out in Palestine by the ruler Flavian. What follows is the story of the persecution of Maximinus (311-313), during which Eusebius’ teacher, the presbyter Pamphilus, suffered. At the end of the work, it talks about the end of 8 years of persecution, first in the West, and then in the East. Eusebius considers the work of the martyrs as a military feat, them themselves as victors and the Church of Christ as triumphant. The enemy of the martyrs, with whom they fight, is the devil. *The title of the work in Greek is Περ τῶν ἐν Παλαιστίνῃ μαρτυρησάντων. *The title of the work in Latin is De martyribus Palaestinae. I. About the martyrs - Procopius, Alpheus and Zacchaeus II. About the Roman martyr III. About Timothy, Agapius, Thekla and the other eight martyrs IV. About the martyr Apthian V. About the martyrs Ulpian and Edessius VI. About the martyr Agapius VII. About the virgin Theodosius and the martyrs Domnina and Auxentius VIII. About other confessors, also about the martyrdom of Valentina and Paul IX. About the resumption of persecution with greater cruelty and the martyrs - Antoninus, Zebin, Herman and others X. About the ascetic Peter, Asclepius, Marcionite and other martyrs XI. About Pamphilus and the other twelve martyrs XII. About the Primates of the Churches XIII. About Silvanus, John and the other thirty-nine martyrs Preface It was the nineteenth year of Diocletian's reign, the month of Xanthic, called April by the Romans, when, before the onset of the feast of saving suffering, under the ruler of Palestine Flavian, letters suddenly appeared everywhere ordering that churches should be destroyed to the ground, books destroyed by fire, (Christians) endowed with virtues should be deprived of these advantages, and private people, if they remained in Christianity, should be deprived of their freedom. This was the meaning of the first decree against us. He was soon followed by others who were commanded to first imprison all heads of the Church everywhere and then force them in every possible way to make sacrifices (to the gods). You might be interested in: