Страдание святых мучеников Алфия, Филадельфа, Киприана 3082 и других, с ними пострадавших

These holy martyrs of Christ came from Italy. Of these, Alphius, Philadelphus and Cyprian were the sons of an Italian prince 3083, and they were instructed in the Christian faith and baptized by a certain Onesimus. At that time, an order was sent from Rome to their country to look for Christians, and when it was discovered that they were Christians, they, together with Onesimus, Erasmus and other fourteen Christians, were sent to Rome to the Emperor Licinius 3084. By order of the latter, a huge stone was placed on Onesimus’ chest, from which he died. Erasmus and the other fourteen holy martyrs had their heads cut off with a sword, and Alphius, Philadelphus and Cyprian were sent to Seleucia 3085 and there they were killed for their faith in Christ 3086. Cyprian, according to Greek poetry in the Menaion, is Cyprin, and according to the acts of saints and other ancient monuments, Cyrin. According to the research of the Bollandists, the homeland of these holy martyrs was the city of Basta in southern Italy near the shores of the Sicilian or Ionian Sea; according to the month word imp. Vasily, their father bore the name Vitaly. Licinius, as Bollandists claim, was not yet an emperor at that time, but only held the position of ruler of the region, while Decius ruled the empire. According to the month's word imp. Basil's tormentor of the holy brothers of the martyrs and others who suffered with them was the prefect Diomedes, to whom Licinius handed them over for trial and punishment. Seleucia is a city in the Roman province of Cilicia in Asia Minor, but there is a typo or typo here in the Prologue. According to the acts of the saints, the three holy brother-martyrs wandered in Sicily, in the city of Leontini. The holy martyrs died in 251, on May 10. Governor Tertillus ordered Alpheus to have his tongue cut out, and he bled to death, Philadelphus was burned on an iron grate, and Cyprian was burned in a frying pan. In 1517, their bodies were found in the city of Leontiny and solemnly exhibited for veneration. You might be interested in: