E00389: Eusebius' Martyrs of Palestine includes the story of *Antōninos, Zevinās and Germanos (martyrs of Palestine, S00195) and *Ennathas from Scythopolis (martyr of Palestine, S00194). Written in 311 in Caesarea (Palestine); written in Greek, but parts of the text survive only in Syriac.

Eusebius of Caesarea, Martyrs of Palestine, 9.4-13

Summary:
On 13 November 309, when the governor of Caesarea, Firmilianus, was participating in a public ritual of sacrificial offering to the gods, three young men, Antōninos, Zevinās and Germanos, approached him and exhorted him to abandon his erroneous religion, while proclaiming that there is only one true God. Apprehended, they professed to be Christians and were at once put to death.

On the same day, another Christian martyr was executed. Ennathas, a young woman, who led a celibate life in the city of Scythopolis, was brought to Caesarea. After being scourged and led naked around the city, the martyr was brought to the governor's court, where she professed to be Christian. After more sessions of torture, she was sentenced to death and burnt alive.

Providing an example of the governor's exceptional cruelty in this affair, Eusebius relates that Firmilianus denied the local Christians the right to bury these four martyrs and ordered that their corpses should be displayed outside the city's gate, to be consumed by wild beasts, dogs and birds of pray. After several gruesome days, during which parts of the martyrs' bodies were scattered around by animals and even dragged into the city itself, a miracle occurred, when on a sunny and rainless day many columns in the city's porticoes exuded drops of moisture, as if the earth itself was shedding tears in response to the human wickedness.

Summary: Sergey Minov