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E00472: Eusebius' Martyrs of Palestine includes the story of *one hundred and thirty confessors from Egypt, who suffered in Palestine and Cilicia in 309 (unnamed confessors, S00184). Written in 311 in Caesarea (Palestine); written in Greek, but parts of the text survive only in Syriac.

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Eusebius of Caesarea, Martyrs of Palestine, 8.13

Summary:
In the sixth year of the Great Persecution, a group of one hundred and thirty Christians were transferred from Egypt to Palestine. After the tendons of their left ankles were destroyed with hot irons and their left eyes plucked out, some of these confessors were dispatched to the copper mines in Palestine, while others were sent to Cilicia, 'to be chastised with wicked and shameful sufferings'.

Summary: Sergey Minov

History

Evidence ID

E00472

Saint Name

Anonymous confessors : S00184

Related Saint Records

https://oxford.figshare.com/articles/Confessors_unnamed_or_name_lost/13729621

Type of Evidence

Literary - Hagiographical - Accounts of martyrdom

Language

Greek

Evidence not before

311

Evidence not after

340

Activity not before

311

Activity not after

340

Place of Evidence - Region

Palestine with Sinai

Place of Evidence - City, village, etc

Caesarea Maritima

Place of evidence - City name in other Language(s)

Caesarea Maritima Caesarea Maritima Καισάρεια Kaisareia Caesarea Kayseri Turris Stratonis

Major author/Major anonymous work

Eusebius of Caesarea

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Source

In this work Eusebius presents an account of the suffering and death of Christian martyrs executed during the eight years of the Diocletianic (or Great) persecution, i.e. 303-311. Most of the martyrdoms described by Eusebius took place in Palestine, with the provincial capital city of Caesarea as the most prominent setting. One hundred and thirty confessors from Egypt: ed. Cureton 1861, p.33* (long recension); ed. Schwartz et al. 1999, vol. 2, p. 927 (short recension); English trans. Lawlor and Oulton 1927-1928, vol. 1, p. 371. For a full discussion of Martyrs of Palestine, see $E00294.

Discussion

This entry, typical of Eusebius' description of the martyrs and confessors of Palestine, consists of a brief mention of their torture, with no reference to miraculous events.

Bibliography

Editions and translations: Cureton, W. (ed.), History of the Martyrs in Palestine, by Eusebius, Bishop in Caesarea, Discovered in a Very Ancient Syriac Manuscript (London / Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate / Paris: C. Borrani, 1861). Lawlor, H.J., and Oulton, J.E.L. (trans.), The Ecclesiastical History and the Martyrs of Palestine. 2 vols (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1927-1928). Schwartz, E., Mommsen, T., and Winkelmann, F. (eds.), Eusebius Werke, Band 2, Teil 2 (Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte NF 6/2; 2nd ed.; Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1999).

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