E02998: The Greek Life and Martyrdom of *Athenogenes (bishop and martyr of Pedchthoe, S00065), of the 4th/5th c., mentions that the saint was burned at Sebasteia on the same site as an earlier martyr, the bishop of Sebasteia, *Petros (S01124). It reports that there is a church on the site and that Petros rests at a place called Bizaza. Written in Pedachthoe (northern Asia Minor).

Anysios, Life and Martyrdom of Athenogenes (BHG 197b), 37

[For a summary and discussion of the complete Martyrdom, see E02993.]

37. Τούτων δὲ οὕτως ἁποφανὲντων, ἀπάπτουσιν οἱ δήμιοι τὴν πυρκαϊὰν ἐν ᾗ ἔμελλεν τελειοῦσθαι ὁ ἅγιος μάρτυς καὶ ἐπίσκοπος Ἀθηνογένης ὲν τόπῳ ἐν ᾧ νῦν ἐστιν σεβάσμιος οἶκος ὲν Σεβαστείᾳ τῇ πόλει, πλησίον τοῦ λεγομένου ἀγάλματος· ἐν ᾧ τόπῳ καὶ ὁ ἅγιος Πέτρος ὁ παλαιὸς ἐπίσκοπος Σεβαστείας, φίλος ὑπάρχων τοῦ ἁγίου Ἀθηνογένους, ἐτελειώθη διὰ πυρός· πρὸ αὑτοῦ δὲ τὸν τῆς ἀθλήσεως ἐκληρώσατο στέφανον· κατάκειται δὲ ἐν Βιζάζοις.

‘37. Once the sentence was decided like this, the executors kindled the fire in which the holy martyr and bishop Athenogenes was to be put to death, on a site where there is now a venerable house in the city of Sebasteia, near the so-called Statue. On that site also saint Petros, the old bishop of Sebasteia, who was a friend of saint Athenogenes, had been put to death by fire. He had earned the crown of martyrdom before him. He rests in Bizaza.’

Text: Maraval 1990.
Translation: Efthymios Rizos.