MarginaliaMartyrs of Babilōin to Spayne, ther to be executed. lib. eodem, cap. 43.

MarginaliaGerman⁹,
Theophilis,
Cesarius,
Vitalis,
Polychromus,
Nestor,
Martyrs.In the country of Cappadocea at the citye of Cesarea in like maner of the sayde autor is testified of Germanus, Theophilus, Cesarius, & Vitalis to suffer martyrdome for Christ, eodem. cap. 52. And in the same booke mencion also is made of Polichronius bishop of Babilon, cap. 89. And in Pamphilia of Nestor there bishop, that dyed Martyr. cap. 52.

At Perside in the towne of Cardala, Olympiades & Maximus. In Tyrus also Anatolia virgine, and Audax gaue their lyues likewise to death, for the testimony of Christes name.

MarginaliaOlympiades.
Maxim⁹
noble mē.
Anatolia
Virgine
Audax,
Martyrs.Eusebius moreouer in his sixt booke, reciteth out of the Epistles of Dionisius Alexandrinus, diuers that suffered diuersly at Alexandria, the which places of Dionysius, as they be cited in Eusebius, I thought here good, for the auncientnes of the autor, to inserte and notifie, in his own woordes, and in our language, as he wrote them to Fabius bishop of Antioche, as foloweth.

MarginaliaEx Euseb lib. 6. cap. 40. 41. 42.
The Epistle of Dionisius b. of Alexādria to Fabius.This persecution (sayth he) began not with the proclamation set forth by the Emperour, but beganne an whole yeare before: by the occasion & meanes of a wicked person, a sourthsayer, and a folower of wicked arts: Whoe comming to our citye here MarginaliaA cōmotiō of the people of Alexandria agaīst the Christians.stirred vp the multitude of the Hethen against vs, & incited them to maintayne their old supersticion and gentilitie of their countrye, wherby they being set a gog, and obtayning ful power to prosecute their wicked purpose, so thought and no lesse declared, all their piety and religion to consiste onely in the Idolatrous worship of diuyls, and in our destruction. MarginaliaMetra, martyr.And firste flyeng vpon a certaine priest of ours, named Metra, apprehended hym and broughte hym foorth, to make him speake after their wicked blasphemye. Which whan he would not do, they layd vpon hym with staues and clubbes, and with sharpe reedes pricked his face and eyes, and afterward bringing him out into the suburbes, there they stoned him to death. MarginaliaQuinta a faythfull womā & martyr.Then they tooke a faithful woman called Quinta, and brought her to the temple of their Idoles, to compell her to worship with them. Which whan she refused to do, & abhorred their Idoles, they bound her feete, and drewe her through the whole streete of the citie, vpon the harde stones, and so dashing her against milstones, and scourgyng her with whipps brought her to the same place of the suburbes, as they did the other before, wher she likewise ended her life. This done, in a great outrage, and with a multitude rūning together, they brust into houses of the religious and godly Christians, spoyling, sacking, and carying away al that they could finde of any price. The rest of thinges, such as wer of lesse value and of wood, they brought into þ^e open market, & set them on fire. MarginaliaPacience and ioy in affliction.In the meane time the brethren voyded a side, and withdrew themselues, taking paciently, and no les ioyfully the spoyling of their goods, then did they of whom S. Paule doth testifie. MarginaliaThe constancie of the Martyrs of AlexandriaNeither do I know any of them al (one onely excepted) apprehended of them, whiche reuolting from his profession, denied the Lord, yet to this present day.

MarginaliaApolline a blessed virgine & martyr.Among the rest that were taken, there was a certayne virgine well stricken in yeres, named Apollonia, whom they brought forth, and dashing out al her teeth out of her iawes, made a great fire before þ^e city, threatning to cast her into the same, vnlesse shee woulde blaspheme with them and deny Christ. Wherat she staying a lytle with her selfe, as one that woulde take a pause, sodenlye leaped into the myddest of the fyre, and there was burned.

MarginaliaSerapion martyr.There was one also Serapion, whom they tooke in his owne house, and after they had assayled hym wyth sundry kindes of tormentes, and had broken almost all the ioyntes of his bodye, they cast him downe from an vpper loft, and so did he complete his martirdom. Thuswas no way, neither priuie nor publicke, no corner nor ally left for vs, neither by day nor by night to escape, al the people making an outcrye againste vs, the vnlesse we vttered wordes of blasphemy, we should be drawen to the fire & burned. MarginaliaThe iust punishment of God turning the cruelty of aduersaries vpon them selues.And this outragious tumult endured a certayne space, but at length, as the Lord would, the miserable wretches fell at discension and ciuill sedicion among them selues, which turned the cruelty they exercised against vs, vpon their own heads. And so had we a litle breathing time for a season, whyle the fury of the heathen people by this occasion asswaged.

Shortly then after this, word was brought vnto vs of the state of the Empire, which before was something fauourable to vs, to be altered and chaunged against vs, putting vs in great feare. And consequentlye vpon the same followed the edict of the Emperour so terrible and cruel, that according to the forewarning of the Lorde, the elect if it had bene possible, might haue bene thereby offended, and subuerted. Vpon that edict such feare cam ouer vs al, that many there were, especiallye of the rycher sorte, of whom some for feare came running, some were led by the occasion of tyme, some were drawen by their neighbours being cited by name, to those vnpure and idolatrous sacrifices. Other some came trembling and shaking, as men not which shoulde do sacrifice, but which shoulde bee sacrificed them selues, the multitude laughing them scorne. Some agayne came boldlye to the aultars, declaring them selues neuer to haue bene of that profession, of whom it is sayd that hardlye they shalbe saued. Of þ^e residue some folowed one part, some an other, somme ranne awaye, some were taken. Of whom certaine continued to bandes and torments constant. Other againe after long imprisonment, before they shoulde come before the Iudge, renounced theyr fayth. Some also after they suffered tormentes, yet after reuolted. But other being stronge as blessed, & valiant pillers of the Lord, fortefied with constancye agreing and conuenient to their fayth, were made faithfull martyrs of the kingdome of God.

MarginaliaIulianus martyr.Of whom the first was Iulianus, a man dyseased with the gout, and not able to go, being caryed of twoo men, of whom the one quickly denyed, the other Cronion surnamed Eunus, with the foresayde Iulianus the old man, confessing the Lord with a perfect fayth, were layde vpon Camels, and there scourged, at length cast into the fire, with great constancy were so consumed.

MarginaliaA certayne soldiour martyr.As these aforesaid were going to their martirdome, there was a certayn soldiour, who in their defence toke part against them that railed vpon them. For the which cause the people crying out agaynste hym, he also was apprehended, and being constant in his profession, was forthwith beheaded.

MarginaliaMacar a blessed martyr.Likewyse one Macar, a man borne in Lybia, being admonished and exhorted of the Iudge to denye hys faythe, and not agreing to his perswasions, was burned alyue.

MarginaliaEpimachus, Alexander, vvith. 4. vvemen martyrs.After these suffered Epimachus, and one Alexander, who being long deteyned in prison and in bandes, after innumerable paynes and tormentes with rasers and scourges, were also cast into the burning fire with foure other women wyth them, which all there ended their martyrdome.

MarginaliaAmmonariō virgin martirAlso Ammonarion an holy virgine, whom the cruel iudge had long and bitterlye tormented, for that she promising the Iudge before, that for no punishment she would yeld to his request, and constantly perfourming the same, suffered likewyse martyrdome, with. ij. other women, MarginaliaMercuria,
Dionysia,
martyrs.of whom there was an aged Matrone, named Mercuria, the other was called Dionysia, being a mother of manye fayre children, whom yet notwithstanding she loued not aboue the Lorde. These after they could be ouercome by no tormentes of the cruell iudge,