# Forty Youths, Who Confessed Christ Their Savior, Thrown Into A Cold Pool, And Burned Alive The Following Day, At Antioch, A. D. 304.

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When the east as well as the west was exceedingly
disturbed on account of the violence of the
persecution, there manifested themselves in the
east, namely at Antioch, forty pious youths, as valiant
champions of Jesus Christ, inasmuch as they
openly and boldly confessed the Son of God, Jesus
Christ, as their Savior. Thereupon, the Governor
of that place, after they had been apprehended,
strenuously exerted himself to move them from the
faith; but when all his efforts proved unsuccessful,
he had them stripped naked, in the coldest part of
the winter, and cast into a very cold pool. But as
they were still alive the next day, he caused them
to be burned to powder.

One of them, who in consideration of his extreme
youthfulness had, through compassion, been restored
to his mother, was placed by the latter with
her own hands upon the wagon in which the others
lay, and exhorted, to finish this blessed course with
his fellow brethren. This happened in the third
year of the persecution, A. D. 304. Joh. Gys.,
fol. 23, col. 3, ex Bas. de 40 Martyr.



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